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This issue introduces a new annual feature—publication of the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. Begun in 1962, the lecture series, run by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and conducted on the anni- versary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, has featured a veritable “Who’s Who” of the historical profession. Bruce Catton launched the event, fol- lowed by a parade of luminaries including David Herbert Donald, John Hope Franklin, Willie Lee Rose, C. Vann Woodward, Drew Gilpin Faust, Eugene Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, James M. McPherson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Michael Holt, Gary W. Gallagher, Catherine Clinton, Edward Ayers, and many others. Although the lectures had been distrib- uted in pamphlet form since 1982, this new arrangement will allow for eas- ier access for the historical community, not only in printed form but also electronically through the journal’s presence on Project MUSE. The honor of delivering the fi ftieth anniversary lecture, on November 19, 2011, fell to Joan Waugh of UCLA. We are privileged to run her insights about Ulysses S. Grant’s construction of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. She argues that the supposed simplicity of his explanation for a lenient approach masks lessons learned in other surrenders
The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 29, 2012
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