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Alexander Mikaberidze

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Alexander Mikaberidze is the LSU Systems Boyd Professor of History and the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He is the author and editor of over two dozen books, including The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, winner of the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Prize and the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award.

 

Schedule

9:30 am to 10:30 am
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
The Wider Story: Untold Histories of the American Revolution and Expansion
Richard Bell, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
Denise Kiernan, Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America
with moderator Jared Wells

10:45 am to 11:30 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America

In this ambitious reinterpretation of the Louisiana Purchase, Alexander Mikaberidze examines what initially seemed like the best real estate deal in the nation's history and eventually became one of its costliest undertakings.