New season of Salisbury House history lectures announced
Three lectures by acclaimed historian authors will be presented as part of a new season of the History Series at Salisbury House. The Thursday evening series is sponsored by Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey, Charlotte and Fred Hubbell, and the Butler House on Grand bed and breakfast inn. The lectures are:
- Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.: Adolf Hitler and his regime during World War II, by Thomas Childres, Ph.D., author and editor of several books on German history and World War II.
- April 6, 2017, 7:30 p.m.: The Gilded Age in America: an era of wealth, consumption and leisure during the late 19th-century, by Edward T. O’Donnell, Ph.D. and associate professor of history at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
- May 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.: The social history of the French Revolution, by Suzanne Desan, Ph.D.,who is the Vilas-Shinners Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Advance ticket purchases may be made online or by calling Salisbury House at (515) 274-1777.
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