Lessons on the 150th Anniversary of the End of the American Civil War
Event Details
Come learn about the Civil War's impact on American History and hear about memories of the Civil War at a Symposium at the Historic Dock Street Theater.
There will be 2 sessions, 10:00am and 1:30pm
Session 1: 10am - The Civil War' Impact on American History
-The Civil War Amendments & the American Declaration of Independence -Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
-The Significance of Reconstruction -Eric Foner, Columbia University
-A Later Encounter with the Enemy: The Confederate Experience at 150 -Emory Thomas, University of Georgia
Session 2: 1:30pm - Public Memories of the American Civil War: The Case of South Carolina
-The Endings of the Civil War & Their Legacies in our Own Time -David W. Blight, Yale University
-Hidden Genealogies of Confederate Memory -Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina
-Setting Slavery in Stone: What the Calhoun & Vesey Monuments Tell Us About Civil War Memory -Blain Roberts & Ethan Kytle, California State University, Fresno
*The public is invited. For more events happening to commemorate the 150th Anniversary, please visit the link provided.
Date
April 18, 2015
Location
Historic Dock Street Theater 135 Church Street
, SC
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