| Thursday Mar 15, 2018 6:00 PM - Thursday Mar 15, 2018 7:30 PM | Free - $6.00 |
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The Civil War Experience of Kentucky Women
Thursday, March 15, 2018
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Carnegie
Andrea Watkins, professor of history; Department of History & Geography
Online ticket sales end at 2pm. Tickets will be available at the box office starting at 5:30pm.
Lecture Description
Kentucky was divided during the American Civil War in politics,
sentiment and experience. That much is well documented in movies, museums and monuments. But the story is typically told as a story about men. For many Kentucky women, war meant both a physical displacement from their homes and the loss of friendships and close family relationships. The varied experiences of Union and Confederate sympathizers, as well as African-American women, reveal the courageous discipline and strength of women in the 19th Century to maintain family life and human compassion in a time of war.
Andrea Watkins
Andrea Watkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of History & Geography, Black Studies, Public History and Womens & Gender Studies. She teaches multiple courses in United States history, Kentucky history, and the American South with an emphasis on the colonial to Civil War era. Her favorite subjects include the development and practice of slavery in America, family and community history in the nineteenth century, and women during the Civil War. She is the co-author, with Dr. James A. Ramage, of Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2011, and most recently authored a chapter on two Union women during the Civil War in Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Melissa McEuen and Thomas Appleton, Jr. (2015). She is currently working on a biography of nineteenth-century Kentucky lawyer, politician, and slave owner Robert Wickliffe.
Andrea serves as the faculty advisor for the Alpha Beta Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society. She works on various department and university committees, including service as chairperson of the Student Awards Committee for the department. She is the universitys representative on the Editorial Board of the University Press of Kentucky, and she is a member of the Southern Historical Society, Society for Historians of the Early Republic, and Organization of American Historians.
Andrea earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kentucky in 1999. She received a M.A. in History (1993) and B.A. in Secondary Social Studies Education (1991) from the University of Kentucky. She was awarded the 2013 NKU Outstanding Online Faculty of the Year Award, and the 2011 NKU Faculty Excellence Award for Excellent Performance in Outreach or Public Engagement. Andrea plays piano and bass guitar in her off time, and likes to attend NKU basketball games, School of the Arts performances, and other university activities with her eighteen-year-old daughter, Rachel.
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LocationThe Carnegie (View)
1028 Scott Boulevard
Covington, KY 41011
United States
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