table for ian isherwood, who is going to moderate this panel, and introduce him very briefly. ian is a historian of war. his research interests are in british history and war studies, where he does yeoman duty at gettysburg college. he holds a master s degree from dartmouth college. ian is currently an assistant professor in the department of interdepartmental studies at gettysburg college. he s the author of remembering the great war writing the experiences of world war i, as well as scholarly articles on veterans and war writing. he s currently working on a book on the life and death of an infantry battalion in world war i. ian is going to be our moderator now and will take this slot. ian? [ applause ] all right. thank you. thank you for that very generous introduction, michael. i had the good fortune to have been a student of professor birkner s here in the late 1990s where i took historical methods from him. those methods, of course, i have kept as kind of in the back
pleasure. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. like us on facebook. this year is the 75th anniversary of operation overlord. it was on june 6, 1944 that allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, france. next, naval historian craig symonds talked about dwight d. eisenhower and the naval decisions that led to the d-day victory. mr. symonds is author of operation neptune, the d-day landings and the eisenhower invasion of europe. the eisenhower institute at gettysburg college and the dwight d. eisenhower society co-sponsored this event. ian: my name is ian isherwood. i teach history here at gettysburg college, and it is my distinct pleasure to welcome dr. craig symonds, the distinguished visiting ernest j. king professor of marit
the relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettiesburg national military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical nderstandings of the getty sburg campaign. many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. she is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of north carolina press. ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college for a few more months. he has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil war studies program right here at gettysburg college. it s a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c.w.i. he has been a very important part of what we do here. he is fantastic, though, w
many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. she is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of north carolina press. ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college for a few more months. he has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil war studies program right here at gettysburg college. it s a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c.w.i. he has been a very important part of what we do here. he is fantastic, though, with our students. he is especially, especially gifted when it comes to developing our students research interests. in fact, he took one of our students to oxford to deliver a paper and i believe, ian can correct me on this, that he co-wrote a paper, a war and memories study, the journal, did i get that wrong? prof. isherwood: war and societ
links to stories that were written. but making my job and then mysteriously, they re playing spy versus spy saying look it up and the name is backwards and blah, blah, blah. it s like i don t have time to do that. so making themselves available is is the most useful thing for me. and the other thing i guess i would put out is to not be offended if that particular story does not isn t something that we consider news. i mean, there s just as, you know, i get rejected every day by calling people up and having doors slammed in my face, you know, there are going to be times when we say, well, we just did that story, or there s nothing new there or whatever. i think you have to be prepared for that. well, thank you. check here with our time. y all are going to get a little bit of a bonus. is there anything that either one of you would like to end with? i would if i could. so i would say that for all of you