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Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg CollegeCivil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that S ....
He said it in 1945 after the spanish civil war ended and it goes Something Like this. Men of my generation have always had spain in our hearts because we learned that you could be right and still be defeated. Courage is not its own reward. And it goes on like that. American800 volunteers went there. They were among the 35,00040,000 volunteers from over 50 countries, and of those 2800 americans who went to spain, 750 did not come back. That is a higher death toll percentagewise in the military than any of the world wars. Brian what were the years of the spanish civil war and why was it fought . Adam it began very suddenly in july 1936 and lasted until the beginning of april 1939. So, almost three years. It was an extraordinarily bloody and brutal conflict. Essentially, here is why it had begun. For many centuries spain had essentially been a monarchy. In recent times, a time of military dictatorship. In 1931, the king left the coun ....
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