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Due to weather-related travel cancellation for the speakers, this Core Conversation has been cancelled. Patrons who purchased tickets to this conversation will be contacted by the Guest Services team. For any questions, please call 412-456-6666.
 

This event is a Core Conversation at the 2018 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. See the full Core Conversation lineup here.

A conversation between historians Nina Silber and David Blight, moderated by Germaine Williams.

Nina Silber is Professor of History at Boston University. Her books include The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993); Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992); Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2005); and Gender and the Sectional Conflict (2009). She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Charles Warren Fellowship at Harvard University, a Fulbright Senior Lectureship at Charles University in Prague, and a Senior Research Fellowship through the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Aside from her teaching and research, Professor Silber has also worked on numerous public history projects, ranging from museum exhibitions at the Gettysburg National Military Park to film projects on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. He is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies, and as a member of a small team of advisors to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum team of curators. For that institution he wrote the recently published essay, “Will It Rise: September 11 in American Memory.” In 2012, Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and delivered an induction address, “The Pleasure and Pain of History.”

Germaine Williams is CEO of Pittsburgh Filmmakers / Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

A production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University.