Billions, building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity, and communities big and small. Charter is connecting. Us charter communications, along with these television companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. Welcome to Atlanta History Center series, my name is claire haley and im Vice President of Public Relations here. Its my pleasure to welcome you all an audience and to welcome our guest, allen guelzo. He is discussing his book,robert e. Lee a life, a biography of the figure that we all may know, and has a lot of interesting insight in the book. It was just published yesterday, and allen, we are so excited to have you. You can get a copy of the book from Atlanta History Center book, its online, we ship, there is in store pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And given orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in ear
Here. Its my pleasure to welcome you all an audience and to welcome our guest, allen guelzo. He is discussing his book,robert e. Lee a life, a biography of the figure that we all may know, and has a lot of interesting insight in the book. It was just published yesterday, and allen, we are so excited to have you. You can get a copy of the book from Atlanta History Center book, its online, we ship, there is in store pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And given orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century American History. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. Allen, welcome, and thank you so much for being here. Thank you very much, claire for hosting this program, monique for acting as our wonderful Technical Support and hello to all of my friends in atlanta, a city i have known an
Welcome to Atlanta History Centers, virtual author talk series. Im here for the history center, its my absolute pleasure to welcome tonights special guest, alan guelzo. Allen will be discussing his newest book, robert e. Lee a life, it comprehensive biography of a figure a lot of us think we might now, but will cover new interesting insight about him. If i said earlier, it was just published yesterday, so congratulations allen, were so excited to have you a day after publication day. You can purchase a copy of the book from the Atlanta History Center bookstore its online, we ship, there is instore pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And give an orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at the council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century american history. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. He lives in pennsylvania allen, we
Africanamerican males. Think about this several months ago clive and bundy on his ranch, all of these militia guys ran down there and had assault rifles pointed at the police. Nothing was said. Can you imagine if it was the reverse with african pointing assault rifles at the police . This how often has occurred to you personally in your situation . Caller and my lifetime, three times. Host how was it resolved . Caller they check my license, told me i did not need to be in my neighborhood that neighborhood. I was simply visiting a friend. Compliant,ause i was you know, it didnt reach for anything. Educateded by about the police at the young age. My father always had these conversations with me. Its crazy, i find myself having the same conversations with my young 18yearold. It gets to a point where i dont that africanamerican men are angry, i think they just have an edge to them because generation after generation they have to have these conversations with their young sons. I dont know i
Reporter as to the ethnicity of the cost of the suspect in the case they do not know. They were not mexican and they were not black. Pam the crime has left many el cerrito residents shaken. The brutal beating of the elderly couple has been the talk of the neighborhood. Pam those who we spoke with say. This community is very quiet. And they expressed shock and disgust about saturdays violent incident. Hardly ever any violence in this community. I am kind of shocked to hear this. It is out rages. Are thinking pam neighbors say, they hope police will be able to catch the suspects. Before they target anyone else. Reporter students here al all highschool are finding their way going home after nothing much to do. I was in the middle of my class. The principle stated that we needed to evacuate. We heard the bells and evacuate. Reporter after receiving the school was concerned from a bomb threat. Students were not told why they reject what it initially some thought that this could be a drill.