Tag Archives: Gone with the Wind

Question of the Week: 10/17-10/23/16

Posted on October 17, 2016 by

Join the fun… Meg Groeling and Sarah Kay Bierle were talking about quote-able lines from movies. So here’s some Civil War pop-culture: What’s your favorite quote-able line from Gone With The Wind?

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Telling History vs. Making Art: “Frankly, my dear….”

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Part three in a series As the horn section carries Max Steiner’s score from its overture into the sweeping, now-iconic strings of its main theme, Gone With the Wind opens with haggard-looking slaves returning from a hard day’s work set … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the war

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: “a tension between Art and Science”

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

Part one in a series As a battlefield guide at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP), I frequently speak with folks who’ve come to the battlefields because they’ve read The Killer Angels, which in turn inspired them to come … Continue reading →

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