1 00. Announcement before you head off to lunch. We are going to have two sets of concurrent sessions. One set is at 1 00 and another at 2 30 p. M. They will be held in the ballroom and others will be in two other academic holdings on campus. You will see them marked on your map. They are not very far away from here. Because of the construction, you are going to have to go down this way. This is American History tv on cspan3. For the next hour, we will take a tour of the monuments of gettysburg with two guides who coauthored a book. They have been giving tours of the gettysburg battles field for many years. They recently coauthored a field guide to gettysburg. We joined them to learn the story of the three day battle. We begin with the battle started on july 1, 1863. This is a lincoln highway in pennsylvania. Carol hello. I am carol reardon. Im a scholar and resident of the civil war era center. With me as colonel tom foss ller. Tom and i have led many programs around battlefields at g
Ok. Gentlemen, our first speaker today is dr. Timothy s sydnor. He is professor of english at the City University of new york, Bronx Community college. He holds a doctorate in english education, a masters in religious studies, and masters of divinity in theological studies. Person,e have a museum a lawyer, and a theologian. [laughter] discussiono our today the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All the monuments on our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups , who decided to erect them where or how they are, and to read the words on them that we see today. His 2011 book, an illustrated guide to virginias Confederate Monuments, is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments, but it is much more than just a catalog. It is a study through those monuments of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Sydor has finished a
Education, a masters in religious studies and masters of divinity and theological studies. So far, we got a museum person, a lawyer, and a you load in. And a theologian. He brings the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All of the monuments and our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups who decided to write the words on them that we see today. Dr. Sedores 2011 book an illustrated guide to virginias Civil War Monuments is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments. It is more than a catalog. It is this that he of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Dr. Sedore has finished a similar study of tennessee monuments and is working on another one about mississippi. His wonderful wife patricia tells me that she is a more seen more monuments in more states than anybody else in the union [laughter] mr. Rawls i think tha
[applause] it is good to be at the mississippi delta. May be so much change. To talk about this book so hiding from police on this particular street and had even more memories of city police here and this is what much of the book was about of those strong people of creed would that does not include i tell the story and i want doing here but the green family the legendary family and laura who ran the sheriff in town exceptionally strong people and part of the Southern Movement is the people that protect us. I will get back to that thought. I am often asked with this particular book when you read the book you will see this is much more than a book about guns. I have been a working reporter for most of my life. I primarily has been a Foreign Affairs reporter. To have established national geographic. With the Internet News Service concern i recommend you could, that all africa is the only way to keep up during the day this is what is happening in nigeria and one of the things i learned alm
Iran, coverage of bookfairs and festivals from across the country and the best sellers from this year and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400, or you can email us at comments at join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Charles cobb, former field secretary for the student nonviolent coordinating committee, or sncc, reef count tuesday the possession of and use of firearms by civil rights activists for selfprotection during the 1950s and 60s. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you. Its always good to be in the mississippi delta, especially this changed mississippi delta. Perhaps i should say somewhat changed mississippi delta. This is an appropriate place to speak about this book, because i have vivid memories of hiding from police along this particular street, the county courthouse is over there, and i have even more vivid memories of posses and city police here, and i have memories in this is really what m