I am the director of the Cyber Institute here at gettysburg college. Im also a member of the history department. And its my pleasure this afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivi
Panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American Revolution in the national sphere. What made you decide to study this aspect, this niche . What was that defining moment, if there was one, ill take it. Ill start it off. So the easy answer for me, if i mentioned were doing an exhibition, this topic is a significant sound that that opens up. We knew that we wanted to do an exhibition about the stuarts. We thought we were going to do one about james. The first two, of course, is the namesake for jamestown, where we have one of our one of our museums. And then we realized that the exhibition would really be incomplete if we just focused
I am the director of the Cyber Institute here at gettysburg college. Im also a member of the history department. And its my pleasure this afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivi