Myths and Meanings of the Civil War presented by Randall Miller

In an illustrated lecture on “Myths and Meanings of the Civil War” Dr. Randall Miller, Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University and author of many works on the Civil War era, will discuss 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.

Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren `50 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, which treat such various topics as African-American culture and life, slavery, religion, social reform, popular culture, politics, regional cultures (especially the American South and the Mid-Atlantic), colonial life, the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, urban affairs, mass media, and ethnic and immigrant history.