Book Festival @ the Roberts Library: Dr. John Fowler

DR. JOHN D. FOWLER is the B.J. & Dicksie Bandy Chair of History and the Director of the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia at Dalton State College. A native of the Southern Appalachian region, he holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from Eastern Kentucky University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, where he specialized in the study of the Civil War Era. After graduation, he held a lectureship at UT and served as the Assistant Editor of the Papers of Andrew Jackson. He moved to Kennesaw State University in 2002 as an assistant and later associate professor of history. While at KSU, he created the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era and served as its director until 2009, when he joined the faculty at Dalton State. He has taught courses on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the Confederacy, Jacksonian America, the Antebellum South, U. S. Military Experience, World War I, World War II, and U.S. Military History.

Dr. Fowler has authored several books and articles related to the Civil War. These include Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2004. The work won the prestigious Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award given by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the best manuscript in Civil War history for 2002 and was nominated for the 2004 Jefferson Davis Award presented by the Museum of the Confederacy as well as the 2004 Tennessee History Book Award presented by the Tennessee Library Association and the Tennessee Historical Commission. He is also the author of The Confederate Experience, a textbook on the Confederate States published by Routledge Press in 2008 and editor of a forthcoming collection of essays covering the Civil War Era in Georgia. Dr. Fowler is currently working on a history of Tennessee during the Civil War and Reconstruction period.

The Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia, believing that a sense of history is fundamental to understanding human experience, collects, preserves, and shares materials from Northwest Georgia's past, so that present and future generations can comprehend more fully their predecessors, their communities, and themselves. Pursuing the highest standards of collection, preservation, presentation, and management, the Bandy Center encourages and assists people of all backgrounds and interests to learn more about Northwest Georgia’s varied history. Through archival collections, exhibits, publications, and educational programs, the Center promotes the rich traditions of the region as an outreach program of Dalton State College.