Civil War Roundtable
06/18/2025 @ 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The Buffalo Civil War Round Table is pleased to be presenting Dr. Jennifer M. Murray at the Buffalo History Museum, on Wednesday, June 18 at 6:00 pm. Dr. Murray is American military historian, with a specialization in the U.S. Civil War. At Auburn University, from where she received her graduate degree, she studied under the renowned historian Kenneth Noe. Dr. Murray is a native of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and recently accepted a new position as a professor at West Virginia’s Shepherd University, where she will also direct the Civil War Institute. Previously, she taught at Oklahoma State University and at universities in Virginia and South Carolina. In addition, Dr. Murray participates as a presenting scholar and battlefield guide for Gettysburg College’s annual Civil War Institute. She began her career with the National Park Service as a historian at the Gettysburg National Military Park.
She is the author of On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2013, published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2014. Her current book project, tentatively titled, “Meade at War: The Military Life of George Gordon Meade” is a biography of the Union Army of the Potomac commander at Gettysburg.
Along with her commitment to teaching, publishing and public history, she also serves on the editorial advisory board for the Kent State University Press book series “Interpreting the Civil War.”
$12 Admission / Free for members
