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On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Kent Civil War Society will hold its regular monthly meeting, beginning at 7:30 PM. The program part of the meeting will be provided by Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan. Brian will present Held in the Grasp of War: Union Veterans and the Stubborn Persistence of Our Defining Conflict. The program will address Brian's body of scholarship on Union veterans. He will also make available copies of his book, Marching Home, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for $25 each .

Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of U.S. Civil War History and Chair of the History Department at Sam Houston State University, where he has taught since 2015. Dr. Jordan earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in history at Yale, where his doctoral dissertation earned the George Washington Eggleston Prize (for Best U.S. History Dissertation at Yale) and the John Addison Porter Prize, one of Yale's highest academic honors. He is the author or editor of six books on the Civil War and its era, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, which was a finalist (one of three runners-up) for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History, and The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans (LSU Press, 2020). His more than 150 reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Since 2014, he has served as the Book Review Editor for The Civil War Monitor. His next book, Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, co-edited with Lincoln scholar Jonathan W. White, will appear with the University of Georgia Press in 2023. Dr. Jordan is currently at work on a major interpretive synthesis of the Civil War that Liveright/W.W. Norton plans to publish in 2025. A native of northeastern Ohio, Brian lives in the Houston area with his wife and daughter.

The public is welcome. The optional pre-meeting dinner will be at Eddy's Deli & Restaurant in Stow, beginning at 5:30 PM.

The meeting will be held in the Roy Smith Shelter at Fred Fuller Park
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Attendees at our October meeting ventured beyond the Civil War years as Stephanie Bohnak, Director of Education & Outreach at the National First Ladies Library & Museum, shared the history of Ohio's first ladies. We learned of seven women who were largely better educated, ambitious and more forward thinking than most of their time. We also learned of their typically human traits that make people so interesting.

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A large number of fine art prints, books and other items have been donated by families of former members of the Kent Civil War Society. It is the families' wish that they go to people who will appreciate them. The families allow that the society accept donations towards programming and the general fund. The items will be made available as described below at meetings in October, November and December, 2024. Any items not claimed at the meeting they are displayed at will be subject to being donated to another organization.

PRINTS: Approximately five professionally framed prints will be made available at the November meeting. Most are by Mort Kunstler and most are numbered and signed by the artist. In order to give everyone in attendance as equal a chance as possible, a silent auction format will be used for each print, with the person offering the highest donation being given the print. A donation offer of $0 may be made and will be accepted if no other offers are forthcoming.

The remaining prints will be auctioned live at the society's December meeting as part of the book auction. If any prints are passed during the live auction they will be available on a first come/first served basis after the auction.

Michael Garman Figures: Two figures will be made available at the November meeting and one or more at the December meeting, using the same auction procedures as for the prints.

Books: A large donation of Civil War books will be split up across the November and December meetings. They will be offered first come/first served, free of charge with no suggested donation. A collection can will be available in case people wish to make a donation. Everyone is encouraged to take a book(s) regardless of whether they wish to make a donation.

A list of the prints and Garman figures that will be available over the three month period beginning in October may be downloaded using the following link... Print auctions Please note that after the October and November meetings, some prints and figures illustrated will no longer be available.

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Speakers from within the society will be needed to fill out the 2025 schedule, so if you have something you can give a presentation on, or you want a reason to do some research, please let the society president Brian Conrad know or email us at info@kentcivilwar.org

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For last minute information on the Kent Civil War Society meetings, call the society's meeting information hotline at (330) 474-9362 for a recorded message