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Confederate Flag Memory In Gettysburg, Pa, Ryan M. Nadeau Oct 2016

Confederate Flag Memory In Gettysburg, Pa, Ryan M. Nadeau

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Few towns in the United States can claim to be as in touch with its Civil War history as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. As the site of one of the war’s most significant battles, Gettysburg today lives and breathes the Civil War every day through the historical tourism that Gettysburg National Military Park encourages, which itself has bred a Civil War merchandise economy in the town itself. As such, the town naturally becomes a new battleground for contemporary issues regarding the memory of the Civil War—including, most significantly, the interpretation and presentation of the Confederate battle flag. As the nation passed the …


North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner Oct 2013

North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner

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Sometimes the best special collections are right in your own backyard. Not the ones that come to you from a retiring professor, local collector, or estate settlement, but the ones that you put together yourself. Rather than sit by and wait for memorabilia related to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg to come to them, archivists at Gettysburg College took an active role, becoming part of the history they would normally just accept from donors. [excerpt]