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CHDR Presents: Akela Reason
Location: Trevor Colbourn Hall 325: CHDR 325 - 9-2-2025 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (America/New_York) (1 hour)

Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York examines the stories behind New York City~s Civil War soldiers~ monuments. Although historians have suggested that Union commemoration was largely uncontested, New York~s monuments reveal a much more fractious story.  My book argues, through a careful exploration of the machinations of multiple stakeholders, that New York~s Union monuments were products …

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