{"166441":{"#nid":"166441","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Becoming Truly Southern: Urban Germans of the Confederate States during the American Civil War","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/research\/centers\u0022\u003ECenter for European and Transatlantic Studies\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CETS) of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,\u0026nbsp;the German Consulate General, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/atlanta\u0022\u003EGoethe Zentrum\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(German Cultural Institute) in hosting the second of two lectures by\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. Andrea Mehrl\u00e4nder.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EEver wonder what is was like to be a German living in the south during the American Civil War? Mehrl\u00e4nder has recently released two books on the subject and in her talk she\u2019ll be introducing them as she discusses the lives of Germans in Charleston, Richmond, and New Orleans during the war \u2013 a truly unique topic!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ELight refreshments will be served. RSVP by \u003Cstrong\u003ETuesday, November 6\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eth\u003C\/strong\u003E to the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Andrea Mehrl\u00e4nder \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a native of Berlin and has been working as the Executive Director of Berlin\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/\u0022\u003ECheckpoint Charlie Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E since 2001. Dr. Mehrl\u00e4nder is specialized in 19th Century North-American History and has conducted her main research on Immigration History, the American Civil War and Slavery.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/research\/centers\u0022\u003ECenter for European and Transatlantic Studies\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CETS) of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,\u0026nbsp;the German Consulate General, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/atlanta\u0022\u003EGoethe Zentrum\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(German Cultural Institute) in hosting the second of two lectures by\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. Andrea Mehrl\u00e4nder.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27694","created_gmt":"2012-10-30 09:01:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:59","author":"Debbie Mobley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-08T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-08T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-08T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-08 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-08 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-08 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAlyssa Nordin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E(404) 385-0604\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anordin3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eanordin3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}