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The end of the civil war. Their april 1865 meeting happened two days after president lincolns assassination and a week after robert e lee surrendered at appomattox. This is part of the annually conform symposium and is just under an hour. Welcome to session one of the 21st annual lincoln for him symposiumincoln forum. Professor craig simons is Professor Emeritus of the United States Naval Academy and a member of the executive committee of the board of advisors of the lincoln forum. Newlythe author or editor 2000 two dozen books, including neptune, the allied invasion of europe and the dday and...

He has previously written the admiral, which was the winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison award in naval literature. His commentaries appeared in the new york times, Washington Post and wall street journal and other places. So without continuing for too long we are all here to hear walter borneman. [applause] thank you so much. Its wonderful to be here in hyde park, and i indeed going to talk about macarthur, macarthur at war world war ii in the pacific but a really thought i wanted to bring this because of our historic venue. A little bit more about the relationship between Douglas Macarthur a...

Next, George Daughan discusses the importance of the new york waterways and how the british were unable to establish an effective blockade of new england. Arnzen noble hosted this hourlong event. Thank you for attending this author event. George daughan will be speaking about his book revolution on the hudson. in addition to writing books he has also he has won many awards for his work. 1812 a navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the American Navy won the 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. The 2008 Samuel Eliot M...

Comments by dr. Glenn williams. Our first paper is by tom long, who is an assistant professor and coordinator of history in the department of George Washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches courses in early American History, constitutional history, military and naval history, and today he is going to offer you a paper. Water, water everywhere logistics of the 1975 17751776 campaign. Professor lon...

Next on American History tv, from the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland, for historians discuss the challenges of naval logistics for the Fledgling Navy during the revolutionary war. The scholars detail how the American Navy successfully cooperated with a much larger french navy to help defeat the british by 1781. This u. S. Naval Academy Program is about one hour and 20 minutes. Professor smith good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. This is a session on naval logistics and the American Revolution. My name is gene smith and i will be the chair. Today we have three p...