The Lecture- How do we know what we know about the Civil War?

Thursday, September 21, 2017
7:30 pm
International Center Commons, Weinstein International Center, University of Richmond
Free, reservations recommended. Make your reservation online at www.acwm.org/bottimore or by contacting John Coski at [log in to unmask] 

Dr. Yael Sternhell will explore the unexpectedly fascinating backstory of the wartime documents that became the Official Records. You’ll never think of the Official Records or any other Civil War document the same way again. As Sternhell will show, even what we consider hard historical facts were shaped by the politics and personalities in the archive.  

Yael Sternhell is associate professor of History and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in History at Princeton University, studying under James M. McPherson. Her doctoral dissertation became her prize-winning first book, Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South, (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Dr. Sternhell’s Bottimore Lecture topic derives from her next book (under contract with Yale University Press): War on Record: The Archive and the Making of Civil War History, 1861-1901.  Her article, “The Afterlives of a Confederate Archive: Civil War Documents and the Making of Sectional Reconciliation,” received the prize for the best article published in the Journal of American History in 2016.

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