Bandy Heritage Center
DR. JOHN D. FOWLER has been named the B.J. and Dicksie Bandy Chair of History at Dalton State College. Dr. Fowler will teach courses within the Social Sciences department as well as develop the Bandy Heritage Center. The Center will provide a forum for outreach programming, lectures, conferences and seminars for the public as well as for area social studies teachers. Areas of concentration will include Native American heritage, the Civil War, and development of the carpet and rug industry in the Northwest Georgia region. In time, the Bandy Heritage Center will also include museum and exhibit space.
Dr. Fowler served as Associate Professor of History and as a Co- Director for the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University. He holds a B.A. and Master’s Degree in History from Eastern Kentucky University and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Fowler has authored two books, Mountaineers in Gray: the 19th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, CSA for which he won the prestigious Mrs. Simon Baruch Award and The Confederate Experience, a textbook on the Confederacy. In addition to these titles, Dr. Fowler has three other books forthcoming including Awash in the Storm: Tennessee During the Civil War Era, Southern Independence Is My Sentiment: Liberty or Death: Southern Appalachia’s Confederate Experience and The Confederacy: Essential Documents and Essays.
Dr. Fowler’s office and the core of the collection to be included in the Bandy Heritage Center is currently located in the Derrell C. Roberts Library. For more information about the Bandy Heritage Center, visit the web page at http://www.daltonstate.edu/bandyheritagecenter/
* Written by Librarian Melissa Whitesell
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