Welcome you all to the Battlefields Foundation roundtable, guide you are all able to make it. Its going to be a very interesting, top were going to hear this evening. Remember, we do not have dues, but we do ask that everyone who comes to the roundtable become a member of the Shadow Valley Battlefields Foundation. Just to know a little bit about the foundation, we have close to 5000 acres, of civil battlefield that weve been able to preserve, please go to our website, and if you could, we would surely appreciate you becoming a member of the foundation. Im going to introduce our speaker tonight, steve and i both move to the area about the same time. Steve came from a career in music, he is a graduate of Berkeley College of music. For many many years he toured worldwide, he came back to his roots in pennsylvania. He decided to study this battle, he didnt just study it, he was engrossed in it. He has done remarkable, thorough research as, thorough as anyone could do, to put together a boo
About now . That is better. Thank you for coming i am told coowner of the city book stop im happy to have everyone here tonight is anybody here for the first time . One person. Welcome. We are very glad youre here normally we have half the crowd but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening. And i just want to say a heartfelt thank you for supporting so a few logistics first of all please silence your cell phone when i forget to say that i always regret it. Books are for sale upstairs if you have it purchased a book if you havent youll have time after the talk we will just do the sighting right here. So moving on to tonights event majority of you here know car also a very short and sweet bio. From the New York Times serving as a washington editor at the time his chief Congressional Correspondent for judicial confirmation and we will have time for audience questions after the talks to take advantage of this opportunity for all the inside information that you would like to get. Ple
Sorry about that. Ive been focused mostly on Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. And how do we adapt to the changes in air temperature that produces and mitigate. And so now were seeing this broader picture of other effects coming from Carbon Dioxide such as this algae story. And so were on the beginning of how do we g o engineer or deal with this . Im sure with innovation and some really great ideas. We will be able to deal with this. We should keep in mind though, the amount volumes of this are enormous. Well, we certainly hope that will come up with a plan or a solution. David hollins, theyre an expert, an Ocean Science at New York University i b w center for global level change. Thank you for joining us and sharing your expertise. David, thank you. Ah, hello dan, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. Sporadic gunfire is being heard across students, capital courtroom. Thats despised an extension of an already faltering ceasefire for another 72 hours on humanitarian grounds.
I am the director and would like to very briefly encourage you all if youve not done so to support the southern festival, which we keep free and open and have done so for over 29 years by making a donation to the festival which you can do online at humanities tennessee or Facebook Page or in person on the plaza at the headquarters at union avenue. We appreciate you being here this morning. A very quick note about the q a portion of todays event. You should be holding an index card if you have a question you would like addressed please write that on the card and about 15 minutes and if you pass them towards the end of the aisle someone will come by and collect the cards that will be used for the q a afterwards. This time i would like to welcome this mornings guest, the professor of management at Vanderbilt University where he is just courses in ethics, Public Policy and negotiation industry in author on the book relation to employment which we discussed at the festival when it was publi
Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H