Six years. Peter scott, one of the things that john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We have also talked about the partnerships with academics and we have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina Silver Silver was one of the first historians that came to the park and had conversations with the park staff about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg and time and time again john and i have noticed that these connections between academics and public historians, you cannot conclude there is this a great gulf between these two sides as i think there once was. I thought we could open by having you reflect upon how battlefield interpretation, how it changed over time during your career and if you wouldnt mind, i would be interested in what you see as opportunities as we look ahead. Or iimportant observation my girlsy fun fact cameron and isabel carmichael, i have to give them a shout out today b
Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
From digital humanities, digitalization, hot gas, historical fiction, public history. Remember when i said earlier about our speakers commitment to mentorship and to education. She is the author of essays published in 2018 and 19 on the civil war, transformation of american citizenship and new perspectives of the union war. As i was preparing this introduction with her work in the flagship journal a part of a round table discussion of the views on revision isnt. And the boundaries of freedom in washington, d. C. Is now under contract, i am pleased to say, explaining how black women in the Nations Capital made claims to liberty during the civil war. The program today free women, mobilizing emancipation and citizenship in wartime washington, d. C. It is from that work that the program today is derived. Free women mobilizing and self making in wartime deeds washington d. C. Ladies and gentlemen, tamika nunley. [applause] thank you. Good afternoon. I should thank you extra, because it is a
They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Symposium cocoordinators whose hard work has made todays event possible and thank you to our friends at cspan for sharing American History, a very important task in these days. Our final speaker for today is Paige Gibbons backus. Weve been talking a lot today about the war in the east. But we cant forget about the aftermath of battle as well. And one of the most compelling portions about Civil War History and the civil war story. Paige is a historian. Shes the social media manager for emerging civil war and shes here today to talk about the carnage in the medical field of the civil war. Thank you, so much, chris for having me, and thank you for listening in and watching these videos and joining us for the virtual emerging civil war symposium for history at home. Today what im going to be talking to you about, im going to be talking about the life the fight for the life and death in the aftermath of these battles over the american civil war. And weve heard a lot of talks today about dif