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
Negro soldier toca the film was directed by arguably the top director in hollywood at the time. In the film they covered africanamerican military service in this country from the 1770s to world war ii. There was no mention, no image of a single soldier or sailor. 10 of the union army. African made of 1 of the northern population. Highest awarded but not a single mention. Why . The story was indeed a lost story. There was active suppression of the story. When we talk about who suppress the story he will hear it was the lost cause. Theres a southern Propaganda Campaign but sought to make it appear that the war was not fought over slavery and a part of it was suppressing the africanamerican story. If it was the southerners and the lost cause, i do not think they could cap get out of that. Ar Department Film this is from our elite universities. A lost story. They were suppressing the story. It was won by a union, a team of persons of africanamerican descent. Theres a plus, not an or. Thats
Voters. Gary i want to move to Something Else here. And that is how did proponents of what we will call the union memory of the war, the war that did this and did that, how did that play out the rest of the 19th century . While the wartime generation lived . Everyone knows about lost cause monuments in the former confederacy. We have four of them in silence filled in charlottesville. We have a confederate statue in the University Library in the University Cemetery not in the library. Joan just in your office. [laughter] gary i will be sending my resume around beginning on monday. [laughter] gary in the cemetery. John i think you succeeded, more jokes. Gary they talked about the decoration day, confederate memorial day and so forth. What is going on in the way of commemorating the union cause while the wartime generation still lives . What are some of the things that went on . Joan most of what i know is from reading john neff. [laughter] gary one of you please say something. Joan im go
Belmont, between him and horse biggest prize. Today, sunday, may 18, 2014. Ay, sunday, may 18th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in and welcome to today on a sunday morning. Im erica hill. And im lester holt. If you have a ticket to the Belmont Stakes you are sitting pretty because we may get a triple crown. You said your fatherinlaw got tickets . He fought four tickets right before the race just in case and it actually worked . It was so much fun to watch yesterday. It was exciting. My kids and i went into the bar area of the restaurant. My eightmonthold is like is California Chrome going to win this race . Thats how excited everybody was. At least your eightmonthold wasnt racing to the bar. [ laughter ] youve got to train them early. Im just impressed that harper knows house to say California Chrome. She enunciated it perfectly. She knew. We begin with our top story which is the new concern about the point of the spread of the m
An army. Welcome, brian. [applause] thank you very much to everyone here at the civil war friendte in to my dear for that very kind introduction. It is nice to be here this afternoon. You look like a very happy vibrant crowd after lunch. You are probably the army of tennessee at the beginning of this campaign more so at the end. In january of 1865, John Bell Hood visited with mary chesnut and the family of his recent love interest. As he sat with the Preston Family in conversation, stories filled the room pertaining to the civil war. He mourns the loss of so many dead, described the battles as armyt, and the moment my myestroyed bemoaned,my is destroyed hurra jack preston, who offered his residence, pulled mary aside to have a brief conversation. He did not hear a word she was saying, he has forgotten us all. Did you notice how he stared into the fire . The huge drops of perspiration that stood out on his four head . Yes, he is going over some bitter hours. He fills the panic at nashvi