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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part two)
(part two in a five-part series) I’m talking this week with Dave Roth, editor and publisher of Blue & Gray Magazine and recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. Yesterday, Dave explained how he, … Continue reading
The Killer Angels: Soldiers Of Gettysburg – The Stage Play
On July 2, 1863, Confederate General Longstreet’s divisions swept toward the left flank of the Union line anchored on Cemetery Ridge and resting precariously in the Peach Orchard, Wheat Field, and Little Round Top. As the story goes, Colonel Chamberlain … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Upcoming Events
Tagged Brian Newall, Brock Joseph, California, Civil War on stage, Fullerton California, Gettysburg, history in the arts, James Longstreet, John Buford, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, local theater, Maverick Theater, Michael Shaara, Robert E. Lee, stageplay, The Killer Angels, Thomas Chamberlain
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“Telling History” vs “Making Art”: Richard Ewell on July 1
My favorite scene in the movie Gettysburg comes when a fiery Isaac Trimble, taught as an over-coiled spring, appears before Robert E. Lee to recount the events of July 1. Frustrated by Richard Ewell’s inaction in front of Cemetery Hill … Continue reading
Telling History vs. Making Art: Killer Angels, real and fictional
Part five in a series. In my last post, I began to discuss Michael Shaara’s aesthetic choices for constructing The Killer Angels as he did, and how he adopted a Lost Cause-interpretation of Robert E. Lee as a central choice … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Buster Kilrain, Gettysburg, History-vs-Art, James Longstreet, Jeff Shaara, John Buford, Joshua L. Chamberlain, Ken Burns, Michael Shaara, Robert E. Lee, Scott Hartwig, Telling History vs. Making Art, The Civil War, The Killer Angels, Tom Desjardin
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Telling History vs. Making Art: Gods & Jacksons
Part four in a series. One of my favorite places to work at FSNMP is the Stonewall Jackson Shrine, the small plantation office building where the Confederate general died. It’s a story I love so much that I wrote a … Continue reading
Telling History vs. Making Art: “a tension between Art and Science”
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
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, National Park Service
Tagged Bruce Catton, David Blight, David McCullough, Gary Gallagher, Gettysburg, Gods & Generals, Gone with the Wind, History-vs-Art, Jeff Shaara, Ken Burns, Michael Shaara, National Park Service, NPS, Scott Hartwig, Shelby Foote, Telling History vs. Making Art, The Civil War: A Narrative, The Killer Angels
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Review: Jeff Shaara’s A Blaze of Glory
By the time I was two hundred pages into Jeff Shaara’s new novel—roughly halfway—I wondered how an author could write so much and say so little. It picked up, thankfully. I wouldn’t have known that, though, had I not forced … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors
Tagged Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara, Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, Shiloh
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Steve Earle, “Dixieland,” and the Irresistible Charm of Buster Kilrain
The myths of Gettysburg rear their heads in the most unexpected places. At a Steve Earle concert in Rochester, New York, a couple weeks ago, the folk-rocker launched into a pair of songs related to the Irish. Before he did, … Continue reading
