Drew Gilpin Faust / Adam Goodheart / other commentators on Civil War (July 2 Radio call-in show) - D.Rehm Show

from Diane Rehm Show -- www.drshow.org/ -- check your local NPR affiliate for air time/scheduling Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 11:06 a.m. 11:06 a.m. (ET) 150 Years After The Battle Of Gettysburg 150 Years After The Battle Of Gettysburg Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to flood the 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park and surrounding town this week to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Diane and her guests discuss the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg and how it's remembered. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to flood the 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park and surrounding town this week to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The events of July 1-3, 1863, produced more than 50,000 casualties, with an estimated 7,500 soldiers killed. Many historians consider Gettysburg a major turning point of the Civil War after Northern forces turned away a Confederate advance. And in the decades following the conflict, the battleground became a symbol of reconciliation. Diane and her guests discuss the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg and how it's remembered. Guests Drew Gilpin Faust president of Harvard University, historian and author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Eleanor Harvey senior curator at Smithsonian American Art Museum. Adam Goodheart director of Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening. Ta-Nehisi Coates senior editor at The Atlantic and author of the essay, "Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?" Scott Hartwig supervisory historian at Gettysburg National Military Park. http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-07-02/150-years-after-battle-gettysburg