Workgroup 2: Signature Events and Activities

Includes oversight and monitoring of:

• Establishment of unifying themes, stories, and goals for the commemoration (to tie together signature events, grant recipient programs, etc.)
• Commission-sponsored events, lectures, symposia, films, battlefield tours, etc.
• VHS Traveling exhibition
• Mobile (tractor-trailer) exhibition
• Public relations
  

Staff Contact
Cheryl Jackson

Members
Speaker William J. Howell (Chair)
Senator R. Creigh Deeds
Delegate Johnny S. Joannou
Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.
The Hon. Viola O. Baskerville, Secretary of Administration
Dr. Theodore DeLaney, Associate Professor of History, Washington and Lee University
Graham Dozier, Virginia Historical Society
Dr. Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia
Prof. Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Associate Professor and Research Archivist, University of Virginia
Richard Lewis, Virginia Tourism Corporation
Dr. John W. Mountcastle, Ret. Brig. Gen., Army Chief of Military History (ret.), University of Richmond
Dr. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, President, Sweet Briar College
Brian Shepard, Policy Director, Office of the Governor
Dr. Brian Wills, Professor of History, University of Virginia at Wise

Advisory Participants
Will Greene, Pamplin Historical Park
Patricia Hobbs, Lee Chapel and Museum
Howard Kittell, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Kevin Levin, St. Anne's - Belfield School, Charlottesville
John Quarstein, Virginia War Museum
Russ Smith, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County National Battlefield Park
Anne Stuart, Stuart-Fisher Meeting Management, LLC
Edwin Watson, Fredericksburg Area Museum