BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Panel -- Decision Making in the Civil War (w/James McPherson, Craig Symonds, and John Marszalek)

Natl Archives -- Panel -- Decision Making in the Civil War (w/James McPherson, Craig Symonds, and John Marszalek):

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Description of Pictures: Decision Making in the American Civil War: Three noted historians and authors discuss decision making in the American Civil War. John F. Marszalek, professor emeritus of history at Mississippi State University, analyzes the command decisions and differing perspectives of the generals, particularly Henry Wager Halleck and William Tecumseh Sherman. Craig Symonds, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, looks at Abraham Lincoln and his admirals. James McPherson, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, examines Lincoln and his generals.
Introductions were provided by Daniel Rulli, Education Specialist, National Archives and Records Administration.
Opening remarks were provided by Robert S Willard, President, Abraham Lincoln Institute.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NADM_051019_008.JPG: Left to right: John Marszalek, Craig Symonds, James McPherson
2. NADM_051019_019.JPG: James McPherson. Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. Author of a bunch of books including the Pulitzer Prize winning "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" (1988).
3. NADM_051019_044.JPG: Daniel Rulli, Education Specialist, National Archives
4. NADM_051019_048.JPG: Bob Willard is president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and admits to a life-long fixation on Lincoln. He's worked with the Government Printing Office, the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), Mead Data Central, Inc. (now named LexisNexis), and Vice President, Government Relations of the Information Industry Association. He served as an Army officer in Korea, Vietnam, and the Pentagon.
5. NADM_051019_111.JPG: Craig L. Symonds is a leading Civil War and naval historian who taught for more than thirty years at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island; and Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England. His ten books include the award-winning biographies Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography; Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War; and Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan, plus The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy and A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War.
6. NADM_051019_162.JPG: John F. Marszalek: Formerly a professor at the University of Mississippi, his 1993 work, "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order," was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, considered the most prestigious award for Civil War books. His most recent publication, "Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck," (2004) focuses on the puzzling career of a senior Union officer who was a commanding general longer than anyone else in the four-year conflict, but whose legacy subsequently fell into somewhat of an historical vacuum.
7. NADM_051019_202.JPG: Craig Symonds
8. NADM_051019_206.JPG: James McPherson
9. NADM_051019_210.JPG: John Marszalek, Craig Symonds, and James McPherson
10. NADM_051019_212.JPG: Bob Willard
11. NADM_051019_241.JPG: James McPherson
12. NADM_051019_290.JPG: Bob Willard
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- Marszalek, John appears on:
  - 2013_MS_CWT_Talks_130530 CWT Annual Conference (2013) in Jackson, MS -- Opening Talks
- McPherson, James appears on:
  - 2015_DC_MasurMcP_150513 Politics & Prose -- Louis Masur ("Lincoln's Last Speech") and James McPherson ("War That Forged A Nation")
  - 2013_PA_Dedication_Prep_131119 PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: Dedication Day Ceremony -- Everything except the ceremony
  - 2013_PA_Dedication_Cer_131119 PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: Dedication Day Ceremony -- Ceremony
  - 2013_DC_Freedom_Natl_130124 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
  - 2012_DC_McPherson_121002 Natl Archives -- James McPherson ("War on the Waters")
  - 2012_MD_Antietam150_S5_120916 MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Event: 150th Anniversary -- James McPherson and Edwin Bearss
  - 2010_DC_McPherson_100410 Reynolds Center & Washington College -- James M. McPherson ("Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road")
  - 2009_DC_LOC_Lincoln_090304 Library of Congress -- Event: Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium (presentations)
  - 2008_DC_McPherson_081111 Smithsonian Associates -- James McPherson ("Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief")
  - 2008_DC_McPherson_081020 Politics & Prose -- James McPherson ("Tried By War")
  - ...More (List all 18 pages with this person)...
- Symonds, Craig appears on:
  - 2016_DC_Lincoln_Matters_160218 Natl Archives -- Panel -- "Why Lincoln Still Matters" (w/Harold Holzer, Martha Hodges, Craig Symonds, and Lucas Morel)
  - 2016_DC_Holzer_160114 DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Harold Holzer ("A Just and Generous Nation")
  - 2015_DC_Holzer_150214 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
  - 2014_DC_Holzer_141023 Natl Archives -- Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Boat_120922 CWT Grand Review (2012) in Williamsburg, VA -- Monitor/CSS Virginia boat ride tour
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Mariner_120922 CWT Grand Review (2012) in Williamsburg, VA -- Mariner's Museum
  - 2011_DC_CWAS_S2_110423 Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (3 of 9) -- Speaker: Craig Symonds
  - 2011_DC_CWAS_Etc_110423 Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (1 of 9) -- All except presentations
  - 2011_DC_NYTCW_110410 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds ("New York Times: Complete Civil War")
  - 2011_DC_WPC_Misc_110211 DC -- Willard Hotel -- Washington Peace Conference -- Miscellaneous
  - ...More (List all 17 pages with this person)...
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