HISTORY & HERITAGE LECTURE SERIES
COMMUNITY CENTER AUDITORIUM | 4:30pm
The goal of the History & Heritage lecture series is to explore historical places , understand significant historical events , and learn about the lives of men and women in different times and places . As philosopher George Santayana said : “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it .”
Wednesday , February 15 , 2017
Nathaniel Philbrick , New York Times Best-Selling Author
SPEAKING ON HIS MOST RECENT BOOK , VALIANT AMBITION : GEORGE WASHINGTON , BENEDICT ARNOLD AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
What if Benedict Arnold ’ s treason was not an act that split the nation but instead was the glue that bound it together and saved it ? After four years of war , America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within . Valiant Ambition is a complex , controversial , and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation . It is a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution , and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold .
Photo by : Kit Noble
Wednesday , March 15 , 2017
Candice Shy Hooper , Historian & Author
SPEAKING ON HER BOOK , LINCOLN ’ S GENERALS ’ WIVES : FOUR WOMEN WHO INFLUENCED THE CIVIL WAR – FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Hooper ’ s book illuminates the profound impact of military wives on the Civil War by examining the lives of Jessie Fremont , Nelly McClellan , Ellen Sherman , and Julia Grant . America ’ s leading Lincoln scholar , Harold Holzer , said of the book , “ Here are fresh , revealing , well-crafted portraits of women who not only helped propel their husbands to major military careers , but established themselves , for better or worse , as formidable battlers in their own right .” Using the couples ’ letters , memoirs , and photographs , along with new maps that follow the women ’ s travels during the war , Hooper reveals a hidden chapter of Civil War history .
Photo by : Andrea Hillebrand
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Monday , March 27 , 2017
George Goodwin , Historian & Author in
Residence , Benjamin Franklin House in London
SPEAKING ON HIS BOOK , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN LONDON : THE BRITISH LIFE OF AMERICA ’ S FOUNDING FATHER
As said in a literary review of George Goodwin ’ s book , “ There are three Benjamin Franklins ; the American , the British , and the French . The first and last are famous , the second forgotten .” Goodwin has offered fascinating perspective into that second Franklin through this lively , moving , and finely textured account of Franklin ’ s years in London . Goodwin provides a thoroughly researched chronicle of the transformation from provincial lobbyist to risk – taking revolutionary . As an added bonus , attendees of this lecture will receive a copy of Benjamin Franklin in London personally signed by author George Goodwin ( gift applies to one book per couple ).
Photo by : Cecily Goodwin
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