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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T180000
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URL:https://www.georgiahistory.com/events/a-united-states-but-a-divided-am
 erica-how-we-have-celebrated-the-nations-birthday-during-turbulent-times/
SUMMARY:A United States but a Divided America: How We have Celebrated the N
 ation’s Birthday During Turbulent Times
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I98O73Nl1Q\nA Conversation wit
 h Dr. William Hitchcock and Dr. Elizabeth Varon\nPresented by:\n\nThe Unit
 ed States will commemorate its 250th anniversary during one of the most pa
 rtisan periods in American history. Once again\, a major national commemor
 ation will unfold amid deep political division—much like the centennial 
 of 1876 in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction\, and the bic
 entennial of 1976 following the turmoil of the 1960s\, the Vietnam War\, W
 atergate\, and the height of the Cold War.\nJoin us on Thursday\, February
  26\, at 6:00 p.m. at Christ Church Episcopal in Savannah for a conversat
 ion with Dr. William Hitchcock\, James Madison Professor of History at th
 e University of Virginia and an expert on the Cold War\, and Dr. Elizabet
 h Varon\, Professor of History and Associate Director of the Nau Center fo
 r Civil War History at UVA. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Stan 
 Deaton\, Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society. The event w
 ill also be livestreamed for those who are not able to attend in person!\
 nHow did those earlier moments—the Civil War and the Cold War—shape th
 eir respective commemorations? And what can we learn from the leadership t
 hat guided the nation through periods of intense political\, social\, and 
 economic upheaval? We invite you to be part of this timely conversation
  as the nation looks ahead to its 250th anniversary!\nThe event is free bu
 t please register to let us know you're planning to attend.\n\nREGISTER\n\
 n\n\n\nAbout William Hitchcock\nWilliam I. Hitchcock is a New York Times b
 estselling author and award-winning teacher who has published numerous boo
 ks relating to World War II\, including The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New 
 History of the Liberation of Europe\, which was a finalist for the Pulitze
 r Prize and a winner of the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Hist
 orical Association. He is also the author of The Age of Eisenhower: Americ
 a and the World in the 1950s. He received his B.A. degree from Kenyon Coll
 ege and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has been a Fulbright scholar\, 
 a fellow of the Nobel Institute in Oslo\, the holder of the Henry Kissinge
 r Chair at the Library of Congress\, and Berlin Prize fellow at the Americ
 an Academy in Berlin. He is now the James Madison Professor of History at 
 the University of Virginia.\n\nAbout Elizabeth Varon\nElizabeth R. Varon i
 s the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the Universi
 ty of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA’s John L. Na
 u III Center for Civil War History. She is the author of six books\, inclu
 ding Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War\, which won the
  2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Her most recent book Longstreet: The C
 onfederate General Who Defied the South (Simon &amp\; Schuster\, 2023) was
  reviewed in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and The Atlantic. 
 The book won the inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize\, the Georgia 
 Historical Society’s Malcolm Bell\, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award\, a
 nd was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times biography prize\, among other 
 honors. Varon’s current project is a biography of humanitarian Clara Bar
 ton.\n\n
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