Beyond Heroes and Holidays -Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War
Date and Time
Apr 23, 2025 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Apr 23, 2025 6:30 pm
14th & V
Participants will hear from historian Hilary N. Green on her new book, Unforgettable Sacrifice How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War. The book offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War, challenging conventional narratives and revealing a rich history preserved through oral traditions and communal efforts. Through extensive archival research and stories shared on the porches of African American families, Green provides a detailed examination of how diverse Black communities across the United States have actively preserved and contested the memory of the Civil War, from the nineteenth century to the present. Hilary will be in discussion with educator Jessica Rucker.
This event is co-hosted by Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, and co-sponsored by The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, as part of the monthly Beyond Heroes and Holidays series.
Hilary N. Green is the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. A distinguished scholar, her research explores the intersections of race, memory, and education in the post–Civil War American South. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890, co-author of the NPS-OAH Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900, and co-editor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020. Green is an advisor for the Zinn Education Project (of Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools) Teach Reconstruction campaign.
Jessica A. Rucker (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park where she is studying Black radicalisms. Jessica is a President’s Fellow, a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, a 2023-2025 graduate assistant at the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, a 2023-2024 DISCO Graduate Scholar, and a Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney Fellow. Prior to Jessica’s graduate work, she was a high school social studies teacher, department chair, instructional coach, and a participant in the 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teacher Institute at Duke University. Jessica resides in her home city, the U.S. colony of Washington, D.C., with her loving partner.
