Civil War Podcasts

The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: The Public History of the Civil War, a Sesquicentennial Symposium

March 26, 2011

conference website

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded”: Managing Public Perceptions of Abraham Lincoln (comments only)

Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Professor and Chair, History Department, East Carolina University

Erin Carlson Mast, Director, President Lincoln’s Cottage, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Thomas D. Mackie, Director, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum

Beyond the Bone Saw: Reimagining Civil War Medicine, pt. 1(begin at 16:06)

Beyond the Bone Saw: Reimagining Civil War Medicine, pt. 2

Jane E. Boyd, Research Fellow, Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Noah Briggs, Civil War Reenactor

Robert D. Hicks, Director, Mütter Museum and the Historical Medical Library of the The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Jill L. Newmark, Exhibition Specialist, Curator, and Registrar, National Library of Medicine

Manon Parry, Curator, Exhibit Program, National Library of Medicine

George Wunderlich, Executive Director, National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Keynote Address: Historians or Memorialists?: The Challenge of Public History and the Civil War

John Hennessy, Chief Historian, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

Comment: Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute and Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College

The Sesquicentennial and Historic Sites: A North Carolina Perspective, pt. 1

The Sesquicentennial and Historic Sites: A North Carolina Prespective, pt. 2 (through 23:00)

Marty D. Matthews, Curator of Research, North Carolina Historic Sites and adjunct professor of history, North Carolina State University

Keith Hardison, Director, North Carolina Historic Sites

Michael Hill, Research Branch Supervisor, North Carolina Office of Archives and History

Michelle Lanier, Curator of Multicultural Initiatives, North Carolina Historic Sites

Donny Taylor, Site Manager, Bentonville Battlefield

Jim Steele, Site Manager, Fort Fisher

Reclaiming Invisible Pasts: Utilizing the Sesquicentennial to Re-Imagine the Interpretations of the Civil War Era, pt. 1 (begin at 23:00)

Reclaiming Invisible Pasts: Utilizing the Sesquicentennial to Re-Imagine the Interpretations of the Civil War Era, pt. 2

Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Assistant Professor, History Department, Appalachian State University

Judkin Browning, Assistant Professor, History Department, Appalachian State University

Leah Boshell, M.A. Student, History Department, Appalachian State University

Andrea Burns, Assistant Professor, History Department, Appalachian State University

The Not-so-Better Angels of Our Nature: “De-Sanitizing” Interpretation at Civil War Battlefields and Prison Sites in the Search for a More Usable Past

Ashley Whitehead, Doctoral Student at West Virginia University and Park Ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park

Brian Matthew Jordan, Doctoral Student at Yale University

Kevin M. Levin, Chair, History Department, St. Anne's - Belfield School

Comment: John Hennessy, Chief Historian, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park