Hilary N. Green is James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Department, Davidson College. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (Fordham) and numerous essays and articles. In addition, she is working on two book projects—a manuscript examining how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War and another exploring campus slavery, race, and memory at the University of Alabama.