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JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2024, AT 7:15 P.M. (Pacific Time)
FOR A PROGRAM ON "PLAYING DIXIE IN EGYPT:
CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN THE ARMY OF THE KHEDIVE"
WITH Dr. Thavolia Glymph, Author and Historian - Duke University
Charles Iverson Graves, Confederate Veteran in Egypt
The talk explores the decision of some 50 white veterans of the Union and Confederate armies to join the army of the Khedive Isma’il after the Civil War, the part they played in the khedive’s efforts to expand the territorial boundaries of Egypt, and how their experience in Egypt was shaped by and shaped their ideas about race, nation, and belonging.
Thavolia Glymph is Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of Law, and Faculty Research Scholar at the Duke Population Research Institute at Duke University. She is an historian of the U.S. South specializing in the history of slavery, the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Glymph is president of the American Historical Association and past president of the Southern Historical Association. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Gettysburg Foundation Board of Directors, and the Society of American Historians and a member of its Board. She holds the 2023-2024 Rogers Distinguished Fellowship in Nineteenth Century History at the Huntington Library and has twice held the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School. She is a recipient of Duke University’s Thomas Langford Lectureship Award and an “Award for Outstanding Scholarship Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War" from the National Park Service.
Glymph has authored and edited numerous books, essays, and articles. Her 2008 book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household won the 2009 Philip Taft Book Prize and was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize. Her 2020 book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, won multiple honors from the American Historical Association, the Southern Association for Women Historians, the Society of Civil War Historians, the Watson-Brown Foundation, the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, the Organization of American Historians, and was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. She is co-editor of two volumes of the documentary history series, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. She serves on several editorial boards and has worked as an historical consultant for the National Constitution Center, the National Museum of African American History & Culture, the National Park Service, the New-York Historical Society, and the International African American Museum; and on films and documentaries such as Harriet, Mercy Street; and “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” PBS Series with Henry Louis Gates.
PLEASE NOTE: This presentation will not be recorded, so we encourage you to come join us in person to hear our speaker.
We have a new "Book Buying Partnership" with our local, Pasadena treasure, Vroman's Bookstore. If you would like to pre-order one of Dr. Glymph's books using this link, it will be available for you at the May 28 meeting where Dr. Glymph can sign it for you. And there are no shipping charges to pay!
Please be sure to follow all instructions on the order page so that your book will be ready for you at the meeting.
Orders must be placed no later than May 21.
VROMAN'S PURCHASE LINK
Southern California's Oldest & Largest Independent Bookstore
Vroman’s Bookstore is the official supplier of speakers’ books for the Pasadena Civil War Round Table.
Thanks to the volunteer efforts and expertise of our Pasadena CWRT members, Tina Miller and Monika Skerbelis, we are now able to record our monthly meetings and post the videos to our YouTube Channel for your enjoyment and edification if you are unable to join us for our live meetings. We invite you to check out the videos from our two years of virtual meetings, as well as our most recent presentations, at our YouTube Channel:
CLICK HERE
We are indebted to Tina and Monika for helping us to bring this wonderful added benefit to allow our non-local members and guests to enjoy the presentations of our distinguished roster of speakers.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR IN-PERSON MEETING:
Pasadena CWRT - TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2024 - 7:15 PM (Pacific Time)
The Blinn House - 160 North Oakland Avenue - Pasadena
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