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ASU Civil War Series Continues

September 03, 2013

Angelo State University’s Civil War Lecture Series, which is organized by the History Department to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the conflict, will continue in its third year and feature eight events during the 2013-14 academic year. 

The series will begin Sept. 17 with a film and discussion on slavery and end April 22 with a presentation on Civil War medicine.  Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, a Civil War scholar and coordinator for ASU’s 2013-14 Civil War programs, said the popular lecture series seeks to explore a wide variety of topics to enlighten the public about this complex and tragic period in American history.

In addition to slavery and Civil War medicine, the 2013-14 series will have programs on Civil War politics, Native Americans in the Civil War, Civil War monuments, preservation efforts at Palmito Ranch Battlefield in Texas and the Civil War origins of baseball.

The first program in the 2013-14 series is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, with a screening and discussion of the PBS film “Prince Among Slaves,” which tells the story of African Prince Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, who was sold into the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1788 and brought to the United States.  The screening in the C.J. Davidson Conference Center in the Houston Harte University Center will be followed by a discussion on the trans-Atlantic slave trade by Wongsrichanalai and Dr. John Klingemann, both of ASU’s History Department. 

Other programs and speakers in the series are:

In addition to the Department of History, the Civil War Lecture Series is supported by Fort Concho; the Office of the ASU Dean of Arts and Sciences; ASU’s Gender Studies Program; the West Texas Collection; the Porter Henderson Library; Shannon Medical Center; the Texas Historical Commission; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Library of America; and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.