For the Union Dead: Bostonians Travel East in Search of Answers in the Post–Civil War Era

When:
Thursday, Feb 22, 2018 5:30p -
7:30p

Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=2412

After the Civil War, artists and writers from Boston faced a question that haunted America: what’s next? For cultural leaders like Charles Eliot Norton and Isabella Stewart Gardner, Reconstruction left them feeling directionless and betrayed. Mark Rennella recounts how these “Boston Cosmopolitans” shunned the Whig narrative of history and researched Europe’s long past to discover and share examples of civil society shaped by high ideals.

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