{"id":2610,"date":"2025-09-15T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:18:28","slug":"thunder-in-the-valley-2025-smith-lecture-9-29-25-7pm-benes-room-hwcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/thunder-in-the-valley-2025-smith-lecture-9-29-25-7pm-benes-room-hwcc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thunder in the Valley&#8221; 2025 Smith Lecture, 9\/29\/25, 7pm, Benes Room HWCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OWU History Department welcomes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/106257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/106257&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758053705454000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xQJf_NlBuhTpHwj9cJJH-\">Dr. Brooks Simpson<\/a>,\u00a0ASU Foundation Professor of History from Arizona State University\u00a0as the guest lecturer for the 2025 Richard W. Smith Lecture in Civil War History.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Thunder in the Valley:\u00a0Grant, Sheridan, and Hayes Triumph\u00a0in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>will be presented on\u00a0<strong>Monday, September 29, 2025 at 7 pm in the Benes Room<\/strong>\u00a0in the Hamilton Williams Campus Center. This lecture is free and open to the public.\u00a0 For more about the history of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/departments-programs\/department-of-history\/richard-w-smith-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/departments-programs\/department-of-history\/richard-w-smith-lecture\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758053705454000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3zk87NZP3lTlZiaX-WtSi2\">Richard W. Smith Lecture<\/a>\u00a0visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/departments-programs\/department-of-history\/richard-w-smith-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/departments-programs\/department-of-history\/richard-w-smith-lecture\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758053705454000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3zk87NZP3lTlZiaX-WtSi2\">website<\/a>\u00a0or if you have any questions about the event, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:history@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history@owu.edu.<\/a>\u00a0This event is sponsored by the History Department supported by the Richard W. Smith Endowed Fund in Civil War History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0History Department supported by the Richard W. Smith Endowed Fund in Civil War History<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Deb Lovell at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:history@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OWU History Department welcomes\u00a0Dr. Brooks Simpson,\u00a0ASU Foundation Professor of History from Arizona State University\u00a0as the guest lecturer for the 2025 Richard W. Smith Lecture in Civil War History.\u00a0&#8220;Thunder in the Valley:\u00a0Grant, Sheridan, and Hayes Triumph\u00a0in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864&#8221;\u00a0will be presented on\u00a0Monday, September 29, 2025 at 7 pm in the Benes Room\u00a0in the Hamilton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[610,515,471,611,609],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life-academics","tag-free","tag-history","tag-lecture","tag-public","tag-smith"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}