FOH Civil War Round Table

13 December 2006: A rare treat as Tom Edwards concludes the series on Reconstruction that he started at the September 2006 meeting with "Part Two: Later Reconstruction." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room)

8 November 2006: Historian and OHS author Lewis L. McArthur will lecture on "Civil War Place Names in Oregon." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room).

11 October 2006: Guest lecturer Diane Rulien, Executive Director of the 3-D Center of Art and Photography, will present a lecture on "Stereoscopes and the Civil War." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room).

13 September 2006 (Season Opener): Professor Emeritus and CWRT co-founder Tom Edwards will deliver the opening lecture of the 2006-07 series, entitled "Early Reconstruction: 1863-1866." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room)

22 July 2006: It's time again for the summer CWRT Members Picnic and the 1860s Vintage Baseball game at Ft. Vancouver. Each year the CWRT holds its annual picnic on the same afternoon that a Vintage 1860s basball game is played. CWRT member and world class Iron Chef Joe Bennett will barbecue the beef. Everyone is asked to bring their favorite side dish for the potluck. The picnic will begin at 5:15 p.m. on the playing fields east of Officers Row and just north of the Pearson Air Museum, next to the Ft. Vancouver Historical Reserve.

12 June 2006: CWRT member and Phi Alpha Theta President Brittany Ferry will speak about a Civil War subject that came to her attention while she was doing research for her thesis: "The Nurses Whom Nature Made...Home, Domesticity, and the Duty of Bereavement for the Civil War Nurse." Brittany has a B.A. in History from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. This will be her last activity with the CWRT as she will be receiving her M.A. in History from PSU and then move back to Bellingham this coming Fall.Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room).

8 May 2006: CWRT member Gary Johnson will be speaking about "My Southern Family Roots." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room).

10 April 2006: The CWRT's own Ed Demko will impart what his recent and further research on the subject of Sheridan, Maximillian, and Napoleon II turned up. Ed, who most recently ended his term as co-chair of the Civil War Round Table, is a retired American History high school teacher with an M.A. in History who first broached this subject in September 2004. Come and discover what new bits of information Ed recently unearthed in a continuation of his talk on the French involvement with Mexico during the American Civil War. Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room)

13 March 2006: For a change of pace, the Civil War Round Table welcomes as the March 2006 guest speaker Tom Hastings, Director of Peace and Non-Violence Studies at PSU. He will talk about non-violent alternatives to the American Civil War. Hastings earned his B.A. in Peace Studies and writing at Northland College and received his M.A. in Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin- Superior. He is the author of several books including Ecology of War and Peace: Counting Costs of Conflicts. He also gave a speech based on this book at the "Twentieth Annual Gettysburg College Area Studies Symposium: 2003-2004," which covered the theme of "Nature, War, and Peace." Location: Cramer Hall, Room 494 (Dodds Lecture Room).

9 January 2006 (Monday) in Cramer 447 (Hoffmann Library):

U.S.

Grant – Book Group Discussion. The Civil War Roundtable always has a book discussion in January. This month, our members and participants are all invited to read a book about Ulysses S. Grant and share with the group their insights gained from their reading. Several books will be proposed to those unsure where to start on this biblio-quest. Please note: this event will be meeting in an alternate room in Cramer Hall (Room 447).

12 December 2005 (Monday): “Lincolnites and Rebels: the Civil War in a divided town.” Tracy McKenzie, recipient of the University of Washington’s distinguished teaching award, will speak about Civil War-era Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville was occupied at different, times by both the Confederate and Union armies and was a haven for Southern refugees, making it, in the popular view in the North, an example of southern pro-Unionism. Professor McKenzie’s book on this topic will be published by Oxford University Press in 2006.

14 November 2005 (Monday): Robert Cromwell is a National Park Service Archaeologist at Fort Vancouver Historic Site. He grew up in Albany, Oregon, and attended Oregon State University, where he received a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Applied Anthropology (Historical Archaeology). He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at Syracuse University and is completing his archaeological dissertation research on the consumer choice of English ceramics at the Hudson’s Bay Company, Fort Vancouver. His presentation is entitled “You Will No Wonder, What Speculation I have Made?: The Archaeology of the 1852-1860 U.S. Sutler’s Store and Ulysses S. Grant’s Role at Vancouver Barracks.”

10 October 2005 (Monday): Dr. Burton Onstine, retired professor of Political Science at Portland State University, will discuss historian Adam Hochschild’s book, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. While this title does not deal with the Civil War, per se, it involves the beginnings of the Abolitionist movement in England, which would profoundly influence the New World.

