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We are pleased to present the
2008-2009 Cleveland Civil War Roundtable program schedule.
This year's schedule provides an interesting mix of published
authors, scholars and Roundtable members presenting on a wide
variety of Civil War topics. Please join us for what promises to be
an exciting and stimulating year.
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First, our meetings have moved this year from the
Cleveland Playhouse Club to Judson Manor (the former Wade Park
Manor residential hotel), located at the corner of East 107th
Street and Chester in downtown Cleveland, just off University
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Map to Judson Manor
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History of Wade Park Manor
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Second, the dinner reservation
process has also changed this year. As before, you must make
a dinner reservation for any meeting you plan to attend no later
than the day prior to that meeting. But now you must make your
reservation either online the super efficient, modern way by clicking on one of the 'Make a Dinner Reservation"
links below or the slow, old-fashioned way by calling
440-449-9311 and leaving a message on Dan Zeiser's office voice mail.
(Note:THIS IS A NEW PHONE NUMBER FROM PREVIOUS YEARS!) You
can also send a reservation email directly to
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September 10, 2008
Dr. Joan Cashin
Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederacy
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 Dr. Joan Cashin is an associate
professor of history at The Ohio State University. She received her
Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the American University and her
PhD. from Harvard University. An historian of the United States,
Professor Cashin specializes in social history, including the
antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. She has published
A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier, 1991,
as well as many articles on social and cultural history. In 1996 she
published Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South.
Her recent biography First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War was published in 2006 and won the prestigious
Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War nonfiction. Dr. Cashin joins the
ranks of Shelby Foote, James Robertson, and Bruce Catton, all
previous Pratt Award winners who have addressed the Cleveland Civil
War Roundtable.
First Lady of the Confederacy, Varina Davis's Civil War at Harvard University Press
Purchase a copy of First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War
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September 25 - 28, 2008
CCWRT Annual Field Trip
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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 Join us on this exciting journey to
Gettysburg. In the past two years over 200 acres of non-historic trees have
been removed, opening up startling vistas over the fields. Our trip will
include over 15 hours of battlefield exploration under the tutelage of
licensed battlefield guides. We'll visit the newly opened Visitor Center and
view the newly restored Cyclorama painting. Our trip will even include a
Ghosts of Gettysburg tour. Contact Jon Thompson to register.
Trip Itinerary
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October 8, 2008
Chris Fortunato
The Supreme Court During the Civil War
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 Chris Fortunato is a Cleveland
attorney, amateur thespian, and long-time member of the Cleveland
Civil War Roundtable. He has spoken before the Roundtable
several times in the past.
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November 12, 2008
Dr. James Bissland
Blood, Tears, and Glory, How Ohioans Won the Civil War
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 Dr. James Bissland was born in New
England and moved to the Midwest in 1976, settling in Bowling Green
in 1976. Dr. Bissland is a graduate of Cornell University,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and the University of Iowa.
He is currently a writer and associate professor of journalism
emeritus at Bowling Green State University. For years his primary
focus as a journalist was as a human interest feature writer. In
addition to Blood, Tears, & Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War
(2007), he also has written Long River Winding: Life, Love, and
Death Along the Connecticut (2003) and co-authored Bountiful Ohio:
Good Food and Stories from Where the Heartland Begins (1993).
Dr. James Bissland blog
'Blood,
Tears, and Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War' website
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December 10, 2008
Dr. Sean Brossia
Restoring the USS Monitor
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Dr. Sean Brossia is the Director of
Research for C.C. Technologies Laboratories, Inc., the company
selected to save the metal artifacts from
the USS
Monitor. Dr. Brossia has over thirteen years experience in
investigating the corrosion behavior of iron and other metals in
both aqueous and non-aqueous systems. He has co-authored nearly
fifty technical publications and has filed six patent applications.
He holds a Master's Degree and Ph.D in Materials Science and
Engineering from the University of Virginia.
 Dr. Sean Brossia biography at CC
Technologies
'The Monitor
Rises Again' at National Geographic
(12/03)
The Monitor Center at the Mariners Museum
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January 14, 2009
The Annual Dick Crews
Debate
The Hitherto Unknown Meeting of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis at Hampton Roads in January, 1865
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This year's Dick Crews Debate will
follow a different, non-debate, format. It will feature a
moderated discussion between Abraham Lincoln (John Fazio) and
Jefferson Davis (Mel Maurer) based on the premise, WHAT IF Jefferson Davis had
made an unexpected and unannounced appearance at the Hampton Roads
conference in January, 1865 to directly negotiate a peace with
Abraham Lincoln?
