FREE Zoar Speaker Series: Civil War, A Thousand May Fall
June 3, 2023 11:00 AM –12:00 PM
Overview
Join Historic Zoar Village in the School House for a FREE lecture about the life of a Union soldier during the Civil War.
Speaker Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of Civil War History and Chair of the Department of History at Sam Houston State University. He is the author or editor of five books on the Civil War era, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, which was a finalist (one of three runners-up) for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History. His most recent book is A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army, which was a Main Selection of the Military History Book Club and earned a starred review from "Publishers Weekly". Jordan earned his Ph.D. at Yale University and serves as the Book Review Editor for "The Civil War Monitor". His more than one-hundred reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Daily Beast, Civil War History, The Journal of the Civil War Era, and The Civil War Monitor.
Dr. Jordan is a native of northeastern Ohio.
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