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Its the middle of the week. And you all came out to be a part of this conversation. Im pleased to have you here. I wanted to talk about this image from Jacob Lawrence. It is a 60piece art creation. What is interesting about it is lawrence created it as a result of learning more about his own family. That his parents were migrants to the north. I think from virginia, if i remember correctly. He learned about the migration by talking to them and talking to other members of his family as well as ot...

West africa to iraq and has written on security and Global Affairs for a wide range of newspapers and magazines. Book,itical acclaimed which began with gettysburg, the value of the shadow, richmond, the dam at petersburg and will conclude with justice at conclude with judgment at appomattox, will be released on august 29. It will have a better cover. Yes, it will have a better cover. [laughter] you all will see a special advanced copy. We do have Copies Available over labor day weekend. I apolog...

She received her phd from Boston College after teaching for a few years she moved to villanova. That is where she is now a professor. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including most recently sex and the civil war, soldiers, pornography, and the making of american morality. Home Something Like that. That is not right. The diary of a free black woman and philadelphia. Which my scholars just read and discussed, and we all want to know what happened. Sorry. Judie is much more than a ac...

It is our number one industry and today it is the foundation of our economy. I grew up on a farm. Many people in south dakota, i think most are one or two generations or immediately off a farm or ranch. That is our strength. We have Mount Rushmore, the badlands. Lots of things that bring tourism to south dakota. We are also a Financial Services locale. 1980s when the Interest Rates were skyrocketing and citibank was losing money in , they moved their credit card operation to south dakota, where ...

Part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. When i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. Hes getting married in a couple weeks. I will be a major life shift for it. He is the education director for the Mosby Heritage area and coauthor of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. He will talk with us a bit about what ...

In American History with 23,000 casualties between two size and ended in the unions strategic victory. This 40 minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker is one of the great emerging voices and the entire field. Ien i first met kevin pollack thought, this is one of those guys that is going to be a rock star. I hear when i travel across the country, we have to get more young people involved. If we need a poster ch...

He went on to the George Patton museum, which got him involved with world war ii. He has written a couple of fantastic books, one on. Though and one of the stones river and the tullahoma campaign. Though one even per and one on the stones riverryville and the tullahoma campaigns. It was overshadowed by gettysburg and vicksburg. He is here today to talk little about stones river, that sets out tullahoma. That will wrap up 1862 and literally bring us into 1863 with one of the most great defenses o...

Nixon can do. What can we do so that johnson and humphrey do appear for the victory. And then the talks will resume when i am president and we can make something happen. Powerful example of how our understanding of the past is always changing and new evidence can also introduce new interpretations and how perhaps some of the, some of the things we thought were true about what a president did and why he did it can change many decades after his death. Announcer watching the entire program at 8 00 ...

One of our own, a phd from 2010, Kathryn Shively meier, who is now an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches courses on the American Civil War and American Military history and environmental history credit her Research Interests history. Her Research Interests involve the 1600s and 19 century, with focus on the interactions of soldiers with their natural environments and their mental and physical health. Her first book, common soldiers in the environ...

Now an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches courses on the American Civil War and American Military history and environmental history credit her Research Interests history. Her Research Interests involve the evolution of American Forces from the 1600s and 19 century, with focus on the interactions of soldiers with their natural environments and their mental and physical health. Her first book, common soldiers in the environment won the wily silver ...