LancasterHistory will offer a virtual program focused on Thaddeus Stevens on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. Via Zoom, historian Bruce Levine, Ph.D., will speak about his latest book, "Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary." The biography was released on March 2.

One of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the Civil War, Stevens was a leader of the young Republican Party's radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies.

Levine is the author of five books on the Civil War era, including "The Fall of the House of Dixie" and "Confederate Emancipation," which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top 10 works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. Levine is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois.

The program is free and open to the public, but requires advance registration at https://bit.ly/rhc21mar18. A link to the Zoom event will be emailed automatically upon successful registration.

To view all of LancasterHistory's upcoming spring 2021 virtual lectures, readers may visit http://www.lancasterhistory.org/virtualrhc.