The Afterlife of the Civil War in 1930s America (Nevins Lecture)
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Nina Silber explores how the Civil War— concluded some 70 years earlier—emerged with remarkable force in the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, coming to life in American novels, theater, films, and politics. Silber is professor of history at Boston University. This talk was the 2011–12 Nevins Lecture.
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