At the university of southern mississippi. She taught previously in texas which accounts at least in part for the topic of our program today. As you can see in your program, she is fully immersed in the history of miss of mississippi. The civilshe launched war governors of mississippi project. With theship university of the southern of southern mississippi. I should draw your attention to the common theme you will hear in my introductions. Role as educators and as mentors of younger students. Is a former president of the mississippi has oracle and serves on the board of trustees for the society of. Boards. Everal editorial title ofn see from the her book in the program, her scholarship explores the intersection of military and social history. s texasst book hood brigade is the basis for her program today. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Susannah ural. [applause] susannah ural thank you, john and thank you to everyone for coming out. Thanks to the library of virginia. It is a true pleasure to
Of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. They turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. And it has been lovingly cared for. And so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Our senior manager of collections and interpretation said to me this summer when i first started the job there is a commission on the suffrage, and i think we should go to that meeting. It is the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said ok. I am going to go with you. We went down to the library of congress, and we sat at a big table. And they were about 20 women in the room, a big square table. There were another 20 women on the telephone. And everyone goes around and they are introducing themselves. And they are from the alice paul house, this commission and that commission. And, you know, from the National Portrait gallery. All these places. It comes aroun
Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. You have got a great place here. We are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just tu
Introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. He is the director of the Texas Military forces museum. And an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community college. He is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. His last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in virginia from gettysburg and includes meade and lee, which is due for publication next year. Lets give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. It is always fun to stand in a group of people that have the same passion. You dont get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people. I am going to break precedent today and have a powerpoint demonstration. I am doing that for several reasons. Pamplin spent a lot of money to put this system in. You will not have to get a new puppy at the end of my presentation. I became interested in the story of what happens in the Virginia Theater after the battle of gettysburg following a conversation i had with one of my favorite profes