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
  

Members
Speaker William J. Howell (Chair)
Senator R. Creigh Deeds
Delegate Johnny S. Joannou
Dr. Paul A. Levengood
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, Managing Editor of Publications, Virginia Historical Society
Conley Edwards, State Archivist, Library of Virginia
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, Public Relations Manager, 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
Dr. Brian Wills, Professor of History, University of Virginia at Wise
Bruce Wingo, Resident Vice President, Norfolk Southern Corporation