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LIVE Saturday: Controversy Over Civil War Monuments - 2017 Symposium

by NinaShelton

Controversy Over Civil War Monuments - 2017 Symposium

LIVE Saturday, February 25, 2017, 9:30am - 4:00pm EST

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Join us LIVE at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia for an all-day symposium on the past, present and future of Civil War monuments. Speakers address monument construction in the north and south and how public perception - especially of Confederate monuments - has changed.

The symposium is co-hosted by the American Civil War Museum, the Library of Virginia and University of Virginia Center for Civil War History. The speakers for the symposium include:

  • Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina History Professor, and author of "The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration and Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina"
  • Christy S. Coleman, American Civil War Museum CEO, who is also a member of Gov. Terry McAuliffe's Monuments Work Group
  • Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., University of Virginia Special Collections Research Archivist and author of "Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia"
  • James Loewen, author of "Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong" and University of Vermont Sociology Professor Emeritus
  • Timothy S. Sedore of the City University of New York,  Bronx Community College, and author of "An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Civil War Monuments" and a forthcoming work on Tennessee monuments

The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion involving the speakers and the audience to consider the future of Civil War monuments.