Douglas R. Egerton to speak at next meeting of Onondaga County Civil War Round Table

Le Moyne College Professor Douglas R. Egerton will speak next month about black Civil War regiments when he addresses the next meeting of the Onondaga County Civil War Round Table. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, in the Town of DeWitt Community Room, 148 Sanders Creek Parkway in East Syracuse.

Egerton teaches early American and 19th century history at Le Moyne College. He has had a lifelong interest in the South, its complex race relations and the intersections between race and politics in early America. His latest book is “Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America” (2016).

Egerton has given talks at the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic and has appeared twice before the Onondaga County Civil War Round Table.

His books include “The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era” (2014), “Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War” (2010) and “Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America” (2009).

The program is free and open to the public. Anyone interested in the American Civil War is encouraged to attend.