Speaker Biography:
Jennifer Garlen is a writer
and former English professor with a PhD in English Literature from Auburn
University. She is the author of Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth
Watching and several other books. She lives in Huntsville, Alabama, where she
teaches lifetime learning courses on literature, film and popular culture.
All skill levels are welcome at Smyrna Library's "Needlework Stitch-In."
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Thank you, Dr. George Lamplugh, for your in-depth presentation today on the perils of partisan politics in the early years of the state of Georgia as detailed in your book, Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1807-1845. It was great follow-up to your equally enthralling presentation last August on the Great Yazoo Land Fraud. We look forward to more of your very informative history lessons with a local connection!
Speaker: Dr. George Lamplugh, historian and author
Political parties developed in Georgia in strikingly different ways than in other states. In fact, political parties in Georgia didn't carry the names of national parties for more than half a century after the nation's first parties, the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans, were created in Congress in the early 1790s. How and why political parties evolved the way they did in Georgia is a fascinating story. Dr. Lamplugh will explore some of the key issues involved in the process, e.g., the Yazoo Land Fraud; the strong, violent personalities of Georgia's first party builders; Nullification; and the polarizing personality of President Andrew Jackson.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Lamplugh is the author of Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1807-1845.
The First Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Library.