2:15-3:15 pm | Mondays | October 6 through November 10
Series Price: $50 for members/$100 for visitors
Individual Lectures: $10/$20 in advance | At the Door: $20 per lecture
THOMAS JEFFERSON IN FRANCE
CHRISTOPHER HENDRICKS | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 6
Jefferson’s tenure at the Court of Louis XVI in the years leading up to the French Revolution left an indelible imprint on the statesman’s outlook on culture, architecture, and government.
MARY TELFAIR AND HER FAMILY IN EUROPE
ROGER SMITH | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
On their first journey to Europe in 1841, the Telfair sisters brought back refinement, mementos, and a new family member.
ALEXANDER R. LAWTON IN AUSTRIA
TANIA SAMMONS | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 20
The former quartermaster-general of the Confederacy, Lawton joined the diplomatic corps and served the U.S. government in Vienna.
EUGENE BULLARD IN JAZZ-AGE PARIS
ROGER SMITH | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
Georgia native Eugene Bullard, having served his country in the First World War, discovered a life of greater freedom for people of color—and the career of a jazz musician—in Paris.
MARY HASKELL MINIS IN BRITAIN
TANIA SAMMONS | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Mary Haskell Minis, the American responsible for the English-language publication of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, sought education and culture in England and Scotland.
THE GREEN FAMILY IN FRANCE
SUSAN ARDEN-JOLY | 2:15-3:15 PM | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Changes in the South following the Civil War led Edward Moon Green and Elizabeth Hartridge Green to move their family to France, creating a legacy that would include their son, French literary giant Julien Green.
Susan Arden-Joly spearheaded a 2015 project to locate significant items of Green furnishings from the Paris home of Julian Green and to return them to the Green-Meldrim House in Savannah.
Christopher Hendricks is a professor of history at Georgia Southern University, specializing in colonial and revolutionary American history.
Tania Sammons is a historian, curator, and author of a forthcoming biography of Mary Haskell Minis.