A class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south have interpreted the conflict from immediate post war era to the present day. The class is about one hour and 15 minutes. Professor gallagher 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, and 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, and 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 past 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. We have been watching that in ch
Various aspects of this conflicts. 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 it 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 United States history to talk about how powerful testimony pending memories of what happened in the past can be. Theres nothing remotely equal to it in the civil war. Passions get up quickly when people remember civil war. Been watching that in charlottesville in the last year and a half in the debates over equestrian statue of r. E. Lee downtown. Ill talk when i get to the war today about some of the residences of the war in our current american situation. The ways in which the different streams of memory put in place by wartime generation either do or do not remain with us. My real focus is going to be on how the wartime generatio
Mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. Of course those watching online are welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our program and welcoming our special guest is done genevieve wood. [applause] good afternoon everyone. Thank you for being here. I know that you are in for a treat. I was speaker today does not need a huge introduction because many of you recognize him. Brian is a man that has spent six hours a day on the airwaves. He has seen 3001 from 6 to 9 am on fox and friends. By the way that present tweeting out a nice comment saying that you are doing a great job [laughter] and his radio show is for three hours from 9 am until noon. The Brian Kilmeade show, you can catch him in the morning if you dont see him on tv. He is also a prolific author. The author of five books, the last three of which have all been on three of our most famous president s. George washington secret fix, and the first two books one on George
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Described at the time as a case without known parallel, a case that author matt lake says philadelphia broke wide open. Matt we caught him and we got the body, yeah. Hed have gotten away with it too if it werent for those darn philly kids. George most of h. H. Holmes notoriety centers in chicago, around the site of whats now this us post office. It was there, in 1889, that he built his famous Murder Castle Hotel ahead of the citys world fair, a castle full of secret chutes and gas chambers. Some who arrived were never seen again. Matt hed wind up putting them into an airtight room and turning a gas on in there until they suffocated. George experts believe holmes made big money selling his victims body parts and swindling their insurance. And in 1894, holmes brought his swindling to philadelphia and this corner of 13th and callowhill. It was here, lake says, that greed finally got the best of him. In his scheme to get insurance money, he killed his business partner, making it look like