Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the civil war institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and ended on june 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. It is model tactical history, well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the archives, and so much of tactical history, much about gettysburg, never draws from original manuscript material, which in my estimation, is
I am professor of history at gettysburg college. My guess is gordon ray. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and ended on june 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. It is model tactical history, well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the archives, and so much of tactical history, much about gettysburg, never draws from original manuscript material, which in my estimation, is almost criminal. Gordon he dove into the archives. Just to give you one example, the third volume of his series, an impressive amount of research that included 150 manus
Your own country every day. And media is doing that. Almost every africanamerican has a flagship website thats on top of all africa. So media is playing that role, and it would keep going that way. Okay. Let me i think we have time for a couple more questions. Right here. This question is for akon and amadou. Im a technologist and we have an army of developers in africa. We constantly thinking about creating something to own that content and navigate it through, but because we are so bound into our technology mind, we dont know what to do. What kind of focus what is the media focus we should be basically focusing on . My name is abdel and im from dci. My question to the panelists and you kind of touched about it a few minutes ago but you didnt go deeper. The first fdi from africa to United States, it was here. And so far its not utilizing to its full potential to change what you all are talking about as the narrative about africa. We all in this room have been to all those little of th
Tyler is married to sarah olson and they have a fiveyearold son, leo, and a two euro twoyear old daughter willa. Ladies and gentlemen, tyler olson. [applause] good evening, everybody. It is good to be here with you. I am here for two reasons. The first is to see all of you. I see some familiar faces. The second is very simple. Iowa needs a new governor. [applause] as john said, i have a five yearold and a twoyearold. A lot of you have come tonight and asked if my kids are here. The first question i thought would be, good to see you, but it is are your kids here . This is one of our favorite times of day. After dinner, we put on the music. My fiveyearold and twoyear old dance around the house. Not quite in a venue like this, this is a nice ballroom, but around the living room. There is nothing more joyful than a fiveyearold and a two yearold dancing around the house. They dont care if anybody is watching. My wife and i are making sure the blinds are down and the curtains are drawn becau
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