Panel on the Civil War and the African-American perspective Nov. 4
10/28/2021, 6 p.m.
How can the history of the Civil War be taught without treat- ing the Black experience as an “add on”?
That’s the question an expert panel will seek to address in “There All Along,” a discussion hosted 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar, 480 Tredegar St.
Public historian Ana Edwards, chair of the Virginia Defenders of Freedom, Justice and Equality’s Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project and supervisor of visitor engagement and interpretation at the American Civil War Museum; public historian, archival researcher and author Elvatrice Belsches; Mary Lauderdale, operations and visitor services manager of the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia; and author Lois Leveen, a Virginia Humanities Fellow at the Library of Virginia, will examine the issue as panelists.
Admission is $5; free for members of the two sponsoring museums, the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia and the American Civil War Museum.
Tickets and details: https://acwm.org/event/there-all-along/
