“Myths and Meanings of the Civil War” was the theme of presentations by Dr. Randall Miller, Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University and author of many works on the Civil War era.
He spoke of how the experience of the war shaped ideas of America as “a nation” not just a Union, affected the way people remembered the war in memorials and monuments, and expanded the scope of what it meant to be a democracy and who belonged as a citizen.
It was interesting to see how the notion of “freedom” was a concept with multiple meanings, not just in the 19th and 20th Centuries, but how it is interpreted even today.
As always, we had our book raffle, with the proceeds going to preservation. Winners of books are pictured below, but the real winner is battleground preservation.
