The American Friends of Lafayette launched a new publication: Lafayette and the Enduring Struggle for Human Rights and Democratic Governments. This book memorializes the presentations at the Fairfield University Lafayette Symposium, held on September 7, 2024.
Thanks to the amazing generosity of Fairfield University and AFL members Susan Joy and Marc Minker, proceeds of the first printing will be to the benefit of the AFL. Editors Alan Hoffman, Lloyd Kramer, and Diane Shaw will describe the process of making the book and will talk about the importance of this publication in the study of General Lafayette.
The Zoom link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83121799401
Robert Crout, will be presenting "Lafayette's other Tours" which will include information on Lafayette's mini tour of the United States in 1784 and his tour of France in 1829. Fascinating stuff !!!
Robert Crout is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of History at the College of Charleston. He has a nearly 50-year history of studying, teaching, and writing about Lafayette and the transatlantic revolutionary era. After working eight years on French involvement in the American Revolution for his doctorate, he served from 1978 to 1981 at Cornell as, first, Associate Editor, then, Co-Editor of the “Lafayette Papers Project” with Lafayette scholar, Stanley J. Idzerda. Crout later co-edited papers projects of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton, and James Madison at the University of Virginia. While teaching in Charleston, South Carolina since 1989, he has continued to write numerous scholarly articles and essays about Lafayette. He has served as Chair of the European Section of the Southern Historical Association and was a Fellow at Harvard’s Houghton Library, the Newberry Library, and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute. Crout is President Emeritus of the American Friends of Lafayette. He intends to follow a book on Lafayette’s tour with a comprehensive biography of Lafayette. He was the first American to work in the Lafayette family archives at Chateau de LaGrange.
The Zoom link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82120032648
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