Join us for our January Speaking with Friends event to discuss how we might reimagine monuments in the 21st century.
We define commemorative spaces and historical events and figures with memorials, markers, and statuary. From Richmond, Virginia, to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, monuments – and the myths that surround them – have become lightning rods in our political and social discourse.
Joining Friends in our conversation will be retired Brigadier General Ty Seidule, formerly head of West Point’s history department and author of the much-anticipated Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, forthcoming January 26th from St. Martin's Press. Dr. Seidule is now the Chamberlain Fellow and a visiting professor of history at Hamilton College, as well as a New America Fellow.
Joining Dr. Seidule in conversation will be Liz Young McNally (CT 99). Ms. McNally is a global leader of McKinsey Academy and the partner champion for McKinsey's Black Network in the Northeast. As an officer in the US Army, she completed two year-long tours in Iraq, where she served as General David Petraeus' speechwriter. A Truman and Rhodes Scholar, Ms. McNally was a presidential appointee to the Board of Visitors of the US Military Academy, from which she graduated in 2000.
Join us for our January Speaking with Friends event to discuss how we might reimagine monuments in the 21st century.
We define commemorative spaces and historical events and figures with memorials, markers, and statuary. From Richmond, Virginia, to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, monuments – and the myths that surround them – have become lightning rods in our political and social discourse.
Joining Friends in our conversation will be retired Brigadier General Ty Seidule, formerly head of West Point’s history department and author of the much-anticipated Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, forthcoming January 26th from St. Martin's Press. Dr. Seidule is now the Chamberlain Fellow and a visiting professor of history at Hamilton College, as well as a New America Fellow.
Joining Dr. Seidule in conversation will be Liz Young McNally (CT 99). Ms. McNally is a global leader of McKinsey Academy and the partner champion for McKinsey's Black Network in the Northeast. As an officer in the US Army, she completed two year-long tours in Iraq, where she served as General David Petraeus' speechwriter. A Truman and Rhodes Scholar, Ms. McNally was a presidential appointee to the Board of Visitors of the US Military Academy, from which she graduated in 2000.
