Author and historian David Blight connected the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement during the recent Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History event. A professor at Yale and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, Blight’s latest book, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era and Our Own Time focuses on Civil War memory. The following is a short piece from that lecture.
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