John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund & Lecture Series
The John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund & Lecture Series encourages use of primary source materials. Each lecture pairs a paper by a university student with a lecture by an established, nationally known historian.
Upcoming Lecture - March 7, 2024, 6pm, John Grisham Room
Dr. George C. Rable
The Promised War: Expectations, Fears, and Hopes as Americans Confronted their Civil War
George C. Rable is Professor Emeritus and formerly the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of seven books on the Civil War era including Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) - which won the Lincoln Prize, God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), and most recently Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (Louisiana State University Press, 2023).
Ryan Reynolds
The Transnational Beat: America's Paramilitary Turn in Policing
Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate from Oakland, California, studying American military history and the Cold War. His dissertation focuses on the intersections between American grand strategy, law enforcement, and the military during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and he has received research grants from the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Libraries. Ryan's work has appeared in The Strategy Bridge and The Journal of America's Military Past, and he is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Military History.
