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Old dominion home. I want to take just a couple of seconds to thank two specific groups. Long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in Washington County in july of 2016. The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary,...

I did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown speakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. As a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker ...

Introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. He is the director of the Texas Military forces museum. And an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community college. He is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. His last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in virginia from gettysburg and includes meade and lee, which is due for publication next year. Lets give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. It is always fun to stand in a group ...

The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. And we and i drove up walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one ,ady sitting in the sanctuary and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said s...

Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the poor people who are sitting here at the table with me, and i will do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which the images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project and why they selected the image that they selected. And they will talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes...

About. And from time to time when ive done this panel with friends and colleagues, ive called it on or off their pedestals. The debate over statues, memorials, memory and meaning. Topic maybesed this twice or three times with edna medford and it is evolving even between us as we proceed over a year and a half. And its a pleasure to welcome not only adamant edna medford, but also lives liz varon and Gary Gallagher to join the discussion. Memorials in 22 states and the district of columbia, 110 ha...

Nonfiction become award from the mississippi utah letters. S and he has a book out and you can our bookstore at battlefield center. Introduce to dr. Timothy smith. [applause] i appreciate the opportunity to here. I have always heard about the time. And this is my first i heard how nice it was and im a believer now. A great place here and i appreciate the invitation to here. We will truck about the western talk about ing to vicksburg, Champion Hill. To vicksburg . Been how many to Champion Hill ....

Watch booktv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as with the booktv and American History tv on the road. Benefit clause i suppose in the ncaa rulebook. It specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really. Related to their status as an athlete. That means a fan, a a booster,e wouldbe agent, a coach is not permitted to give anything of value be on what is specified in basically the ncaa consultation, x number o...

Booktv and free speech tv. So i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. And also just so you know its being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a booksigning afterwardded. Hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. So please join is. This weekend i went to d. C...

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