Washington, d. C. And i spent about a decade in washington. I guess you could call me a recovering policymaker. Now im a scholar still trying to atone for all of my years in the bells of bureaucracy. During my time working at the state department and on the n. S. C. Staff of the white house, i saw how hard it is for a president to get his government to do what he wants it to do or a secretary of state to get his or her, i worked for powell and rice, to get the Foreign Service, the state Department Building to do what they want to do. A clear president ial directives and orders would be disregarded, policy guidance would be shirked and evaded. That was fascinating to watch and sometimes frustrating to be working on at a time. It informed my scholarship now. It gave me a full set of questions for interrogating the archives and approaching projects. I came to appreciate that a successful strategy if one can exist isnt just a matter of getting the analysis right. Its not just a matter of g
The relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. Her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettiesburg National Military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical nderstandings of the getty sburg campaign. Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our s
Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our students. He is especially, especially gifted when it comes to developing our Students Research interests. In fact, he took one of our students to oxford to deliver a paper and i believe, ian can correct me on this, that he cowrote a paper, a war and memories study, the journal, did i get that wrong . Prof. Isherwood war and society. It will
Links to stories that were written. But making my job and then mysteriously, theyre playing spy versus spy saying look it up and the name is backwards and blah, blah, blah. Its like i dont have time to do that. So making themselves available is is the most useful thing for me. And the other thing i guess i would put out is to not be offended if that particular story does not isnt something that we consider news. I mean, theres just as, you know, i get rejected every day by calling people up and having doors slammed in my face, you know, there are going to be times when we say, well, we just did that story, or theres nothing new there or whatever. I think you have to be prepared for that. Well, thank you. Check here with our time. Yall are going to get a little bit of a bonus. Is there anything that either one of you would like to end with . I would if i could. So i would say that for all of you who are working locally in local communities, like if i could imagine an outcome, it would b
During the war. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right, we will go ahead started. We are looking at postwar disillusionment. We will begin this class with a way i have never begun world war memories. Were going to begin it with a canonical column. The column that comes out of the First World War and is reprinted in anthologies over and over again to show us something of warexperience of the great and its memory. You will undoubtedly recognize it because you read it for today fro class. Need, coughing like pegs, we cursed through sludge. Still on the hunting, we turned our backs and toward our distant began to trudge. Men marched asleep many have lost their boots, but slinked on bloodshot. All lying. , outstrippedtigue 5 9s. Fittingly, we have a pop mocked pockmarked, shell torn landscape behind the soldiers. In ecstasy of fumbling. Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, but someone was still yelling out and stumbling then through the misty panes and thick green light a