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Tomorrow’s Speaker: Paul Brueske
Hosted by, Grey Cane
Paul Brueske, MPA, is Head Track & Field Coach at the University of South Alabama, where he has built a strong reputation for leadership, program development, and competitive excellence. Alongside his work in collegiate athletics, he has also developed a deep body of scholarship and public history work focused on Gulf Coast Civil War history. A lifelong Gulf Coast resident, Brueske has spent years researching the people, places, and military campaigns that shaped this region during the final years of the Civil War. He is the founder of the Mobile Civil War Round Table and regularly speaks on topics connected to the Gulf Coast’s wartime past.
Brueske’s historical work centers especially on the 1865 Mobile Campaign, including the siege of Spanish Fort and the broader struggle for control of Mobile. His website reflects the depth of that work, featuring research and interpretation on subjects such as Spanish Fort, Fort Blakeley, the Apalachee batteries, Minette Bay, and other Gulf Coast fortifications and operations. The site also includes sections devoted to academic studies, internet articles, and scholarly journal publications, underscoring that his presentations are grounded in extensive source-based research rather than general overview alone.
He is also the author of major published work on the Mobile Campaign. His first book, The Last Siege, grew out of years of research on Mobile’s role in the Civil War, and his later book, Digging All Night and Fighting All Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865, brought even broader recognition to his scholarship. In 2025, that book received the Emerging Civil War Book Award, reflecting the significance of his contribution to Civil War history and to the understanding of a campaign that is often overlooked in broader national narratives.
Tomorrow’s presentation should be especially meaningful for anyone interested in local history, military history, and the Gulf Coast’s place in the closing chapter of the Civil War. Brueske brings together the perspective of a researcher, author, and public speaker who has worked to make this history more visible and more accessible to the community.
The more a government “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
– Friedrich Hayek
Upcoming Speakers:
April 23 – Steve Carey
April 30 – TBD
May 7 – TBD – Diane Anderson
May 14 – TBD – Leslie Weeks
May 21 – TBD – Rita Daniel
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