Unintended and Unexpected: Lee’s Army after Appomattox

  • January 19, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Stratford Hall

    483 Great House Road
    Stratford, Virginia 22520
Ticket Price $5.72-$11.63 Register Now
Description

Stratford Hall is delighted to announce that Caroline E. Janney will deliver the 2025 Lee Lecture at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 19,, 2025  in the Jessie Ball duPont Memorial Library at Stratford Hall. 

Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she worked as a historian for the National Park Service and taught at Purdue University before returning to Virginia in 2018.  An active public lecturer, she has given presentations at locations across the globe. She is a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship program and has appeared numerous television programs including the History Channel’s Grant and Lincoln. She serves as a co-editor of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America Series and is the past president of the Society of Civil War Historians. She has published eight books, including Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013) and Ends of War: The Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox, winner of the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of four Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Board members wrote that "This book places you beside the Confederate soldier as he wrestles with surrender, the nature of the war’s ending, and the cause for which he sacrificed. A groundbreaking work."

This program will be offered in-person and hybrid via Zoom.

Program Pricing Options:

In-Person Admission – $10

Attend the program on-site and enjoy the live presentation.

Virtual (Hybrid via Zoom) – $5

Join the program remotely via Zoom and the link will be sent via email before the program.

 

Date & Time

Sun, Jan 19, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Venue Details

Stratford Hall

483 Great House Road
Stratford, Virginia 22520 Stratford Hall
Stratford Hall Historic Preserve

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. There are few places in America where people can travel down small, rural roads to arrive at a vast site that preserves so many aspects of early-American life, from the Great House where the influential Lee family helped to forge a new nation, to the fields worked by enslaved Africans, to the waters of the rivers that fueled trade, to the ground, which still yields secrets about the people and animals that lived before.

Come experience this extraordinary place and learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago - a history that continues to educate, inspire, and influence Americans to the present day.


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