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My name is jamie bosket have the privilege of serving as president and ceo here at the Virginia Museum of history and culture. And im honored to be the first to officially welcome you to tonights program. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. We are so pleased to be copresenting this timely discussion with our friends at the John Marshall center for constitutional history and civics. Im also pleased to serve on that board. The John Marshall center. But thats not the most important reaso...

Hello everyone this is the day the lord has made a lets rejoice and be glad. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the dedication of the museum of the bible the first worldclass museum in the history of a the world what a blessing to have you here. You will hear from wonderful people today making History Today is rededicate this museum in the of washington d. C. Area and also as the worlds museum. So as you can see we are located in the world stage theater we are coasting amazing grace. They are h...

Healthy aging. The Senate Special committee is chaired by Susan Collins of maine. The morning. Thgood morning. The committee wio order. For the next 12 years, 10,000 americans will turn 65 each day. Last month i officially joined that club. By the median age, maine is the oldest stage in the nation. They save 65 or older accounted for 19. 4 of the population of the state in 2016. That is an increase from 2010. No matter where in the country you live, when americans think of turning 65, we think ...

Health care plan authored by senator Lindsey Graham and bill cassidy. Tomorrow Senate Lawmakers plan to do with the nomination of the National Labor Relations Board and then they will adjourn for the rest of the week for a state work. The coverage of use senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, by whose providence our steps are ordered. You are our source of hop...

Virginia is 45 minutes. Our first speaker we are privileged to have here today is scott harris who is the director of the James Monroe Museum and library. He has been as such since july 2011. Previously scott was the dwrekt to of the New Market Battlefield state historical park owned by vmi and previous to that historic of the city. He received his ba with honors and holds a masters degree from the college of william and mary. Mr. Harris. [ applause ] im not going to drop the mic but i will lowe...

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Youre making me think about this, and i love this. This is the thing you may not te audiences and although what ive said is a compilation of what all of the historians and this is a consensus to a large extent on much of this now, but you may not buy any of it, but what i hope is that you will never look at this man and this march in the same way. Before i step away from this podium its an honor to be here with so many distinguished historians and so many great people, Richard Murray and you sta...

60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the destruction is limited to how far off the roads they can go. So she said there are vast areas in between those roads. That were untouched by it. And those people of course applied food and help to the other people who had ...

Becomes that, i think the term they use was the wind. This wire and wind that came through georgia. Sarah reuben made an interesting point about the destruction itself. I thought it was interesting, i left it out of my talk. She said we have the sense of the march to the sea as being the giant tidal wave this tsunami. 60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army w...

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