Breakfast with Fortenbaugh Speaker
Details
This will be a great opportunity to ask Dr. Janney follow-up questions from the lecture; learn more about her scholarship and professional journey; chat about new directions in the historiography of the American Civil War; and hear her advice for students interested in graduate school and pursuing professional careers in history.
Where
Dining Hall 020
39.837009,-77.236331
Speakers
Caroline Janney
Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she worked as a historian for the National Park Service and taught at Purdue University before returning to Virginia in 2018. An active public lecturer, she has given presentations at locations across the globe. She is a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship program and has appeared numerous television programs including the History Channel’s Grant and Lincoln. She serves as a co-editor of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America Series and is the past president of the Society of Civil War Historians. She has published eight books, including Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013) and Ends of War: The Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox, winner of the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Hosted By
Co-hosted with: Civil War Institute
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