There is scope for doing new things out,fleshing so it is great to have new ideas. I appreciate carolines presentation and the audiences questions, so thank you fremont. Next, Historic Site manager Paige Gibbons backus talks about the state of medical knowledge at the beginning of the civil war, including surgical practices and diseases common among the soldiers. She also describes advances later in the war such as sterilization and Reconstructive Surgery that drastically improved a soldiers chance of survival. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. To the emerging civil war virtual symposium and thank you for joining us online for this years event. I want to give one more shout out to our technical director, chris white, for his help behind the camera today. Ecw cofounder. Thank you, chris. Also thank you to our cocoordinators Kevin Pollock and dan welch, his hard work made todays event possible turn also thank you to our friend
Page givens bacchus. Weve been talking about the war in means, but we cannot forget about the aftermath as well. Is a public historian with Prince William county, virginia. About here today to talk the medical field in the civil war. Thank you for having me and thank you for listening and watching these videos. What i will be talking to you about, i will be talking about the fight for life and death in the aftermath of these battles in the american civil war. We have heard a lot of talk about different battles, prison camps, and the aftermath of the in the years and months and days following was, in a sense, a whole other battle. It was a war against disease. Wrote thattorian heroes ofe the unsung and they were treating the dying and wounded after these heroes horrific battles. So it cost over 700,000 casualties. Ultimately we will talk about the good that came out of this battle for life and death. So, i could be talking to you all day about anything and everything with civil war medi
Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
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Have, i have to run the country the way were running the country, we are doing very well, respected all over the world again. Also on the programme. The republicans hold two house seats in North Carolina, while President Trump took credit for the victory, is he the reason these safe seats are in play . And the perfect way to mark the founding of your city, walking the tightrope between the two tallest buildings. Hello and welcome, im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. Scotlands highest civil court has ruled borisjohnsons prorogation of parliament was unlawful. A panel of 3 judges found in favour of a Cross Party Group who were challenging the Prime Ministers move. The court of session judges said they were unanimous that mrjohnsons decision to suspend, was for the improper purpose of stymieing parliament; that he had misled the queen, and therefore the decision was null and of no effect. However, in a separate ruling published today regarding the challenge in