GLC Book Talk: David Blight with Connor Williams, author of "The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States"

Name: GLC Book Talk: David Blight with Connor Williams, author of "The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States"
Start: 2026-10-28T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-28T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Humanities Quadrangle

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 1:30 PM

Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: Humanities Quadrangle
Address: 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Category: Other
Organizer: Gilder Lehrman Center
Setting: Indoor

About This Event

Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center hosts a book talk with David W. Blight and Connor Williams about Williams’s new history of the Confederacy. The discussion examines Civil War-era myths, political tactics, and slavery, with in-person and online attendance options.

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Humanities Quadrangle · 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511

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