 | History Happy Hour - The Seattle Civil War Veterans Reinterment Project
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The Seattle Civil War Veterans Reinterment Project
Feauturing Brian Matthew Jordan, Ph.D. and Richard Heisler
Join us for our first History Happy Hour of the season!
In 2024, the Missing in America Project identified the cremated remains of more than two dozen unclaimed Civil War veterans and their spouses at a funeral home in Seattle, Washington. Working with the project, local historian Richard Heisler played a leading role in the yearslong effort to identify, memorialize, and reinter these 28 men and 31 women, eulogized by former Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan. Join Codie Eash, SRMEC Director of Education and Interpretation, as he holds a conversation with Heisler and Jordan to discuss one of the largest collections of Civil War burials to have occurred in at least 150 years.
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Richard Heisler is the founder of Civil War Seattle and Seattle History Tours. A resident of the Seattle area for more than three decades and a lifelong student of the Civil War era, Richard's public history work aims to bring light to the extensive and influential historical connections of the Seattle region's communities to the Civil War and other local history. Richard has presented and led tours and programs for many area historical and private organizations in Pennsylvania and Washington, and he is a contributing writer for Emerging Civil War and The Western Theater in the Civil War. Civil War Seattle has been featured widely in local Seattle media, including the Seattle Times, KOMO4 News, KIRO Radio, and Pacific NW Magazine.
Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of U.S. Civil War History and Chair of the Department of History at Sam Houston State University, where he has taught for a decade. Professor Jordan earned his undergraduate degree in Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in History at Yale. His first book, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History. He has authored or edited five other books on Civil War soldiers, veterans, and memory, including The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (with Evan Rothera); A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment’s Civil War, and Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (with Jonathan W. White). Presently, he is at work on This War of Ours: A New History of the Civil War in the United States, a one-volume history of the conflict for Liveright/W.W. Norton. Brian is the founding co-editor of the series “Veterans” at the University of Massachusetts Press, and, for a decade, has served as Book Review Editor for The Civil War Monitor. He appears regularly on C-SPAN and was featured in the HISTORY Channel’s three-part documentary on the life of U.S. Grant.
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