November 19, 2024
“The Civil War and American Gun Culture” by Jason Phillip
Dr. Jason Phillips’s lecture will draw from research on his new book
project which explores how the Civil War affected American gun
culture. Dr. Phillips is the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies
at West Virginia University. He is the author of two books, Diehard
Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility and Looming Civil
War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. He is
currently serving as President of the Society of Civil War Historians.
Meeting will be 7:00 pm in the Old Drummond Chapel at Suncrest United Methodist Church, 479 Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, WV