With a longtime contributor to cwi, jen murray. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. She is as you know an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has i would say a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memory of get Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a i biography of George Gordon meade which will hopefully be publi published in the civil war america series. She is a veteran faculty member here. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding. Its largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years . For nine years. So it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg Na
With a longtime contributor to cwi. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university and she is, as you know, an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has, i would say the full publication resume, the most important book in the most recent, entitled on a great battlefield, the making, management and memory of Gettysburg National park, published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography, general George Gordon meade that will hopefully be published in the civil war america series. As i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member and many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian the seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years. So, it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park.
My book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. The National Park service manages 70 sites that are civil warrelated. The battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites time, significantly. If you look at the photograph on the top right, that is an aerial view. The mostne of commercialized areas in the 1940s and 1950s. The image on the left should be familiar to many of you. Perhaps you have the opportunity to go up and the old tower that 1970s. Up in the how the battlefield has been commercialized and how it has changed over time. One of the questions i try to reconcile is what makes gettysburg different . This battlefield is different and antietam. Its different than chickamauga. Its different than perryville. Its different than shiloh. 51,000ttle, producing casualties in three days, is the bloodiest conflict in american history. The man in the slide is a soldier from the fifth massachusetts who was wounded in the fight at gettysburg. His name is john
You. The gift to me is to have the opportunity to moderate this panel. Artifacts of the civil war. Starring the scholars you see seated on the stage before you. Joan is professor of American History at Ohio State University and the author of first lady of the confederacy. And the struggle for human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War which was published last year. We will be talking a lot about things during the civil war area today and we will be using primary source analysis that was taken taken from her edited volume of essays also 2018 entitled war matters, material culture. For sale now. Or after this panel. This is the stewarthe is the author of more than 20 books on civil war topics and the last attack at gettysburg. Most recent book is fighting for atlanta tactics, terrain and trenches published by doing so you press in 2018. This is Jason Phillips the Eberly Family professor is the author of booming civil war how americans imagine the future which is publishe
Land shall be deluged in blood, a new history of gnat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates, theyre tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoy mr. Greens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, it is an important book and one of the things that patrick and i talked about it is just its just a shame. That one can go to southampton county today, where turners revolt took place. Youll see some state signage, but yowl have no way of taking a driving tour to see the sights related to that important revolt. It truly is shock. I know patrick is trying to do his part and trying to bring more awareness and attention so that audiences like us who go to battlefields, and i suspect if we had the opportunity we would take a bus down to southampton county to be able to look at that historic landscape that has changed radically. I dont believe and patri