Twin Cities Civil War Round Table
Annual Civil War Symposium

APRIL 24, 2010
9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Fort Snelling History Center
"America on the Eve of Civil War"
Download the program and registration form

REGISTER BY MARCH 31, 2010

The Americans of 1860 faced what they characterized as an irrepressible conflict that would change everything in their lives and reinvent the United States. This is the first in a series of Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposia sponsored by the Rochester, the St. Croix Valley, the Cannon Valley, the St. Cloud, the Hiawatha and the Twin Cities Civil War Roundtables in cooperation with the Minnesota Historical Society.                                                    

Registration fees:
Regular __ $15   
MHS Member __ $10
Student __ Admission is free!       
Buffet Lunch  __ $10  

Highlights include:
Photography of the Civil War Era, David Rambow, Historian and Photographer 
(A working tintype studio will take 1860s style portraits after the presentation.)

Robert E. Lee: From General to Saint, Kelly Ward, St. Thomas University

Daily Life in Minnesota on the Eve of War, Betsy Glade, PhD., St. Cloud State University

Lives Changed Forever: Women on the Home Front, Dr. Tara Harl, ATP, St. Cloud State University

A Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Taber Aken and David Woodard, Educators and Historians


David Rambow taking Civil War tintypes at Fort Snelling - 2009 Civil War SymposiumDavid Rambow taking Civil War tintypes at Fort Snelling.


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