The 10th Annual Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne, featuring Alan Taylor

The 10th Annual Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne, featuring Alan Taylor

Monday, June 10th, 2024

Members & Donors Reception – 5:30 pm

Lecture – 6:30 pm

Hybrid Event

Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

Join us for a conversation with historian Alan Taylor about his new book American Civil Wars: A Continental History of the United States, 1850-1873. (W.W. Norton, 2024)

In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries―the United States, Mexico, and Canada―all transformed themselves into nations. The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.

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