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In Another Sesquicentennial, John M. Rudy
In Another Sesquicentennial, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
On Tuesday, Jake wrote asking who controls the memory of 9/11. The ownership of memory is such an interesting thing. This tenth anniversary was an interesting event, fraught with conflicted memory and different voices. It was intriguing to watch all of the slight conflicts which emerged last week leading up to the ceremonies on Sunday morning. [excerpt]
"For The People...": Do The 'Not We' Own Gettysburg?, John M. Rudy
"For The People...": Do The 'Not We' Own Gettysburg?, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
Unlike a few critics from the Civil War blogging community of this past Monday's History Channel presentation of Gettysburg, I watched the whole thing from beginning to end. I've since watched it again. I took mental notes; I paid keen attention.
Monday night I also watched on Twitter. I expected the experience to be very different than a couple weeks ago, when I watched with America as freedom fighters were beat to a bloody pulp for suggesting that we all might be better off if we tried to get along. Not badly different, just different. I was not disappointed. …
How To Interpret History To The Sci-Fi Fan: My Favorite Civil War Novel, John M. Rudy
How To Interpret History To The Sci-Fi Fan: My Favorite Civil War Novel, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
I often struggled to find an answer to the comment often leveled by visitors that, "they were so backward back then," or that, "we know so much more now." Getting across the fact to visitors that much of science, especially the basics of Newtonian physics and electromagnetic, has been understood at their elemental level for generations is sometimes a tough order of business. I found myself at times trying to explain Alessandro Volta's invention of the Voltaic battery in 1800 or the use of the Turtle during the American Revolution. Still, compared to the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the …