Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have got to read. Stephen berry also always brings to his research, incredible and beautiful writing with rich insight and we like him so much because his work is so good and stephen is such a wonderful guy and is a fantastic teacher as well. And i have as well as many of my students have worked with steve over the years. A
Stephen berry always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing. With rich insights, and what i think many of us like so much, and that is a good thing because his work is so good, you want to succumb to jealousy but you just cant because he is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher as well. Many of us have worked with him over the years, at the university of georgia, he is not only a terrific scholar, he has written or edited six books, my favorite is all the makes of man, love, ambition, and the civil war south, that was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of north carolina. William varney was his advisor, who is still there, another book that i would highly recommend, that he edited, a fantastic book called, wielding the war stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And, he has many of his students, graduate students working on this project as well. My favorite of all the digital projects, titled, private voices , American Civil War letters, many o
Monday july 18th. Coming up next on American History tv, we talk about tudor place and the descendants of george and Martha Washington. He discusses the collection of artifacts at tutor place. The daughters of the American Revolution museum host this 45 minute event. Our current exhibit is remembering the American Revolution. Is looking at the ways that people say things. What people saved to remember the American Revolution, why they save them. What things grew out of that tradition. Im delighted to welcome our guest here today who will talk a lot about some things that are very similar to what is in our exhibit. He comes from another museum that has a significant collection of George Washingtons items. It ties in very well to our collection so im delighted to introduce the curator at tudor place to store cass and garden. Prior to coming to tutor place, he was the assistant curator of collections at the James Madison mike kelly or and worked for nearly nine years on the mansion interi
He said it in 1945 after the spanish civil war ended and it goes Something Like this. Men of my generation have always had spain in our hearts because we learned that you could be right and still be defeated. Courage is not its own reward. And it goes on like that. American800 volunteers went there. They were among the 35,00040,000 volunteers from over 50 countries, and of those 2800 americans who went to spain, 750 did not come back. That is a higher death toll percentagewise in the military than any of the world wars. Brian what were the years of the spanish civil war and why was it fought . Adam it began very suddenly in july 1936 and lasted until the beginning of april 1939. So, almost three years. It was an extraordinarily bloody and brutal conflict. Essentially, here is why it had begun. For many centuries spain had essentially been a monarchy. In recent times, a time of military dictatorship. In 1931, the king left the country. They held elections and it became a republic. The s
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