"For many years historians in the United States, even scholars who challenged the relatively benign view of slavery and harsh view of Reconstruction that dominated the academy until at least the 1950s,
Read MoreModerated by Professor Blight, a panel of black scholars from history, law, linguistics, and business discussed the nature of historical justice in regard to slavery in the United States and how America should respond to its support of slavery during its founding and over several generations.
Read MoreDavid Blight, author of "When this Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster", talks about his book at Northampton's 350th anniversary lecture series at Smith College.
Read MoreOfficials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book of the year on the history of slavery. This year’s winner, David Blight, is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
Read MoreDr. Blight talked about his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, published by Harvard University Press. In his lecture, Mr. Blight explored the relationship between history and memory, and discusses the importance in establishing the difference between the two.
Read MoreHistory professors discussed the origins of the Civil War and a variety of other issues.
Read MoreThe participants engaged both issues of the Civil War itself, as well as the subsequent fascination with the war amongst Americans. This program ends abruptly.
Read MoreMr. Blight was part of a Civil War Symposium hosted by the National Park Service. He spoke about the National Park Service’s role in interpreting and preserving facts about the Civil War.
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Fred Morsell portrayed Frederick Douglass and answered questions from the audience as Douglass might have.
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