Afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivist, you want someone who can do more than just pull the records off the dusty shelves. Youve got to have somebody who really understands t
I am the director of the Cyber Institute here at gettysburg college. Im also a member of the history department. And its my pleasure this afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivi
Jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and thats great. Of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. Were really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we dont get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether theres anyone out there at all. So please do keep those. Some responses coming. We really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. So our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone whos attended Virginia Tech civil war weekend before William C
I am the director of the Cyber Institute here at gettysburg college. Im also a member of the history department. And its my pleasure this afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivi
My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivist, you want someone who can do more than just pull the records off the dusty shelves. Youve got to have somebody who really understands that and knows something about what youre working on. Theyve got to know the field. And trevor does just that. So he has a very again, valuable, Important Role in the field of civil war history. Hes probably some if you want to see some of his work, you should go to prolog. Prolog is the national archive. Its the blog so you can see some of the stuff that hes done there. I remember years ago that trevor did a piece on civil war desertion. That was fantastic. Trevor also i