Good afternoon everybody on behalf of the president ial library like to welcome you here to the 16th annual reading festival to become the premier Research Institution and the Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all president ial libraries this groups of authors is a wide variety of research if you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this then i encourage you to become a member and if you join today on the membership table located down the hall and if not already make time to see the endeavor leading up to dday at the top of each hour session begins with the author talk with a question and answer period we have cspan here with us and in order to capture the questions if you have a question for the author please make your way to the microphone and then next to the new deal store you can purchase your book and have the author sign them and then the process will repeat itself care ed dixon is the Lance Corporal schmidt professor of war and conflict in s
He is the great professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me say i have a few rules i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. We like him so much. His work is so good. You want to be jealous but you cant, steve is a wonderful guy. A fantastic teacher as well. I have sent many students to work with steve over the years. And at university of georgia, he is not only a prolific scholar, he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a man, love ambition in the civil war south. That was his dissertation. Done some time ago at the university of North Carolina. William barney was his adviser who is still there, teaching at carolina. Another book that i would highly recommend he edited, fantastic book called weirding the war, stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And other things that he has engaged in, a lot of D
Stephen berry always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing. With rich insights, and what i think many of us like so much, and that is a good thing because his work is so good, you want to succumb to jealousy but you just cant because he is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher as well. Many of us have worked with him over the years, at the university of georgia, he is not only a terrific scholar, he has written or edited six books, my favorite is all the makes of man, love, ambition, and the civil war south, that was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of north carolina. William varney was his advisor, who is still there, another book that i would highly recommend, that he edited, a fantastic book called, wielding the war stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And, he has many of his students, graduate students working on this project as well. My favorite of all the digital projects, titled, private voices , American Civil War letters, many o
His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
I am going to read this. Ural is the professor for the study of war in society at the university of southern mississippi, military historian by training, she specializes in 19thcentury American History with an emphasis on war during the civil war. She has published numerous articles, irishamerican ,olunteers in the union army and most recently the soldiers and families of the confederates most celebrated unit published in 2017. This book will be on sale. She will sign it for you after this presentation. You can get a coffee in the gift shop. This is her most recent publication. She is a past president of the Mississippi Historical society. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal of the a in the civil war times magazine. Her most recent research involves the launch of civil war governors of mississippi project, which she directs. Collaborative partnership between the Mississippi Department of archives and history. The university of southern mississippi. Which will transcribe an