Presented by Dr. Lorien Foote Professor – Texas A & M University
Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery
Dinner: 6 PM – Menu: Herb Crusted Pork Chop, Green Beans with Caramelized Onions, Mashed Potatoes, Garden Salad and Desserts, Cost: $20, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263
Program: 7 PM
During the last winter of the Civil War, nearly 3,000 Union prisoners escaped from Confederate prisons in the Carolinas and fled toward Union army lines. Black and white southerners fed, hid, and guided the fugitives across hundreds of miles of dangerous terrain. Lorien Foote will share what the journey of escaped prisoners reveals about Union soldier’s experiences in the final months of the war and the transformation of the home front to a battle front inside the Confederacy.
Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of four books, editor of three volumes, and writer of numerous articles and essays on the cultural, intellectual, and military history of the American Civil War. Her most recent book is Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (2021), which won the Organization of American Historians Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award. She is the co-editor, with Earl J. Hess, of The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War. She is the creator and principal investigator of a digital humanities project, which is mapping the escape and movement of 3000 Federal prisoners of war. The project includes contributions from undergraduate researchers at four universities. It can be explored online at: https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/fugitive-federals/the-project. Foote received her B.A. from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. She is a ballroom dancer and a dog lover. Buzz, her nine-year-old Shih Tzu, is the mascot of the TAMU Study Abroad program and visits the office on campus regularly.
This is going to be a great program! See you on the 9th!