Good afternoon everyone, its my great privilege and honor to introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in business and history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in spotsylvania i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced n
And prepares the criteria and the results. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth onto this continent a new nation with liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it was those words Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield not far from where we sit today and the brilliance of those words, were not necessarily recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was on the featured speaker and it was actually Edward Everett senator from massachusetts and spoke for two hours lincoln waited to give the poignant closing words and today of course we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president speech in history. And people didnt necessarily see the speech that way at the time he was not the speech or speaker in front of fact that lincolns greatness will not recognize at the time in general. You have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had on certain Public Office for ten years. Country style address and his
Textual Records Division at the national in washington d. C. I will translate that for you will. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historians. Trevor is a really likable guy, but if you didnt like him and your historian, youve still got to be really nice to him. Because archivists of all the power. Now, ive got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist so i have got archivists at home as well as in the field, as well. Archivists are indispensable to what we do. In the field of history, in particular, youd be hardpressed to find above it doesnt have an impact on trevor. He knows the collections exceedingly well. He can do more than just pull the records off the gst shelves, youve got to have somebody that understands that material, and knows something about what you are working on. Youve got to know the field, and trevor does just that. He has a very valuable and Important Role in the history of civil war history. If you want to
Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age, but well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and
2022. Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every, saturday American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and. Authors funding for cspan two comes from leads Television Company and. More including rico. Mid, coalong with these television companies, support cspan 2 is a public service. We will today and present today dear friend and one of the great leaders of our country. It is currently the third democratic suburbs in. This has been in the Congress Since 1993. And has had a record in achievement, Rating Congress most leading member of the congress. Since about 20 years ago. Working to develop the idea of an International African museum. Congressman was as busy as anybody in the congress. If you went to his office on capitol hill, command central station, people came in. Planned congressman, presentation with. Him and went to ask the congressman if he considered being chair of the board of International African