Seidule highlighted that “the only way to prevent a racist future is to first understand and acknowledge our racist past. Dean Keene clarified “Spoiler alert, the answer is yes!”, while introducing Seidule to the audience. He also has become a social media sensation with his 2015 five-minute video lecture titled, “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” amassing over 30 million views. Seidule is a retired United States Army brigadier general, the former head of the history department at the United States Military Academy, the first professor emeritus of history at West Point, and the inaugural Joshua Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, with Dean Jennifer Keene and Associate Director of Student Community Support and Development Justin Riley. How Seidule came to instead believe that Lee committed treason to preserve slavery was the focus of the conversation on his recently published book, Robert E. “Every part of my background led me to the one true ideology, a belief in Lee as the greatest of all Americans,” southern-born and raised Ty Seidule noted during a recent “ Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race” event. Lee and Me: A Conversation with Ty Seidule Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race
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