Dr. Drew Bledsoe, assistant professor of history at Lee University, has been selected as a fellow in the 2015 West Point Summer Seminar in Military History. The seminar will take place from June 1-16 at the United States Military Academy and will highlight the Civil War.

This fully-funded, in-residence program is designed to enrich the research and teaching abilities of young faculty and enhance their ability to teach academic military history. Sessions include six days of “staff rides” at battlefield sites like Gettysburg and Antietam, along with 10 days of research colloquia, guest speaker lectures, faculty-led pedagogy sessions, historical weapons displays, and tactical demonstrations.

Led by an international team of serving military officers, award-winning scholars, and the West Point faculty and staff, selection for the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History is highly competitive. Bledsoe was one of 14 fellows chosen from an applicant pool of more than 100 candidates.

Bledsoe is the author a number of scholarly works on the Civil War and American military history, including the forthcoming book “Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War” (Louisiana State University Press, 2015).

He teaches courses on the Civil War, American military history, the American Revolution, the Early Republic, and the American West, and is active in a number of local and national historical organizations.

For more information, contact the Department of History, Political Science and Humanities at (423) 614-8137, or Dr. Bledsoe at [email protected].