History Book Festival Presents Author Donald L. Miller: Vicksburg

In collaboration with the History Book Festival, join us for a live, interactive talk with Donald L. Miller, author of Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign that Broke the Confederacy, featured at the 2020 virtual History Book Festival. "When Vicksburg fell, the fate of the Confederacy was sealed." - Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863, opened the Mississippi to Union commerce and severed the Confederacy, isolating the slave states of Arkansas and Texas and part of Louisiana. It also ignited a social revolution in Mississippi and eastern Louisiana that culminated in the violent overthrow of plantation slavery. Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Masters of the Air, set to be made into a television series by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. We invite you to support the author by purchasing a copy of his book from the Festival's official bookseller, Browseabout Books. Each copy purchased comes with a signed archival bookplate. Online program presented by the History Book Festival and Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.