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SUMMARY:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols
DESCRIPTION:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols\, welcoming bestselling historian Harold Holzer to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on his new novel\, Brought Forth on This Continent”: Abraham Lincoln and America Immigration. This event is free and open to the public. \nTo enter the signing line\, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event\, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment. Preordered copies will not be signed until after the event. \n\n\n\n\n\nPREORDER A SIGNED COPY\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer\, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. \nIn the three decades before the Civil War\, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States\, forever altering the nation’s demographics\, culture\, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy\, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly\, at times violent\, vein of nativist bigotry. \nAbraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were\, and how interwoven they had become in American society. \nHarold Holzer\, winner of the Lincoln Prize\, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration\, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion\, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes\, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and\, by the tens of thousands\, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work\, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln’s life and legacy in a wholly original way\, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first. \nAbout the Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era\, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He currently serves as the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College\, City University of New York.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/the-midtown-scholar-bookstore-presents-an-evening-with-harold-holzer-with-ncwm-ceo-jeffrey-nichols/
LOCATION:the Midtown Bookstore\, 1302 North 3rd St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17102\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor - Lessons in History Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our In-Person Lessons in History Speaker Series as Dr. Bradley M. Gottfried discusses his new book\, The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor\, Including all Cavalry Operations\, May 7 through June 3\, 1864\, on Saturday\, June 15\, 2024\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm.  \nAbout the book: The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor\, Including all Cavalry Operations\, May 7 through June 3\, 1864\, continues the actions of both armies through the completion of the Overland Campaign. After the Wilderness fighting\, the Army of the Potomac attempted to swing around the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and shoot straight for Richmond. The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor breaks down the entire operation into thirty-five map sets or “action sections” enriched with 134 detailed full-page color maps. \nAbout the author: Born and raised in Philadelphia\, Brad Gottfried earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from Miami University and spent four decades as an educator in higher education. He has served as a full-time faculty member\, department head\, campus dean\, chief academic officer and president. Before retiring in 2017\, he served as President of Sussex County Community College (NJ) and College of Southern Maryland for the past 17 years. His interest in the Civil War began at an early age and was rekindled when he returned to an administrative position in the Philadelphia area. His fourteenth book was recently published. His early writing primarily centered on the Battle of Gettysburg\, and he wrote five books on this topic. He has also written two brigade-level histories. His current “niche” is map books\, where he thoroughly describes campaigns through the use of maps. Seven books have been published in this series: Gettysburg\, First Bull Run\, Antietam\, Fredericksburg\, Cavalry at Gettysburg\, Bristoe/Mine Run\, and the Wilderness\, have been published. The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor will be published next. He is also working on a variety of other Civil War-related projects. In addition to writing\, Brad is an Antietam Certified Battlefield Guide and a Gettysburg Licensed Town Guide. He may have retired\, but he is still an educator. Brad is married to his wife\, Linda and between them\, they have four grown children and six grandchildren. The Gottfrieds moved from Southern Maryland to Fayetteville\, Pennsylvania\, which is just west of Gettysburg. \nThe 2024 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. The National Civil War Museum will follow CDC\, OSHA/HHS guidance\, and orders and recommendations from federal/state/local governments and our state and local health officials.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/the-maps-of-spotsylvania-through-cold-harbor-lessons-in-history-presentation/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juneteenth Community Free Day
DESCRIPTION:The National Civil War Museum proudly presents the NCWM Juneteenth Community Free Day on\nSaturday\, June 22\, 2024\, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Join us for a day filled with family-friendly activities\, all free of charge.\n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church Praise Team Choir – Ballroom \n10:00 am – 4:00 pm African American Quilters Demonstration \nThompson’s Independent Battery C\, PA Light Artillery\, will demonstrate a Mountain Howitzer with firing times at 10:00 am\, 11:30 am\, and 2:30 pm. \nPlease check back often for new activities and the full event schedule. \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/juneteenth-community-free-day/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil Conversation - The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Civil Conversation via ZOOM – Free\nOn Wednesday\, June 26\, 2024\, at 7:00 pm\, we invite you to join us via Zoom for an enriching Civil Conversation. This event will showcase the insightful perspectives of Duncan A. Campbell and Neils Eichhorn\, alongside NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols\, promising a thought-provoking discussion. Mark your calendars now! \nRegister here: A Civil Conversation on The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism with Niels Eichhorn & Duncan Campbell \nAbout the book: While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race\, slavery\, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War\, they have less frequently recognized the conflict’s similarities to other global events. As renowned historian Carl Degler pointed out\, the Civil War was “one among many” such conflicts during the mid-nineteenth century. Understanding the Civil War’s place in world history requires placing it within a global context of other mid-nineteenth-century political\, social\, and cultural issues and events. In The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism\, Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell explore the conflict from this perspective\, taking a transnational and comparative approach\, with a particular focus on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s. \nEichhorn and Campbell examine the development of nationalism and its frequent manifestation\, secession\, by comparing the American experience with that of several other nations\, including Germany\, Hungary\, and Brazil. They compare the Civil War to the Crimean and Franco-German wars to determine whether the American conflict was the first modern war. To gauge the potential of foreign intervention in the Civil War\, they look to the time’s developing international debate on the legality of intercession and mediation in other nations’ insurgencies. \nUsing the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas\, Africa\, and the Antipodes\, Eichhorn and Campbell suggest the extent to which the United States was an imperial project. To examine realpolitik\, they study four vastly different practitioners—Otto von Bismarck\, Louis Napoleon\, Count Cavour\, and Abraham Lincoln. Finally\, they compare emancipation in the United States to that in Peru and the end of forced servitude in Russia\, closing with a comparison of the memorialization of the Civil War with the experiences of other post-emancipation societies and an examination of how other nations mythologized their past conflicts and ignored uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of reconciliation. \nThe Civil War in the Age of Nationalism avoids the limitations of American exceptionalism\, making it the first genuine comparative and transnational study of the Civil War in an international context. \nAbout the authors: \nNiels Eichhorn is the author of Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists\, Southern Secession\, and the American Civil War. He lives in Wels\, Austria. \nDuncan A. Campbell is professor of history at National University in San Diego and the author of Unlikely Allies: Britain\, America and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship.
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