For those of you looking for an extra credit opportunity, here is the information on an upcoming lecture by my advisor, Jonathan Earle, on Sunday October 26th, at 2:30pm. For this assignment you will be expected to attend the lecture, take notes, and write a 2-page response paper giving your reactions to the lecture. More specific details will be discussed in class on Friday. If you are unable to attend, there will be another opportunity offered later in the semester. I’ll keep you posted.
“The Emerson Society and the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence will host a lecture on ‘A Plea for Captain John Brown: Unitarians, Vigilantism, and the Transcendentalists: From Bleeding Kansas to Harper’s Ferry’ by Associate Professor Jonathan Earle of the Department of History of the University of Kansas on Sunday, October 26, in the Fellowship’s new meeting hall at 1263 North 1100 Road, south of Lawrence, just off Route 59. The lecture will begin at 2:30pm and will be followed by a reception.
“Professor Earle, who also serves as Deputy Director of the Dole Institute at the University of Kansas, is a well-known scholar on anti-slavery and democratic movements in nineteenth-century America. He is the author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).”
