Virtual History Lecture

The history program at Youngstown State University is proud to host the 2022 Robert W. Reeder I Distinguished Lecture in Nineteenth Century History. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Dr. Hilary N. Green and will be held virtually on March 24, at 5:30 pm. Each spring, the Reeder endowment brings a nationally-renowned scholar in the field of nineteenth-century American history to the YSU campus. Dr. Green’s lecture is entitled “Remembering Gettysburg: Joseph Winters, Songs and Civil War Memory.” Focusing on a Black songwriter, this lecture explores how Joseph Winters contributed to African American memory of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg campaign through songwriting. By documenting the African American experience during the Gettysburg campaign, Green will show how Winters continued to draw on this local memory for securing Black men’s vote in the 1876, 1880 and 1912 Presidential campaigns. Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama. She earned her M.A. in History from Tufts University and her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016) as well as numerous articles, book chapters and other scholarly publications.