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Special Event
Event
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain with Author and Historian Ronald C. White
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Fee:
Free.Location:
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg PA, 17325.Dates & Times
Date:
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Time:
7:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour and 30 minutes
Type of Event
Campfire/Evening Program
Partner Program
Talk
Theater doors open at 6:00 PM.
Description
In On Great Fields, The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua L. Chamberlain, New York Times best selling author Ronald C. White brings us a cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain–from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential post war public service. White explores a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war?
This special presentation will be held at 7:00 pm on Sunday, June 9 at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg PA, 17325.
Free tickets are required for this event. Tickets may be reserved online by visiting the Gettysburg Foundation's website or using the link provided.
Theater doors open at 6:00 PM.
Ronald C. White is the author of two New York Times bestselling presidential biographies. USA Today said of A. Lincoln: A Biography [2009], “If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. LINCOLN.” American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant [2016] won the William Henry Seward Award for “Excellence in Civil War Biography.” He has also written Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural [2002], a New York Times Notable Book, The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words [2005], a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President [2021], recipient of the 2021 Barnondess/Lincoln award. He is the narrator of the Random House Audiobook for Lincoln in Private.
His new biography, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, was published by Penguin Random House in October, 2023.
White is a graduate of UCLA and Princeton Theological Seminary and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C. He has taught at UCLA, Whitworth University, Colorado College, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the PBS NewsHour. He has spoken on Lincoln in England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. He lives with his wife Cynthia in Pasadena California.
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Free tickets are required for this event. Tickets may be reserved online by visiting the Gettysburg Foundation's website.