NOTE: There will be more information posted shortly for our
2nd Annual Veterans' Day Commemorations for Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Events hosted by the SHSU Department of History and the Sam Houston Memorial Museum

Click here for DIRECTIONS TO THE EVENTS

IN CASE OF RAIN: If it is raining Monday morning, Dr. Bruce's 9:00 a.m. talk will move into the Mance Park Middle School auditorium, which is next to the Gillaspie Memorial Marker. Just follow the directions to the Memorial Marker via the link above and we will direct you to the auditorium.

Morning Event
9:00 a.m. -- Dr. Robert B. Bruce, Assistant Professor of Military History at SHSU, will deliver an address on the meaning of Veterans’ Day at the Gillaspie Memorial Marker across the street from the Sam Houston gravesite in Oakwood Cemetery

 Evening Event
7:00 p.m.  -- Dr. Dennis Showalter, Professor of History at Colorado College and past president of the Society for Military History will speak on “Military History, Public Service, and the Historical Profession” in the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr. Education Center at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.  A reception in the atrium will follow his talk.

 Admission to both events is free and open to the public.  Please direct questions to Dr. Susannah U. Bruce, SHSU Department of History, #936-294-3659 or sbruce@shsu.edu

NOTE: The sketches included above and used in the posters to advertise this event are the work of Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr., Marine, native son of Huntsville, veteran of the First World War, and grandson of Captain Thomas J. Goree, a member of Confederate General James Longstreet's staff.  Nearly 2000 of his sketches are in the collection of the John W. Thomason Room at the Newton Grisham Library, as are all of his works of literature which include a wonderful biography of General J.E.B. Stuart, a collection of short stories pertaining to the First World War called Fix Bayonets! and a delightful work of historical fiction, Lone Star Preacher: Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M.E. Church South Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment Confederate States Provisional Army.

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Last Update: November 8, 2002