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SHU Presents Annual History Lecture with Fordham History Professor Paul Cimbala
WHAT: Fordham University Professor of History Paul Cimbala will present his talk ‘When the War was Almost Over: The Freedmen’s Bureau’s Continued Fight for the Union after America’s Civil War’ as part of Sacred Heart University’s Annual History Lecture.
WHO: Paul A. Cimbala received his A.B. from St. Joseph College (now University) in Philadelphia and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University. Prior to his arrival at Fordham University in 1987, he held an editorial appointment with the Black Abolitionist Papers Project at Florida State University and taught at the University of South Carolina at Aiken. His research focus is the era of the American Civil War. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, war and American society, the American South, and African American history to 1877.
WHERE: Sacred Heart University’s Schine Auditorium, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield.
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WHEN: Thursday, February 10 at 4pm.
TICKETS: This event is free and open to the public.
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SPONSORS: The Sacred Heart University Department of History.
PRESS: Media coverage is welcomed. Please contact Funda Alp at 203-396-8241 or alpf@sacredheart.edu for further information.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 6,000 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides “Best 373 Colleges: 2011,” “Best in the Northeast” and “Best 301 Business Schools: 2010.” U.S. News & World Report ranks SHU among the best master’s universities in the North in its annual “America’s Best Colleges” publication. As one of just 23 institutions nationally, SHU is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ (AAC&U) Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, in recognition of its core, “The Human Journey.” SHU fields 31 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu
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