[520] MTSU Professor's Book Focus of July Book Discussions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 2010
CONTACT: Antoinette van Zelm, 615-217-8013 or avanzelm@mtsu.edu

MTSU PROFESSOR’S BOOK FOCUS OF JULY BOOK DISCUSSIONS

(MURFREESBORO)—“The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory,” a new book by Dr. Robert Hunt, will be the focus of this summer’s “Between the Lines: Reading About the Civil War” book group.
Beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 15, the group’s participants will embark on a discussion of the award-winning title, which touches on the region’s local history within a larger national context, during the club’s meeting at Murfreesboro’s Heritage Center, 225 West College St.
The following week, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 22, author Hunt will join the group for a question-and-answer session at the same location. Both sessions are free and open to the public.
“’The Good Men Who Won the War’ is an excellent study of Union army veterans who had fought right here in middle Tennessee, among other places,” said Antoinette van Zelm, historian for the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area. “Dr. Hunt analyzes how these men from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky viewed their role in bringing about the end of slavery in the United States.”
A member of MTSU’s history faculty since 1989, Hunt received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1988. In addition to courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, he teaches military history, history in film and Southern history.
“The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory” won the University of Alabama Press-sponsored Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize as a manuscript.
The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, Linebaugh Library and the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County sponsor the book discussion group. The TCWNHA receives funding from the National Park Service and is administered by the Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU. Additional support comes from the Rutherford County Government and State Farm Insurance.
For more information on “Between the Lines: Reading About the Civil War,” please call 615-217-8013 or send an e-mail to avanzelm@mtsu.edu.


--30--

• ATTENTION, MEDIA: To request an interview with the book’s author or a jpeg of the book’s cover, please contact Lisa L. Rollins in the Office of News and Public Affairs at lrollins@mtsu.edu.

With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.