Civil War, Lewis and Clark, Architecture Showcased in Seminar on the City Series

History buffs will have the chance to learn more about Civil War monuments, Morgan's Raiders, the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s expedition and the development of the architecture profession during the 2003-04 Cincinnati Seminar on the City lectures.

The monthly lecture series, now in its 12th year, is sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Department of History and the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) at Union Terminal. It opens on

Thursday, Oct. 9

, with a presentation by Walter Langsam, UC adjunct associate professor in the School of Architecture.

The lectures, which take place at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month from October 2003 through May 2004, are held in the Reakirt Auditorium or the Newsreel Theater, Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave. 

Lectures are free and open to the public, but special subscriptions that include extras are available at $5 a year for CMC members and graduate students and $10 a year for non-members. The subscriptions include notes on the lecture, monthly reminders and an opportunity to attend monthly dinner at an additional cost of $25 per dinner. 

2003-04 SERIES SCHEDULE

Oct. 9, 2003
Speaker: Walter Langsam, University of Cincinnati                       
Topic: A Higher Standard of Excellence:  The Development of the Architectural Profession in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Before World War I

Nov. 13, 2003
Speaker: Bridget Ford, California State University, Fresno
Topic: Borderlands of Belief:  Religion and Race in Cincinnati and Louisville on the Eve of the Civil War

Dec. 11, 2003  
Speaker: Ruby Rogers, Cincinnati Museum Center                    
Topic: Ohio Remembers the Civil War in Metal and Stone

Jan. 8, 2004  
Speaker: James Ramage, Northern Kentucky University    
Topic: Morgan’s Raid in Ohio

Feb. 12, 2004
Speaker: James Holmberg of The Filson Historical Society  in Louisville, Ky., and editor of  Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark, a collection of more than 40 letters written by William Clark to his older brother Jonathan       
Topic: Down the Ohio and into the Wilderness: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Ohio Valley

March 11, 2004
Speaker: Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati                  
Topic: Exhibiting Difference:  Natural History Museums and the Race Question

April 8, 2004 
Speaker: Kim Gruenwald, Kent State University               
Topic: Technology and Regionalism in the Ohio Valley

May 13, 2004 
Speaker: John Fairfield, Xavier University                              
Topic: Movies and Cities:  An Historical Account of Their Interpretation 
      

Information: Ruby Rogers, 513-287-7080