With a longtime contributor to cwi, jen murray. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. She is as you know an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has i would say a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memory of get Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a i biography of George Gordon meade which will hopefully be publi published in the civil war america series. She is a veteran faculty member here. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding. Its largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years . For nine years. So it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg Na
With a longtime contributor to cwi. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university and she is, as you know, an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has, i would say the full publication resume, the most important book in the most recent, entitled on a great battlefield, the making, management and memory of Gettysburg National park, published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography, general George Gordon meade that will hopefully be published in the civil war america series. As i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member and many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian the seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years. So, it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park.
My book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. The National Park service manages 70 sites that are civil warrelated. The battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites time, significantly. If you look at the photograph on the top right, that is an aerial view. The mostne of commercialized areas in the 1940s and 1950s. The image on the left should be familiar to many of you. Perhaps you have the opportunity to go up and the old tower that 1970s. Up in the how the battlefield has been commercialized and how it has changed over time. One of the questions i try to reconcile is what makes gettysburg different . This battlefield is different and antietam. Its different than chickamauga. Its different than perryville. Its different than shiloh. 51,000ttle, producing casualties in three days, is the bloodiest conflict in american history. The man in the slide is a soldier from the fifth massachusetts who was wounded in the fight at gettysburg. His name is john
War places, and the atlanta campaign. Up first this morning, Oklahoma State University Professor Jennifer Murray on the Gettysburg National park. She is, as you know, an expert on the civil war and in expert in military history in general. She has a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, making, management, and memory of Gettysburg National park. It was published in 2013 at the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography of general george which wille, hopefully be published by the university of North Carolina in the civil war series. A faculty member in her. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, hardly because she cut her teeth as a young torian seasonal here for nine years . Nine years. Nine years. I am pleased to welcome jan murray to talk about her book on murray toon of jen talk about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park. Go get em.
This morning has been the one liner used by comedians, scholars, politician and common folks. For 100 years. Who is buried. Congrats to this morning. And timeless questions serves as a lead to a serious and painful to remember the civil war tt and we have the selfless panel of luminaries doing might not seem. Our panelists are recognized by any civil war enthusiast. But first of them why this man and their brief introduction please hold your enthusiasm. Welcome to joe. All ready to eminent civil war historian helen. He also serves as the thomasâ– k w smith distinguished Research Scholar and director of the initiative on politics and statesmanship and the james madisonrogram at princeton university. He formerly was a professor of history right here at gettysburg college. Allan is the only three time winner of the lincoln prize for Abraham Lincoln redeemer. Proclamation and gettysburg, the last invasion. His more most recent work is a widely praised biography of robert. Do you read about