CWRTDC'S PREVIOUS MEETING:
  
PAULA WHITACRE
speaks about the lives of 
Harriet Jacobs and Julia Wilbur 
"A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time"

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
in the Campaign Room at Patton Hall Officers' Club,
214 Jackson Avenue, Ft. Myer, VA  22211
(take the elevator to the right as you enter the building or
take the stairs to the left up one level to the first floor)

6 pm: Social Hour (cash bar)
6:45 pm: Dinner ($36 for dinner and lecture)
8 pm: Lecture ($5 for lecture only)
 
Reservations Due By Tuesday, October 2, 5pm
(cancellations after the due date are non-refundable, as we must pay for the dinners regardless of the actual attendance)
SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE RIGHT OF THIS POST TO MAKE AND PAY FOR RESERVATIONS OR VISIT  http://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/ 
If you have any problems making reservations online or would like to know about alternatives to making reservations or payments online, please email Paula Whitacre at reservations@cwrtdc.org

Non DoD attendees will need to enter through security at the Hatfield gate; see instructions to enter Ft. Myer HERE
(also see directions here) or (download them in pdf here)Interactive Public Transportation Options are HERE

About the Topic:
During the Civil War, thousands of African Americans sought freedom in Union-occupied Alexandria. The Union Army was officially responsible for their well-being, but provided only the bare essentials, if that.

Two women—Harriet Jacobs and Julia Wilbur—forged a unique, interracial partnership to do more for freedpeople. In the 19th century when women were supposedly confined to the home “sphere,” they each came alone to a place where they knew no one, and figured out how to make a difference for other people—while also charting new paths for themselves.

Both left primary sources that help us understand their lives, as well as Alexandria during this time. In the space between the battlefield and the home front, their story tells of a critical, but not well-known side of the Civil War.

For more information, visit: http://www.paulawhitacre.com


About the Speaker:                

Paula Tarnapol Whitacre wrote a biography of Julia Wilbur’s life, A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose (Potomac Books, 2017) that a Kirkus reviewer called “an illuminating portrait of a remarkable abolitionist working behind Union lines.” 
Ms. Whitacre is a long-time freelance writer and editor for the National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and many other organizations. Previously, she worked for The Washington Post and the U.S. Information Agency as a Foreign Service Officer.

Ms. Whitacre has lived in Alexandria since the mid-1980s and is active in many local history organizations. In addition to serving on the board of the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia, she is president of Friends of Alexandria Archaeology.

Books will be available for sale and signing.




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CWRTDC'S PREVIOUS MEETING:


THOMAS A. BOGAR
speaks about
"Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination"

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
in the Campaign Room on the 2nd Floor at Ft. Myer Officers' Club, in Arlington, VA
located at 214 Jackson Avenue

(take elevator available immediately to the right as you enter the Club or take stairs to the left)
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION

Attendees will need to enter through security at the Hatfield gate; see instructions to enter Ft. Myer HERE 

(also see directions here) or (download them in pdf here)


6 pm: Social Hour (cash bar)
7 pm: Dinner ($36 for dinner and lecture)
8 pm: Lecture ($5 for lecture only)
Reservations Due By Tuesday, September 4, 5pm
(Note: cancellations after the due date are non-refundable, as we must pay for dinners based on the number of reservations reported to the Club on the due date regardless of actual attendance)
SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE RIGHT OF THIS POST
TO MAKE RESERVATIONS AND REMIT PAYMENT
If you have any problems making reservations online or would like to know about alternatives to making reservations or payments online,
please email Paula Whitacre at reservations@cwrtdc.org reservations@cwrtdc.org



About the Topic

April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, “Burn the place down!”

This is the untold story of Lincoln’s assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit. In Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, historian Thomas A. Bogar delves into previously unpublished sources to tell the story of Lincoln’s assassination from behind the curtain.

And the tale is shocking. Police rounded up and arrested dozens of innocent people, wasting time that allowed the real culprit to get further away. Some closely connected to John Wilkes Booth were not even questioned, while innocent witnesses were relentlessly pursued.

Booth was more connected with the production than you might have known; find out about how he knew each member of the cast and crew, which was a hotbed of secessionist resentment.

Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination also tells the story of what happened to each of these witnesses after the investigation was over—how each one lived their lives after seeing one of America’s greatest presidents shot dead without warning.

Mr. Bogar will discuss how Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination is an exquisitely detailed look at this famous event from an entirely new angle. 


Adapted from amazon.com.

About the Speaker:

Thomas A. Bogar has taught theatre history, dramatic literature, and theatrical production for forty years—most recently at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland—and has directed over seventy theatrical productions. He holds a Ph.D. in theatre history/literature/criticism from Louisiana State University, an M.A. in play directing, and a B.A. in educational theatre, both from the University of Maryland.


In addition to Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre (Regnery History 2013), Mr. Bogar is the author of American Presidents Attend the Theatre: The Playgoing Experiences of Each Chief Executive and John E. Owens: Nineteenth Century American Actor and Manager (McFarland, 2002), a biography of a 19th-century actor-manager.  His writing has also appeared in Washington History, Maryland Historical Magazine, Teaching Theatre, and Music Educators Journal.


Mr. Bogar is currently completing his next book, scheduled to be released this winter, entitled: Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre: The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas.


 For more information about Mr. Bogar, visit his website at:  http://thomasabogar.com/index.html

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