Please join us on Friday, October 15, as we revisit the centennial of the Battle of Gettysburg with a professor who has literally written the book on the subject. This is a unique opportunity to return to the early days of the Harrisburg Civil War Round Table, which was founded in 1959 in anticipation of the centennial of the Civil War.
Dr. Jill Ogline Titus is associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and co-coordinator of the college’s Public History minor. She is the author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming Fall 2021) and Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County (UNC Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Southern History, The Public Historian, History News, and Journal of the Civil War Era. Her next project is an investigation of civil rights and Black Power across the supposed north-south divide, as expressed in northern host programs for southern black students in the 1960s. At Gettysburg College, she teaches courses in modern American history, public history, African American history and historical memory, and oversees many of the college’s public history initiatives. From 2007 to 2012, she was Associate Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Prior to joining the staff of the Starr Center, Titus worked seasonally for the National Park Service. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Massachusetts in 2007. (Source - gettysburg.edu)
Dr. Titus’ talk will explore the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address through the lens of civil rights activity and Cold War politics, demonstrating the relationship between historical memory, commemoration, and contemporary events.
Evening Schedule
6:00 PM - St. James Punch
6:45 PM - Dinner
7:45 PM - Meeting Begins
8:00 PM - Presentation
9:00 PM - Square Table
Members and the general public are welcome at all Harrisburg Civil War Round Table engagements. Those desiring to join us for dinner should make reservations as explained in The Dispatch. Those joining us for the presentation only should arrive and be seated in the gallery prior to 7:45 when the business meeting starts.
