Civil War at the Smithsonian
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Adam Goodheart, the director of the C.V Starr Center for the American Experience, gave a talk at the Smithsonian Art Museum about his released released book 1861: The Civil War Awakening. A captivating talk, Goodheart walked the audience through portions of his book with intriguing stories about the people of the Civil War era, including General E.E. Elsworth and ornery Union firefighters.
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Adam Goodheart, the director of the C.V Starr Center for the American Experience, gave a talk at the Smithsonian Art Museum about his book 1861: The Civil War Awakening. Goodheart walked the audience through portions of his book with intriguing stories about the people of the Civil War era, including General E.E. Elsworth and ornery Union firefighters. -
On May 3 in Hynson Lounge, Hodson Hall, C.V. Starr Center director Adam Goodheartread from his New York Times best-seller, 1861: The Civil War Awakening. Officially released April 5, the book has already garnered critical acclaim and widespread media attention, and graced the cover of the New York Times Book Review. Goodheart has recently appeared on panels with filmmaker Ken Burns and noted historians James McPherson of Princeton and David Blight of Yale, and will be giving talks and readings at universities and cultural institutions across the country in the months ahead.Goodheart’s reading was sponsored by the Sophie Kerr Committee, the Rose O’Neill Literary House and the Washington College Department of History. A book signing followed the talk. -
In an illustrated talk, historian Peter H. Wood used Winslow Homer’s 1866 painting, Near Andersonville—one of the artist’s most striking, yet least-known works – to discuss the tumultuous final two years of the American Civil War.An emeritus Professor of History at Duke University, Wood was in residence at Washington College from April 23-30 as the Starr Center’s 2011 Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellow. He is the author/editor of six books, including Black Majority (Knopf, 1974), which set the stage for a new generation of scholarship on American slavery.
