Community Conversations: The Home Front at Cape Fear Museum of History and Science

This program will be facilitated by Dr. Jane Turner Censer, who writes prize-winning articles on the history of women and teaches at George Mason University, and Dr. Jaime Martinez, UNCP, whose work on the Civil War explores the effects of slave impressment in North Carolina and Virginia. Discover how mothers, wives, and children responded to the absence of fathers, husbands, and brothers. Discuss what happened to slaves during the war. Explore how the home front functioned during wartime.

Fee: $5 for Museum members; $7 for non-members ; student admission free (limited to 25 pre-registered). Call 910.798.4362 for tickets/to register.