Knoxville Irish Society is thrilled to announce that Maryville College's Associate Professor of History, Dr Aaron Astor, will give a presentation entitled "The Easter Rising and the long struggle for Ireland" to KIS members and non-members at our next Second Saturday social gathering on April 13th, 3pm-5pm @ the Knoxville Public Works Center 3131 Morris Avenue.



Aaron Astor, Ph.D., is the author of the book, Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872, published in 2012 by LSU Press for its Conflicting Worlds: New Perspectives on the Civil War series. The History Press released his most recent book, The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, in May 2015.



Dr Astor has also written eleven articles for the award winning New York Times Disunion series, addressing such topics as guerrilla warfare, battles and campaigns in the Western Theater, popular politics, emancipation and race, and regional identity in the Appalachian South.