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"With High Hope For The Future": Holy Temples Of Democracy, John M. Rudy
"With High Hope For The Future": Holy Temples Of Democracy, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
I did it again. I went to Pennsylvania Historical Association's annual conference (this year in Harrisburg). I always seem to be the black sheep at these gathering, focused on raw emotional meanings and the usable past far more than the broader historiographical implications of either the proverbial or actual price of tea in China. This year I went to present a paper on the knock-down, dragout brawl that Daniel Sickles and William H. Tipton have throughout 1893 over the preservation of the Gettysburg Battlefield to a room full of professional historians. [excerpt]