“Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy” presented by Donald Miller  

Ed Root will interview Donald from 7:00 to 7:30 and then it will be open for questions.

“Miller deftly conjures the campaign's uncertainty and drama—the surprises that lay around every bend of the region's forbidding terrain and swampy waterways. At the heart of his story is U.S. Grant, who emerges here as a master of maneuver and improvisation, and a hero made human and real. This is military history at its best.” -- Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Vicksburg, and Masters of the Air, currently being made into a television series by Tom Hanks. He has hosted, coproduced, or served as historical consultant for more than thirty television documentaries and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.