Patrick Massengill
I have been teaching part-time at UNC since 2003. I also currently teach at Front Range CC, where I was named the "Part Time Instructor of the Year" in 2007. In the past, I have also taught at Aims CC in Greeley, Red Rocks CC in Lakewood, and Arapahoe CC in Littleton.
My previous career in history includes work at numerous historical museums and societies in Colorado and on the east coast. In Colorado, I've held several positions with the Colorado State Historical Society, including writing roadside historical markers, several summers as Assistant Director at the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park, and a stint as Director at Fort Vasquez Museum in Platteville. While living near Washington, DC in the 1980s, I worked for Antietam National Battlefield and Virginia Military Institute, among many others.
I worked on several movies, most especially "Glory" -- about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, perhaps America's most famous African-American fighting unit -- and the IMAX film "Alamo, Price of Glory", which shows exclusively in San Antonio, TX. I contributed heavily to the video series "Smithsonian's Greatest Battles of the Civil War" and was a founder and president of the preservation-oriented American Civil War Commemorative Committee, Inc. As owner of the consulting firm Napoleonic Tactics, Inc., I managed many of the largest Civil War re-enactments ever, including the massive 1988 125th anniversary at Gettysburg (PA), with some 12,000 costumed interpreters and more than 120,000 spectators. I have been feted by the governors of five states (including former Colorado Gov. Owens) for my historical interpretive programming.
Avocationally, I was a Civil War re-enactor for nearly 20 years, and occasionally in many other eras as diversified as World War I, the Texas Rebellion, and the Roman Empire. I am the founder, past commissioner, and still an active "ballist", umpire, and statistician with the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association -- playing the game the way it was played in the 1860s.
Classes
During Fall 2010, Mr. Massengill is teaching:
- HIST 101: U.S. History from 1877 to the Present (two sections)
- HIST 120: Western Civilization from Ancient Greece to 1689