very kind introduction. thanks to all of you for your you patience in advance. you i woker up this morning quite nervous. more nervous than i often am u when i m going to be giving a talk and i think i noticed yesterday a number of you are teachers. is that right? yes? thank you.of i appreciate that. i can just look at kevin if i need. kevin, you teach, right? in addition to blogging.er, in sorry, pete. blo and sogg you re used to being in front of unruly crowds.g and you may also have some experience with a particularly nerve wracking speaking engagement. one of those engagements wrote you re not quite sure where the subject matter of your talk fits with the event at hand. and then adding to that you learn that perhaps, i don t know, c-span is going to broadcast your talk live on television because, hey you know, live television.ppen this stills, happens apparently. but if you ve done any public ave done speaking, you also know that you moment where a that sense of real calm
thank you very much for that kind introduction and thank you for all your patience in advance. i woke up this morning quite nervous, more usually more nervous than i usually am when i am going to be giving a talk. i noticed that a number of your teachers. is that right? thank you. i appreciate that. i will just look at kevin. kevin is a teacher, in addition to blogging. to being insed front of unruly crowds and you may have some experience with a particularly nerve-racking speaking engagement. where you re not quite sure if the subject matter of your talk fits with the events at hand, and then you learn, i don t know, maybe that c-span is going to broadcast your event live because live television still happens, apparently. but if you have done any public speaking, you also know that moment when a sense of real calm settles over you. i know that pete does that because i have watched him speak beautifully in the last couple of days. i just want you to know that that is not
i appreciate that. i can just look at kevin if i need. kevin, you teach, right? in addition to blogging.er, in sorry, pete. blo and so,gg you re used to being front of unruly crowds.g and you may also have some experience with a particularly nerve wracking speaking engagement. one of those engagements wrote you re not quite sure where the subject matter of your talk fits with the event at hand. and then, adding to that, you learn that perhaps, i don t know, c-span is going to broadcast your talk live on television because, hey, you know, live television.ppen this stills, happens apparently. but if you ve done any public ae speaking, you also know that yu moment where a that sense of re calm settles over you. i know that pete knows that because i ve now watched him speak beautifully a number of times in the past couple of days. i just want to let you know, e this s not happening to me right now. and so, without further ado. as many of you may know, on november 29th, 1864, appr
1970 s and he found when he created the layout that you see rings with the time telling a chronological story, he kind of painted himself into a corner because how do you end it. where does it end? of course, it does not and anywhere. time keeps marching on. states history keeps going on. that is one more reason why in the back of the museum there are pictures of things like the moonwalk in the atomic bomb and all those kinds of things, to show that history did not stop. thing that was what to do with the back wall. it was his wife who came up with the solution to that problem. they found they could commemorate the lewis and clark trail and it is still there today. leaving this now to return to our live coverage of the civil war conference in gettysburg, pennsylvania. very happy to have him. he is at penn state where he will be at the civil war center as a professor of civil war studies. he does a range of subject matter in classrooms, civil war reconstruction as well as en
memorials are almost always shaped by politics. contemporary concerns how history is presented. memorial designers look to be present and future as well as the past when they do their work. this is especially true of national historic sites. federal officials have long viewed memorials as a kind of patriotic alchemy. getsis about as good as it forcible where content civil war content. [laughter] i m kidding. you can take for example president lincoln s first inaugural arrest. he said if americans would pay grave to every art stone across this broad land, those chords would once again swell the union. sites throughout the united states, there is a sentiment in the abiding power of public memory cards into the stone. these monuments are supposed to serve the nation from interest by linking together it s peoples and also legitimating federal authority. common past, the theory goes, americans will continue to forge, and identities. memories of sand creek, the speaker suggested,