Six years. Peter scott, one of the things that john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We have also talked about the partnerships with academics and we have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina Silver Silver was one of the first historians that came to the park and had conversations with the park staff about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg and time and time again john and i have noticed that these connections between academics and public historians, you cannot conclude there is this a great gulf between these two sides as i think there once was. I thought we could open by having you reflect upon how battlefield interpretation, how it changed over time during your career and if you wouldnt mind, i would be interested in what you see as opportunities as we look ahead. Or iimportant observation my girlsy fun fact cameron and isabel carmichael, i have to give them a shout out today b
The world because people look to this nation nearly coming apart, coming back together, having a new birth of freedom and here we are in the 21st century having quite spirited debates. Newspapers,s, the the commentary was focusing in andonfederate statutes peoples deep feeling about the legacy of the civil war, what the civil war meant today and i think students in the classroom and general readers want to know how people feel about these issues. So i got interested with a colleague i worked with for many years and we put together a series. We had a panel called history in the headlines, we get historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure that we were plugged into these larger issues. We put out a book a year on a ofic, it is a burning issue certainly the confederate statues and memorialization when we put it together around a roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to address something that would be contemporary and fresh. Sam, thesed silent statue on the u
December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for those of you in the mountain in Eastern Central time zone 20
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,
We have a panel called history in the headlines. Sure that we are plugged into these larger issues. It is a burning issue. Certainly the confederate statues. We have the roundtable of scholars from 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to address something that would the contemporary and crash. Discussed silent contemporary and fresh. We discussed silent sam, a statue at the university of north carolina, the board of overseers taking the position against removing it, more protest, and eventually the sale is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. This happened at vanderbilt as well. You had a confederate memorial hall. They paid for the direction of the hall. When it was determined by the university to remove it nearly a century later, you pay the people who erected it, who named it, for that privilege. So now we have the irony of hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars being given to united daughters of the confederacy, which areeties promoting often a very pa