Good evening everyone, welcome to our latest raven book chat and i am will pick talks at the hawkins and i thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event but these days when theres so many options for things to do with every time. You could just sit on your couch never evening. Through you critique alexei for us to have folks come in for our events so we really appreciate it. I know that the staff of raven bookstore appreciated as well. Ill introduce you to our guest speaker, james sherow is a professor and the department of history at Kansas State University and he specializes in Research Environmental history and north American Indian history and history of the American West. Professor sherow as written six books norment articles and empire across the heartland, rephotographing alexander gardeners journey which is a familiar resource first staff involved here and i know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslan
Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
Shipenburgs university of pennsylvania. Hes an awardwinning author, coauthor or editor of 27 civil war books and more than 40 related articles. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photographer. Hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years. Hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, the pennsylvania public time as d works full chief historian or the American Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary gear. [applause] leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy during the whole civil war in such a sort period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are started in the constitution and there amp. Then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. Southerners look to the north and although they speak the same languag
Evening, its very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. And i know that the staff of the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. So now ill introduce tonights guest speaker. James e. Sherow is a professor in the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, and the history of the american west. Professor sherow has written six books and numerous articles, including Railroad Empire across the heartland, rephotographing Alexander Gardners westward journey, which is a familiar resource for the staff and volunteers at the watkins. I know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslands of the United States. Tonight, professor sherow will discuss his latest work, and copies will be available for purchase and signing thanks to our partners at the raven bookstore right here in lawrence, kansas. So without further
Wifi enabled this so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Im honored to introduce our speaker for today, todd. Both author and funeral director and his family has been involved in that profession in delaware for four generations. Toss most recent book is last rites, evolution and american funeral and topical to us today about how Abraham Lincoln was at the center of the transformation of american funeral practices both during his time in the white house and through tragic death. We will have a question and answer session at the end, a couple of more microphones. Please take advantage of those because we want our cspan audience to hear the questions answers so ill turn it over to todd. [applause] thank you, judge. Its my pleasure to present to you this evening we all know what happens with friday, 1865. What im going to talk to you about is how the grand e