The Past is Never Dead: The Bitter Legacy of the Civil War

William Faulkner, the Nobel prize-winning novelist, once wrote that “the past is never dead; it isn’t even past”. Those words seem especially true about the cataclysmic event that occurred in the United States a century and a half ago, the Civil War. Although the war brought about the end of chattel slavery, and freed four million people from bondage, it did not bring about healing of racial and sectional division that had plagued the country from its beginning, and continue to plague us today. Thus it is critically important that we look back at the aftermath of that war, for, as the historical Barbara Fields assert in Ken Burns’ PBS series, “the civil war is still being fought”. This illustrated talk will help draw the connections between today’s headlines and the heavy hand of the past.

Join us at the Rehoboth Beach Public Library on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 3:00 pm as Dan Pritchett of the Delaware Humanities Forum presents “The Past is Never Dead: The Bitter Legacy of the Civil War”

To register for this program or to find out more information please go to our website http://www.rehobothlibrary.org or call the library at 302 227 8044.