Immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the pass can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it, i think, than the civil war. Passions get up quickly when people remember the civil war. Been watching that in charlottesville over the last year and a half in the debates over the statute the r. E. Lee downtown. Ill talk at the end, when i get to the war today, abo
C. Span 2s book tv. Up next more from our lectures in history series. This see vent features university of virginia professor teaching a class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south have inter pretded the conflict from immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the pass can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it, i think, than the civil war.
To pass information back and forth so the Northern Alliance guys knew what was going on in the south, that kind of thing, but we were not directly dealing with them, or any of the other ethnic groups. Vince please join me in thanking duane evans for taking the time to talk with us today. [applause] vince his book is foxtrot in kandahar. Will you stick around and find some books . Sign some books . Duane absolutely. Vince i ask that you will not a cost him right away accost him right away. Give him time to sit down and set up. Duane thank you. Thank you. [chatter] you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Lectures and history, university of virginia professor Gary Gallagher teaches a class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south ofe interpreted the legacy the conflict from the postwar era to the present day. His class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Gallagher all right, h
Various aspects of this conflicts. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class, have reiterated it as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in United States history to talk about how powerful testimony pending memories of what happened in the past can be. Theres nothing remotely equal to it in the civil war. Passions get up quickly when people remember civil war. Been watching that in charlottesville in the last year and a half in the debates over equestrian statue of r. E. Lee downtown. Ill talk when i get to the war today about some of the residences of the war in our current american situation. The ways in which the different streams of memory put in place by wartime generation either do or do not remain with us. My real focus is going to be on how the wartime generatio
The mall and the fight spilled into the bath and body works store. Doesnt appear they were people out looking for other groups of people. Looks like two groups of kids that were looking with their eyes and it escalated from there. Police are still investigating what started the fight. Right now they dont know if it was gangrelated. Officers say they have everyone involved in custody. Richmond police are investigating a shooting on interstate 580. It happened near harbor way. 580 remained closed for about 25 minutes last night as officers gathered evidence. No word on any possible injuries or suspects. Now to that bombshell october surprise in the race for the white house. Weve learned a secting probe has led to that renewed fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. And with just ten days to go until election day, Clintons Campaign is now firing back and donald trump is enjoying the moment. Heres abc7 news anchor dan ashley. At a news conference, Hillary Clinton called on the fbi