Membership in the Quincy Gillmore CWRT is open to anyone with an active interest in the study of the military, political, and social aspects of the American Civil War, including the events leading up to the Civil War and the events of the Reconstruction Era.

Meetings are held the second Monday of September and the first Mondays October through May, on the campus of the Lorain County Community College. Meetings start at 6:30 pm.

Monday, January 19, 2015

February 5, 2015 Presentation

February 5, 2015 Presentation

Steven Abbey

Quincy Gillmore CWRT member Steven Abbey will present his program "Mary Todd Lincoln: Money, Madness and Victorian Conventions" at our February 2 meeting. Steve, a retired academic and lawyer, will examine the case of the former First Lady that eventually resulted in her being declared mentally incompetent and confined to a mental institution.

Abbey taught U.S. history, American Government and various other courses over a thirty-nine year career. He served as an adjunct instructor in American history at Kenyon College for ten years while also teaching business department courses at Lorain County Community College. He was in private law practice from 1985 to 1989 and was a presenter for the Ohio Humanities Council in 1987 for the Bill of Rights Bicentennial.

Now retired, Steve has been seriously reading World War II and Cold War history, working on genealogy, and trying to deal with what he calls the "detritus" of an academic career. His presentation on Mary Todd Lincoln to QGCWRT will be his first to a Civil War Round Table.

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