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
At the civil war continues now with author Patrick Breen on his book the land should be deluged in blood. This talk was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Good morning. Good morning, again. Im Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note, hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here. And enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. I can say to you its one of the finest books ive read on southern history in a very long time. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates,
His scholarship focuses on the american and french experiences in the two world wars, and seeks to make the history of warfare and International Relations relevant to policymakers and practitioners. He is the author of numerous scholarly monographs including dance of the furies, europe and the outbreak of world war i, a work named by the wall street journal as one of the top five best books ever written about world war i. Pretty impressive. His most recent work the path to war, how the First World War created modern america, was just published by Oxford University press in 2016. With a background in social history, military history, french history and American History, dr. Neiberg published widely on the theme of war, and, tonight, dr. Neiberg will be broadening our topics well beyond 1865, as he discusses toward the age of peoples war, the civil war, to world war i. Dr. Neiberg. [ applause ] well, thanks, pete, for that fantastic introduction. I want to thank pete for the invitation t
His scholarship focuses on the american and french experiences in the two world wars, and seeks to make the history of warfare and International Relations relevant to policymakers and practitioners. He is the author of numerous scholarly monographs including dance of the furies, europe and the outbreak of world war i, a work named by the wall street journal as one of the top five best books ever written about world war i. Pretty impressive. His most recent work the path to war, how the First World War created modern america, was just published by Oxford University press in 2016. With a background in social history, military history, french history and American History, dr. Neiberg published widely on the theme of war, and, tonight, dr. Neiberg will be broadening our topics well beyond 1865, as he discusses toward the age of peoples war, the civil war, to world war i. Dr. Neiberg. [ applause ] well, thanks, pete, for that fantastic introduction. I want to thank pete for the invitation t
His scholarship focuses on the american and french experiences in the two world wars, and seeks to make the history of warfare and International Relations relevant to policymakers and practitioners. He is the author of numerous scholarly monographs including dance of the furies, europe and the outbreak of world war i, a work named by the wall street journal as one of the top five best books ever written about world war i. Pretty impressive. His most recent work the path to war, how the First World War created modern america, was just published by Oxford University press in 2016. With a background in social history, military history, french history and American History, dr. Neiberg published widely on the theme of war, and, tonight, dr. Neiberg will be broadening our topics well beyond 1865, as he discusses toward the age of peoples war, the civil war, to world war i. Dr. Neiberg. [ applause ] well, thanks, pete, for that fantastic introduction. I want to thank pete for the invitation t