Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
9-1-2011
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
I've been thinking lately of titles. The new blog Emerging Civil War's inaugural post touched off a powder-keg of thought for me. Looking down the list of contributors yields name after name listed as "historian at...." But most of those folks appear to have the official job title of "park ranger," "interpreter," or "visitor use assistant," and not "historian." This got the wheels in my head turning. [excerpt]
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Dinkelaker, Jacob, ""And preachin' from my chair": The Historian and the Interpreter" (2011). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 181.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/181
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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."