

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Meet the Author: Diane Miller Sommerville
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 11:00 pm – Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 12:00 am (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for this virtual event LIVE on Facebook, Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. with author Diane Miller Sommerville and a presentation about her book, "Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South," followed by a Q&amp;A.

In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed.

Diane Miller Sommerville is associate professor of history at Binghamton University and author of "Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South."
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/frederick-maryland/meet-the-author-diane-miller-sommerville/200029494034508
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, nonprofit, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029494034508?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=frederick%2C+maryland-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Frederick, Maryland
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 48 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701-5628, United States, Frederick, Maryland

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: National Museum of Civil War Medicine (https://allevents.in/org/national-museum-of-civil-war-medicine/8654506)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 11:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 48 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701-5628, United States, Frederick, Maryland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, sports, nonprofit, virtual
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Meet the Author: Diane Miller Sommerville ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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