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Virginia's Civil War battlefields. Your contributions
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Listings!
CVBT 2013 Annual Meeting
Coming May 5th, 2013
Details
The Rappahannock Valley Civil War
Roundtable
Invites your attendance on
Monday, April 8th, 2013
To our Dinner Meeting with Guest
Speaker
Edwin C. Bearss
Retired Chief Historian, Emeritus,
National Park Service
“War
in the Trans-Mississippi: Did it
Really Matter”
And the Presentation of the 2013
Rappahannock Valley Civil War
Roundtable
Edwin C. Bearss Internship
To the Candidate selected by the
National Park Service,
Fredericksburg.
The
Fundraising Dinner cost is $ 50 with
the Proceeds going to the Central
Virginia Battlefields Trust
Social Hour: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Program: 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
There will be a Silent Auction
with guided battlefield and local
historical site tours;
Dinner gift certificates; Civil War
prints; books; etc.
And the RVCWRT book raffle.
Reservations:
3dognight@bigplanet.com or
telephone 540-399-1702.
2013 Great Lives Lectures
University of Mary Washington,
Dodd Auditorium
7:30 p.m. Free to the Public.
I will send this again in
January. Attached is an
iCalendar file for your
smartphone, tablet, Google
Calendar, etc.
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Thursday
January 24 |
Julius Caesar |
Philip Freeman, Luther
College
Author,
Julius Caesar |
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Tuesday
January 29 |
Cleopatra |
Duane W. Roller, Ohio
State University
Author,
Cleopatra, A
Biography |
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Thursday
February 7 |
Brigham Young |
John Turner, George
Mason University
Author,
Brigham
Young: Pioneer Prophet |
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Thursday
February 12 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
Nabil Al-Tikriti,
Associate Professor of
History
University of Mary
Washington |
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Thursday
February 14 |
Houdini |
John Kasson, University
of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill
Author,
Houdini,
Tarzan, and the Perfect
Man |
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Thursday
February 21 |
Arthur Ashe |
Arnold Rampersad,
Stanford University
Co-author with Ashe,
Days of Grace: A Memoir |
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Tuesday
February 26 |
Marilyn Monroe |
Carl Rollyson, Baruch
College-CUNY
Author,
Marilyn
Monroe: A Life of the
Actress |
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Thursday
February 28 |
Marian Anderson |
Raymond Arsenault,
University of South
Florida
Author,
The Sound of
Freedom: Marian
Anderson, the Lincoln
Memorial, and the
Concert that Awakened
America |
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Tuesday
March 12 |
Walter Cronkite |
Douglas Brinkley, Rice
University
Author,
Cronkite |
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Tuesday
March 19 |
Winston Churchill |
Jeremy Black, University
of Exeter,
Author,
A History of
the British Isles |
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Tuesday
March 26 |
The Pacific Admirals of
World War II |
Walter R. Borneman,
Lawyer and Historian
Author,
The
Admirals: Nimitz,
Halsey, and King – The
Five-star Admirals Who
Won the War at Sea |
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Tuesday
April 2 |
Queen Elizabeth II |
Sally Bedell Smith,
Biographer, Washington,
D. C.
Author,
Elizabeth the
Queen |
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Tuesday
April 9 |
Bill Wilson, Founder of
Alcoholics Anonymous |
Susan Cheever, Writer,
Biographer
Author,
My Name is
Bill: Bill Wilson – His
Life and the Creation of
Alcoholics Anonymous |
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Thursday
April 11 |
Ernest Hemingway |
Paul Hendrickson,
University of
Pennsylvania
Author,
Hemingway’s
Boat |
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Tuesday
April 16 |
Rasputin |
Joseph Fuhrmann,
Professor Emeritus,
Murray State University
Author,
Rasputin:
The Untold Story |
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Thursday
April 18 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Michael Burlingame,
University of Illinois
Author,
Abraham
Lincoln: A Life |
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Tuesday
April 23 |
Michelangelo |
William Wallace,
Washington University in
St. Louis
Author,
Michelangelo: The
Artist, the man, and his
Times |
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Thursday
April 25 |
Madness and Greatness |
Nassir Ghaemi, Tufts
Medical Center
Author,
A First-Rate
Madness |
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Rappahannock Valley CWRT Meetings |
2nd Monday each month at
Brock's Riverside Grill
at 503 Sophia Street, Fredericksburg. See
Our Location for
directions.7:00 pm; meeting at 7:45 pm.
info@rvcwrt.org
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