Well visit with a historian and author who will share the history of the ozarks and talk about the stereotypes people face living in the region. Those stereotypes have been developing for a couple of hundred years. They are strong and they stick with us no matter what we do. You go outside this museum and you travel around northwest there are fortune 500 companies, there is a Major Research university, there is all kinds of business and industry and high tech stuff going on out there, but these stereotypes will stick with us. It is part of our story. Later, we will hear the story of the family who was residents who were residents of fayetteville and how they were driven from their home during the civil war. This is a family that lived here and survived the war. The war affected them in many ways and they eventually had to leave the house because of the war. Hour with athe visit to the center for arkansas oral and visual history. It was started as a way to preserve the stories of the pe
Was so upset by the whole affair that he wrote a letter to his uncle, and in the letter he we went to bed Old Fashioned, conservative, compromised union wigs, and waked up start raving mad abolitionists. Plus, spencer crew on the great migration of africanamericans from the south to the midwest, after world war i. Workers to a lack of help prepare the mediations and supplies needed for the war effort. Began to do was figure out, where else can we find people to hold these jobs . And for the first time ever, positions for africanamericans in northern industry began to become available. There is no reason to move to the north. Because there are jobs. Tv, allcan history weekend, every weekend. Only on cspan3. Civil war authors discuss how they started writing about their topics, their process of researching, and at some of the unexpected information they have discovered. The Gettysburg Heritage Center hosted this hourlong talk. My name is tammy myers, welcome everybody. I am pleased to we
Ladies will be on to talk about the Womens Suffrage Movement and the obstacles to the right to vote. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal sunday morning. Join the discussion. War, authorhe civil Paul Bretzger talks about his book observing hancock at gettysburg the generals leadership through eyewitness accounts. Mr. Bretzger argues that general Winfield Scott hancock was one of the most important generals at the battle of gettysburg. The Gettysburg Heritage Center is the host of this 40 minute discussion. Tammy welcome. My name is tammy myers. I am the president here at the getty Gettysburg Heritage Center. We value education, community, and preservation. Based upon our value system, we have developed a museum that is a collaborative effort with the adams county Historical Society, civil war trust, land conservancy of adams county, and center for civil war photography. We officially opened in may 2015, and we count the battle of gettysburg stories from a new perspective, one tha
Hosted this 35 minute talk. Good afternoon and welcome to the gettysburg Heritage Center. This is our second in the series for today. Ive the pleasure of introducing the next speaker, james rada. He is a historian and an author. He has written many works of fiction and nonfiction history. They include popular books such as battlefield angels, the charity work of civil war nurses. He lives in gettysburg where he is a freelance writer. He has received numerous awards from the maryland delaware d. C. Press association, the associated press, the maryland state teachers association, society of professional journalists, and computed hash Community Newspapers holding, inc. , for his newspaper writing. Without any further introduction, i will introduce to you james rada. James good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about a book that myself and a coauthor wrote called the last to fall. It is about the marine march in 1922 that saved the marine corps. The marines had proved themselves a Form
It was really good the efforts of those weekend trips. It was all through my father paid the first amateur was when i was five years old. His first trip to a Civil War Battlefield was when he was five. After the generations. A toy and going out on the battlefield and hearing the storytelling. I came toer years find out that my father was not the most accurate. The Confederate Army seem to always win here at gettysburg. And it became this historical place that i wanted to win best live in. This time that i wanted to learn constantly about that context and those decisions. Think that ties back to our opening comments were we talked about preservation. You guys talked about being grounded in place and how that impacted your understanding and improve your Interest Rate if you do not have a place you connected hubs. That is the importance of preservation. You have those landscapes to walk on. For one or two questions if anyone has anything in the audience. Alright, i just want to think the