November 14, 2024 at 6:30 pm
In November, the TVCWRT is pleased to have one of our own giving a lecture. Mr. Kent Wright’s topic on November 14, 2024 is entitled “Instant Navies and Foreign Diplomacy” in which he tells of the razor-thin line between war and peace with Europeans as Lincoln struggled to keep the war strictly an American war. In this program, Kent will talk of the “instant navies” that sprang up virtually overnight. He will also reveal which naval programs were most instrumental in raising the war from merely an internal conflict to an international crisis that impacted every Western maritime nation, as well as the permanent influence upon wars which is
still with us today.
Kent Wright is a veteran of the nuclear navy (1966-1972) and a mechanical
engineering graduate of Iowa State University (1978). He has been a member of the TVCWRT since 1993, having joined when the round table was founded. He took on the position of Programs Officer and Field Trip Coordinator from 2007-2017. A Nebraskan with a life-long non-partisan interest in America’s war, he combines his love of history with naval technology to focus on broader naval topics. He has, through years of research, uncovered many significant facts which have been largely ignored by Civil War historians. Along the way, Kent has authored several narratives and spoken to the Round Table and other interest groups on Civil War naval topics. He has compiled a book-length manuscript covering Civil War naval history which includes the influence of Great Britain.
