Members Only
Book Chamber
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
6:30 PM

Get some perspective, folks.  Current political ying/yangs have nothing on the hostility, close-mindedness, and belligerence in the USA prior to, throughout, and following the Civil War. The racing and rabid events between Lincoln’s election and Fort Sumpter read as a page-turner adventure story not a history casebook. Nevertheless, before thinking, “I don’t want to read something so down-beat”, ask yourself:

  • How did the media, incendiary as never before,  fan the flames of secession?
  • And why was the unproductive Congress AWOL during this crisis? And lame duck President Buchanon, where was he?
  • Did you know that a new, militant generation of rowdy young men– the Wide Awakes –took to the streets and secured unknown Lincoln’s election?
  • Do you retain only a smokey memory that the Dred Scott decision upheld slavery?  (The legal finding is sadly much more devasting.)
  • Why was the non-slave holding North nearly as beholden to slavery as the slave-holding south? (Hint: it’s more than weaving cotton in the Northern mills.)

If you can’t fully answer these questions, then give in to the grip of Eric Larson’s fast-reading narrative and join the Chamber to compare-and-contrast events, then and now.

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6:30 pm on ZOOM

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UPDATE – Meeting every 4th Tuesdays. Open to Ebell Members Only

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The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers and artists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official position or opinions of The Ebell of Los Angeles.

Members Only
Book Chamber
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
6:30 PM
Ticket Info
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Contact Information

If you have questions about this event, please email: tickets@ebellofla.org

Location
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
4401 W 8th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90005

The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers and artists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official position or opinions of The Ebell of Los Angeles.