The director of command school, scott green is here tonight scott can you wave your arm . Thank you in uniform at the back of the room this lecture series which is about great military events, great commanders, and sometimes great controversies in the art of war has been ongoing since the beginning of my tenure almost 15 years ago. Its been our great series and the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president someone can identify with that. To go to washington to save the republic, as you know need saving. As i always like to say the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is self critical, self aware, it plays no favorites and it is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield. And with extraordinary teaching and technology to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. Its also a school for our allies and partners. And the future military leaders from around the world, a place where a fu
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It is just under one hour. Washington journal continues. Stern tells us to talk about his expense writing his book republican like me how i left the liberal bubble and learned to love the right, and you chatted with us in the fall about the time this book was being published. What the impetus was for writing this book you going out, a lifelong democrat, decided to live life as a republican. Guest like a lot of people, i have been concerned about the polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book is about that journey. Host you changed your Party Registration w
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Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the civil war. In 2005. Published that book is the topic of her program today. I present to you dr. Amy morel taylor. It is indeed a real pleasure to be back here in virginia,