On Dec. 15, 2016, at 7 p.m., the Onondaga County Civil War Round Table will host the author program described below. The program and parking are free and open to the public in the Town of DeWitt Community Room, 148 Sanders Creek Pkwy., East Syracuse (Thruway Exit 35 at Carrier Circle Parkway to Kinne Street or I-481 exit 5W to Kirkville Road west, then right on Kinne).
Professor Douglas R. Egerton teaches Early American and 19th Century History at Le Moyne College in Syracuse. He has had a lifelong interest in the South, its complex race relations, and the intersections between race and politics in early America. Professor Egerton’s books include: Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America (2016); The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (2014), Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War (2010) and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009).
He has given talks at the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, and has appeared twice before at our own Onondaga County Civil War Round Table. Professor Egerton received his Master’s degree and his Doctorate from Georgetown University in 1985.
Please note that several units from Onondaga and nearby counties and hundreds of local soldiers from Amber, Camillus, Oneida, Marcellus, Fabius, LaFayette, Pompey, Tully, Otisco, Cicero, Geddes, and Syracuse, as well as Auburn, Homer, Preble and Cortland all served together during the Civil War. Our Round Table covers all of Central New York, including counties that border Onondaga County.
We have members from Baldwinsville, Phoenix, Fayetteville, Liverpool, DeRuyter, Clay, Oran, Tully, Oneida, Minoa, Homer, Oswego, New Hartford, Morrisville, Jamesville, Rome, Manlius, and, of course, Syracuse. It is essential that we reach all of the citizens in the greater Syracuse area that might be interested in attending our evening programs covering one of the defining periods of our American history, and perhaps become members of our organization.
For more information, e-mail cltucker@msn.com.