Marszalek to share Civil War research with New York audiences
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 nationally recognized Mississippi State historian joins two other prominent colleagues next week as featured speakers for the New York Historical Society.
John F. Marszalek, a Giles Distinguished Professor emeritus at the university, is traveling to the Big Apple for the society鈥檚 2016 Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series. In addition to Marszalek, Harold Holzer and Craig L. Symonds will be on a Tuesday [Dec. 13] program titled 鈥淕reat Battles of the Civil War: Chattanooga.鈥
Holzer, a specialist on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era, directs the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at the City University of New York鈥檚 Hunter College. Symonds is a U.S. Naval Academy professor emeritus and award-winning author of 鈥淟incoln and His Admirals.鈥
While in the city, Marszalek, a Buffalo native, will headline two other programs. At a Civil War Round Table of New York program Wednesday [the 14th], he will analyze Union Gen. William T. Sherman鈥檚 famous Georgia-South Carolina 鈥渕arch to the sea.鈥
Also, he and author Ron White are scheduled to address the Grant Monument Association. Much of White鈥檚 research for a new biography on general and president U.S. Grant was completed at 小黄书.
After retiring from faculty duties in the early 2000s, Marszalek returned to campus fulltime as executive director and managing editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and director of the Grant Presidential Library, a major unit of 小黄书鈥檚 Mitchell Memorial Library. 小黄书 is one of only five universities in the nation that have the distinction of hosting a presidential library.
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For details of the historical society program, see . Websites for the Civil War Round Table of New York and Grant Monument Association are, respectively, and .
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