Skaggs scads of books and articles. You dont hear the word scads very often. Gary not from adults. [laughter] we dont want to speak only about your scholarship. You said you dont want to make it all about you. He says no. Its going to be ok. Gary i said ill do whatever you want to do. Peter i can assure you he did not say that. Gary this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary because there you are. Youre going to write about tonight. You have two diametrically different comments. You need to pick one and pretend thats correct. Peter so this evening, we did agree upon this. Again, were going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesserknown gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. We wont divulge all your secrets. Is that ok . We didnt agree upon that either. We did . Ok. Were having trouble getting out of the gate. Gary im just listening, peter. Youre the one controlling the gate. Peter so your first professional job, can you tell us a little
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
Some of our most iconic sites so youre looking atcolonial williamsburg, i traveled there as a child, you traveled there. A lot ofamericans got their first taste of American History there. This airship is about half what it was in the late 80s. You look at gettysburg, iconic sites, amazing site. Americas greatest, High Water Mark of the confederacy, turning point of the civil war. Its down about a quarter of what it was in the 1970s. These are very surprising statistics and when a colleague brought them to our attention, we decided to do a photo essay to also kind of meditate on what it is that has decreased our interest in these Historic Sites. And what i came back with from talking to people and from looking at some of the numbers is that the sort of cold war era american story that tale of great events and visiting the scenes where the homes and the meeting places of great figures in American History, people have lost interest in it. Its no longer relevant and credible to people in t
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