Lecture: African American Porches and the Underappreciated Archives of Civil War Memory

Name: Lecture: African American Porches and the Underappreciated Archives of Civil War Memory
Start: 2025-02-06T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Newman Library Multipurpose Room

Schedule

Thu, 06 Feb, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Newman Library Multipurpose Room | Blacksburg, VA

Drawing on her research for her recently published book, Hilary Green explores how the African American porch and other communal archival practices allowed for diverse Black communities to remember the Civil War in complex ways. By engaging with both these communal sites of memory as well as traditional archives, Green offers a new direction for academics and lay communities for deepening current understandings of Civil War memory. This talk will be held in Goodall Multipurpose Room at Newman Library on the Virginia Tech campus and is free and open to the public.