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He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book ...

1850s, joined militias, and participated in the battle of gettysburg. This talk was hosted by the gettysburg Heritage Center. Tammy good evening, everyone. My name is tammy myers, i am president of the gettysburg Heritage Center, and i am thrilled to have you here in attendance. This is our final presentation this evening, and we are fortunate to have tom mcmillan. A little bit about tom, he is an author and historian. He is a little different from our previous presenters. He is not a licensed b...

Faculty of the prestigious lincoln leadership institute. He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle o...

The postwar era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Gallagher here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning, i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end wh...

Part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. When i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. Hes getting married in a couple weeks. I will be a major life shift for it. He is the education director for the Mosby Heritage area and coauthor of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. He will talk with us a bit about what ...

A class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south have interpreted the conflict from immediate post war era to the present day. The class is about one hour and 15 minutes. Professor gallagher here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict, and right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between histo...

Various aspects of this conflicts. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class, have reiterated it as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in United States history to talk about how powerful testimony pending memories of what happened in the past can be. Theres nothing remotely equ...

In American History with 23,000 casualties between two size and ended in the unions strategic victory. This 40 minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker is one of the great emerging voices and the entire field. Ien i first met kevin pollack thought, this is one of those guys that is going to be a rock star. I hear when i travel across the country, we have to get more young people involved. If we need a poster ch...

American history tv. Next, steven hood, the author of john bell could the rise, fall, and resurrection of a confederate general. Generals weof love to hate. You can watch all of this coverage by visiting our website at www. Cspan. Org history. Join us tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Eastern for more of the symposium. [crowd noise] im just getting it right to the introduction of our next speaker, who had an odyssey to get here but he is here happily. M. Hood is a distant relative of confederate general jo...

Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the centennial. Push back. Olitely so in largeon i do part is because of the emerging civil war. And all that it is done in a remarkable space of five or six years. I hope this weekend can be a celebration of those efforts. The rugged spine of marylands South Mountain. Outnumbered soldiers saw to to stem the tide of federal offenses. If successful it would defeat and already divided confederate lee and finish of...