“Still Marching On”: The Shenandoah Valley’s African Americans in the Civil War’s Aftermath

Join us for the final presentation of our 2022 Summer Lecture Series with Professor Jonathan Noyalas. Noyalas is director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute and a professor in the history department at Shenandoah University. He is the founding editor of Journal of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era, the author or editor of 15 books, and has published more than 100 essays, articles, chapters, and reviews in a variety of scholarly and popular publications, including Civil War Times, America’s Civil War, Civil War History, North & South, and Blue & Gray. Noyalas has consulted on a variety of public history projects with groups such as the National Park Service, National Geographic, American Battlefield Trust, and the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District. He has appeared on C-SPAN’s American History, TV PCN, and NPR’s “With Good Reason.” Prof. Noyalas is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship including Shenandoah University’s Exemplary Teaching Award for the first year seminar and Shenandoah’s Wilkins Award. In 2016 he received the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award–the highest honor that can be bestowed upon someone in higher education in Virginia. Sponsored, in part, through the generous support of Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury. Tickets: $10