12 September 2005 (Monday): the Civil War Roundtable is proud to present Arthur Mokin, who will present a talk entitled "Blockade and the Battle of the Ironclads." His novel, Ironclad, has been well reviewed. Mr. Mokin has written and produced many documentary films that have won industry awards, including Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival, the CINE Golden Eagle, and a Chris Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival. He has lectured on and taught film production at Hofstra University, NY.

August 2005: No Meeting for the month of August.

23 July 2005 (Saturday): Special Meeting: We will meet for a picnic at Ft. Vancouver. More details will be posted in the coming months.

13 June 2005 (Monday), 7:30 PM in 494 Cramer Hall: Mark Rothert, a graduate of the University of Oregon, will present a talk entitled "Harper’s Ferry: Symbol of Freedom." Mr. Rothert has been a Civil War enthusiast for many years and is a charter member of the Civil War Society for the Preservation of Civil War Sites and of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. He has toured all of the major battlefields with historians Gary Gallagher and Robert K. Krick.

09 May 2005 (Monday), 7:30 PM in 494 Cramer Hall:
Peter Sleeth, prize-winning editor at the Portland Oregonian, will talk about his recent article in North and South Magazine, "A Quaker Family at War." Sleeth has a unique viewpoint on war, having covered the War in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the 82nd Airborne Division in Spring 2003; as well as his archival research for this article which involved his own great-grandfather, Clayton Marshall.

11 April 2005 (Monday), 7:30 PM in 494 Cramer Hall: Christian Mulcahy, the Civil War Roundtable's youngest member, will give a talk, "The Civil War Uniform," which will be about basic infantry equipment and the daily life of a Union Soldier.

14 March 2005 (Monday), 7:30 PM in 494 Cramer Hall: Rod Bunnell will make a presentation on "Josiah Sawyer Brown, Veteran of the Civil War 7th Maine Volunteers, 20th Maine Veteran Volunteers, 1st Maine Veterans." Mr. Bunnell is retired senior V.P. and General Counsel for Regence Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oregon and has read extensively in Northwest history.

14 February 2005 (Monday), 7:30 PM in 494 Cramer Hall: Tom Edwards will make a presentation entitled: "Oregon Senator Benjamin Stark and Civil War Dissent: 1861-1862." Professor Edwards is the author of several important books on Pacific Northwest History and taught history at Whitman College for many years. (N.B. the new time and location for CWRT discussion groups, beginning this month.)

11 January 2005 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: The Civil War Roundtable will have a discussion on Tony Horwitz's book, "Confederates in the Attic." Those needing help getting a copy of the book should contact John Henley at 503 223-8098.

14 December 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: John Henley will show an outstanding DVD documentary on the Battle of Fredericksburg, followed by a portion of the movie "Gods and Generals" portraying the battle Hollywood-style. This will be followed by a general discussion about the battle.

9 November 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: The Civil War Roundtable is honored to host Dr. Chandra Manning, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century U.S. History at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Manning is recipient of the 2003 C. Vann Woodward Prize, given by the Southern Historical Association for the best dissertation in southern history. She will speak on her current book project: "What This Cruel War Was Over: Why Union and Confederate Soldiers Thought They Were Fighting the Civil War." An excellent article by Dr. Manning with this same title has appeared in the current issue of North and South magazine.

12 October 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: "The Lost Opportunity." John Henley, amateur Civil War historian and enthusiast, will discuss the South's greatest opportunity for decisive (and perhaps even total) victory in the Civil War during the week just after the first Battle of Bull Run.

14 September 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: Ed Demko, MA in History (PSU, 1974) and retired American history teacher, will talk on the French involvement with Mexico during the American Civil War in a talk entitled "Sheridan, Maximilian, and Napoleon III."

August: No meeting; summer break.

6 July 2004 (Tuesday), time and place to be announced:
The organization will have a special Fourth of July picnic
with a silent auction of Civil War books. Proceeds will go to the Portland Civil War Round Table.

8 June 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: Colin Meckel will offer "A comparison of Grant's Vicksburg campaign with his Overland Campaign."

11 May 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: Tim Garrison will speak on Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court.

13 April 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 290/292 Smith Center: Participants will discuss James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Oxford Press, 2002).

9 March 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 327 Smith Center: Tom Edwards will speak on Confederate soldier Theodore Fogle and his Georgian family.

10 February 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 236 Smith Center: Joe Benet will speak on "The Ironclad Ram: the CSS Alabama."

13 January 2004 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM in 338 Smith Center: Participants will discuss the recently released Civil-War era film Cold Mountain.