Civil War Round Table to host talk on origins of Lost Cause narrative
STATE COLLEGE — The Central PA Civil War Round Table will hold its annual joint meeting with Penn State’s George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at 7 p.m. Sept. 22 at the South Hills School of Business & Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Timothy J. Williams, an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon and a Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholar at Penn State’s Richards Civil War Era Center, will present “Assembling the South’s Lost Cause in Union Prisons.” The program will examine how Confederate prisoners held in Union prisons began ...