Civil War at Sea Symposium
23 April 2011
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Last week, we posted that The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The Naval History and Heritage Command will co-host the event, highlighting the U.S. Navy’s role in, and contributions to, the outcome of the war. Here is a list of some of the confirmed speakers for the event.
Speakers include:
v Keynote speaker Craig Symonds, renowned Civil War historian and author of award-winning books Lincoln and His Admirals and The Civil War at Sea, will kick off the event and give an overview of the Confederate and Union navies. Symonds is a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy.
v Robert J. Schneller, Jr. has been a historian in the Contemporary History Branch at the Naval Historical Center since 1991. He is the editor of Under the Blue Pennant, or Notes of a Naval Officer, 1863-1865, by John W. Grattan; co-writer of Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War; and author of A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren.
v Howard J. Fuller is Senior Lecturer of War Studies in the Department of History as well as a Core Member of the History and Governance Research Institute's Conflict Studies Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. He specializes in Anglo-American 19th-century history, particularly the American Civil War and the British Empire.
v Andy Jampoler is a retired U.S. Navy Captain. Jampoler, who served in Vietnam, has an extensive background, including working at the Pentagon and commanding a land-based maritime patrol aircraft squadron, as well as a naval air station. During the 1970s and 80s, he flew Lockheed P-3 airplanes in search of Soviet submarines. After retiring from the Navy, he worked in the international aerospace industry and then moved on to become a full-time writer.
v Matthew T. Eng serves as Deputy Educator of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, VA. Eng is also the Coordinator for the Navy History & Heritage Command's Civil War Sesquicentennial.
v Gordon Calhoun is the publication editor and command historian for the Hampton Roads Naval Museum. He contributes to the museum’s exhibits including National Emergency: Local Navy Units in The Cold War and One Hundred Years of Silence: The Submarine Force at 100, as well as edits the museum’s quarterly journal of local history The Daybook.
v William Connery is a seasoned writer in history and culture. He has authored more than two dozen articles on various aspects of the American Civil War. Connery, who writes for The Washington Times, served as the executive assistant to the Chairman of The Washington Times from 2006-2009 and as editor covering domestic/worldwide political and social issues for a general-interest monthly magazine.
v Robert Browning is the Chief Historian for the U.S. Coast Guard. He is the author of several books include From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War and U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II¸ as well as numerous booklets and more than 50 articles.
This information is reproduced from the U.S. Navy Memorial Website. For more information, go to: http://www.navymemorial.org/Events/CivilWaratSea/tabid/142/Default.aspx
