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Screen at any time during the talk. We will respond to as many as possible during the final part of the program. And now, modern Major Generals. Some of our viewers have commented on our approach to the civil war and using 50 objects that while the multilayered social and political history seen through objects takes in the totality of the context of the war, it doesnt really consider the military history or the sequence of the battle. Harold, what do you think about that . Its a fair enough comment, of course. The objects that were discussing are all in some way related to new york history. So it relates to the soldiers who served, the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, the relics that they brought back from battle. I think along the way here, over these last seven weeks, weve touched on battles. Those who experienced them and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots which almost [ inaudible ]. Indeed. Indeed. So were doing
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
Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, 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 i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and 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 f
Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures in the science and technology and the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. Another new feature of this center is a unique twoyear ma and biography memoir which will train students in our Historical Research interview technique and narrative form as well as the history of biography in memoir and how the forms have evolved over time. Housed jointly in history and a l