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The Emancipation Memorial – should it stay, be taken down, or can history and Frederick Douglass provide a path forward? A conversation with Dr. Jonathan White. The Purple Conversation
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The Emancipation Memorial – should it stay, be taken down, or can history and Fredrick Douglass provide a path forward? A conversation with Dr. Jonathan White.
When considering statues, memorials, and history itself there are typically multiple layers of meaning or interpretation.
As we continue our national conversation on statues, and even the core history and founders of our country, it is important to give consideration to the time and culture when those moments occurred.
Today on The Purple Conversation we have a conversation with Dr. Jonathan White.
Dr. Jonathan White is associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln. He serves as vice chair of The Lincoln Forum, and on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Association & the Abraham Lincoln Institute. His most recent books include Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War, and “Our Little Monitor": The Greatest Invention of the Civil War, which he co-authored with Anna Gibson Holloway.
– Together let's have a Purple Conversation.
The Emancipation Memorial – should it stay, be taken down, or can history and Fredrick Douglass provide a path forward? A conversation with Dr. Jonathan White.
When considering statues, memorials, and history itself there are typically multiple layers of meaning or interpretation.
As we continue our national conversation on statues, and even the core history and founders of our country, it is important to give consideration to the time and culture when those moments occurred.
Today on The Purple Conversation we have a conversation with Dr. Jonathan White.
Dr. Jonathan White is associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln. He serves as vice chair of The Lincoln Forum, and on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Association & the Abraham Lincoln Institute. His most recent books include Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War, and “Our Little Monitor": The Greatest Invention of the Civil War, which he co-authored with Anna Gibson Holloway.
– Together let's have a Purple Conversation.
47 min