Dr. William W. Freehling, a noted historian and author of four books on the Civil War, will address “Can Coincidences Change History? The Coming of the Civil War as a Test Case” at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, November 7 in the Greenwood Library. The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library, will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. and followed by a book signing.
Books for sale at the event include Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Vol. 1); Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 (Vol. 2); and The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
Freehling, a senior fellow with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has taught at Berkeley and Harvard and held professorships or endowed chairs at Michigan State, the State University of New York, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Kentucky. He has written four books on the American Civil War, three of them prize winners. His Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina (Oxford University, 1965) was awarded the Nevins and Bancroft Prizes. He is currently working on a book about Abraham Lincoln.
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
Time: Reception at 6:00 pm, Lecture at 7:00 pm
Location: Atrium of the Greenwood Library
On Thursday, October 2, at 3:30 pm, Greenwood Library will host an event in a series of ongoing lectures related to its archival and special collections. This event will feature Dr. Martha Cook, professor of English at Longwood University, who will speak on the popular early 20th Century Virginia author Ellen Glasgow who was a native of Richmond. Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
Join Greenwood Library and Lancer Productions for our semi-annual game night with music by WMLU! We will have refreshments with the following games: