Atversity Faculty Affairs Howard University and this places her in the enviable position of having to say no to everyone. [laughter] she is the former chair of history at howard. She is the former interim dean and professor of history. Her works focus on africanAmerican History and the history of the jacksonian era, the reconstruction. Include theworks emancipation proclamation three views which is now coming out in paperback. The price of freedom, slavery and the civil war. Volume one and volume two. As well as the historical perspectives of the african Burial Ground new york blacks and the diaspora. What i have always found about her scholarship is she reminds us of the humid told of the civil war. We often can float into abstractions or perhaps im speaking of myself and the world look at history from a detached perspective but she is always there to remind us of the humid toll, the humid bring this conflict to life for us. Please welcome and a green medford. Medford. Reen [applause]
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.
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
Trade a year for both countries. 150,000 jobs rely on this network of transportation and international trade. Tremendously important part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition detroit is responsible for ringing in 75 of illegal alcohol brought into ofs country with a 14 years prohibition. That comes from our neighbors to the south and windsor, canada. The city we now think of as the motor city was cigar capital of america. We were not only transporting in Raw Materials but out the finished. There were days in the 1860s where you had 7000 to 10,000 Railroad Cars waiting to be transported that could not get across the river because they they come into would come into detroit by train war. Ave to wait we needed infrastructure that could supply taking from canada and giving to detroit and vice versa. That means building a tunnel and later the bridge. Forave two tunnels, one is train transport, completed in 1910, it took four years to build at a cost of 8. 5 mil