Join us on November 11\, 2024\, at 7 p.m. ET for the 2024 McMurtry Lecture presented by Brian Matthew Jordan\, Ph.D. This lecture\, &ldquo\;&rsquo\;Held in War&rsquo\;s Grasp&rsquo\;: The Or deals of Veteranhood after the Civil War\,&rdquo\; will be held in the All en County Public Library&rsquo\;s Main Library Theater. You can join us in person or virtually. Registration is required.
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\nBeginning where many histories end\, Brian Matthew Jordan reveals the desp erate fate that awaited Civil War veterans after demobilization. While Con federate troops returned to homes that shared in a sense of defeat\, Union veterans returned to a civilian population eager to put the war behind th em. Based on prodigious research in a trove of veteran correspondence\, me dical records\, and pension files\, this lecture surveys the myriad ways i n which the Civil War continued to annex the bodies and minds of its survi vors. Further\, it reveals how the protracted battles over the conflict&rs quo\;s memory and legacy further complicated the onerous task of reintegra tion for ordinary veterans. \; \; \; \; \; \;&nbs p\; \; \; \; \;
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\nBrian Matthew Jordan i s Associate Professor of U.S. Civil War History and Chair of the Departmen t of History at Sam Houston State University. Professor Jordan earned his undergraduate degree in Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College (worki ng under the tutelage of Gabor Boritt and Allen Guelzo) and M.A.\, M.Phil. \, and Ph.D. degrees in History at Yale. His first book\, Marching Home: U nion Veterans and Their Unending Civil War\, was a finalist (one of three runners-up) for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History and\, in its dissertati on form\, won the George Washington Egleston Prize (for Best U.S. History Dissertation at Yale) and John Addison Porter Prize. He has authored or ed ited five other books on Civil War soldiers\, veterans\, and memory\, incl uding The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (with Evan Rothera)\; A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment&rsquo\;s Civil War\, and Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War G raves (with Jonathan W. White). Presently\, he is at work on Crucible of t he Republic: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Civil War\, a one-volume histo ry of the conflict for Liveright/W.W. Norton. Brian is the founding co-edi tor of the series &ldquo\;Veterans&rdquo\; at the University of Massachuse tts Press and\, for a decade\, has served as Book Review Editor for The Ci vil War Monitor. He appears regularly on C-SPAN and was featured in the HI STORY Channel&rsquo\;s three-part documentary on the life of U.S. Grant. A native of Akron\, Ohio\, he lives in Houston with his wife and two-year-o ld daughter\, Elizabeth.
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