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The 2011–2012 Lowell Lecture Series: Remembering the Civil War
The 2011-2012 Lowell Lecture Series commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with an outstanding line-up of acclaimed writers and scholars to reflect upon this pivotal period in American history and its enduring legacy. Lectures are held at 6:00 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at the Central Library in Copley Square.
A book sale and author signing will follow each lecture.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
Gail Buckley's first book, The Hornes: An American Family, is an inspired history of Buckley’s mother, musical legend Lena Horne, and her family. Buckley traces the Hornes’ roots from the post-Civil War Reconstruction era up to the present day. She is a chronicler of “undiscovered American history”— the people and events that are left out of the textbooks. Her latest work, fifteen years in the making, is American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, which chronicles the black American military experience, one of the great untold aspects of American history. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Buckley was nominated for a NAACP Image Award and received the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for American Patriots.
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