Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps is the author of To An Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial and Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Civil Rights in Post-Civil War America, which won the 2007 Oregon Book Award for non-fiction; both books were finalists for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. Epps is also the author of two novels, The Shad Treatment and The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington. After serving many years as the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law, he has recently joined the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he will begin teaching this fall.

Events
Novelist and Legal Scholar Garrett Epps
When: Tue, Sep 23, 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Where: George Mason University’s Loudoun Campus, Ridgetop Two, Suite 210, 21641 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA (map)
Description: This legal historian, who recently joined the faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses his best seller, The Shad Treatment, and the genre of the political novel. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.


Historians Garrett Epps and Robert Whitaker
When: Tue, Sep 23, 5pm – 6pm
Where: Dewberry Hall South, Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: Epps, author of Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Civil Rights in Post-Civil War America, and Whitaker, author of On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation, touch on some of the pivotal moments in American history from the aftermath of the Civil War through the First World War.