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Washington, d. C. And i spent about a decade in washington. I guess you could call me a recovering policymaker. Now im a scholar still trying to atone for all of my years in the bells of bureaucracy. During my time working at the state department and on the n. S. C. Staff of the white house, i saw how hard it is for a president to get his government to do what he wants it to do or a secretary of state to get his or her, i worked for powell and rice, to get the Foreign Service, the state Department Building to do what they want to do. A clear president ial directives and orders would be disrega...

Featuring natural and Historic Sites throughout the country visited by our cspan cities tour staff. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. So, we are at Promontory Summit, utah. I am walking you over to where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed. This spot right here marked by tie, is within inches of where the original ceremony was held. Included on this is a plaque that lists the dignitaries from this company. The big are all marked there. Four another thing that you can see at the site is a connection with resources that would have been available to the two companies building t...

Masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the native. Quite a title. Published by the university of North Carolina press. This book details the untold story of enslavement by choctaw and chickasaw indians in the 18th and 19th century. Arbara has also coauthored book on slavery, emancipation and freedom published by Temple University press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. Tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the talk is entitled envisioning black americans and the end of slavery. Please welcome barbara. [laughter] professor krauthamer hello, good evening. T...

The relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. Her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettiesburg National Military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical nderstandings of the getty sburg campaign. Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director ...

Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important par...