John Brown's Bloody Raid, Tomorrow, NYS Museum

Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer-winning journalist, will present his bold retelling of John Brown's anti-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, tomorrow at the New York State Museum, free and open to the public.

November 17 (Thursday)Reading/Discussion — 7:30 p.m., Clark Auditorium, NYS Museum, Cultural Education Center.

Tony Horwitz, the featured speaker for the 2011 Researching New York Conference, will discuss his new book, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011). As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Horwitz received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. He is the author of four national nonfiction bestsellers including A Voyage Long and Strange (2008), Blue Latitudes (2002), Confederates in the Attic (1998), and Baghdad Without a Map (1991).

Sponsored by UAlbany’s Department of History, the NYS Archives Partnership Trust, the NYS Writers Institute and NYS Museum. For additional information on the Researching New York Conference click here.