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Nation. Our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our cities to her visits. Welcome to the spanish governors palace. What you are looking at is the presidium. Ts of the the original facility was built in the 1720s, and it was the residence for the captain. What we are looking at today is a romanticized version of what this building would have been. Again, it was the military headquarters. One of our first preservationists in san antonio worked very hard when she identified this building as being the original garrison and preserving it. It has been many D...

Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You migh...

Changed in interpretation. The Gettysburg College Civil War Institute provided the video for this event. Toso, beth i would like start by getting a feel for what led you to Civil War History and the career path you have taken. Beth that is a good question. Most people when you ask them that question who are in this field have these glowing nostalgic memories of being taken to the battlefield as children and that is not my story. My family visited some Historic Sites but not really, not that many. For us, or for me, it was when i got to high school and was considering a lot of careers in scienc...

Frees 3100 enslaved individuals. For the past year as war raged between the union and the confederacy opponents of slavery had decried the scandal of slavery continuing to exist within the Nations Capital. Eight and a half month later, president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation which did not free all enslaved persons but sent a powerful signal that slavery would no longer be tolerated. The emancipation proclamation has assumed a place among the greatest arguments of human freedom. The story of the emancipation proclamation is one that would help to redefine freedom and eventually c...

We play with it. Out of it. Even sit on it its hard to imagine modern life without plastic almost 350000000 tons were produced worldwide in 28. But plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem as the lifecycle of an ordinary water bottle show. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum light particle and can be found pretty much everywhere. Globally every single minute of the day a 1000000 are sold. Placed end to end the plastic bottle sold in 2016 would form a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury. So youve bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it why. Happens next...