Stephen Berry

Stephen Berry is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, where his teaching and writing focus on the Civil War as a lived experience. He is interested in how men, women, and families reacted to, were shaped by, and endured after the conflict that transformed their lives. A former National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Berry is author of House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War (2007) and All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (2003).

Lecture topics:

• House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War
• The Lincoln Marriage
• Lincoln, The Un-Leader
• To Be Great and Good: Lincoln, the Law, and Ethical Leadership
• Using Civil War Images in the Classroom

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