Add to ORKGThursday night brings into Gettysburg an avalanche of historians (both public and academic) to discuss the Future of Civil War History for a whole weekend. That means I\u27ll be taking some annual leave from work and participating in a working-group investigating Training Seasonal Historians in the Age of Holding the High Ground. It\u27s still unclear who will be able to attend our panel thanks to sequestration and a moratorium on NPS travel. Still, those of us who can make it will soldier on. [excerpt
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