Hello edward paul its nice to meet you. I feel a guy i know you for reading life of the clansmen it is so intimate i want to thank you for writing it. So i will dive in. You received and emotional inheritance from your aunt mod. Tell us what it was. As an elderly retired schoolteacher. Has some papers and files and speaking about Family History that was like this. With the clansmen. Because he is a redeemer and the redemption from new orleans after dislodged by the negroes. And otherwise would not be here today. So anyway when she died her papers went to my mother and when my mother died now decades later and how i rediscovered her family and wrote about it. You emulated her well. Its constance. Word to say he was heroic and her work for 100 years as will the clans people for most weight southerners. For the genesis after the civil war women challenge by black business and politicians within the civil rights. The memory and then was no longer family hero. Because they were the First Am
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Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on something. Its a symposium on the warren east, hosted by the emergency bill war blog. Welcome back to the emergence of a war symposium, great to have you with us my name is chris mackowski. Our next speaker today comes to us, actually from our sister site emerging revolutionary war. Mark maloy its a historian with a National Park service and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war . And i said, mark know this is a civil war. So we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter because its the closest we can get to the war to the revolutionary era. Mark is a delightful historian, a wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue. The most distinctive feature that we are like is his laugh. But we are delighted to have him, and he came here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war act fort sumter. Mark. Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak out this symposiu
We will get into that. Let me say a little bit about scott. Welcome, scott. Many of our viewers know scott from his very long and successful and productive tenure and engagement with the National Park. He has been retired for a little more than 10 years or a little less than 10 years, excuse me. Geez, actually six years. Peter one thing john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We also talked about partnerships with academics. We have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina silver, one of the first historians who came to the park and had conversations about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg. Time and time again, john have noticed these connections between academics and public historians. Cant then conclude there is this great gap or golf between the two sides. I thought we could open by howng you reflect upon battlefield interpretation has changed over time during your career. And then,
Public service brought to you today by your television provider. Host hello, edward ball. Its a delight to meet you try to good to see you. Host i feel like i know you from reading life of a klansman. Its an intimate. Want to thank you for writing it. Im going to dive in. You received an emotional inheritance from your aunt maud. Tell the audience what it was, the physical inheritance and the family lore. Guest when i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s i had an named maud. She was an elderly retired schoolteacher and she was the family historian in my mothers family. We were all in new orleans and she was the keeper of the lore of, among others, our klansmen. And she had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this. The one to remember is our klansmen, my grandfather, constant lecorgne, because he was a redeemer, and the retention returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been dislodged by the negroes. An