Learn more. On Aug. 29, 1871, just two decades after his matriculation as a student, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain returned to Bowdoin College as its sixth president, and he had many plans to renew ...

The PHC also maintains the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum. Bowdoin College - Maine's oldest -- was chartered in 1794 when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. One of its most famous alumni is ...

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 ...

Joshua L. Chamberlain scholarships are awarded to first-generation ... Chamberlain Scholarship funds may be used at any time you are enrolled at Bowdoin College. You can use the funds in any ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered ...

Joshua L. Chamberlain officially accepted the ... In 1871, Chamberlain accepted the sixth presidency of Bowdoin College and served as the “United States Commissioner to the Exposition at ...

some of which were featured at Bowdoin's Annual President's Symposium, Family Weekend 2021. During the summer of 2017 I worked with Professor Hall to answer the question “What could Joshua Chamberlain ...

“When he took Bowdoin’s helm in the early 1870s, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain saw the college as ‘behind the times,’ so he paved the way for curricular options and specializations befitting the ‘age of ...

On Sunday morning, April 9, 1865, brevetted Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain ... become the sixth president of Bowdoin College, head the Maine State Militia, defend the Maine capitol ...

An academic by training, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain set aside ... he went on to serve as both governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College.