Absolutely agree with Gary Gallagher that non-academics want well-researched history books. Without the jargon.

Gallagher's enthusiasm and sense of humor are contagious. His Teaching Company series on The Civl War still captivates.

@TheTattooedHistorian

3 жыл бұрын

He's fantastic

Gary is one of the men I'd love to sit down and talk to

I attended his lecture in Maryland historical society in Baltimore about the Antietam campaign in september 2002. He had just published a book containing essays about the battle and the campaign, some of them written by him, some by others. But all taking a fresh look on aspects of the campaign rarely visited. Off course I bought the book with his signature there and then after the lecture.

Canton was my entrance into the Civil War. Excellent writer whose prose at points is poetry.

@geraldfriedman71055

10 ай бұрын

Cotton sparked my interest in Civil War, love of history. Changed my life.

Oh wow, another interview! Excellent channel, I have SUBSCRIBED!

@TheTattooedHistorian

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Catton lit the fuse for Gary (and John) and Gary lit the fuse for me. He was a staple on the History Channel in its glory days and those shows were very influential for me. As a young impressionable boy, Gary loomed large in my life.

Really loved this video - I have read and listened to Gary and have always wanted to hear his answers to these questions.

@TheTattooedHistorian

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Think I have seen every KZread Mr. Gallagher has been in. So so knowledgeable! Thank you

I'd like to find a good book that covers Gen. Rosecran's career with the Army of the Cumberland, esp. the Battles of Stone's River and Chickamauga. IMO the Eastern Theater and Grant's armies have been written about almost ad nauseum but there's almost nothing in the popular press about the army of the Midlands.

Got my BA in History. I always felt I could have been an academic though.

Enjoyed it much and always enjoy listening to Gary. Unfortunately he always spends time criticizing Shelby Foote, which makes him look petty.

@stephenclark1732

3 жыл бұрын

Admittedly, I have to agree; although Professor Gallagher's passion for his subject of study is fiery and sharp, and in watching most of his lectures on KZread, I find this fire within him admirable and mostly justified when faced with question after lectures that are blatantly wrong, like the myth of tens of thousands of Black Confederate combatants. I personally like Shelby Foote, immensely, and I believe his views are not out of step with Gallagher's, or Ayers, or Davis', Nevins or McPherson. I believe Foote does emphasize the point that over-generalization of historical times and peoples is vastly a mistake in modern scholarship. The issues and motivations of common folks north and south is immensely complex.

I remember my dad reading the Catton centennial trilogy 60 years ago. Catton, too, was my entrance into the most fascinating -- and heartbreaking -- war in our history.

I cannot find Allan neveins

@TheTattooedHistorian

7 ай бұрын

www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/allan-nevins/allan-nevins-biography

@jagsdomain203

7 ай бұрын

@@TheTattooedHistorian Thanks very much. I had never even heard of him. My library did not have anything on him. Fantastic.

@jagsdomain203

7 ай бұрын

@@TheTattooedHistorian do you of any Catton type of writers for.WW2?

@TheTattooedHistorian

7 ай бұрын

Robert Leckie was a great voice for that generation and often overlooked.