Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
Anything that Stephen Berry writes, ive got to read. Stephen berry always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing, with rich insights and what i think, many of us, we like him so much and thats a good thing. His work is so good that you want us to come to the jealousy but you cant, stephen is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher as well. Many of my students have gone to work with him over the years. At the university of georgia he has not only he is not only a prolific scholar, but he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a man, love and ambition in the civil war south. That was his him his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of North Carolina. William barney is his advisor who is still there. Another book i would highly recommend, which he edited, a fantastic book called were doing the war. War, storieshe from the civil war possible ragged edge. The other thing, hes engaged in a lot of Digital Projects and has many of his s
Shipenburgs university of pennsylvania. Hes an awardwinning author, coauthor or editor of 27 civil war books and more than 40 related articles. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photographer. Hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years. Hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, the pennsylvania public time as d works full chief historian or the American Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary gear. [applause] leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy during the whole civil war in such a sort period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are started in the constitution and there amp. Then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. Southerners look to the north and although they speak the same languag
I am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and the director of the History Department here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of civil war at the university of georgia. I have a few rules, and this is one. Everything Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He brings incredible writing with rich insights. His work is so good that you want to succumb to the jealousy, but you cant. He is a terrific guy. At the university of georgia, he scholar,nly a prolific he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a ambition, and the civil war south,s dissertation at the university of North Carolina. Bardi was still teaching at North Carolina. Edited is a he fantastic book called were doing the war. , he iss another thing engaged in a lot of Digital Projects and has his graduate students working on his projects as well. My favorite of all the Digital Projects is titled private
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