The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have been posted. I will put them up as I find them.
The first video is the welcome by the president of CUNY Grad Center and the Keynote by David Blight of Yale. Blight, as you may know, has been the central figure in the academic study of how the Civil War is remembered. Nearly every Civil War memory study acknowledges his book Race and Reunion.
I was fortunate enough to attend this conference which packed about 200 people into a comfortable modern theater.
Here is the Keynote video which is a little more than an hour long. Blight begins his presentation at the 11:30 mark, if you want to skip the “thank yous”.
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