Class Year
2015
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
12-9-2013
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Monday evening, November 18, students from Gettysburg College got to sit down and discuss memory with Dr. David Blight from Yale University, author of the renowned work Race and Reunion. The session was conducted as an informal panel with Dr. Blight and Gettysburg College’s own Dr. Isherwood and Dr. Jordan. Dr. Blight spoke about beginning his work when memory studies was not an official field and stumbling his way headlong into working with the memory of the American Civil War. When discussing whether or not memory studies were a fad that would pass away, Blight reassured the audience that people have doing memory studies long before there was an official field. Memory is essential to who we are as human beings and all peoples and all nations construct their past in a way that is useable to their future. [excerpt]
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, S. Marianne, "An Evening with David Blight" (2013). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 2.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/2
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.