Individually and as a team, they are interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and their engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, great sophistication and great style. As your biographical pacts enumerate, they have individually and together enriched and enlived the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is the john now the third Professor Emeritus in the professor of civil war at the university of virginia and youre all familiar, i know with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. Hes also like me and many others in this room, an oh fish gnaw doe, but more an expert on civil war themed films but his passion has inspired a terrific 2008 book causes won lost and forgotten. How hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. Hes the coed or the of with liz who just published new perspectives on the union war. Joan waug
Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c
Nomination, and Adlai Stevenson accepted the nomination. In 1948 the first televised conventions where president harry truman accepted his partys nomination. The failure to do anything about high prices and the failure to do anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get to laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency. And at 6 00 on american artifacts, well take an early look at the new Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture with its director, lonnie bunch. The museum opens its doors to the public in september this year. Were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. Thats an early movie poster from the 1920s. And that is part of our job to help people relearn the history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams. He is known by most people playing amos andy. Yet he was one of the most important black film directors in the 30s and 40s.
How important was gettysburg. Right but i am honored. To present this mornings speakers. They are both exceptional people. Our first speaker will be professor gary gallagher. Who is the john l . No, is that the way its pronounced nau now . A Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War and director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Hes the author coauthor and editor of numerous civil war era works. He has served as president of the society of civil war historians and received the Tom Watson Brown book prize from the society in 2012 for his the union war. Prior to that honor his the confederate war was a finalist for the 1998 lincoln prize copies of his books including this one causes one lost and forgotten how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. This one is there and i got this one because i hadnt read it yet, but there are several others that are available in the symposium bookstore. Please help me to welcom
Speakers. They are both exceptional people. Our first speaker will be professor gary gallagher. Who is the john l . No, is that the way its pronounced nau now . A Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War and director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Hes the author coauthor and editor of numerous civil war era works. He has served as president of the society of civil war historians and received the Tom Watson Brown book prize from the society in 2012 for his the union war. Prior to that honor his the confederate war was a finalist for the 1998 lincoln prize copies of his books including this one causes one lost and forgotten how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. This one is there and i got this one because i hadnt read it yet, but there are several others that are available in the symposium bookstore. Please help me to welcome our professor gallagher whos topic this morning . Is going to be how should a