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 on Tuesday, October 26th, at 2 pm ET as we discuss "The Reconstruction Era."

Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency. A southerner and former slave-holder, Johnson advocated for the rapid reassimilation of the southern states into the Union. In pursuit of this, he pressed for southern states to be allowed to determine the rights of former slaves. His policies would come to characterize the Reconstruction Era, as the nation struggled to heal from its years of bitter war.

What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction on American unity? 

This webinar event will feature William Barney, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Forrest Nabors, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; and Michael Les Benedict, Professor of History Emeritus at The Ohio State University.

To read more about this event, click here.

Join NAS on Tuesday, November 2nd at 2 pm ET, as we discuss The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

David Herbert Lawrence once called The Scarlet Letter a "perfect work of the American imagination." In this webinar, we ask: Is this still true today? To what does the subtitle, "A Romance," refer? Who influenced Hawthorne's writings, and who did his writings influence? What makes The Scarlet Letter a great American novel?

This webinar will feature Monika Elbert, Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University; Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University; and Leland Person, Professor English and the Department Head at the University of Cincinnati.

To learn more about the 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!