Gettysburg in American Memory - A Conversation with Historian Allen C. Guelzo
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 November 2013
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:08.8 | front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in |
| 0:16.9 | Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:17.9 | Dr. Alan Gelso was the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War era at Gettysburg College, where he also directs the Civil War |
| 0:24.9 | Studies Program. |
| 0:26.8 | Professor Gelso earned the MA and PhD degrees in history from the University of Pennsylvania, |
| 0:31.0 | a highly acclaimed author and historian, his essays, reviews and articles |
| 0:34.2 | have appeared in publications ranging from the American Historical Review and the Wilson Quarterly |
| 0:38.9 | to the Philadelphia Inquire in the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.5 | His latest book is Gettysburg, The Last Invasion, |
| 0:44.4 | published by Alfred A. Knopf. Professor Gellzo, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:48.9 | Thank you very much. Your book, Gettysburg, staggering and I say that in light of the fact that Gettysburg as a battle is itself just to my mind absolutely staggering. |
| 1:01.0 | You absolutely get to that when you'd write in your book that when you look at Gettysburg you're looking not only at one of the major turning points in history, but as you also write, you're looking at what never had happened before or has happened since. |
| 1:15.1 | A massive military collision right here on the continent of North America. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, it was a very large scale event when you total up the number of people who are involved in this. |
| 1:26.0 | You're looking at anywhere from 160 to 190,000 people packed into about 15 and a half square miles and over three days doing |
| 1:39.2 | their very best to kill as many of each other as they possibly can. If that doesn't make for a particularly, let us say, stressful environment, it would be holding |
| 1:55.0 | looking at the place of battle, beholding something never seen from the spot and never seen again, |
| 2:00.0 | two great armies bound for the greatest and most violent collision the North American |
| 2:04.5 | continent had ever seen. |
| 2:06.8 | It seems to me that most Americans know of Gettysburg by reputation but not by fact, |
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