The Montgomery City-County Public Library in partnership with the Alabama Humanities Foundation will present Let’s Talk About It! Making Sense of the American Civil War, March through May, 2012. Please join us at the Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library, 245 High Street on March 8 & 22, April 5 & 19, May 3. Each session begins at 6:00 p.m.
“Making Sense of the American Civil War” is funded by NEH as part of its We the People initiative, which promotes scholarship, teaching, and learning about American history and culture.
The following books will be read and discussed in this program:
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson
- America‘s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries, a new anthology edited by Edward L. Ayers and published by National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association.
The statewide kick-off for these discussions will be Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Alabama Archives and History Department from 10 a.m. until 12 noon.
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This was a great program guided by retired Judge McPherson. I learned a lot about the challenges faced by professional women who just happen to be black. The challenges are great and it takes a lot to face those challenges, however these ladies were gracious in sharing how they achieved their personal goals. It was interesting that they all faced very similar obstacles. They all grew up through the Civil Righst movement, varying levels limited finanancial opportunities and varying levels of achieved family educational levels. However the common thread seemed to be tha they all came from families committed to pushing them ahead and giving them the financial support tha they could. They all went to strong HBCUs and that makes me proud.