Above and Beyond:
Maine Leaders and Heroes of the Civil War
Syllabus
Presenters and Topics
March 14:
March 21:
March 28:
April 4:
April 11:
April 18:
April 25:
May 2:
Steve Bunker Andrew Spurling and the 1st Maine Cavalry
John Cross “Into the Maelstrom: Bowdoin College and the American Civil War”
Artur Kalandarov From the Far North to the Deep South: How Bowdoin Students Became Confederate Soldiers
Mike Bell Maine’s Unsung Hero; The Life And Times of Adelbert Ames
Steve Garrett The Story of Two Mainers, Chamberlain and Fernald: One Famous, One Not
Elizabeth Leonard Two Civil War Heroines from Maine: Dorothea Dix and Rebecca Usher
Ashley Towle In Pursuit of “Absolute Justice:” Oliver Otis Howard, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the era of Reconstruction
George Rogers Andrew Jackson Tozier: A Hero Nearly Forgotten