Reconciling and Reuniting the Nation: ?How Americans have Remembered the Civil W
Date and Time
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EDT
09/30/15 7:30 PM
Location
Miami University Hamilton Harry T. Wilks Conference Center is located at 1601 University Blvd
Fees/Admission
Free
Contact Information
orthrm@miamioh.edu
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Description
Professor Caroline E. Janney will discuss her most recent book, Remembering the Civil War, winner of the Charles S. Sydnor and Jefferson Davis awards. In it, she will talk about the tenuous process of reuniting and reconciling the nation after the Civil War. How did the Civil War generation understand the war: What were veterans really thinking in all those famous photographs of men shaking hands across the rock wall at Gettysburg? What about women? And United States Colored Troops? What had the war meant to them? How did its meaning change in the 20th century? The Michael J. Colligan History Project is a joint undertaking of the Colligan Fund Committee of the Hamilton Community Foundation and Miami University Hamilton. For more information call (513) 785-3277 or visit www.colliganproject.org.
