In this session Dr. Titus will use centennial events staged at Gettysburg to help participants explore the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America and show how the era’s deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight as white and black Americans came to define the meaning of the battle of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address, and the Civil War in dramatically different ways.

Facilitator: Jill Ogline Titus, acting Director of the Civil War Institute and Instructor of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College