They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Back. We had a great session last night. This of course is the 2019 International Conference on the American Revolution. Were meeting at the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. Were very thankful to our sponsors. Richard c von hess foundation, and john am jeanne roe. Theres a long genie all itchy to this topic. It goes back more than a quarter century. Very personal for me. It starts with insight thats brought out in the exhibition that is celebrated, here the life and death of a irish soldier. This explores connections between the American Revolution and ireland through the eyes of st. George, both a soldier and. Artist not a fine artist, a caricaturist. Of course we know that satire and mockery, something we use a lot here among the staff at the museum can reveal a lot about culture. This is certainly a theme that comes up. About 30 years ago when i was a graduate student doing research for a dissertation chapter in edinburgh, there was another graduate student at the
Images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank . Nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes itll be lincoln, sometimes washington, sometimes f. D. R. But the interesting thing about this is that we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. We have photograph images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. And of course we have images of f. D. R. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. And generally the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair. But with George Washington, he was there before photography so we dont have photographs of him. What we have instead are artists representations and those are not always very accurate. I mean, you look at
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