September 9, 2014 5-7:00 p.m. Book Signing by APSU Alumna Dr. Uffelman Pace Alumni Center (751 N. Second St.) Dr. Uffelman, along with Ellen Kanervo, Eleanor Williams and Phyllis Smith, will be signing their new book, The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890. Books will be available for purchase $30. Refreshments will be available. For the last several years, Uffelman and three other women – APSU communication professor Ellen Kanervo, Montgomery County Historian Eleanor Williams and Phyllis Smith, former president of the Friends of Fort Defiance – have worked to transcribe Haskins’ journals. Their hard work was finally rewarded this July when the University of Tennessee Press published their book, “The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890,” as part of its “Voices of the Civil War” series. “What makes the diary unique is it takes us from her being a teenager during the crisis of the Civil War to her being married, raising children, living in a terrible economy in the post-war south,” Uffelman said. “She writes about mortgages and droughts and trying to educate her children.” For more information please call 931-221-7979 apsu.edu/news/apsu-professors-publish-civil-war-diary-about-life-clarksville
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:38:46 +0000
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