The Civil War Remembered: Union, Confederate and African American Perspectives October 3, 2007

Who: The Massachusetts Historical Society in cooperation with the Bsotn Public Library and The Boston Athenaeum
What: Panel discussion: David Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Nina Silber, John McCardell: The Civil War Remembered: Union, Confederate and African American Perspectives

Drs. David Blight, Fitz Brundage, and Nina Silber will offer a discussion about the Civil War and its memory, how it affects people differently, and how the memories associated with it continue to affect life in the nation some 142 years since its end. The themes of victory and memory, defeat and memory are but a few that will be highlighted. A question and answer period will follow the discussion.

David Blight_Dr. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of History at Yale University. His books include Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won the Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize, and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War, among others.

W. Fitzhugh Brundage _"Fitz" Brundage received his BA at the University of Chicago and his PhD at Harvard University. He has taught at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the William B. Umstead Professor of History. He has written on the history of lynching, utopian socialism, and the controversies over the southern past since the Civil War. His most recent book, The Southern Past: The Clash of Race and Memory, was published in 2005 by Belknap Press.
Nina Silber_Dr. Silber is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Among her books are Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War; Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, and Landmarks of the Civil War.

John McCardell _The former president of Middlebury College, Dr. McCardell's specialty is 19th-century United States history with an emphasis on the Old South. McCardell continues to teach courses at Middlebury. He received his PhD in history from Harvard University.


When: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
6:30 PM
Where: The Boston Public Library
Why: This event, was organized by the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar (Richmond, Virginia) , and is co-hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Public Library , and the Boston Athenaeum.
The Event is Free and Open to the Public

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