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The Assassination of President Lincoln and the End of an Era
A lecture by Housatonic Community College history Professor Hamish Lutris at Glastonbury's Welles-Turner Memorial Library.
Hamish Lutris, Associate Professor of History at Housatonic Community College, examines this date in history. On April 14th, 1865, an assassin’s bullet put an end to the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Many believe that the history of post-war America might have been quite different, had he lived. Yet the assassination of President Lincoln is also considered by many to be the end of an era in American history, not only closing out the civil war, but ushering a new era of industrial, instead of agricultural wealth, and an end of true independence for Americans from their national government. This talk will focus on the killing of the president, but will also examine the slow close of the antebellum era, and on the end of the civil war itself.
Registration required and begins March 17th online or at the Reference Desk at 860-652-7720.
