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CVBT 2013 Annual Meeting

Coming May 5th, 2013

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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.
 
 

Thursday

January 24

Julius Caesar

Philip Freeman, Luther College

Author, Julius Caesar

Tuesday

January 29

Cleopatra

Duane W. Roller, Ohio State University

Author, Cleopatra, A Biography

Thursday

February 7

Brigham Young

John Turner, George Mason University

Author, Brigham Young:  Pioneer Prophet

Thursday

February 12

Lawrence of Arabia

Nabil Al-Tikriti, Associate Professor of History

University of Mary Washington

Thursday

February 14

Houdini

John Kasson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Author, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man

Thursday

February 21

Arthur Ashe

Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University

Co-author with Ashe, Days of Grace:  A Memoir

Tuesday

February 26

Marilyn Monroe

Carl Rollyson, Baruch College-CUNY

Author, Marilyn Monroe:  A Life of the Actress

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

Tuesday

March 12

Walter Cronkite

Douglas Brinkley, Rice University

Author, Cronkite

Tuesday

March 19

Winston Churchill

Jeremy Black, University of Exeter,

Author, A History of the British Isles

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

Tuesday

April 2

Queen Elizabeth II

Sally Bedell Smith, Biographer, Washington, D. C.

Author, Elizabeth the Queen

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

Thursday

April 11

Ernest Hemingway

Paul Hendrickson, University of Pennsylvania

Author, Hemingway’s Boat

Tuesday

April 16

Rasputin

Joseph Fuhrmann, Professor Emeritus, Murray State University

Author, Rasputin:  The Untold Story

Thursday

April 18

Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame, University of Illinois

Author, Abraham Lincoln:  A Life

Tuesday

April 23

Michelangelo

William Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis

Author, Michelangelo:  The Artist, the man, and his Times

Thursday

April 25

Madness and Greatness

Nassir Ghaemi, Tufts Medical Center

Author, A First-Rate Madness

 


 

 

 

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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