I am happy to introduce my friend Matt Atkinson. Met has an undergrad degree from the university of mississippi. Heidi totty and a masters degree from the university of louisianamonroe to which matt says they beat alabama one time some time. So anyways, matts been a park ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where matt and i first met and worked as a park rangers. Many, many many years ago. Hes worked at natchez vicksburg, manassas and gettysburg. Hes going to tackle the big elephant in room about gettysburg versus which one of these two battles is he considered being a native mississippian and, having worked at both parks, what is he considered be the biggest turning point as a gaithersburg or is it vicksburg . So i will matt get up here and explain. So Matt Atkinson can. Help. Thats what it is. So understand all had a row last night about something right there. Right. The most important battle. Top battles in the American Civil War and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe th
Heidi totty and a masters degree from the university of louisianamonroe to which matt says they beat alabama one time some time. So anyways, matts been a park ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where matt and i first met and worked as a park rangers. Many, many many years ago. Hes worked at natchez vicksburg, manassas and gettysburg. Hes going to tackle the big elephant in room about gettysburg versus which one of these two battles is he considered being a native mississippian and, having worked at both parks, what is he considered be the biggest turning point as a gaithersburg or is it vicksburg . So i will matt get up here and explain. So Matt Atkinson can. Help. Thats what it is. So understand all had a row last night about something right there. Right. The most important battle. Top battles in the American Civil War and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story was invited down to richmond roundtable and we were at the willow oaks club
I am happy to introduce my friend Matt Atkinson. Met has an undergrad degree from the university of mississippi. Heidi totty and a masters degree from the university of louisianamonroe to which matt says they beat alabama one time some time. So anyways, matts been a park ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where matt and i first met and worked as a park rangers. Many, many many years ago. Hes worked at natchez vicksburg, manassas and gettysburg. Hes going to tackle the big elephant in room about gettysburg versus which one of these two battles is he considered being a native mississippian and, having worked at both parks, what is he considered be the biggest turning point as a gaithersburg or is it vicksburg . So i will matt get up here and explain. So Matt Atkinson can. Help. Thats what it is. So understand all had a row last night about something right there. Right. The most important battle. Top battles in the American Civil War and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe th
Good evening. Welcome everyone. My name is William Sturkey and im pleased to introduce our guests for tonights conversation. My immediate left Daphne Chamberlain, a native of columbus, mississippi and Daphne Chamberlain serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and social justice. And she is also associate professor of history at, her alma mater, the historic Tougaloo College before the opportunity. Before returning to tougaloo as a faculty member in 2013, chamberlain was founding director of the cofa Civil Education Center at jackson state, and she is also served as a scholar consultant for numerous local, state and National Civil rights projects. Her scholarship on childrens activism in the 1960s, civil rights richard lou her left grew up in a biracial family that was spiritually and intellectually guided by parents who were both anticolonialist and culturally affirming. His artwork has been cited in over 40 scholarly books and on the cover of five different books, the most
Again so thank very much. The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the oppor