• Dr. Timothy Smith

  The 2024 Moccasin Bend Fall Lecture Series begins on Monday, September 16th at 7: 00 pm in the Tennessee Aquarium River Journey Auditorium with a focus on the preserving Tennessee's Civil War stories and battlefields with Dr. Timothy Smith. Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University in 2001 and currently teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is a veteran of the National Park Service and, in addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than twenty books with several university and commercial presses. His books have won numerous book awards, his trilogy on the American Civil War’s Tennessee River campaign (Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, and Corinth) winning a total of nine book awards. Dr. Smith recently finished a five-volume study of the Vicksburg Campaign for the University Press of Kansas and a new study of Albert Sidney Johnston for LSU Press. He resides with his wife Kelly and daughters Mary Kate and Leah Grace in Adamsville, Tennessee.