NC Military History Round Table

Members and Friends of the NC Military History Round Table-

The first Civil War lecture will be on Wednesday, 7 March 2012 in Walnut 101 at Wayne Community College.  Jeff Bockert, the Assistant Curator of Education for North Carolina Historic Sites, will be discussing the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.  The name of the talk will be "Dueling Ironclads: The Battle of Hampton Roads, 1862."  

Jeff Bockert currently serves as the Associate Curator of Education for the North Carolina Division of Historic Sites based in Kinston, N.C. and as Vice-Chairman of the North Carolina Civil War Tourism Council. In addition, Jeff currently serves on the N.C. Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee as well as the N.C. War of 1812 Bicentennial Committee. Jeff has worked in the historic site and museum field for over fifteen years. Prior to arriving in Kinston, he served as the Civil War Specialist for N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. Jeff’s previous work experience includes managing the President James K. Polk Birthplace, Associate Curator on the Battleship North Carolina and work at the National Archives in Washington, DC. He has also worked as a college history instructor and is the author of several works on presidential and military history. He has been published in works such as White House Studies and Public Historian. Jeff received both his undergraduate degree in American History and his master’s degree in European History from UNC-Wilmington.

A total of seven (7) lectures are planned to coincide near the 150th anniversary of selected Civil War battles. Check back here soon for a complete list as it becomes available.