- Last Updated on Monday, 01 July 2013 00:20
The Peters Township Public Library will host “Why Did the Klan Wear Bizarre Costumes” on Thursday, July 18 at 7:00 p.m.
 Dr. Elaine Frantz Parsons
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The program is the third and final portion of “Civil War 150,” a three-part national public programming initiative designed to encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the American Civil War. The program is presented by The Library of America in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and is supported by a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities.
This program will be facilitated by Dr. Elaine Frantz Parsons, Civil War Scholar and Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. Parsons is currently compiling a book about the Ku Klux Klan entitled Constructing the Kuklux: The Ku Klux Klan and the Modernization of the Reconstruction-Era South.
Register to attend by emailing programs@ptlibrary.org, visit the circulation desk, or call 724-941-9430.
This program will be facilitated by Dr. Elaine Frantz Parsons, Civil War Scholar and Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. Parsons is currently compiling a book about the Ku Klux Klan entitled Constructing the Kuklux: The Ku Klux Klan and the Modernization of the Reconstruction-Era South.
Register to attend by emailing programs@ptlibrary.org, visit the circulation desk, or call 724-941-9430.
