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Fall 2015 Lecture Series

"The Alamo - The Myth, the Reality...and John Wayne!"
Presented by Tom Schobert, president of Buffalo CIvil War Roundtable & Robert E. Lee impressionist.
Like other high-profile events in American history, the story of the Alamo is schrouded in legends and myths. Find out what really happended and what John Wayne has to do with it.

Fall 2015 Lecture Series

"Hell's Half-Acre:The Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania"
Presented by Kris White, co-author of A Season of Slaughter: The Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, adjunct professor of History at Allegany Community College and co-founder of Emerging Civil War online journal.

Fall 2015 Lecture Series

"The Philosophy of History: What does it Matter"
Presented by Jim Simon, GCC associate dean of Orleans County Campus Centers
From legalizing gay marriage to the removal of the confederate flag, history impacts current law, politics and culture. Is history linear or circular, progressive or regressive, utilitarian or deontological, none or all of the above? How does history inform students, teachers, citizens and policy makers in the 21st century?

Fall 2015 Lecture Series

"Recalling Reconstruction: The Ugly Story of a Splendid Failure"
Presented by Derek Maxfield, GCCassociate professor of History
As the end of the Civil War approached, Abraham Lincoln counseled his generals not to gloat in victory to avoid bitterness and animosity. "Let'em up easy," he said. But Lincoln did not live to oversee much of Reconstruction, which took a dark turn. Eric Foner, auther of the most definitive work on Reconstruction, called it a "splendid failure." Join us to find out why.