Gallagher on Presenting Our History

Gary W. Gallagher - Professor History Emeritus at The Univ. of Virginia "The Enduring Civil War" I believe in the academic professional study of history and not the amateur popular presentation of history. I am a student of American history. I am not a "history buff." Hence, there is no evidence of "black men" serving in the Confederate army, fraudulent claims to the contrary. Gettysburg and Vicksburg were important but did not determine the outcome of the war. The Shelby Foote contention that Northern victory was inevitable from the outset is nonsense. Grant was less the "butcher" than Lee. The Gettysburg Address, so deservedly admired today, did not suddenly turn the war into a war of liberation and "a new burst of freedom." Etc.