Theater at the National Archives. I am chief of the archives. And that is just a fancy way that we run a lot of the public spaces on the other side of the building. He sends his regrets that he could not be here but his presence was needed at another one of the facilities. I will gladly steal his signature line and say welcome to my house. Im pleased you could join us whether you are here in this room today were here to listen to christian be keller. The Great Partnership Stonewall Jackson and the fate of the confederacy. He became the director of the military history program. With the american civil war. In the germans nativism ethnicity and civil war memory. In the inter induction to the book. They relate clearly and concisely several things including the value of this book the four doors with the text itself. As an archivist. With the interpretive value. And the reliability of source material particularly confederate related sources. Versus poorest postwar sources. This military his
For purposes of business and creating a government, they had to get along, and that is what made it work. Please come out to the lobby. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] during 41812 the war of was really about america reestablishing its independence against the british. This was our second american revolution. This flag is the object for pennedrancis scott key the words which became our national anthem. The image in 1995 the flag is made to look whole and restored. There is a whole edition that was reconstructed. There was a deliberate decision by the curator not to do that again. What we wanted was that the flag would be a metaphor for the country. Its pattern is torn, but it still survives. The message is survival of the country and the flag. Were not trying to make it look pretty. Were trying to make it look like it has endured in history and is still celebrated. This is the 200th anniversary
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