Nation. Our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our cities to her visits. Welcome to the spanish governors palace. What you are looking at is the presidium. Ts of the the original facility was built in the 1720s, and it was the residence for the captain. What we are looking at today is a romanticized version of what this building would have been. Again, it was the military headquarters. One of our first preservationists in san antonio worked very hard when she identified this building as being the original garrison and preserving it. It has been many Different Things over time, and it has been added on over time, as well. Began, as where it all oneroom house built for the captain. The original was built by adobe brick based on a letter the governor wrote to the king in june of that year. He talked about 25,000 adobe bricks they needed to make and 40 additional laborers they needed to hire. You can see behind the walls, at brick, that adobe is t
First director of the jfk library. He was a member of the Kennedy Administration. It is a special pride that he would share it would glow in him, in his advocacy for the importance of the Kennedy Administration and the many treasures we had inside our building. I love this photograph of the building, it is a nighttime vision. For those who have not yet come to see us, i believe the library is inspirational in and of itself and fitting for the life and times and ideas of an inspirational president , the 35th president , president kennedy. If you are able to come to visit us, you will see this building. We are right on Columbia Point facing towards Boston Harbor and it is a sight that will elevate your thoughts, and as you think about what the nation is all about and your role in it and whether you would answer president kennedys call to service, which he issued in his inaugural address, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. All of those words re
Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
Changed in interpretation. The Gettysburg College Civil War Institute provided the video for this event. Toso, beth i would like start by getting a feel for what led you to Civil War History and the career path you have taken. Beth that is a good question. Most people when you ask them that question who are in this field have these glowing nostalgic memories of being taken to the battlefield as children and that is not my story. My family visited some Historic Sites but not really, not that many. For us, or for me, it was when i got to high school and was considering a lot of careers in science and engineering, but realized what i really loved was history. I just happened to i was boarding class one day because i bored my book i was in class one day because i forgot my book. I picked book off the shelf. The teacher also taught a civil war class. The people i read about were fascinating. That is what fascinated me, these people who were dealing with the most cataclysmic moments of their
Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the poor people who are sitting here at the table with me, and i will do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which the images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project and why they selected the image that they selected. And they will talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that and at the end, youre going to be able to have some questions. Very briefly, let me introduce everybody up. I will start with Carol Reardon was a professor of American History at penn State University. We tossed together for a long time. Shes the author of one of the first important books on civil war memory, especially the military side of it in many ways. Hand, therd in one problem of military thought in the civil war north. And she is a coauthor with tom mosler of two field guideb