Our March 31st, 2025 Meeting

Our March meeting will be on Monday, March 31st, 2025, at 6:30 pm in the basement of the Farmington Library—corner of Grand River and Farmington Road. Our guest speaker, Claire Herhold, will begin around 7:00 pm after our 6:30 pm business meeting. We must leave the library by 8:45 pm.


The Roundtable is proud to welcome as our March 2025 speaker. Ms. Claire Herhold, who will share with us "Glory: Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry."" Colonel Shaw (1837-1863), a member of Boston's high society, was appointed to command the first all African American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. He told his soldiers to refuse their pay until it was equal to that of their white comrades. He was killed leading the assault at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863. Afterwards, thousands of African Americans joined the Union Army. The movie Glory is based on this assault. This promises to be a great presentation!

Claire was born and raised in Hartland, MI, near Lansing. She earned her bachelor's in history from Saginaw Valley State University and her master's from Western Michigan University. Presently she is working on her PhD from Western. Claire is busy working for the Historical Society of Michigan as the Day Manager.

Our March, 2025 Newsletter is available here.

MRRT: Who We Are

When & Where We Meet

We meet on the last Monday of the month (except in October, when we go on our Annual Field Trip, and December, when we traditionally do not meet) at the Farmington Community Library, Farmington Branch, 23500 Liberty St. Farmington, MI 48335. (248) 553•0300 Meetings start at 6:30 p.m.

• Get Driving Directions to the Farmington Branch from MapQuest.
  
  
• Farmington Branch Library Location on Google Maps

What We Do

We meet monthly to hear from our members on the latest books, issues of preservation, and other items of Civil War interest. At each meeting, a keynote speaker provides a presentation on a Civil War topic. A monthly newsletter is send by email and also snail-mailed to members.

In addition, each October we take our Annual Field Trip, in which MRRT members travel to a Civil War battlefield for a weekend tour. Though the COVID-19 Pandemic has put a damper on our 2020 and 2021r Field Trips, we resumed in 2022.

Join Us—Become A Member

The monthly program is open to all, but only members receive the monthly newsletter and can participate in the MRRT annual field trip. Annual membership dues are $5 for students and $25 for all others. The dues are used to cover expenses for speakers, facilities, preservation and administrative costs. Checks should be made out to Jeanie Graham and can be mailed to her home at 29835 Northbrook, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-2326. The bank does NOT like checks made out to the Roundtable. Our checks may also be brought to our monthly meeting and given to Jeanie. Cash is always welcome.

For information on how to join the MRRT, come visit us at our monthly meeting, or email Jim Burroughs.

Past CWRT Online Lectures / Speakers

Did you know that all of the videos the Civil War Round Table Congress (CWRT) has recorded are available to you on our website? In all, there are well over 200 lectures by authors and historians, living history presentations, interviews with key Civil War community leaders, online classroom discussions and more. These lectures are pre-recorded YouTube-type videos made from the original Zoom presentations. You can browse them here. Be sure to click on the blue links that are in all caps serving as the title for each lecture.