Good afternoon, everyone. Im Peter Carmichael, a member of the Street Department night mist i gettysburg college. Im also the director of the civil institute. It is my pleasure to welcome edward ayres for the rubber bloom lecture. Professor ayres is the tucker boat pfizer of the humanities professor of the humanities and erutissor emmer richmond. At the university of richmond. He also wrote the promise of the new south. An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. The authorly, he is of the thin light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america, published in 2017. And the 2018 lincoln prizewinner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made a point to speak to public audiences. Evidence that this academics gap between therec historians is maybe a gap, but it is ever so slight. It is close in large part because of academics like professor ayres who also does a Popular Program entitled back story, which you can get on a podcast. Plea
Im in House Counsel here at the constitutioner in and about to treat you to an exciting i want to give a quicking bug for some of our upcoming programs. Next week we will welcome former white house advisor for discussion on one with of the more widely misunderstood constitutional prakses impeachment u new biography on michigan senator arthur vangdenburg and later this month well have the Atlantic Franklin four for a tuck on his new book World Without mind the threat of big tech, and leading thinkers including jacob of the National Interest and sam of the knock times for conversation of the future of american conservatism and members receive free tickets to Town Hall Program and discounted to blockbuster evening programs and our continuing Legal Education credit offering. And for more information on membership or on Upcoming Schedule check out the membership table outside in the lobby own now to introduce our guest speaker a leading civil war historian is tucker boat right professor at
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
Civil war. From its cause to its purpose to the details of 100 battles, we argue. We cant even agree on its name. To rephrase variously depending on the perspective of the namer, the war of northern aggression the war between the states, the war of the rebellion which was once the official u. S. Government name for it the war for independence, the second american revolution, the war for emancipation, and probably two or three dozen more. In no other time do we have a historical memory so carefully considered, so consciously shaped and manipulated as a civil war. No other event in our lifetime has active constituent groups that patrol the intellectual universe trying to ensure that americans see this event in a particular way or from a particular perspective. Today, i would like to engage in a bit of a discussion, engage you in a bit of a discussion posing you some questions, answer a few, but i have no idea what the answers are. All of it is to provoke some thought and some considerati
For preservation was initiated in the 1880s and 1890s when the veterans were at the height of their power in government and Industry Leaders and all of them. It was because battlefields ironically these places of conflict could become places of comfort. So americans always put tremendous emphasis on these places as a tool of reconciliation. The key part of the battlefield that came from the sons of confederate veterans stipulated the government would care for this battlefield and not detract from the glory. The dedication speech i helped managed. 1927, said the keynote speaker said we do more than dedicate these fields in memory of things that have passed. We consecrate them in the spirit of lee and lincoln to a more perfect understanding to south and north. For the next 50 years or so would faithfully carry out that charge. Where americans can come together and understand the war in a very human level. Just to give you a sense of how deep this tradition is and how its perceived by the