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Prominent Historian Gives Inaugural Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture

Historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown will present “The Last Famous Duel in South Carolina, 1880” at 7 pm on Thursday, Oct. 25 in Harlen Adams Theatre.

Wyatt-Brown is the Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida and has published extensively.

Cowden taught antebellum and Civil War U.S. history from 1973 to 1999. Her book, Heaven Will Frown on Such as This: Six Democrats Who Opposed Lincoln’s War, was published shortly before her death on April 19, 2001.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Contact Lawrence Bryant at x5175 for information.