Civil War Historian to Speak at VMI
麻豆女演员 Institute welcomes Brian McKnight, Ph.D., professor of history and a founding director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at the University of Virginia, who will give a lecture on the Civil War titled, 鈥淕uerrilla Warfare and Base Criminality in the Civil War Borderland鈥� Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m., in Gillis Theater of Marshall Hall on post. The event is free and open to the public.
McKnight is a specialist in contested and coerced loyalties and is the author of 鈥淐ontested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia,鈥� which won the Dr. James I. Robertson Literary Prize for Confederate History; and 鈥淐onfederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia,鈥� which won the Tennessee History Book Award for best book in Tennessee history. Additionally, he wrote, 鈥淲e Fight For Peace: Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War鈥� and coedited 鈥淭he Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts During the Civil War鈥� with Barton Myers, Ph.D., professor of history at Washington and Lee University. McKnight鈥檚 other writings have been featured in The New York Times, and his work on Korean War prisoners of war was profiled in The New Yorker.
The event is sponsored by the VMI Department of History and the John Biggs 鈥�30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History Fund.
