Civil War Round Table of
This page is
designed to provide our speakers with helpful information regarding the Civil
War Round Table of Dallas. Below you will find information on our group,
newsletter and website, directions to our meeting location, emergency phone
numbers, and meeting guidelines.
Our meeting format
is designed to give maximum time to the speaker with a minimum of
announcements. The typical
presentation begins at 7:00pm and runs anywhere from 45-60 minutes. A 10 to 15 minute question-answer time is
usually held after the presentation. We encourage authors to bring copies of
their books for sale to interested members.
Please try to arrive
just before 6:00pm. That will give you time to relax and enjoy your meal prior
to the presentation.
Contact Information
Your primary contact for the CWRT Dallas is Pax Glenn and he may be reached at
214-766-6230. The secondary contact is Gerry
York at 214-559-2452. Ken Cochran handles the website and
can be reached at 972-418-6446 in the evenings.
Emergency Contact Information
If you are detained and will arrive later
than 6:00pm and you need to contact someone on the evening of the meeting,
either
We are the Civil War Round Table of Dallas
We're actually a very friendly group of Civil
War history enthusiasts who come from a wide variety of backgrounds. We have held
more than 200 meetings over 16 years and are still going strong. Our membership
is unique in that we count among our members nationally known historians
including Dr. Grady McWhiney, Jack Waugh, Dr. Steven Woodworth, Dr. Glenn
Linden and Scott Bowden. Our average attendance runs between 40-60 persons.
Each year the CWRT Dallas presents the Grady
McWhiney Award of Merit. Below are the past recipients.
1998: Grady McWhiney, Ph.D.
1999: Charles and
Peggy Pearce: Pearce Collection of Civil War Letters and
Documents
2000: John C. Waugh:
Author of The Class of 1846 and Reelecting Lincoln, the Battle
for the 1864 Presidency
2001: Scott
Bowden and Bill Ward: Authors of Last Chance for Victory:
Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign
2002: Steve
Woodworth, Ph.D.: Author of Numerous Books on the Civil War,
Professor of History at Texas Christian University
2003: Donald S.
Frazier, Ph.D.: Civil War Historian and Executive Director of
the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation
2004: B.D.
Patterson, D.D.S.:Dean of the Harold B. Simpson Hill College
History Complex and Confederate Research Center
2005: Dr. Anne
J. Bailey:Professor of History at Georgia College and State
University in Milledgeville, Georgia
Meeting Format
We love our speakers!
Newsletter and Website
We need some information.
The CWRT Dallas maintains a website at www.cwrtdallas.org and distributes a monthly newsletter
to its members. The front page of the newsletter is devoted to the speaker and
presentation information. A picture of the speaker is also included.
Newsletter and Website Content
There
is room for about 300-400 words of content on the front page of the newsletter.
The content is split between the speaker's bio and presentation information.
The same content is used for the Upcoming Program Detail on the website. Please
email the information to Ken Cochran.
Speaker Picture
The picture can be
emailed to the newsletter editor
in digital form or sent via snail mail. Mailed photographs can be color or
black & white and should be in a glossy format. Please do not send
newspaper/magazine photos or laser/inkjet images since they don't scan well.
Speaker Links
As a service to our
members, each month a speaker's personal page is added to the CWRT Dallas
website. It is linked from the Links
page. If you have a personal web page, interesting Civil War links or links to
your books or publications we will be glad to link to them from the CWRT Dallas
website.
Deadline
Content for the newsletter
needs to be received about 8 weeks prior to your presentation. This allows us
to update the website with all your information 4 weeks prior to your visit.
