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He is completing an edited collection titled soldiers of the cross. The text will be out sometime later this spring. I think hes going to talk about rosecrans, but he is also instrumental to everything that we do at the center, especially to our Digital Projects and black virginians in blue. He is fundamental to our under graduate internship and Public Events like this. So i would like you all to join me in welcoming will kurtz. They dont usually let me talk at these things. Im afraid you are about to find out why. Ro rose cranes is kind of a downer and this is perhaps the first and last time ...

I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness t...

Work in history tv products are viable at the new cspan online store. Go to the website to see what is new for American History tv and check out all of the cspan products. A portion of the 1968 film the second largest minority. We are a lgbt History Society where f amato of archive activism. And by that i mean we find all the materials that have been forgotten, sealed or basically deleted. And we use those materials to talk about civil rights and the ongoing struggle for civil e quality. Will show you both films in their entirety. One is seven minutes the other is 12 minutes here on cspan 3. Y...

The lower wood high is within inches of where the original ceremony was held on may 10th, 1869. Included on this high is a plaque that lists many of the dignitaries from that company. Including Leland Stanfords name. Another thing you can see here at the site is the connection with the resources and that wouldve been available. The two companies building the railroads we have mocked up everything to try to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side you will see precut ties. The Central Pacific had plenty of wood in the serum that is and because of that they had sawmills and...

Most of the other small communities around puget sound and really in the pacific northwest. The population presence was predominantly native american. By the end of 19th century coming over the oregon trail and some by c, small villages really of american and europeans had arrived. Mostly along the shoreline and that was because the primary purpose year for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber that was sent down to san francisco. That prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities. So, seattle, bellingham, olympia a...