March 10, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MCCC TO HOST THIRD IN A SERIES OF LECTURES COMMEMORATING WAR OF 1812

Noted Historian Dr. Donald Hickey to Speak

MONROE, Mich. –– The third in a series of lectures and symposiums leading up to the War of 1812’s bicentennial – Remembering the Raisin:  Perspectives on the War of 1812 – will take place on Thursday, March 20 at 8 p.m. in Monroe County Community College’s La-Z-Boy Center, located at 1555 South Raisinville Road.

“What We Know That Ain’t So:  Myths of the War of 1812” will be presented by noted War of 1812 historian Dr. Donald Hickey, who is the author of The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict and Don’t Give Up the Ship: Myths of the War of 1812.  Books by Hickey will be available for purchase and signing.

A professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska, Hickey holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois and is a specialist in U.S. early national and military history.  He held concurrent visiting appointments at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1991-92 and the Naval War College in 1995-96.   An award-winning author who has written five books and more than 50 articles, Hickey is best known for his books on the War of 1812.

 The event is made possible by the War of 1812 Bicentennial Symposium Committee in cooperation with the Monroe County Historical Society, MCCC and the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Admission to the lecture is free.  An hors d’oeuvre reception will provided before the lecture at 6:30 p.m.  Tickets for the reception are $25 per person and may be purchased by calling the MCCC Ticket Hotline at 734-384-4272.  Seating for the dinner is limited, and reservations are required.