Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law & Ideas
When:
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 5:30p -
7:00p
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 5:30p -
7:00p
Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$10.00
Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/calendar
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
Reception is at 5:30pm
Talk is at 6:00pm
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