Carol Reardon, professor of military history at Penn State, delivered lectures on Civil War strategy, leadership, and soldiers for the 2009 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series.
The 2010 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecturer will be James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History, from George Washington University and Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Past Distinguished Speakers
Symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation, April 14, 2007
Steven Hahn, William Blair, Mark E. Neely, Jr., Louis Gerteis, Stephanie McCurry, Michael Vorenberg
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2007- "Symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation" featuring: William Blair, The Pennsylvania
State University, Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Pennsylvania State University, Michael Vorenberg, Brown University -
2006- Nina Silber, Professor of History at Boston University on "Women and the Civil War"
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2005- Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African-American History at the University of Chicago, "From Slaves to Citizens: Reflections on the Problem of Freedom in the Modern World"
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2004- Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, "Viewing the Civil War: Images and Interpretations in Recent Film and Popular Art"
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2003- Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at Notre Dame University, on "The Civil War as a Crisis in Theology"
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2002- Mark E. Neely, Jr., McCabe Greer Professor of History and Senior Historian in Residence at The Pennsylvania State University, "So Many Voters: American Political Culture in the Civil War Era"
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2001- Michael F. Holt, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Corcoran Department of History Chair at the University of Virginia, "Rethinking the Political History of the Civil War Era"
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2000- Drew Gilpin Faust, Professor of U.S. History and President at Harvard University, "Peculiar Conditions and Necessities: The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying"
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1999- Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University, "The Story of American Freedom"
Lecture Series Volumes
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Available November 2009 - Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered, edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger. This book features essays resulting from the symposium on the emancipation in 2007. The eight distinguished contributors include William A. Blair, Richard Carwardine, Paul Finkelman, Louis Gerteis, Steven Hahn, Stephanie McCurry, Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Michael Vorenberg.
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2008 - Gender and the Sectional Conflict by Nina Silber
2008 - Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape
What We Know About the Civil War by Gary Gallagher-
2006 - The Civil War as Crisis in Theology by Mark Noll
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2005 - The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
About the Broses
Steven H. Brose is a 1969 honors graduate in political science from Penn State. He received a law degree from Columbia University and has spent his legal career with the international law firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., where he heads the Regulatory and Industry Affairs Department. His practice focuses on federal regulation of the energy industry, with particular emphasis on transportation issues for companies throughout the United States and Canada. He has served as an adviser to the governments of Ecuador and the Republic of Georgia, and assisted the World Bank in its effort to open the Russian oil pipeline network to foreign investment and access. Steve is the 2004 recipient of the Service to Penn State Award from the Liberal Arts Alumni Society.
Janice Brose attended Penn State for two years before earning a bachelors degree in anthropology from The City College of New York. She later received an associates degree in nursing with certifications in Rehabilitation Nursing and Case Management. She is an avid birder and fond grandmother of two grandsons, one granddaughter, and five cats.
About the Lectures
The Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture and Book Series in the Richards Civil War Era Center was established in 1998 and originally supported a single lecture by a distinguished visitor. The Broses added to the endowment in 2001, allowing a distinguished lecturer to deliver three related lectures over three days. The Broses’ generosity also enabled the Richards Center to enter an agreement with the University of North Carolina Press, which publishes the lectures as part of a series of scholarly monographs with Richard Center Director William Blair serving as series editor.