I know how to learn. Those were the exact words that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain used in his solicitation to form a regiment of Maine volunteers to serve the cause of the Union in 1862.

The poem could very well describe the unusual career of the subject of Ronald White’s “On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.” Chamberlain ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a bookish professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine who became the Union's most celebrated combat hero of the Civil War, died on this day in history ...

An academic by training, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain set aside theology for the art of war, fighting from Antietam to Appomattox. Despite being wounded four times, Chamberlain returned to active ...

Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. "A vital and vivid portrait of an ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Brian Swartz is the author of “Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War.” The book discusses Chamberlain’s wartime experiences as well as ...

Mr. Marvel a… Stephen Cushman talked about the Civil War writings of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, one of the subjects of his book, Bel… Chris Calkins talked about the military maneuvers of the ...

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Find out how by registering for “Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the Man behind the Hero” featuring award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Ronald C. White. White will ...