David Goldfield, the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, will be a speaker for the Levine Museum of the New South program “150th Anniversary: End of the Civil War, Beginning of the New South.” This free event is set for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, at the Levine Museum.
Goldfield will consider the vision of the New South in the 1860s and today in the talk "Looking Away: Re-remembering Southern History.”
Prior to Goldfield’s talk, the great-great grandson of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Bertram Hayes-Davis, will speak. History's spotlight shown on Charlotte in the first days of April 1865, as Jefferson Davis spent a week in the Queen City, where he convened the last full meeting of his Cabinet. Hayes-Davis is retracing the route his ancestor used following the Union capture of Richmond.
Seating is limited; reservations are recommended. The UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is partnering to present this event.