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Reading and Discussion Group: Making Sense of the Civil War - Session Five, War and Freedom

  • Howland Stone Store Museum 2956 State Route 34B Aurora, NY 13026 (map)

Fifth session: Sunday, June 26, 2022 7:00 - 8:15 pm

 Readings:  CORRECTION: Part 5 and Part 6 in America’s War, pp. 201-293

This reading and discussion group will meet five times, on the last Sunday of each month, from now through June to explore different facets of the Civil War experience, informed by reading the words written or spoken by powerful voices from the past and present. 

Session Five, June 26, War and Freedom. The final conversation concerns the most unanticipated outcome of the American Civil War: the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of four million people who had been held in slavery for over two centuries.

Books are available for loan. Call Marilyn at 315.303.2145 for pick up arrangements.

This discussion group will be in-person at Opendore only with a limit of 20 participants. To reserve a space, please email event@howlandstonestore.org.

See also: https://humanitiesny.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MakingSenseIntroductoryEssay.pdf

Earlier Event: June 19
Gala Exhibit Opening “I Strove To Realize Myself and To Serve:” The Call of Nineteenth Century Reformer Emily Howland in Early Photographs
Later Event: July 10
PACNY Program on Cobblestone Buildings and Opendore Video Premier