Hammack Scholarship Banquet

The Murray State Department of History will host the thirteenth annual James W. Hammack, Jr. Scholarship Banquet. Mississippi State Professor Anne E. Marshall will deliver the banquet?s keynote address, ? ?Creating a Confederate Kentucky: the Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State.? A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Marshall earned a B.A. in history in 1998 from Centre College, where she graduated cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She completed a PhD in history at the University of Georgia in 2004. Marshall is the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: the Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2013. A book signing will be held after the banquet. Tax deductible contributions to the Hammack Scholarship are also welcome. If you have any questions about the banquet or contributing to the scholarship fund, please call the Department of History.