On May 20-21, 2016, the University of Memphis will host “Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866, a Symposium Exploring Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.” The culmination of a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, discussions, and book talks, this symposium will feature historians and scholars from across the country, including Robert K. Sutton, Chief Historian of […]
Continue reading →by Tim Good Last year, the nation and the National Park Service completed the 150th commemoration of the American Civil War. This commemoration included events both on and outside of park boundaries, with a particular emphasis on developing a shared history that acknowledged slavery as the war’s cause, and emancipation as its objective. These goals […]
Continue reading →By Steven Tramel Gaines “It was a deliberate act of concealment.” Dr. Susan O’Donovan of the Department of History said those words about “the silence that continues to surround Reconstruction and which dampens public understanding of what was arguably one of the most foundational periods in national history.” O’Donovan delivered a lecture, as part of the […]
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