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Two Lecturers Give Narrative Accounts of Life During the Civil War
Professor and author to speak at Moraga Library March 2 and 3.
One hundred fifty years ago, the American Civil War was just beginning. But the contradictions of its motivations, North and South, continue to this day.
A couple of prominent speakers will address the contradictions and motivations of the Civil War March 2 and 3 at . These programs are a collaboration of the library and St. Mary’s College, .
At 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, Gerald Henig, an emeritus professor of history at Cal State East Bay, will lecture. He is the author of papers and books, including A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever.
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At 1 p.m. Thursday, March 3, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will lecture. She won the 2005 Pulitzer in Fiction for her novel, March: A Novel. In it. an idealistic Union chaplain, Mr. March, finds himself assigned as teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves. His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent, and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. Many copies of March: A Novel are available through the county library system.