John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund & Lecture Series
Past Lectures
2023
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Craig L. Symonds
Professor Emeritus of History, U.S. Naval Academy
"Black Americans in the Second World War" -
Amber Morgan Gill
Lecturer, Mississippi State University Department of English
"The Fabric of Our Nation: A 19th Century Night Shirt Reveals the Complex Value of Material Objects"
2019
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Caroline Janney
John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War; Director of the John L. Nau III Center for the Civil War History, University of Virginia
"Enduring Civil War Battles: How the War Generation Hoped We'd Remember the War" -
Christy Davenport
MSU History doctoral student; 2019 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Murky Memory: Changing Perceptions of Enslaved Resistance Communities"
2018
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Charles W. Calhoun
Thomas Harriot College Distinguished Professor Emeritus, East Carolina University
"The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Myths and Realities" -
Ryan P. Semmes
MSU History doctoral student; 2018 Marszalek Student Award winner
"The Two Hirams: Hiram R. Revels, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Annexation of Santo Domingo"
2017
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Dr. Michael J. Devine
Former director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
"Presidential Libraries, An Inside Look" -
Stephen Powell
MSU History doctoral student; 2017 Marszalek Student Award winner
"The Simple Art of War; A Reinterpretation of Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War Strategy"
2016
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Dr. Edwina S. Campbell, Prof. (ret), Air University
Author, former U.S. Foreign Service officer and professor
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Ryan Lawrence
MSU History/Philosophy doctoral student; 2016 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Mutual Misunderstandings: A Study on Ida Honoré Grant's Austrian Experience"
2015
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Victoria Bynum
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University, San Marcos
"The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi" -
Gracjan Kraszerski
MSU History doctoral student; 2015 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Entangled Allegiance: Catholics in the Civil War South"
2014
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Dr. John T. Hubbell
Retired history professor; former editor of Civil War History; Director-Emeritus of the Kent State University Press
"Fidelity to the Record: Thirty-five Years an Editor" -
Karen Senaga
MSU History/Philosophy doctoral student; 2014 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Labor Plantations, Memory, and Race in the Mississippi Delta Catfish Industry, 1990"
2013
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Michael B. Ballard; Mark R. Cheathem; Thomas D. Cockrell; Stephen S. Michot; Horace Nash; Timothy B. Smith
Panel presented by former graduate students of Dr. Marszalek in his honor
2012
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Dr. Thomas A. Horrocks
Associate Librarian for Collections, Houghton Library, Harvard University
"Promoting Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter: Lincoln's Campaign Biographies and the Shaping of an Image" -
Kevin B. Johnson
MSU History doctoral student; 2012 Marszalek Student Award winner
2011
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Dr. John Dittmer
DePauw University Professor Emeritus of History
"'Sick and Tired': Race and Health Care in Mississippi During the Civil Rights Years" -
Alyssa Warrick
MSU History doctoral candidate; 2011 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Fighting the Jim Crow Army: African-American Protests in World War II"
2010
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Dr. William C. "Jack" Davis
Program Director, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
"General Grant's Grandson and the Awakening of a Historian" -
James S. Kinsey
MSU History doctoral student; 2010 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Lost Limbs and Livelihood in the Mississippi Hill Country: Disabled Confederate Veterans and their Families in Rural Communities, 1863-1890"
2009
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Dr. Philip Gleason
History professor, University of Notre Dame
"Those Already Here and Those Just Arriving: Immigration and the Coming of the Civil War" -
Kirk Strawbridge
MSU History doctoral candidate; 2009 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Modernity, Tradition, and Identity After the Civil War: A Former Confederate General's South"
2008
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Dr. Edna Green Medford
Associate Professor of History, Harvard University
"Lincoln, the slaves, and the decision to emancipate" -
Gary Cole Cheek
MSU History doctoral student; 2008 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Identity Crisis: Washington, Dancing Rabbit, and Choctaw Removal, 1825-1831"
2007
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Dr. Daniel Feller
Professor of History and Editor/Director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"Andrew Jackson versus the Senate" -
Jeffery B. Howell
MSU History doctoral candidate; 2007 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Heritage, or a Slap in the Face: Confederate Symbols in 21st Century Mississippi"
2006
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Dr. Craig L. Symonds
Chief Historian, USS Monitor Center at the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia
"The U.S.S. Monitor and Civil War History: Using Artifacts to Solve Historical Puzzles" -
Stephanie Rolph
MSU History doctoral student; 2006 Marszalek Student Award winner
"The 'White Problem' in Southern Progressivism"
2005
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James F. Sefcik
Retired Director, Louisiana State Museum; Assistant Secretary, Office of State Museums
"Primary Sources, Museums, and the Study of American History" -
Jared Peatman
Virginia Tech University graduate student; 2005 Marszalek Student Award winner
"Richmond's Reaction to the Gettysburg Address"
2004
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Jane "Budge" Weidman
Manager, Civil War Conservation Corps, National Archives
"The Freedmen's Bureau in Mississippi, 1863-1870" -
Shannon Mallard (deceased) (paper delivered by James Humphreys)
MSU History doctoral student; 2004 Marszalek Student Award winner
"'We Must Be One at Home': Divided Loyalties in Civil War Mississippi"
2003
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Dr. Vincent DeSantis
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Notre Dame
"The Present Writing on the Civil Rights Movement"
