Video from the Contested Past Symposium

Video from parts of the symposium “Contested Past: Memories and Legacies of the Civil War: A Conference to Commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in North Carolina” held at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 20, 2011 is now available online on the Department of Cultural Resources YouTube channel.

• David Blight keynote – “Race and Reunion: Has Civil War Memory United or Divided America?”
• John Haley lecture – “Risky Remembrances: African American Accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction“
• Mark Elliott lecture – “Albion Tourgee, Thomas Dixon, and Memory of Reconstruction“

Other audio and video from the symposium may become available later and if (or when) that happens I will add those links to this post.