Tue 11/1 @ 7PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning author/historian Jon Meacham has written numerous books about American history, the kind of accessible books ordinary people will actually read, not 1,000-page tomes, books that relate history to our own times. He’s written about Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and George H.W. Bush. He’s also wrote His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, a book that looks at the crises the U.S. has gone through in the past to put our current dark impulses in perspective; and Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation, co-written with country singer Tim McGraw.
He was even the keynote speaker for this year’s May 4 commemoration at Kent State University, the annual event recalling the lethal antiwar protest of May 4, 1970 when four students were killed and nine other people were wounded.
This week he’ll be the guest of the Hudson Library & Historical Society for a live streaming event via Zoom to talk about his newly published book, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. In it he reveals both the personal and civic struggles Lincoln endured, his journey to the abolition of slavery and the crosscurrents he faced while getting there.
The program is free but registration is required here. Copies of his book will be available for purchase through Hudson’s Learned Owl Book Shop.