Trending
STATE COLLEGE -- The Central PA Civil War Round Table will meet on Tuesday evening, Aug. 4, in the Activities Room of the South Hills School of Business & Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College, beginning at 7 p.m.
The featured speaker will be Jonathan A. Noyales who will speak on "After I Am Gone, the Battle for General Philip Sheridan's Legacy & Memory."
Jonathan Noyalas, from Martinsburg, W. Va., holds the Hugh & Virginia McCormick Chair in Civil War History at Shenandoah University and is the director of Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute. He is the author or editor of seventeen books including most recently "General Phillip H. Sheridan: Life, War, and Memory" and "The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah: The 1864 Valley Campaign's Battle of Cool Spring" and has authored more than 100 articles, essays, chapters and reviews in a variety of popular and scholarly publications.
He has appeared on C-SPAN's American History TV and PCN and consulted on various public history projects with the National Park Service, American Battlefield Trust, National Geographic, and Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District.
Prof. Noyalas is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, including the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award, which is the highest honor that can be awarded to anyone teaching at a college or university in the Old Dominion.
165 years ago, events in the United States were turbulent, uncertain, nationalistic, and full of terror.
Anyone who is interested in joining the Central PA Civil War Round Table is invited to attend.
For more information, contact Central PA CWRT President, Lynn Herman, at 814-861-0770.