Christy Coleman is President of the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar. The Center is the nation's first museum to explore the causes and legacies of the Civil War from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives. She has lectured extensively, consulted some of the country's leading museums, written articles for scholarly publications, and is an award winning screenwriter for educational television. Her most recent work Freedom Bound won an Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Educational Programming for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ms. Coleman was raised in Williamsburg, VA, received her Bachelor and Master degrees from Hampton University, and is married and has two children.

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