I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad: Memories of the Civil War

Exhibit Events

Gallery Talk with Exhibit Curators

January 23, 2012. 3-4 p.m. Everyone welcome! Please meet in the Perkins Gallery.

 

"Reckoning with the Civil War," REGSS 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series

Speaker: Edward Ayers, President of the University of Richmond and expert on Civil War history and higher education.

Sponsored by the Duke Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS).

Friday, February 10. 2-4 p.m. in the Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library. Reception to follow. Everyone welcome!

More information here.

 

Book Talk: "To Free a Family"

Author and Duke Professor Sydney Nathans will read and sign copies of his new book, To Free A Family: The Journey of Mary Walker (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Thursday, February 16. 4 p.m. in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Reception to follow. Everyone welcome!

More information here.

 

Another March Madness: The American Civil War at 150

March 16, 2012. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. in the Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library. Come hear speakers from Duke, UNC, NC State, and Ohio State. Event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

More information here.

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