we have a really great topic tonight because it s a topic that a lot of people visit gettysburg to talk about, to see, to experience, and that is interpretation at little round top and joshua lawrence chamberlain and we why did we choose this topic, chris? why did you like this topic? why did we choose this topic? i don t know. i think i sort of pushed it. oh, did you? i did. last fall, chris took my civil war class and he did an incredible job. not just telling us about what happened at little round top, but he also did a really insightful job of helping my students understand the construction of historical narratives and focusing on the differently accounts from joshua chamb chamberlain. it opened it a different way for my students to understand. and before chris gets going here, i want to do a quick plug for chris. he s a gettysburg college alum. 2004, is that correct? i graduated 06. 06, 2006. and i believe it was when you started to do some volunteer work
ladies and gentlemen. i have to do a different intro, pete. it s getting old. speaking of someone who never gets old, my co-host, the man with the best hair in gettysburg, the director of the civil war institute, pete carmicha carmichael. pete, good to see you after three minutes. absolutely. you know me well enough i would like to believe i m a fairly easy going guy and can take insults coming from any direction. there is one thing and, of course, i appreciate the fact you played up to my insecurity and that s my hair. you can insult my family, my scholarship but don t insult the hair. i agree with you, pete. my friend down in richmond said you spend way too much money to get your hair cut and then you never comb it. he has a good point. it works. laziness, i guess. so we are back on what would have been civil institute day here at gegettysburg. to say how much i and others, including my daughters this morning, said that they missed rallying together with all the c
my book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. the national park service manages 70 sites that are civil war-related. 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 1940 s and 1950 s. 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 1970 s.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. it s different than chickamauga. it s different than perryville. it s 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 gettysbu
my book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. the national park service manages 70 sites that are civil war-related. 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 1940 s and 1950 s. 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 1970 s.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. it s different than chickamauga. it s different than perryville. it s 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 gettysbu
war places, and the atlanta campaign. up first this morning, oklahoma state university professor jennifer murray on the gettysburg national park. she is, as you know, an expert on the civil war and in expert in military history in general. she has a full publication resume. her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield: the making, making, management, and memory of gettysburg national park. it was published in 2013 at the university of tennessee press. she is currently working on a biography of general george which wille, hopefully be published by the university of north carolina in the civil war series. a faculty member in her. many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, hardly because she cut her teeth as a young torian seasonal here for nine years? nine years. nine years. i am pleased to welcome jan murray to talk about her book on murray toon of jen talk about her book on the creation of the gettysburg national