2008 AMART Symposium

“The Bloodshed at Lafayette Square” The Attack at the Seward Home

Hugh Boyle

President and founding member of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table. He is the former publisher and book review editor of the Civil War Brigadier Newspaper. .
He is an instructor at the Civil War Institute at Manor College in Jenkintown Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on the “Lincoln Assassination”, “Lincoln the War President” and the” Irish in the American Civil War”, “ Civil War Washington”, “Civil War Marriages” and is part of the “Civil War Overview” course
Hugh serves on the board of the Bensalem Reenactment Committee, and is a founding member of The Association of Mid Atlantic Civil War Round Tables. He has traveled and lectured on Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln Assassination to round tables, historical societies, museums, high schools, colleges and at Civil War seminars such as the Harrisburg Community College Civil War seminar and The Association of Mid Atlantic Civil War Round Tables Lincoln Symposium. He is a member of the Surratt Society, the Lincoln Forum, and the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania ,the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Civil War Library and Museum, and is founder and President of The April 1865 Society, he has also served as a volunteer at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum . He is also a member of the Associated History Presenters.
He is retired from his position as National Sales Manager of Roadpro 12 Volt electronics. He also has taught a sales and marketing course at Manor College. He and his wife Rosemary live in Bensalem Pennsylvania.
Other than the Lincoln Assassination, He also offers lectures on “John Wilkes Booth, The Man who Killed Lincoln”, “Dan Sickles, General, Congressman, Scoundrel & Murderer”, “1865 The Most important Year”, The Irish in the American Civil War”, “Mary & Abe, Love is Eternal”, “The Lincoln Presidency”,” Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg”, “Washington, The Eye of the Storm in the Civil War” and “Civil War Marriages” and “The Shattered Lives of the Lincoln Assassination”.


 

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