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Article: Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War: Ford's Theatre, May 8 and May 9, 2000
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Historical Association May 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War: Ford's Theatre, May 8 and 9, 2000. Edited by Robert K. Sutton. (Fort Washington, Pa.: Eastern National, c. 2001. Pp. xvi, 103. Paper, $6.95, ISBN 1-888213-72-8.)
It is an article of our professional faith that all people are historians. And all professional historians are ultimately public historians, in the sense that they hope that their scholarship, in some fashion, reaches beyond an audience of specialists. Because these things are so, Rally on the High Ground is an important book. It is the published version of a recent symposium of academic historians convened by the National Park Service to discuss how to ...