Speaking Request and Upcoming Events

Allen is available to speak to your group. Currently, we are only offering Zoom programs. Speaking fees include travel costs and an honorarium. Please see the following list of possible topics:

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Presentations

• Teacher of Civil War Generals: Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant

• Preparing for Disunion – West Point Commandants and the Training of Civil War Leaders

• Rewriting History – Revision vs. Negationism

• The Civil War in Your Backyard (Texas Audiences)

Please contact me to arrange a time to speak to your group.

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 Short Courses

• The American Civil War – An Overview of the American Civil War

• Voices of the Civil War – Songs and Letters

• Civil War Photography – 3d Images of the

• From West Point to Fort Sumter – Presentation based on Allen’s book Preparing for Disunion – West Point Commandants and the Training of Civil War Leaders

• From Springfield to Fort Sumter

• The Turning Point of the Civil War – Presentation based on Allen’s book Teacher of of Civil War Generals – Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commander

• The Major Civil War Battles of 1861

• Texas in the Civil War – Texas Supplied Troops and Provisions for the Confederate Army – Discussion of Battles in Texas – Engineering Company and Torpedo Bureau

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Upcoming Events

Request Speaker