At the civil war continues now with author Patrick Breen on his book the land should be deluged in blood. This talk was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Good morning. Good morning, again. Im Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note, hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here. And enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. I can say to you its one of the finest books ive read on southern history in a very long time. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates,
Robert L. Citron, the former Orange County tax collector who presided over the county’s investments when it went into bankruptcy in 1994, died Wednesday at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. He was 87. Citron suffered a heart attack early Wednesday and died Wednesday afternoon, said Eric Rosenberg, a longtime family friend and neighbor. Citron was […]