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March 8, 2023

March 14, 2023 – Art as History – Lessons About the Civil War from the Amon Carter Museum

Presented by Andrew Walker, Executive Director, Amon Carter Museum Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth 76107 Dinner: 5:30 PM Program: 6:30 PM (The Amon Carter Museum is open until 5 PM. We encourage everyone attending our program to visit the Museum before our meeting. Admission is Free.) Dinner Menu: […]

February 3, 2023

February 14, 2023 – Texas Cotton and Confederate Finance: Regulating Blockade Runners and Border Merchants in the Trans-Mississippi  

Presentation by: Dr. Richard McCaslin, Professor, University of North Texas Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery St., Fort Worth, TX 76107 Dinner: 6PM Program starts at: 7PM Menu: Italian Sausage and Beef Lasagna, Grilled Vegetables, Caesar Salad, Garlic Bread, Desserts. – $20. To RSVP email jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or text or call 817-307-9263. The […]

January 3, 2023

January 10, 2023 – 2022 Pate Award Presentation to Dr. Fay A. Yarbrough for Her Book “Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country”

Location: UNT Health Science Center, 1000 Montgomery Street, Room 125 S, Fort Worth 76109 Dinner: 6 PM Program: 7 PM Menu: Yankee Pot Roast with Petite Vegetables and Homemade Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, String Beans with Almonds and Shallots, Garden Salad and Dessert – Cost $20 per person – To RSVP email Jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or call or […]

December 7, 2022

December 13, 2022 – Behind the Rifle – Women Soldiers in the Civil War

Presented by Shelby Harriel – Historian Dinner – 6 PM Program – 7 PM Menu: Pork Chops with Fig Demi Glaze, Roasted Potatoes and Vegetables, Garden Salad, and Assorted Deserts – $15 per person – (To RSVP contact Jim Rosenthal by email – jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or call or text 817-307-9263.) Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET […]

November 1, 2022

November 8, 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the (Really) Ugly: Leaders and Leadership at Petersburg

Presented by A. Wilson Greene Historian Dinner: 6:00 PM – Pecan Crusted Chicken, with Serrano Gouda Cream Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, String Beans, Garden Salad and Desserts – $15, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263. Program: 7 PM Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Fort Worth 76109, Room 109-111  The Petersburg Campaign featured […]

September 30, 2022

October 11, 2022 – General A. P. Hill Talks About The Battle of Gettysburg

Presented by Pat Falci, Reenactor/Historian Dinner: 6:00 PM – Menu: Blackened Redfish with Herb Butter Sauce, Wild Rice, String Beans with Almonds and Shallots, Garden Salad and Desserts – $15, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263. Program: 7 PM Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Fort Worth 76109, Room 109-111 Confederate General […]

August 30, 2022

September 13th – Grant, Beauregard, and Albert Sidney Johnston: Styles of Command at Shiloh

Presented by Dr. Steven Woodworth, Professor, TCU Dinner: 6:00 PM  Menu: Chicken w/ King Ranch Sauce, Roasted Vegetables, Southwest Salad, Dessert – $15, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263. Program: 7 PM Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Fort Worth 76109, Room 109-111 The Battle of Shiloh was the first major […]

May 3, 2022

May 10, 2022 – General U.S. Grant (Dr. Curt Fields) Presentation on the Vicksburg Campaign

Presented by Dr. Curt Fields – Historian Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building Rm. 109-111, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76109 Dinner: 6PM (Menu: Pecan Crusted Chicken, Mashed New Potatoes, Green Beans, Garden Salad and Dessert – $15. To RSVP respond to this announcement or call or text Jim Rosenthal at 817-307-9263.) Program: […]

March 25, 2022

April 12, 2022 – The Civil War Defenses of Washington D. C.

Presented by Steve Phan – National Park Service Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building Rm. 109-111, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76109 Dinner: 6PM (Menu: Lasagna, Sausage and Beef, Caesar Salad, Bread Sticks and Dessert – $15. To RSVP respond to this announcement or call or text Jim Rosenthal at 817-307-9263.) Program: 7 […]

February 28, 2022

March 8, 2022 – You Are What You Wear: What Civil War Uniforms Tell Us About Civil War Soldiers

Presented by Dr. Blake Hill – Historian Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building Rm. 109-111, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76109 Dinner: 6PM (Menu: Herb Crusted Pork Chop with Honey Dijon Sauce, New Potatoes, Green Beans, Garden Salad and Dessert – $15. To RSVP respond to this announcement or call or text Jim […]

