David Blight Discusses 9/11, Memorialization, and the American Identity: Part 1 - 8 (National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City)

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David Blight is a professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, at Yale University. David Blight discusses 9/11, memorialization, and the American identity.

Part 1: Blight discusses memorialization in American culture as an old impulse with a new urgency.

Part 2: Blight outlines the evolution of public memory in regard to the Civil War.

Part 3: Blight talks about the need in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to find parallels in other historical events.

Part 4: Blight discusses the need to understand 9/11 in the context of American history, and the role of individual sacrifice.

Part 5: Blight talks about nationalism, collective response, and the evolution of the American Republic.

Part 6: Blight discusses the impacts of 9/11 and the events effect on how Americans perceive themselves.

Part 7: Blight discusses national narrative and tragedy.

Part 8: Blight discusses how America has come to be the oldest republic, and the larger scope of 9/11 in a modern, global world.