Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln prize, and the award for the best Nonfiction Book on the civil war. He was the founder and first president for the fou ndation of preserving civil war sites. Please join me in welcoming professor gallagher. Prof. Gallagher i am going to switch microphones. I am delighted to be here. It is always fun to speak in this room. Jamie wouldnt tell you how old he was when i was a mellon fellow here. I will reveal i had brown hair. It was a long time ago in deed. It was about that time i gave a lecture
American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as you may know, will be housed at the Virginia Historical society where it will be preserved, catalog, and digitized as part of a new Civil War Research center. This will be, through this partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] as you might imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to provide storage, process and catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience
The relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. Her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettiesburg National Military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical nderstandings of the getty sburg campaign. Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our s
Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our students. He is especially, especially gifted when it comes to developing our Students Research interests. In fact, he took one of our students to oxford to deliver a paper and i believe, ian can correct me on this, that he cowrote a paper, a war and memories study, the journal, did i get that wrong . Prof. Isherwood war and society. It will
Year 2000 and endowed by john w. Kluge. The Center Welcomes over 100 scholars every year to pursue Research Interests at one of the Worlds Largest libraries. Up next we speak with one of their 2014 fellows. Joining us on American History tv is kevin kim, a senior lecturer in history at vanderbilt university. What can you tell us about the book youre writing . It is mainly a political history of the cold war from the perspective of hemy wallace and Herbert Hoover. The full working title now is worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, and the rise of cold war america. It really uses these two figures as vehicles for exploring what the cold war, how it felt, how it was experienced, how it was thought about as a very contested, vibrant, phenomenon. And it starts, you know, focuses on these two figures with their biographies, what made them tick, their upbringing, their early political careers, but the heart really focuses on their experiences first in world war ii because it is a pivo