The Genesee Community College History Club’s Historical Horizons Lecture Series is back after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The series will kick off September 21 with Dr. Chris Mackowski.
Professor of Communication and Jandoli School Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at St. Bonaventure University, Mackowski is also Editor-in Chief of the Emerging Civil War Blog. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books. Mackowski resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The first lecture of the series is entitled “What if Jackson was at Gettysburg?” exploring the implications of the hypothetical scenario in which Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, instead of dying following the battle of Chancellorsville, survived and was present at the Battle of Gettysburg July 1 through 3, 1863. Mackowski’s narrative is just one such fascinating “What If” contained in the new book The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities, published by Savas Beatie. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event.
On October 3, Professor Erik Seeman will present on his book Speaking with the Dead in Early America. Seeman is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. A historian of religion in early America and the Atlantic world, he is the author of four books and numerous articles. His most recent book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America, won the 2020 Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best book of American cultural history. His current project is “Boston’s Pox of 1721: A People’s History.”
Rounding out the Fall 2022 lecture series will be Derek Maxfield on November 7. Associate Professor of History at Genesee Community College and author of two books published by Savas Beatie – HELLMIRA: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY and the forthcoming Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War – Maxfield will deliver a talk entitled “Those Tempestuous Brisbanes.” A follow up to the play “Brothers at Odds,” which was performed in June 2022, Maxfield will examine the Brisbane family of Batavia and their import to the area.
All events begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in room T102 of the Conable Technology Building on the Batavia Campus. Events are free and open to the public. For more information about the Historical Horizons Lecture Series, contact Derek Maxfield at http://ddmaxfield@genesee.edu or visit https://gcchistoricalhorizons.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/the-historical-horizons-lecture-series-is-back/.
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