February 2, 2022

February 8, 2022 – Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War

Presented by Dr. Lorien Foote, Professor Texas A and M University Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Room 109-111 Dinner: 6 PM – Menu: Chicken Piccata with Julienne Vegetables, Roasted New Potatoes, Garden Salad and Desserts, Cost: $15, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263 Program: 7 PM Union and […]

January 5, 2022

January 11, 2022 – 2021 Pate Award Presentation to Megan Kate Nelson For – “The Three-Cornered War – The Union, the Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West”

7:00 PM – Presentation will be made via Zoom (Zoom Invitation will be sent separately.) After the Pate Award Presentation, Dr. Nelson will talk on the topic of her book: “The Civil War in the Far West” In the summer of 1861, Confederate troops invaded New Mexico from Texas, hoping to conquer that territory and then […]

December 7, 2021

December 14th – The Civil War in Sutherland Springs, Texas

Presented by Dr. Richard McCaslin, Professor, University of North Texas Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, Room 124, 1000 Montgomery Dinner: 6 PM (Box Dinner – Lasagne – Italian Sausage and Beef, Caesar Salad, Bread Sticks, Dessert. $15 – RSVP to this email or call or text 817-307-9263) Program: 7 PM In November 2017, […]

October 29, 2021

November 9th – Decisions at Antietam: the Fourteen Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle

Presentation by Michael Lang, Author and Historian Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Fort Worth. TX 76107 – Room 109-111 Dinner: 6PM (Individually Packaged – Yankee Pot Roast with Petite Vegetables, Mashed Potatoes, Beans with almonds, Garden Salad, and Dessert – $15 per person – Please RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or call or […]

August 26, 2021

October 12, 2021 – “The Saddest Day I Have Ever Witnessed in this War” US Grant – Battle of the Crater

Presented by Dr. Steven Woodworth Professor, TCU Dinner at 6PM – Boxed Dinners – Assorted Sandwiches and wraps, Penne Pasta Salad, Homemade Potato Chips, Cookies – Cost $15. Email jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or call 817-307-9263 to RSVP. Program starts at 7PM Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, Room 109-111, Fort Worth 76107 Ulysses S. Grant famously […]

August 26, 2021

September 14th – Jefferson Davis During and After the War

Presented by Bertram Hayes-Davis Historian and Great-great Grandson of Jefferson Davis Time: 7:00 PM (For this meeting dinner will not be served. Masks recommended.) Location: UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, 1000 Montgomery, Fort Worth 76109, Room 124N Bertram Hayes-Davis has spent a lifetime studying about Jefferson Davis. This interest comes easily to him since […]

May 4, 2021

May 11, 2021 – Plying the Deadly Trade: Understanding Civil War Sharpshooters

Presented by Dr. Jonathan Steplyk, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UTA Zoom Presentation – 7PM (You will receive an invitation to join in a separate email.) Sharpshooters were among the deadliest fighters on the Civil War battlefield. But how well do we understand these formidable Union and Confederate marksmen? How were they raised and trained? What was […]

April 6, 2021

April 13th – “Army in Fine Spirits and Every One Determined to Do or Die”: George Meade and Victory at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

Presented by Dr. Jennifer Murray, Military Historian, Oklahoma State University Zoom Presentation, April 13, 2021 – 7 PM, (invitation will follow) This talk explores the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.  Together we will cover the fighting on Culp’s Hill (the scene of the most sustained combat during the battle), the […]

March 3, 2021

March 9, 2021 – Forrest’s Birthday Surprise: The 1862 Murfreesboro Raid

Presented By Dr. Brian Steel Wills, Professor, Kennesaw State University Zoom Meeting, March 9, 2021 – 7PM (Zoom Invitation will follow) As Nathan Bedford Forrest neared his forty-first birthday a great deal of what had constituted his world for decades had changed.  The secession of his native Tennessee and the outbreak of war between the […]

February 2, 2021

February 9, 2021 – The Rise and Fall of Father Abram J. Ryan – Poet Laureate of the Confederacy

Presented by Dr. Richard McCaslin – Professor – University of North Texas Meeting starts at 7:00 PM via Zoom (You will receive a separate invitation) Reputation is fickle. Some historical figures grow in stature over time. Others, whose flame once shone brightly, are destined to spend the rest of time in obscurity. Why? As an […]

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