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Upcoming Author Events The Lewes Library partners with Browseabout Books to host in-person, hybrid and virtual author events. These events are FREE, but registration is required. The link to register can be found in each book description. These books are available in the Delaware Library Catalog. Click on the book cover to place a hold. |
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Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship
by L. M. Elliott
Wednesday, March 18, 5 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, honoring our town's rich past and bright future.
Elliott will discuss the life and times of proto-feminist Peggy Schuyler, her sisters, and other women patriots in her circle, as well as expand on topics and "bottom-up" perspectives Burns touched on: the heartache and daily danger of loyalists vs. patriots; our Native allies; the British invasion from Canada; the espionage ring her father ran from their home; yeoman spies; GW's aides-de-camp and some dazzling French officers.
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The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended
by Thomas Richards
Thursday, March 19, 5 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, honoring our town’s rich past and bright future.
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation's founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards Jr. invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans.
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
by Rhae Lynn Barnes
Sunday, April 12, 5 PM ET
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This collaborative program by the Lewes Public Library, History Book Festival, and Browseabout Books is part of a series in observation of America250, which commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, marking America’s Semiquincentennial.
A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.
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Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech
by Stephen D. Solomon
Thursday, April 23, 6 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, honoring our town's rich past and bright future.
Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other--
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Fonda on Film: The Political Movies of Jane Fonda
by Nelson Pressley
Tuesday, April 28, 5 PM ET
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As much coverage as Jane Fonda has elicited through the years, the stories often skim past her prime filmmaking core. Fonda on Film spotlights the signature political films Fonda generated in the 1970s--Coming Home, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5 and more--that are still underappreciated even as Fonda endures as one of the world's most admired and controversial performers.
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Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
by Tracy Slater
Wednesday, April 29, 7 PM ET
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This collaborative program by the Lewes Public Library, Seaside Jewish Community, History Book Festival, and Browseabout Books is part of a series in observation of America250, which commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, marking America’s Semiquincentennial.
On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter. She was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and the wife of a Japanese American man.
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A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
by Stephanie Dray
Sunday, May 3, 5 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes250, a commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, honoring our town's rich past and bright future.
In time for the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the United States comes a sweeping, intimate portrayal of Abigail Adams--wife of one president and mother to another--whose wit, willpower, and wisdom helped shape the fledgling republic.
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Six Days in Bombay
by Alka Joshi
Tuesday, May 5, 5 PM ET
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Presented in partnership with the History Book Festival, and Browseabout Books.
When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity.
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