John Fazio and Mel Maurer are both
former presidents of CCWRT. Both have presented individually to the
roundtable several times in the past, and both are prolific writers
(as this website attests). They enjoy historical research and share
a common love of drama, which they will demonstrate in our January
presentation. John is an attorney, living in Akron, and Mel is a
retired executive with the Dana Corporation, living in Westlake.
The Fox and the Hedgehog: The Hampton
Roads Conference on the Roundtable website
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February, 11, 2009
Dr. Paul Finkelman
The Great Emancipator as Lawyer
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 Dr. Paul Finkelman is an historian
and legal scholar. He is the President William McKinley
Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow
in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, Albany, New York.
He has published over twenty books and more than one hundred
scholarly articles. Dr. Finkelman has several focuses, including
slavery, race, civil rights, civil liberties, the Constitution,
Constitutional Law, and baseball. He is considered one of the
world's leading experts on baseball and the law.
Dr. Finkelman did
his undergraduate study at Syracuse University, and holds a
Master's Degree and PhD. in American history from the University of
Chicago. In 1982 he was a Fellow in Law and Humanities, Harvard Law
School. He is a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Dr.
Finkelman has a Cleveland connection; in 1997-98 he was Baker &
Hostetler visiting Professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Paul Finkelman website
Paul Finkelman biography at Organization of American Historians
Paul Finkelman books:
Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri
Compromise to the Age of Jackson
(Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008)
Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown .
Co-edited with Peggy A. Russo. Athens, Ohio: Ohio
University Press, 2005.
Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) . Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
His Soul Goes Marching on: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid . Editor and
author of two chapters. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of
Virginia, 1995.
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March 11, 2009
Tim Daley
Meet Me at the Fair: The Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair of the
Cleveland Chapter of the United States Sanitary Commission
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Tim Daley and his wife, Mary Lou,
live in Cleveland. Employed since 1990 by the Cleveland Municipal
Clerk of Courts Office, Mr. Daley is currently a Supervisor and Records
Manager within the Civil Division of the Court. He did his
undergraduate work at CSU, majoring in political science with a
minor in history and in May, 2008, completed his Master's Degree in
history at John Carroll University. Mr. Daley is
 currently
the Executive Director of the Cleveland Masonic Library & Museum and
a docent and program leader with the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and
Sailors' Monument.
A Civil War antiquarian and
lecturer since 1988, Mr. Daley continues to provide historical talks and
living history presentations to civic, educational, fraternal, and
religious organizations. His professional memberships include: the
American Association for State and Local History, the Masonic
Library & Museum Association, Organization of American Historians,
and the Society for Military History. He also serves on the Board
of the Society for Women and the Civil War as Membership Chairman. His fraternal affiliations
include associate memberships in both the James A. Garfield Camp
#132, Department of Ohio, Sons of Union Veterans and Quantrill's
Raiders Camp #2087, Department of Ohio, Sons of Confederate
Veterans.
In July, 2008, Mr. Daley was a guest
speaker at the 10th Annual Conference for the Society for Women and
the Civil War (held in Gettysburg, PA), where he presented his paper based on his master's thesis. It is this
presentation that Mr. Daley will be making to the CCWRT.
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April 8, 2009
Donald Korb
The Fight for Money: The Income Tax Laws of the Civil War
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Donald Korb is Chief Counsel of the
Internal Revenue Service, appointed by President Bush in December, 2003. A native
Clevelander, Mr. Korb is a graduate of John Carroll University and the
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law. He has spent more than thirty-two
years in the practice of tax law. His appointment as Chief Counsel
marks his third
 tour of duty with the IRS, having served previously
as an attorney/advisor in the 1970's and as a Special Assistant
to the Commissioner in the 1980's. Between his service stints with
the IRS, he was a partner with Coopers and Lybrand LLP and then
Thompson Hine LLP, both in Cleveland.
Donald Korb biography at Tax Prof Blog (pdf)
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May 13, 2009
Barbara Whalen
The Fighting McCooks
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 Barbara Whalen was born in Detroit,
Michigan and graduated from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New
York. She is a former newspaper columnist, radio and television
writer, and advertising executive. Her husband, Charles, a former
professor of economics at the University of Dayton, served twelve
years in the Ohio General Assembly and another twelve years in the
United States Congress as Ohio's Third District Representative.
Together the Whalens have
co-authored four nonfiction books, including The Longest Debate:
a Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. While
researching that book, the Whalens came upon the archives of the
McCook family, and their initial interest in researching the McCooks
turned into a twenty year project, culminating in the 2006
publication of The Fighting McCooks - America's Famous Fighting Family . Barbara and Charles
Whalen live in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Fighting McCooks
Webpage
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