Please consider joining us in the coming weeks for events discussing American history and literature. You can find all of our upcoming events in this series here. 

Our next two webinars are:

Join NAS today at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "The American Civil War." In this webinar, we ask: was the Civil War necessary? How did the "United" States fall into civil war less than a century after its founding? How did America's "peculiar institution" of slavery contribute to the outbreak of war, and what role did it play in the war's conclusion? Why is the Civil War considered the "rebirth of a nation"?

This webinar will feature Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus at Oxford University and former president of Corpus Christi College; Brian Matthew Jordan, associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Sam Houston State University; and Joan Waugh, professor emeritus of history at UCLA.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS next Tuesday, October 5th, at 2 pm ET as we discuss "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville."

When it was published, Moby-Dick was a commercial flop, and it took decades for it to be recognized as a great work of literature. In this webinar event, we'll ask our panelists: What accounts for Moby-Dick's late rise to prominence? How did that compare with Melville's earlier writings? Who influenced Melville's writings, and who did his writings influence? And, of course, what makes Moby-Dick a great American novel?

This event will feature Jeff Bilbro, associate professor of english at Grove City College and editor of Front Porch Republic; Andrew Delbanco, Alexander Hamilton professor of American studies at Columbia University and president of the Teagle Foundation; and Robert K. Wallace, regents professor of english at Northern Kentucky University and co-founder of the Melville Society Cultural Project. The discussion will be moderated by David Randall.

To read more about this event, click here.

If you can't attend, but would like to receive a recording of any of these events, I encourage you to register anyway. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the event recording.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!