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Sept. 25, 2024: "Lafayette and the Politics of Division" Public Lecture by Princeton University Professor Sean Wilentz
Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St., 10 to 11:30 am.
Princeton University’s Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, will give a free public lecture, Lafayette and the Politics of Division, at the Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton at 10 am. “The Grand Farewell Tour of Lafayette in 1824 occurred during a polarizing presidential election that was pulling the country apart,” said Dr. Wilentz. “Two hundred years later, the nation is again deeply divided amid a pivotal election.”
Dr. Wilentz will discuss the Marquis de Lafayette, a strong abolitionist at a time when American politics was increasingly riven over slavery’s future in the new republic. An expert on American history in the 19th century, Professor Wilentz is the author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
https://trentonjournal.com/new-jersey-prepares-for-return-of-lafayette-200-years-after-his-farewell-tour-helped-unite-a-divided-nation/
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Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St,Princeton,NJ,United States
