Of our programming season for the Academic Year of 2019 and 2020. My name is jason steinhauer. Im director of the Lepage Center at villanova, a relatively new center created in 2016. It opened its doors in 2017. Our mission is to bring history to bear on contemporary issues. That is what we do all yearround. Some of the issues we have examined in the past have been the issue of fake news and historical perspective, stuff on endless war. Last year we did a series on democracy and the history of democracy and credit participation. Democratic process evasion. This year is revisionist history. We will talk about that over six events and through the lens of various topics revising early america. Before i go further i want to make you aware it is being filmed both by the university and by cspans American History tv. This event will be on cspans Video Library and a couple of weeks. We are not going live, dont worry. For the benefit of the cspan viewers in the future, we are glad you were with
Historians to discuss the problem of low morale in the final years of the vietnam war. This discussion was part of an allday conference titled manpower and morale after tet hosted by the university of kansas, its an hour, 20 minutes. Id like to welcome everybody back for our afternoon session. My name is charles bowry, im the executive director of the u. S. Army center of u. S. Military history in washington, d. C. Id like to thank beth bailey and the ku center for host ting this great event as well as thanks to our historical colleagues at the u. S. Army combined arms center in fort lerch worth, kansas for their ongoing collaboration surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. The u. S. Army has more than 500 historians, Museum Professionals working around the world who do their best to ensure that the his tor c Historical Perspective and Critical Thinking skills generated by a study of history are leveraged throughout the army and make the army a learning o. The army History Program pr
Final years of vietnam and the war. Part of manpower and morale after tet. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Id like to welcome everybody back. My name is Charles Bowery from washington, d. C. Id like to start off by thanking beth and the ku center for military war and Society Centers for hosting this and thanks to our colleagues for their ongoing collaboration in this and other events surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. The u. S. Army has more than 500 historians, Museum Professionals and archivists around the world to do their best to ensure the critical perspective and thinking skills are leveraged throughout the army and make the army a learning organization. The army History Program provides ability to results in a more effective future force and im honored to serve as this communitys advocate at this department of armys headquarters level. We had a great discussion about the problems of morale in the first tet offense and today we will built on that and talk about the ways the ar
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
Two big picture questions you listed about Historical Context and historical method. First we want you to ask the question, how do people in the civil war about era civil war era value things. Those meetings may be of the esx museum in Salem Massachusetts on a thing that is actually two things that came together some our job is to show you how we do our work. His name is Charles William merrill. A of a soldier in company the 19 massachusetts, which was in the third gate a Second Division second core of the we can use this of thet, which is a part compiled service record, these are available in the national archives. Tocan use the federal census learn, about Charles William merrill. Bibles reads, from your affectionate pass and affectionate pastor august 12, 1862. That is three days after he enlisted. From a letter charles wrote to his mother in february of 1863. Foster,when you see mr. Remember me to him. Hardly a day passes by without my thinking of him. That happened. This is a map t