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Underscore the wars bleakest battles while exposing and underlining that there are few winners and fewer heroes. Little glory. James the idea that the civil war really was its a kind of neorevisionism. It was useless because it didnt accomplish anything. Peter roughly 700,000 casualties. Is it worth freedom for africanamericans that some would say with second place . James it comes out of the skepticism about whether the civil war did accomplish a new birth of freedom. I think if one goes back a...

Accomplishments in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to her friend who said, how can you write a great biography of someone who rate wrote a great autobiography . That stop me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. It actuallyzed that helped to define the direction of my book because i realized as awhat my job was to do biographer was to zero in on the silences and the invasions even asians e...

That way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions. It is not really a biography. It is ...

Prizewinning ron churn discusses his biography of ron sure nownt his biography of Ulysses S Grant. U. S. Grant refused to trumpet his accomplishments in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually ...

Celebrity, grant refused to trumpet his accomplish. S in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . When i started the book i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography and that stopped me dead in my tracks. I thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the si...

Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln...

American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as yo...

Following the april 1865 surrender to Union General ulysses s. Grant at appomattox. She focuses on the confederates that avoided or escaped, and retreated into the Shenandoah Valley. She discusses general grants concerns that some confederate would fight aguerrilla war. It is part of a conference hosted by the university of virginia. It is just over half hour. Gary our second speaker is caroline e. Janney, who teaches at purdue university. And she is one of uvas former students. She was here and...

Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. T...

Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. T...