VERO BEACH – Leonard Gougeon, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Scranton, returns to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18, to present “America’s Second Revolution: New England, Great Britain, and the Civil War.”
He recently presented this lecture to standing room only crowd at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.
His March appearance in Vero Beach is free and open to the community, no tickets or reservations required.
Following last year’s exploration of Thoreau and the Civil War, Dr. Gougeon continued Civil War research, addressing the cultural and political conflict that occurred between Great Britain and the North because of the war.
In 2008, Gougeon received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. He is past president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and the author of “Virtue’s Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform” and “Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero.”
His most recent book is “Emerson’s Truth, Emerson’s Wisdom.” He has published numerous scholarly articles on major figures of the antebellum period, including the December New England Quarterly article, “Militant Abolitionism: Douglass, Emerson, and the Rise of the Anti-Slave.”
The UU Fellowship has easy parking and is handicap accessible. It is located at 1590 27th Avenue on the southeast corner of 27th Avenue and 16th Street. For more information, call (772) 778-5880.
