Frank Scaturro has been a frequent and well-received speaker at many of our round table meetings. Frank was one of the first Civil War scholars to reevaluate the presidency of U.S. Grant in his now-classic book, “Grant Reconsidered.” Originally from New York, Frank is now a resident of Ohio and lives in Westerville. He is a member of our local Athens County camp of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and has been actively helping our camp on important projects.
Here is Frank’s description of his upcoming talk:
“Reconstruction shaped the course of the U.S. as profoundly as any period since its founding. As leaders worked to define the full meaning of Union victory, they gave the reunited nation three new constitutional amendments and redefined representative democracy to include those who had recently been enslaved. But a backlash against Reconstruction ultimately entailed the imposition of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement—and with it a demonization of Reconstruction and a lapse of national memory from which we are still recovering. My talk will explore how we’ve treated this mostly forgotten but consequential period in our history.”
[Photo is of Frank and his son John on a visit to the Frost Grand Army of the Republic Hall a few years ago. The photo was taken in the second floor ceremonial and meeting room.]
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All CWRT presentations are free and open to the public. Totally voluntary and optional donations to help defray costs of this and future CWRT meetings will be accepted.
Meetings starts at 7:00 p.m. in the large conference room at Athens County Library in Nelsonville, Ohio, located at 95 W. Washington Street.
If the weather turns inclement, we will send out an email on Monday to inform you of the meeting cancellation. If you do not receive such an email notice of cancellation, you can assume the meeting will be held as scheduled. Also, a Level 2 Emergency invoked by the Athens County sheriff will automatically cancel our meeting.
