A Nation in Conversation: David Blight and Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Event Details:
Few historians have done more to shape our understanding of the American Civil War, the Reconstruction era, and how the nation remembers its past than David Blight. In this timely conversation, Blight joins Khalil Gibran Muhammad to explore how Americans have contested national history, and how those narratives shape current ideas about democracy, citizenship, and identity. Together, they will consider what historical struggles can teach us about a country still navigating political conflict, cultural division, and competing visions of its future.
David Blight, a scholar trustee of The New York Historical, is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, as well as Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad (moderator), a scholar trustee of The New York Historical, is the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project.
Supported by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Location:
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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