With a longtime contributor to cwi, jen murray. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. 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 a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memory of get Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a i biography of George Gordon meade which will hopefully be publi published in the civil war america series. She is a veteran faculty member here. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding. Its largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years . 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 Na
Generals and i am glenn panelists took ill go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and you have longer biographies of these people in your packets. But i thought id go ahead and introduce people anyway. And to my immediate right is. Ken. No. He is the drawn of southern history at auburn here received his doctorate. Doctorate from, the university of illinois. American civil war. He is currently writing about the idea and the realities of Abraham Lincoln as a commander in chief to his right Harold Holzer who all of you im sure know already and he has authored or all this and more last night, so only add that he serves today as the Jonathan Fenton director of the roosevelt how Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and new Yorks Hunter College and next we have craig already been intrd to you, but for those who may have missed the program he was on. Hes a professor history emeritus. Weve got a lot of old guys. Except for except for andy down at the. Who is the future of history. But
Distinguished history professor recognized with Faculty Award for Creative Research and Scholarship
Published: December 16, 2020
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Auburn’s Kenneth Noe knows there is much to learn from the past. After all, the Draughon Professor of Southern History in the College of Liberal Arts has devoted the majority of his life, including a four-decade academic career, to it.
“I’ve come to believe that there is great responsibility in teaching history,” said Noe. “Especially today, when we live in a culture where the truth matters less and less. We’re surrounded by cynicism and spin without shame.