Free Five-Part Reading and Discussion Series

All group discussion events will be held at the Waunakee Public Library on the following Mondays, at 6:30 pm:
(Please register)

February 6, 2012
March 5, 2012

Discussion Schedule

The Books

-Copies for checkout are available at the library

March : a novel
Brooks, Geraldine
(Penguin, 2006)

Crossroads of freedom : Antietam McPherson, James M.
(Oxford University Press, 2002)

America's war : talking about the Civil War and emancipation on their 150th anniversaries anthology of historical fiction, speeches, diaries, memoirs, biography, and short stories


Edited by national project scholar Edward L. Ayers
(co-published by NEH and ALA)

Grant Partners

Let’s Talk About it: Making Sense of the American Civil War, a reading and discussion series has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

Waunakee Public Library is one of 65 libraries nationwide receiving grants to host the American Civil War series developed by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Local support for the series is provided by the Waunakee Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11244 (V.F.W.), the Robert M. Coakley American Legion Post 481, the Senior Center of Waunakee, the Waunakee Community High School, the Friends of Waunakee Public Library, and the Homeschool Book Group.

Discussion Leader

Adam Malka, a senior PhD candidate in U.S. History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead a discussion of the book at each session.  Mr. Malka’s focus is on nineteenth century U.S. history and he has compiled extensive experience both researching and teaching about the Civil War.  To obtain copies of all program materials, please contact the Waunakee Public Library.