Georgia Historical Society

Saving Savannah: 

  The City and the Civil War

A Lecture by Jacqueline Jones

Thursday, October 23, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.

Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church

429 Abercorn Street, Savannah 

Calhoun Square

free and open to the public - book sale and signing to follow

For more information, please call 912.651.2125 ext. 40

 
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Transforming Georgia's First City

Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, returns to Savannah to discuss her latest book that explores the complex social fabric of this thriving port city before, during, and after the Civil War.  Drawing on military records, diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs – many found at the Georgia Historical Society – Jones tells the story of a city struggling to reinvent itself in the face of sweeping societal changes by weaving together stories of individual men and women, bankers and dockworkers, planters and field hands, enslaved laborers and free people of color.

Jacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas/ Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of seven previous books. Among her numerous awards are the Taft Prize, the Brown Memorial Prize, the Spruill Prize, the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, and, in 1999, a MacArthur Fellowship. Jones currently resides in Austin, Texas with her family.