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On studying what he calls “old, unhappy, far-off things:” “There are myriad reasons for studying the past. People will always say if you don’t learn the lessons of the past, you’re doomed to repeat them. That’s all too easy—it doesn’t work that way. The past has lessons for us, I think, things that we should live up to. A sense of who we are, or were. There’s also a lot to live down— things that we’re still trying to get right, and I think that’s the old, unhappy part of things.”
Stephen Berry Amanda and Greg Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era Co-Director, Center for Virtual History history.uga.edu/directory/stephen-berry Photo shot by Andrew Davis Tucker on location with a double-barreled cannon at the entrance to Pittard Park in downtown Winterville.
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