Special Book Signing at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

Join Dr. Cameron McCoy and Rachel Thompson for a special book signing at the bookstore in the Gettysburg NMP Museum and Visitor Center.

Dr Cameron McCoy:
Dr. McCoy is a former Asness Family Foundation Fellow in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum. He earned his doctorate in U.S. history at the University of Texas at Austin after receiving a master’s in military history at Texas A&M University and holds a bachelor’s in International & Area Studies from Brigham Young University. Dr. McCoy is also a U.S. Naval War College graduate, where he earned a master’s in National Security and Strategic Studies. He has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Brigham Young University, and the United States Air Force Academy. Finally, Dr. McCoy is the author of “Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism,” published by the University Press of Kansas. In addition to being an associate professor and teaching courses on U.S. Race Relations, the Great Wars, modern warfare studies, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Dr. McCoy also serves as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps Reserves. He has held several positions of command while serving multiple combat tours and deployments into various countries in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

Rachel Thompson:
Rachel Yarnell Thompson is the Marshall Historian at The George C. Marshall International Center, located on the site of Marshall’s museum home in Leesburg, Virginia. In 2014, the Center published Ms. Thompson’s full-length biography, Marshall: A Statesman Shaped in the Crucible of War. She lectures extensively on various aspects of Marshall’s illustrious career as soldier and statesman, giving presentations in many venues that have included the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, the United States Embassy in Paris, state conferences for both the Wisconsin and Colorado National Guards, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. In 2009, Thompson curated the Marshall Center’s exhibition, “With Affection and Admiration: The Correspondence of George C. Marshall and Winston S. Churchill.” In conjunction with seminars sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Defense, Ms. Thompson also periodically conducts meetings at the Center linked to Marshall’s mid-twentieth century leadership roles.