The Winter Lecture Series continues at the Fort Loudoun State Historic Area on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m.
“Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee and the War of 1812” will be presented by Myers Brown of the Tennessee State Museum.
Tennessee played a major role in the War of 1812, which propelled Tennesseans including Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Sequoyah and David Crockett to national prominence. This program will relate the factors that led up to the War of 1812, how Tennesseans were involved in defeating the British and current plans to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 in the Volunteer State.
Mr. Brown holds a B.A. in History from Oglethorpe University and an M.A. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University. Mr. Brown served as the curator of military history at the Atlanta History Center and as the curator of Pond Spring, the General Joe Wheeler Home in Courtland, Al. He joined the staff of the Tennessee State Museum as curator of extension services in 2005.
He serves as a governor and secretary of the Company of Military Historians and was elected as a fellow in May 2008. He also serves on the advisory committee for the American Association of State and Local History’s Military History group. He has wide ranging interests in military history, but is particularly interested in Civil War cavalry, the Mexican War and the War of 1812.
Mr. Brown has published articles or book reviews in Military Collector and Historian, Blue and Gray, History News, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Atlanta History, Civil War: A Journal of the Middle Period, and The Historian. His most recent publication is Tennessee’s Union Cavalrymen from Arcadia press.
He and his wife Angie, and their daughter Morgan, live in Old Hickory, Tn.