Author Talk

Join us at the Stockbridge Library for this book talk. With the 200th anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Stockbridge arriving in 2024, it seemed like a good idea to uncover and share that history. The two-year effort is capped by the publication of How Firm a Foundation. While most church histories focus on the…

Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History emeritus at the University of South Florida. Educated at Princeton and Brandeis, he is one of the nation’s leading civil rights historians and the author of several widely acclaimed and prize-winning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2006), The…