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| Georgetown Library's Peabody Room |
From our friends at Georgetown Library...
Hear Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist and contributor to usnews.com, discuss well-known and less-known personages of American history on the second Saturday of each month at 1:00 PM.
Each discussion takes place at the Georgetown Library in the Peabody Room (third floor) at 1:00 PM. For more information, contact Jerry A. McCoy at (202) 727-0233 or via email (jerry.mccoy@dc.gov.) Discussions are free to attend.
Peabody Room Historical Lecture Series 2016
• January 9 - Lucretia Mott: Speaking Quaker Truth to "Slave Power"
• February 13 - Frederick Douglass/Harriet Tubman: Parallel Lives from the Eastern Shore
• March 12 - Rachel Carson: Bringer of Silent Spring
• April 9 - Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Democracy's Great Outdoors
• May 14 - Andrew Jackson/Roger Taney/Francis Scott Key: A Grim Trio in Town and Country
• June 11 - James Madison: Burning Down the (White) House
• July 9 - Mrs. Roosevelt: Muse to Hillary
• August 13 - Isabel Briggs Myers: She's Got Your Type!
• September 10 - Senator Margaret Chase Smith: The Lady from Maine
• October 8 - Most Presidents Come in Paris: The Power of Two
• November 12 - John F. Kennedy & Abraham Lincoln: A Tragic November Rhyme in Time
• December 10 - Thomas Jefferson: In the Presence of His Enemies
