Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have got to read. Stephen berry also always brings to his research, incredible and beautiful writing with rich insight and we like him so much because his work is so good and stephen is such a wonderful guy and is a fantastic teacher as well. And i have as well as many of my students have worked with steve over the years. A
[indiscernible] two songs i wrote in the summer of 1965. Look up yonder in the sky, what is that i pray . A bird, a plane, a man insane, my president lbj. Hes flying high way up in the sky just like superman, i got a little piece of kryptonite, im gonna bring him back to land. I said, come out, lyndon, with your hands held high, drop your guns, baby, and reach for the sky. Got you surrounded and you aint got a chance. Gonna send you back to texas make you work on your ranch, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He can call super woman and his super dogs. It sure wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book. Gonna pull him off the stands, clean up the land were gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out, lyndon, with your hands held high drop your guns, baby, reach for the sky got you surrounded and you aint got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch
[indiscernible] he can call superwoman and super dog it wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book gonna pull him off the stand clean up the land gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out with your hands held high drop your guns, reach for the sky aintu surrounded and you got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch yeah ah, yeah, agriculturalm in worker. [applause] lordy, lordy, [laughter] gave me an f. F. Thank you. I needed that. Got himself in a terrible jam way down in vietnam. Put down your books pick up your gun where gonna have a lot of fun what are we fighting for . Me, i dont give a damn aint no time to run under why to wonder why we all gonna die. There is plenty good money to be made supplying the army with the tools of the trade 2, 3, what are we fighting for . Dont ask me, i dont give a damn next up is vietnam open up the
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
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