Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
9-27-2012
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
There's something about touching the actual thing, something about contacting the real that makes a distant world come immediately to life. There's an excitement about that moment when you see and touch something a piece of another world. A Thomas the Tank Engine character reminded me of this fact recently. Watch the young boy's face as he picks Stanley back up in a cornfield after his favorite toy travels to space and back. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M., "Veritas: The Power of the Real" (2012). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 112.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/112
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Comments
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public is written by alum and adjunct professor, John Rudy. Each post is his own opinions, musings, discussions, and questions about the Civil War era, public history, historical interpretation, and the future of history. In his own words, it is "a blog talking about how we talk about a war where over 600,000 died, 4 million were freed and a nation forever changed. Meditating on interpretation, both theory and practice, at no charge to you."