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Here is absolutely marvelous. Came to see all of you. [applause] state blessedher with that number of candidates all in one place. You are special. [cheers] my task is to introduce to you the members of congress who have joined us from all over the country. We do have a few. And if they would join me on the stage, i would appreciate it. And these members are the ones not running for president. First, we have representative barbara lee from california. 13th district. Secondly, we have marcia fudg...

He is completing an edited collection titled soldiers of the cross. The text will be out sometime later this spring. I think hes going to talk about rosecrans, but he is also instrumental to everything that we do at the center, especially to our Digital Projects and black virginians in blue. He is fundamental to our under graduate internship and Public Events like this. So i would like you all to join me in welcoming will kurtz. They dont usually let me talk at these things. Im afraid you are ab...

[applause] the view from here is absolutely marvelous. Came to see all of you. [applause] state blessedher with that number of candidates all in one place. You are special. [cheers] my task is to introduce to you the members of congress who have joined us from all over the country. We do have a few. And if they would join me on the stage, i would appreciate it. And these members are the ones not running for president. First, we have representative barbara lee from california. 13th district. Seco...

So ill get us rolling. Were going to have a pretty informal discussion here where well throw out some questions that have occurred to all of us as weve been listening to these wonderful talks and the first question i will throw out, i think, i trust has occurred to many of you in the audience, and that is its really aimed primarily at gary and christopher, and that is are your two interpretations garys with the emphasis on centrality of the theater on the east and then west. Are they at odds or ...

Retired just last spring from uva where he represents Civil War History from 1999 until 2018. He is the author and editor of at least 39 books, including the union war, the american war, and most recently, coedited, civil war places, a beautiful book, his son took the photograph, and this is an absolute treasure if you have not had a chance to see it yet. With that, i would like to welcome gary gallagher. [applause] dr. Gallagher thank you, carrie. We are on a very tight schedule, which all of u...

, if you202 7488000 are not worried, we want to hear from you as well at 202 7488001. You can always reach us on social media on twitter and facebook. Several news organizations picked up on the exchange and are writing about it in the paper. In the New York Times, they wrote the exchange as this. As President Trump sat down with mr. Putin on the sidelines of an International Summit in japan, mr. Trump was asked if you would tell russia not to meddle in american elections. Will, mr. Trump said, ...

War places, and the atlanta campaign. Up first this morning, Oklahoma State University Professor Jennifer Murray on the Gettysburg National park. She is, as you know, an expert on the civil war and in expert in military history in general. She has a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, making, management, and memory of Gettysburg National park. It was published in 2013 at the university of tennessee press. She is currentl...

Good morning, everyone. Take your seats. All right. If we could get seated, please. Let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audiences. I am peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. I am a member of the History Department here. Welcome myeasure to good friend, Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. I have a feway rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have to read...

20 books. I have a long list here. One of my favorite books is girls. Is earls. Is one of the first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done any others that charge, ackets book on field fortifications. A lot of people dont love braxton bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched , deeply analytical look. He has won a number of awards. I should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is publishe...

Me a statue that he fought to get a wrecked in in 2017 so this is mrs maggie cleaned out walker. Born to an insulated mother Maggie Walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the United States the st luke penny savings bank. Statues say to the community and say to the world this is someone whose fault to put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so thats what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statue because...