His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
Here we are, finally at the end, where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the past can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it i think in the civil war, passions get up quickly when people remember the civil war, and then watching that in charlottesville in the last year and a half in the debates over the equestrian statue of r. E. Lee. Well talk at the end when i get to the war today about some of the resonances of the war in our current american situation and the ways in which the different streams of memory put in places by the wartime generation, either do or do not remain with us now. My real focus today is going to be on how the wartime generation remembered the war. And im going to focus on four great interpretive traditions that came out of the wartime generation, thrived for many decades thereafter, and in differing degrees continue
Immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the pass can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it, i think, than the civil war. Passions get up quickly when people remember the civil war. Been watching that in charlottesville over the last year and a half in the debates over the statute the r. E. Lee downtown. Ill talk at the end, when i get to the war today, abo
Immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the pass can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it, i think, than the civil war. Passions get up quickly when people remember the civil war. Been watching that in charlottesville over the last year and a half in the debates over the statute the r. E. Lee downtown. Ill talk at the end, when i get to the war today, abo
C. Span 2s book tv. Up next more from our lectures in history series. This see vent features university of virginia professor teaching a class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south have inter pretded the conflict from immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the pass can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it, i think, than the civil war.