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
Preservation. So were here today trying to think a little bit about the Cultural Heritage of the American South especially after and during the american civil war. You know, its been in the news quite a bit lately, and so i think its a topic that folks are interested in Historic Preservation like yourselves have got to figure out. And we have a really fun opportunity, i would say, to try to make sense of all of this. So in order to do that i think we should go and think a little bit about not just where these monuments came from but the war out of which they came. At the beginning of the american civil war, United States soldiers seemed to take a great deal of care to leave private property, really all kinds of property alone. They really very strictly held to attacking military targets only. And this seemed to be of great importance to political leaders because they thought that the war would be short, and they needed a really quick integration of the American South back into the nati
His class is about an hour. So this is as you guys know the university of georgia at the brand new digital humanities lab. Im scott nesbit and this class is intro to Historic Preservation. So were here today trying to think a little bit about the Cultural Heritage of the American South especially after and during the american civil war. You know, its been in the news quite a bit lately, and so i think its a topic that folks are interested in Historic Preservation like yourselves have got to figure out. And we have a really fun opportunity, i would say, to try to make sense of all of this. So in order to do that i think we should go and think a little bit about not just where these monuments came from but the war out of which they came. At the beginning of the american civil war, United States soldiers seemed to take a great deal of care to leave private property, really all kinds of property alone. They really very strictly held to attacking military targets only. And this seemed to be
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.