March 8, 2012
6:00 P.M.
6:00 P.M.
FREE
KICK OFF THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON ROADS WEEKEND AT HRNM!
Join in the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads. Dr. My Haley, widow of author Alex Haley, who helped write the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots, will speak about her new historical novel, The Treason of Mary Louvestre. This book is based on the true story of a former slave-turned-spy who provided detailed information about the CSS Virginia to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles during the American Civil War. In addition to Haley’s talk and book-signing, the Battle of Hampton Roads watercolor contest participants’ art will also be shown during this event.
For more information, please go to the Naval Museum homepage HERE.
2012 Civil War Navy Conference Full Schedule
(CWN 150 Bloggers Highlighted in Red)
Schedule courtesy of the Mariners' Museum and the Battle of Hampton Roads Website. For more information and conference rates, go to the weekend's website HERE.
Friday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Join in the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads. Dr. My Haley, widow of author Alex Haley, who helped write the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots, will speak about her new historical novel, The Treason of Mary Louvestre. This book is based on the true story of a former slave-turned-spy who provided detailed information about the CSS Virginia to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles during the American Civil War. In addition to Haley’s talk and book-signing, the Battle of Hampton Roads watercolor contest participants’ art will also be shown during this event.
For more information, please go to the Naval Museum homepage HERE.
2012 Civil War Navy Conference Full Schedule
(CWN 150 Bloggers Highlighted in Red)
Schedule courtesy of the Mariners' Museum and the Battle of Hampton Roads Website. For more information and conference rates, go to the weekend's website HERE.
Friday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer will present Victory Without the Gaud:
The Battle of Hampton Roads and the Transformation of Civil War Art.
Ferguson Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Battle of Hampton Roads and the Transformation of Civil War Art.
Ferguson Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Saturday, March 10 at 10 a.m.
United States Naval Academy professor and Civil War Naval scholar Craig Symonds will present
The War Along the Atlantic Coast.
The Mariners' Museum
FREE with museum admission
The War Along the Atlantic Coast.
The Mariners' Museum
FREE with museum admission
Sunday, March 11at 10 a.m.
Local Virginia historian and preservationist John Quarstein will present his research for his latest book,
The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad as well as information from his reissued work
CSS Virginia: Mistress of Hampton Roads.
The Mariners' Museum
FREE with museum admission
The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad as well as information from his reissued work
CSS Virginia: Mistress of Hampton Roads.
The Mariners' Museum
FREE with museum admission
Saturday, March 10 Sessions
Search for and Discovery and Identification of the USS Monitor Wreck Aboard the R/V Eastward
Dr. Robert Sheridan, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
"Where's the Starboard Beam?" Commanding the Tin-Can From Inside an Iron Box
Francis DuCoin, Independent Historian & volunteer, USS Monitor Conservation Project
"Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the Monitor"
Dr. David Mindell, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Frances and David Dibner Professor of the
History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Brotherhood Adrift: Confederate Sailors
Laura June Davis, Doctoral Candidate, University of Georgia
"Sink the Merrimac!": Northern Plans, Schemes, and Inventions to Destroy the Rebel RamDr. David Gerleman, Assistant Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project
Naval Station New York: The Heart of the Union Anaconda
William Whyte, Doctoral Candidate, Lehigh University
Union Combined Operations in the Spring of 1862: An Examination of Leadership and Unity of Effort –
J. Michael Moore, Curator, Lee Hall Mansion
Pumping YOU Up: Conservation and Replication of the Worthington Steam Pumps from the USS Monitor
Will Hoffman, Conservator, The Mariners' Museum
Palmetto Iron: The Construction of the CSS Chicora and CSS Palmetto State, 1862
Charles Wexler, Doctoral Candidate, Auburn University
The Monitor and Beyond: Updates from the Graveyard of the Atlantic
David Alberg, Joe Hoyt, Monitor National Marine
Sunday, March 11 Sessions
USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes its Final Voyage
Dr. John Broadwater, NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Dr. John Broadwater, NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Hunter Davidson and the CSS Squib
Professor Ed Wiser, Naval War College
USS Cumberland: Latest Findings
Gordon Calhoun, Historian and Editor, Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Civil War Naval History: A Panel Discussion
1. CSS Florida: the Vanishing Ship (Gordon Calhoun)
2. Calling the Union's "Bluff:" U.S. Navy Operations on the James River (Matt Eng)
Matthew Eng, Gordon Calhoun, Hampton Roads Naval Museum
The Monitor’s Unknown Mission: The Appomattox Raid, June 1862
Chuck Veit, President, Navy and Marine Living History Association
Union Sailors and Alcohol
Sarah Adler, Undergraduate, American University
Bad Luck All Around: The North Carolina Built Ironclads
Andrew Duppstadt, NC Division of State Historic Sites; Jim McKee, Historic Interpreter, Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site;
Chris Grimes, Interpreter, The Mariners' Museum
USS Monitor to Dreamland Bell: The Foundry of James Gregory-
David Grider, Architect, New York City
The USS Monitor at 150: Conservation Insights, Observations and Adventures
Conservation Staff, The Mariners' Museum
CSS Shenandoah: Her life, her impact
Sam Craghead, Museum of the Confederacy
Civil War Naval Chaplaincy and Rev. John L. Lenhart
Captain Thom Mitton, US Christian Commission
Civil War Public Memory in a Social Media World
Matthew Eng, Deputy Educator, Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Fighting for Their Lives: Theories on what happened when the Monitor went down
Paul Clancy, Virginian Pilot
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