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Jeffrey Hunt

Jeffrey William Hunt

Featured Speaker

Jeffrey William Hunt is the Director of the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, which is the official museum of the Texas National Guard, and an Adjunct Professor of History at Austin Community College, where he has taught since 1988. Prior to taking the post at the Texas Military Forces Museum in 2007, he was the Curator of Collections and Director of the Living History Program at the Admiral Nimitz National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas for 11 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in government and a Master's Degree in History, both from the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2013, Mr. Hunt was appointed an honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor Rick Perry, in recognition of his efforts to tell the story the Texas Navy during the period of the Texas Revolution and Republic.

In 2018, his Meade and Lee After Gettysburg received the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table's Distinguished Book Award.

In 2022, he was awarded the Edward Cole Bearss Award for Outstanding Civil War Scholarship.

He is a veteran reenactor, with 35 years of experience conducting, participating in and hosting a wide variety of events ranging from the War of 1812 through the Vietnam War.

Mr. Hunt is the author of:

The Last Battle of the Civil War: Palmetto Ranch (University of Texas Press, 2002)

Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign: From Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House (Savas Beatie, 2017, named Eastern Theater Book of the Year by Civil War Books &Authors; Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Distinguished Book Award 2018)

Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy After Gettysburg: From Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863 (Savas Beatie 2019)

Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac's First Post-Gettysburg Offensive: From Kelly's Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 21, 1863 (Savas Beatie 2021)

He is also a contributor to the:

Essential Civil War Curriculum

The Revised Handbook of Texas

The Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War

North & South Magazine

The next book in his post-Gettysburg Series, Meade and Lee at Mine Run is forthcoming from Savas & Beatie in 2024.

General Meeting
Wed, Nov 6th

11:15 AM - Doors open
11:20 AM - Buffet starts

11:30 AM - Meeting starts
1:00 PM - Meeting ends


Balcones Country Club
8600 Balcones Club Dr
Austin, TX 78750

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Menu: Chicken Pozole Soup, Trio Plate with: Chicken Salad, Tuna Salad, and Fresh Fruit Salad, Crackers, Bread
Coffee and tea

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RSVP NO Later than
Friday Nov 1st, 5pm.
$25 cash, check or Zelle. $27 credit card.


Roger Aronoff

Aroger Aronoff

Chat Night Speaker

Roger Aronoff is Executive Director and Editor of the CCNS. He is a former Editor of Accuracy in Media. Aronoff has worked as a journalist, TV producer, writer and distributor.

Roger has written, produced and directed video documentaries that include Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope, The Clinton Legacy and TWA 800: The Search for the Truth. Two of those films-Confronting Iraq (2005) and TWA 800 (2002) - have won top prizes at WorldFest, the Houston International Film Festival.

Aronoff has appeared as a guest commentator on National Public Radio, Air America, CNN, Fox News, CNBC's "Kudlow & Company," Court TV, Russia Today, and CTV (Canadian TV), among others.

A University of Texas graduate with a B.A. in History, Mr. Aronoff has worked as a freelance journalist in South Africa, a columnist for the Jewish Herald Voice, and as a producer of syndicated radio and TV musical/variety programs, including "Woodstock: Ten Years Later," "Billboard's Artist of the Year," "No Place But Texas," and "Bravisimo."

Aronoff wrote and produced a monthly "Sixty Minutes" style TV series called "Public Disclosure," a joint production of Judicial Watch and the Free Congress Foundation. He also produced "The Judicial Watch Report," a live, one-hour public affairs/political talk-show.

In 2008 Aronoff produced, directed and co-wrote a documentary that aired on many PBS stations called "Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neoconservatism," which won the top prize at WorldFest in the category of Political / International Issues, and in 2009 he produced a weekly public affairs show on PBS called "Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg."

Chat Night
Fri, Nov 8th

5:00 PM - Chat Starts

7:00 PM - Chat Ends


The Overture Domain
3100 Kramer Lane
Austin, TX 78758

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RSVP NO Later than
Wednesday Nov 6th, 5pm.

Parking Map: Street parking or park in the garage kitty corner to the Overture

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