Do you have a U.S. military veteran in your life? Have you helped to preserve his or her story for history? Not only is doing so an important service to the community, but it is also a fantastic way to honor their service. Join Barbara A. Gannon, Ph.D., an associate professor of History at the University of Central Florida and the coordinator of the UCF Community Veterans History Project, as she shares details about the extraordinary work being done right here in our community to preserve these stories for generations to come, including other veterans-oriented initiatives, the Veterans Month of Honor and Remembrance at UCF and the Veterans School Supply Vault. The UCF Community Veterans History Project has collected hundreds of oral histories of Central Florida veterans. We invite you to tag along, hear of the real sacrifices by our nation’s soldiers and learn how to be a part of history.
By participating in this session, you can expect to learn:
This program is presented by Dr. Barbara Gannon and hosted by the Winter Park Health Foundation.
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About the Program Presenter
Barbara A. Gannon is an associate professor of History at the University of Central Florida and coordinator of the UCF Community Veterans History Project, an oral history project recording the experiences of Florida’s veterans. Gannon is the author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (UNC Press, 2011). This book received the Wiley-Silver Prize (University of Mississippi) for the Best First Book in Civil War history. It also received an honorable mention from the Lincoln Prize (Gilder Lehrman Institute) jury in 2012. She published her second Book, Americans Remember their Civil War (Praeger) in 2017. She has authored several articles and essays on the Civil War and American veterans. She received her B.A. from Emory University, an M.A. from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. She is also a veteran of the United States Army.
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