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Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. ...

Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The ...

Story. We have produced a number of educational and public programming events of which witness to history is part of that. This afternoon is certainly a good example, we bring together Law Enforcement professionals, experts who were involved in some of the most famous criminal cases in American History and today we bring together a fwrup of experts who worked so diligently and for so long on the unabomber investigation. One of the longest manhunts in american Law Enforcement history. I want to thank our friends from target for sponsoring todays event, i would like to turn our program over to j...

War it self. That shapes what we are looking at. If you view the onset of civil instead oftively, seeing all of the differences between north and south, you tend to spot the similarities. Think about it. , a two sides in the conflict war of rather against brother in some cases, literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religion. They shared a similar political philosophy. The north and south employed virtually the same weapons, used the same tactics, their top commanders graduated from the same military academy. Union put an army in this war, the confe...

Steam, coal, electricity, oil, gasoline, and nuclear. This Energy Department production ends with a look at conservation and renewable sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal. The millers house in the maryland countryside. For 200 years, people have dwelt in this house. Farmed the fields, ground of the grain, lived and died. How did they live . Even in america where nature is generous, life is hard. The energy of back and aching muscles plows the land, splits the rails, does the work. For more than a century, working energy is human and animal labor twiddling otoiling from dawn til dusk. F...