Why can’t we just get over the Civil War in America?
Read MoreThe Civil War at 150: The past in the present? | Kansas City Star
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Daily Kos (By Denise Oliver Velez) The Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course
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"A pencil drawing and a grainy photo in the Library of Congress are all that is left of the cemetery where 257 Union soldiers were buried after the Civil War on what had been a race course in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read MoreThe Washington Post (The Post’s View, By Editorial Board) Memorial Day: Honoring the living and the dead, in the spirit of 1869
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IT MUST have been quite a sight, Memorial Day 1869 in Cincinnati, where “a crowd of thirty thousand gathered in a cemetery to observe the decoration of 745 graves of that community’s war dead,” as the historian David W. Blight describes it. “Among the processions was a disciplined line of hundreds of women, all dressed in ‘purest white’ and carrying baskets of flowers. At a signal, each woman stepped forward and cast her flowers on a grave. The scale of such an event would dwarf an All Saints Day procession in some European cities.” ...
Open Phones with David Blight (Appomattox Court House National Historic Park)
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David Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, talked about his book and responded to viewer questions.
Read MoreCareer of Civil War Historian Bruce Catton (Gettysburg College)
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Civil War author and historian David Blight talks about the career and influence of one of his predecessors in the field, Bruce Catton. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Catton researched and wrote several books about the Civil War, including the 1954 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Stillness at Appomattox. The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College hosted this event.
Read MoreBackStory NPR | Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington
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August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., when, at the close of the March on Washington, he spoke of his dream for racial harmony and economic equality in America.
Read MoreDavid Blight: The Civil War in American Memory (Minnesota Public Radio)
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Historian David Blight speaks at the Minnesota Historical Society's History Forum about the ways the Civil War has influenced American history and its society and people in the 150 years since.
Read MoreDemocracy: Journal of Ideas | Lincoln the Emancipator, Issue #28, Spring 2013
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One hundred fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves. Just how he got there might surprise you.
Read MoreDavid Blight on Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/, presents historian David Blight on a meeting between abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Read MoreEmancipation and the Laws of War (Yale University)
James Oakes and John Witt talked about their books on the process of Emancipation during the Civil War. James Oakes argued that contrary to conventional narratives, the destruction of slavery was a Republican goal from the beginning of the war. John Witt spoke about the world’s first pamphlet style “laws of war” code written by Lincoln advisor and legal scholar Francis Lieber in 1862 and 1863. Witt argued that the “Lieber Code” was written to help justify emancipation as a military necessity, and that the code has been a source for international laws of war ever since. The discussion was moderated by David Blight.
From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee? (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
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From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee? Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War
Read MoreThe Civil War in American Memory (OAH, Minnesota Historical Society)
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An OAH Distinguished Lecture by David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and U.S. Colored Troops (New York City Historical Society)
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Scholars talked about the contributions, sacrifices, and challenges faced by African Americans who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War.
Read MoreCareer of Civil War Historian Bruce Catton (Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College)
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Civil War author and historian David Blight talks about the career and influence of one of his predecessors in the field, Bruce Catton.
Read MoreYale Civil War hero Uriah Parmelee and the cause of abolitionism (Yale and the Civil War Sesquicentennial Series)
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Famed Yale Civil War historian David Blight looks at Uriah Parmelee, a Yale student who joined the Union Army to fight for the abolition of slavery.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight at the NYS Writers Institute in 2012
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The featured speaker for the 2012 Researching New York Conference, David W. Blight will present a lecture, "America Divided, Then and Now: The Civil War in our National and Local Imagination."
Read MoreDavid W. Blight at the NYS Writers Institute in 2012
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The featured speaker for the 2012 Researching New York Conference, David W. Blight will present a lecture, "America Divided, Then and Now: The Civil War in our National and Local Imagination." One of the foremost authorities on the U.S. Civil War, Blight is Professor of American History and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. He has authored numerous works including, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011) and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002).
Defining Slavery (GLC 14th Annual International Conference, Yale University)
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A panel of professors and authors talked about the legal, economic, academic and policy frameworks that help define modern day slavery and human trafficking.
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?309205-3/defining-slavery
Roots of Modern Day Slavery (GLC 14th Annual International Conference, Yale University)
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November 9, 2012
Historians discuss 18th and 19th Century analogs and their relationships to contemporary slavery and abolition, as well as “white slavery” and the emphasis on human rights in the 20th Century.
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference (1st day of conference)
http://www.c-span.org/video/?309205-2/roots-modern-day-slavery
Public Program, American Antiquarian Society - David W. Blight
Author and historian David W. Blight presents his lecture "From Emancipation to Civil Rights and Beyond: Legacies of the Civil War at 150."
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