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Good morning, everyone. Im peter carmichael. A member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to welcome aaron sheehandean. Aaron sheehandean is the is it fray . The fred c. Fry professor of southern studies at lsu. Aaron is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington, d. C. As a congressional staffer and then moved on...

This is about an hour. So, this is the final panel before our keynote address, and it is the second section looking at the ways in which the military as an institution and military leaders attempted to confront the crisis that most of us have agreed actually did occur following the tet offensive in the vietnam war, the u. S. War in vietnam. I am beth bailey. Ill be moderating this. And sitting next to me is richard hunt, who has written the definitive biography of melvin laird. Next to him is bo...

Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of eco...

He is the great professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me say i have a few rules i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. We like him so much. His work is so good. You want to be jealous but you cant, steve is a wonderful guy. A fantastic teacher as well. I have sent many students to work with steve over the years. And at university ...

This is a panel on the book civil war places. We have a couple copies up here that people will be thumbing through. And were going to have something very unusual for me, were going to have a screen behind us. He is smiling because i dont do anything this venturesome. To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and...

Earls. I can honestly say one of his books i read at graduate school is one of the very finest and, in fact, one of the very first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done many others that include pickens charge, rightful musket in the civil war. His book on braxton brag as well. Im not sure youll love him after you read earls book. It is a fair and very well researched and deeply analytical look at that controversial general. Earl has won a number...

That followed the 1968 tet offensive, the u. S. Media documented a growing crisis. Frequent stories of desertion, of drug use, combat, challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities, most infamous of which was the massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we suggested that things were different in the period before 1968. So as we Start Talking about posttet, id start by giving...

Im director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure to welcome professor edward ayers for the robert bloom lecture. Professor ayers is the Tucker Boatwright professor of humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of numerous books and articles including in the presence of mine enemies the civil war and heart of america the winner of the bancroft prize. He also wrote the promise of the new south. Excellent book i read in grad school many years ago and ...

With a longtime contributor to cwi, jen murray. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. She is as you know an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has i would say a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memory of get Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university o...

His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water su...