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TALKS MUSIC PERFORMANCE STORYTELLING TOURS

E x p l o r e t h e C i v i l Wa r :
Programs

October 2016 - February 2017

All programs are FREE with Museum admission, unless otherwise noted.
The programs are organized and sponsored by the Hudson River Museum.

SUNDAY SCHOLAR SERIES:
The Civil War and the American Spirit

2 pm

October 9 How the Civil War Transformed American Literature
Literature helped spark the Civil War and when it was over, American

literature, like all else in the country, changed. Dr. Randall Fuller takes
an in-depth look at the work of America’s famous poet Walt Whitman,
who, seared by his experiences as a volunteer nurse in Civil War
hospitals, wrote, at the war’s end, less about ideals and more about
people’s day-to-day struggles.

November 20 Music, the Civil War, and American Memory
Dr. Lawrence Kramer focuses on music from the Civil War through

the Vietnam War as well as Walt Whitman’s collection of Civil War
poems, Drum-Taps, which is steeped in musical language. It is a clear
departure from the heroic war narratives that defined epic poetry passed
down to us from ancient Greece.

December 18 Lincoln and New York
An entertaining and illuminating hour that features passages from

Lincoln’s inauguration and his speeches from tours through Peekskill,
Albany, Western New York, and at New York City’s Cooper Union, with
commentary by Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading authorities
on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era, and award-winning actor
Stephen Lang.

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