Dr. George Hoemann, a historian, will present a lecture titled “Did Slavery cause the Civil War?” at 7 p.m. Friday, July 13, on the second floor of the Curtis Laws Wilson Library.
His lecture is part of the library’s summer exhibition, “Impressions of the Civil War in the West,” which will run through Friday, Aug. 31.
Hoemann is formerly assistant dean for distance education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and retired from Quincy University in 2014. He holds degrees in U.S. history from Drake University, Rice University and the University of Tennessee.