Civl War Discussion @ your Library

Making Sense of the Civil War ~ Part I: Imagining War


Jon Maturi, discussion leader

Thursday July 12 @ 7:00 p.m  Grand Rapids Area Library

The first of a 5-part discussion series on the Civil War begins with a look at how fiction has imagined the war as captured in America's War anthology. Copies of three different books are available for check-out at the library to provide participants a shared context for the programs in this series.
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 edited by Edward L. Ayers.