With a longtime contributor to cwi. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university and she is, as you know, an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has, i would say the full publication resume, the most important book in the most recent, entitled on a great battlefield, the making, management and memory of Gettysburg National park, published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography, general George Gordon meade that will hopefully be published in the civil war america series. As i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member and many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian the seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years. So, it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park.
He is a professor of southern studies at lsu. He is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer. And then we have gone to the university of virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher and published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press which is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. It was published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. He is a selfproclaimed foodie though he has lots of places to select from in new orleans. Today he will talked with about his very important book and a book i should add has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formally the museum of the confederacy and now the American Ci
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these 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. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v
Professor at the university of georgia let me just say a few roles i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes, i have to read. Stephen berry always brings with his research, incredible, beautiful writing. With rich insights, i think many of us, we like him so much, that is a good thing because his work is so good that you may come to jealousy but you just cant because hes such a wonderful guy and a fantastic teacher as well. Many of my students work with him over the years at the university of georgia, hes not only been a prolific scholar, he has either 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 sometime ago at the university of North Carolina, his advisor who is still there, teaching in carolina, another book i would highly recommend, that he edited, the fantastic book called we are doing the war, stories from the civil war ragged edge. Other things hes en
You. The gift to me is to have the opportunity to moderate this panel. Artifacts of the civil war. Starring the scholars you see seated on the stage before you. Joan is professor of American History at Ohio State University and the author of first lady of the confederacy. And the struggle for human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War which was published last year. We will be talking a lot about things during the civil war area today and we will be using primary source analysis that was taken taken from her edited volume of essays also 2018 entitled war matters, material culture. For sale now. Or after this panel. This is the stewarthe is the author of more than 20 books on civil war topics and the last attack at gettysburg. Most recent book is fighting for atlanta tactics, terrain and trenches published by doing so you press in 2018. This is Jason Phillips the Eberly Family professor is the author of booming civil war how americans imagine the future which is publishe