The 2009 Brose Lectures will be held March 19-21, featuring Professor Carol Reardon of the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Reardon will be speaking on "Beyond Jomini," an examination of strategy, leadership, and soldiers in the Civil War.
Past Distinguished Speakers
Symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation, April 14, 2007
Steven Hahn, William Blair, Mark E. Neely, Jr., Louis Gerteis, Stephanie McCurry, Michael Vorenberg
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2007- "Symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation" featuring: William Blair, The Pennsylvania
State University, Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Pennsylvania State University, Michael Vorenberg, Brown University -
2006- Nina Silber, Professor of History at Boston University on "Women and the Civil War"
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2005- Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African-American History at the University of Chicago, "From Slaves to Citizens: Reflections on the Problem of Freedom in the Modern World"
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2004- Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, "Viewing the Civil War: Images and Interpretations in Recent Film and Popular Art"
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2003- Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at Notre Dame University, on "The Civil War as a Crisis in Theology"
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2002- Mark E. Neely, Jr., McCabe Greer Professor of History and Senior Historian in Residence at The Pennsylvania State University, "So Many Voters: American Political Culture in the Civil War Era"
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2001- Michael F. Holt, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Corcoran Department of History Chair at the University of Virginia, "Rethinking the Political History of the Civil War Era"
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2000- Drew Gilpin Faust, Professor of U.S. History and President at Harvard University, "Peculiar Conditions and Necessities: The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying"
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1999- Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University, "The Story of American Freedom"
Lecture Series Volumes
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2008- Nina Silber, Gender and the Sectional Conflict
2008 - Gary Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape
What We Know About the Civil War2006- Mark Noll, The Civil War as Crisis in Theology
2005- Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era
About the Broses
Steven H. Brose is a 1969 honors graduate in political science from Penn State. He received a law degree from Columbia University's School of Law and has spent his career with the international law firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC, where he heads the Energy and Natural Resources Department and is a member of the executive committee. His practice focuses on federal regulation of the energy industry, with particular emphasis on transportation issues for companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, he has served as an advisor to the World Bank and the governments of Ecuador and the Republic of Georgia. Steve is the 2004 recipient of Service to Penn State Award from the Liberal Arts Alumni Society.
Janice Brose attended Penn State for two years before graduating from the City College of New York with a degree in anthropology. She later entered the nursing profession and currently participates in wildlife rehabilitation in Maryland and archaeology at Gunston Hall Plantation in Virginia.
About the Lectures
The Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture and Book Series in the Richards Civil War Era Center was established in 1998 and originally supported a single lecture by a distinguished visitor. The Broses added to the endowment in 2001, allowing a distinguished lecturer to deliver three related lectures over three days. The Broses’ generosity also enabled the Richards Center to enter an agreement with the University of North Carolina Press, which publishes the lectures as part of a series of scholarly monographs with Richard Center Director William Blair serving as series editor.