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Six years. Peter scott, one of the things that john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We have also talked about the partnerships with academics and we have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina Silver Silver was one of the first historians that came to the park and had conversations with the park staff about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg and time and time again john and i have noticed th...

We will get into that. Let me say a little bit about scott. Welcome, scott. Many of our viewers know scott from his very long and successful and productive tenure and engagement with the National Park. He has been retired for a little more than 10 years or a little less than 10 years, excuse me. Geez, actually six years. Peter one thing john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We also talked about partnerships with academics. We have see...

Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccin...

Because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years in prison symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that. We postponed until next year. Tickets are available at this time, but they also stepped up to make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you, dan and kevin for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker sarah kay bierle. Is the managing editor of emerging who was working behind civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and g...

That are available at this time. They also stepped up to make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like now to introduce our next speaker. Barely. Y the managing editor of emerging civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and going and to make sure that all of that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is invaluable to our organization. She is the author of call out the cadet a book series. She is also at work on a biography of th...

Leepson. He was a letter for the congressional quarterly, but he is now a freelance rider. He has a bachelors degree and a masters degree from George Washington university. His many books include sitting monticello, published by Simon Schuster in 2001, flag an american biography, 2005, desperate engagement the story of the battle of the monopoly see in 2007. Lafayette idealist general, published by mcmillan in 2011. What so proudly we hailed francis got key, a life published by mcmillan in 2011,...

A new phase with todays Health Judiciary hearing. Washington journal is next. [video clip] this is about our democracy, our National Security, whether the American People have a right to expect the president of the United States will act with their interest in mind. Host House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff unveiling the 300 page impeachment inquiry report. The Committee Approved the report last night 139. A pick up the process today with their first public hearing. Live at 10 00 easte...

In 2008, mark served as the visiting senior lecturer of war studies at the Royal Military academy at sandhurst in the united kingdom. He is the author of eight books and he currently has two other books in the works. His presentation today is taken from his most recent work, the seventh West Virginia industry. It is coauthored. [applause] mark thank you. Before i give my presentation, i want to give you a little background about the seventh virginia infantry regiment. That is how it started out....

Us. Im adam tuss. Im jennifer fitzgerald. Our former colleague tom where say a orange sherbert sunrise. You know, lauryn has some good s descriptions awell. We are happy to have her with us. Lauryn, this weather has been aioss the last couple of days. Once ag you walk outside and you are going to feel the humidity and mugginess yeah, tom had a great way of describing things out there. Lets show you guys the sunrise out there rightus now beca it is absolutely gorgeous out there. And we are go g i...

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