History for Lunch: Civil War and Settlement in McMinn County

Dr. Astor, Professor of History at Maryville College, will be discussing the settlement of people in McMinn County in the early 19th century and the experience of the county’s divided population during the Civil War.  Astor earned his Ph.D. in History at Northwestern University in 2006 and his B.A. at Hamilton College in 1995. He is the author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872 (2012) and The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau (2015), and co-editor of the book, Slavery: Interpreting American History (2021). He is currently working on a book project that explores the 1860 Presidential election as a grassroots phenomenon from the perspective of four distinct American communities.

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