Libraries & Liberty Seminar : The Writerly Voice with Kelsey Scouten Bates

Libraries & Liberty Seminar Two: The Writerly Voice with Kelsey Scouten Bates 

Starts Thursday September 29th, 6 PM to 7:30 PM

 $200 Non-members | $180 Members

How have libraries aided the cause of liberty, in the United States and elsewhere? What kind of liberty, and for whom? What role do libraries play now in ensuring the continued freedom of people in our country and around the world?

From the founding of the United States through the Civil War, creative and expository writers used their pens to persuade people to buy into their version of liberty. In this second course in the Libraries and Liberty Series, we’ll look closely at the rhetoric of writers from the Revolution through Emancipation–from the moral and intellectual weight of writing in the early republic (Phillis Wheatley and The Federalist Papers) to the persuasive power of writing during the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman).

Schedule for The Writerly Voice

Thursday Sep 29 6:00-7:30pm ET

Thursday Oct 20 6:00-7: 30pm ET

Thursday Nov 10 6:00-7: 30pm ET

Thursday, Dec 15 6:00-7: 30pm ET

*This closing session will be hosted in-person at The Rosenbach with a reception.

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