Program Details

A Guided Discussion With Dr. Stephen Engle: The War at 100 Years: Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote Meet Jim Crow

Instructor
Stephen Engle
FGD10181

Course Description

Americans were enthusiastic in the 1960s at the prospect of the Civil War’s centennial. Bruce Catton’s and Shelby Foote’s popular trilogies contributed to the conflict’s memorialization but did little to confront the problems that remained below the surface resulting from the war. The Civil Rights struggle and Jim Crow served as a reminder that all was not well in America, and Reconstruction took center stage in the public arena. Discussion will follow an overview of this conflicted history. Opinions are bound to vary! The success of this new format hinges on the tolerance and mutual respect of each attendee. OLLI Boca is confident that participants will engage in the spirit of open-mindedness and civil debate.


About the Instructor

  • Stephen D. Engle, Ph.D., is professor of history, a prize-winning author, and director of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency. He is a past Fulbright Scholar to Germany, a C-Span lecturer in American history, Andrew Mellon Fellow, and is currently a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and a lecturer for the Smithsonian Institution’s Associates Program. In 2016, he was named Florida Atlantic University’s Distinguished Teacher of the Year and in 2019, he was appointed FAU's Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA.