Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
5-19-2011
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
We often have a deep problem in the Historical community. We that have gone through training and courses in "real" history, who have been trained in the academy don't know how to react when we get into the "public" history world. We step out on battlefields (or killingfields) and decide we can't trust our audiences to understand our evidence. So, we hit them over the head with a two-by-four of rhetoric. We have this deep impulse to tell people what to think about what they see on our landscapes.
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Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M., "Civil War Conclusions: What PBS' Freedom Riders Can Teach Us" (2011). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 203.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/203
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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."