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Author Talk: Carol Berkin - Varina Howell Davis

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Carol Berkin, author of Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, & Julia Dent Grant speaks on Varina Davis.Varina Howell Davis was beautiful, but she was also brilliant, a woman with great intellectual curiosity, a sharp wit, and keen powers of observation of the world around her. Her letters and her memoir offer us remarkable insights into the character of political leaders of the Civil War era as well as…

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J-AM Celebration: A Musical Gathering for John-Alex Mason

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J-AM Celebration: A musical gathering for John-Alex Mason. Featuring Big Jim Adam and Grant Sabin, Ronnie Shellist and Gerry Hundt, and Grass It Up performing at Shove Chapel.

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Author Talk: Carol Berkin - Julia Dent Grant

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Carol Berkin, author of Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, & Julia Dent Grant speaks on Julia Dent Grant. Grant was the model of 19th century domesticity. As crisis swirled about her, as war divided the nation, and as America moved into modernity, Julia focused her attention on family and friends. Yet her story is an important one, for she represents the majority of the people of her era and our own,…

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Doris McCraw: The Cripple Creek Volcano - A Thirty-Five Million Year Disaster

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Doris McCraw speaks on her topic for this year's Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium: Disasters in the Pikes Peak Region.