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Drury professor’s Civil War book earns prestigious award
Dr. Randall Fuller, Professor of English and the Director of the Honors Program, received the Christian Gauss Award for his book, From Battlefield’s Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. This award is given to books that show exceptional literary scholarship and criticism. Fuller was presented with the award Friday, Dec. 2 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
Drury professors to produce a PBS history series
The history of America on the eastern seaboard from the time Europeans first settled the continent is well-known. Less known is the history of what is now the United States along the frontier. Dr. Monty Dobson, a visiting assistant professor of history at Drury, is producing a four-part television series that tells the story of the U.S. frontier through archaeology. America from the Ground Up will be available nationwide for Public Broadcasting Stations to air in the spring of 2013. Continue reading
Drury faculty and students find something on first day of Civil War trench excavation
Some iron stone pottery pieces, a 19th century nail head, a World War II era token and a 1954-penny. That is the treasure unearthed by Dr. Monty Dobson and his American History students on April 14, 2011 on the campus of Drury University. Continue reading
