Saturday, June 13, 7:30 PM.
Co-sponsored by the Civil War Round Table of Fairfield County and the Stamford Historical Society.
Emeritus professor of history Craig Symonds
retired from the U.S. Naval Academy after thirty years of teaching.
During that time, he won both the Naval Academy's "Excellence in
Teaching" award (1988) and its "Excellence in Research" award (1998). A
Civil War historian, Symonds has ten previously published books,
including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006. Lincoln and His Admirals,
which focuses on naval strategies during the Civil War, recently won
the prestigious Lincoln Prize, which is administered by the Civil War
Institute at Gettysburg College and has been awarded annually since
1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the
American Civil War.
Harold Holzer is one of the
leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the
Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on
television, he serves as co-chairman of the United States Lincoln
Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton in September
2000, and elected co-chairman in 2001. President Bush, in turn, awarded
Holzer the Natiional Humanities Medal in 2008. Holzer currently serves
as Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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