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.

The Last Dekrepitzer by Howard Langer
The Last Dekrepitzer
by Howard Langer

Wednesday, February 25, 7 PM ET
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A Hasidic rabbi, saved by Black soldiers at the conclusion of the war, engages in a spiritual journey through the Jim Crow south and racially divided New York. Music--blues, gospel and Hasidic niggunim--become the means of pursuing his quest.
The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States by David J. Silverman
The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
by David J. Silverman

Sunday, March 8, 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 sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land.
Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship by L. M. Elliott
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.
The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended by Thomas Richards
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.
Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation by Andrew H. Knoll
Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation
by Andrew H. Knoll

Tuesday, April 7, 5 PM ET
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This is part of the library's “Science and Society - Making Sense of the World Around Us” lecture series. 

How did the world as we know it--from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us--come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices--the physical and the biological--to understand how we and our planet became possible. 
Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment by Rhae Lynn Barnes
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.
Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech by Stephen D. Solomon
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--