Panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. Coverage on American History tv on cspan 3. [no audio] everybody. Ning, were ready to get started. Welcome back to the last day of our conference. And also welcome to our cspan viewers. Were live. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. We still have some Tickets Available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if uyoyouve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to make knowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our
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Carmichael, a history professor here at gettysburg college. Im also the director of the civil war institute, and it is my privilege and pleasure to introduce the speakers for our conversation or panel on the return of the confederate veteran. For those of you in the audience, and also for those of you who are part of our live cspan audience, you can actually be part of this conversation, twitter, get your ens ready, it is cwi2016. Let me go ahead and introduce our panelists, first, to my far right, david who is currently a lecturer in American History, at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches range of courses on civil war and southern history, reconstruction and civil war memory, and his first book, it is an excellent one, published by the university of North Carolina press, and entitled moment of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era North Carolina. Next to david is james brumar. He recently assumed the directorship of shepherd universitys george tyler cen
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Headquarters in new york, this is nnbc nightly news, reporting tonight Kristen Welker. We begin tonight with tragedy in texas. A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire and crashed in central texas. Its believed to be the largest loss of life in history due to a hot air balloon accident. Its all unfolding about 30 miles south of austin in an area popular for ballooning and sky diving. Tonight the governor is asking for prayers. Charles hadlock has our report. Reporter the charred remains of the hot air balloon are all thats left after an Early Morning ride through the sky turned tragic. The balloon was carrying at least 16 people. There are no survivors. The crash site is near high power lines. Margaret wylie lives nearby. It wasnt like an explosion. It just went up. Reporter wylie says she sees balloons in the area all the time, but never imagined Something Like this. The way it went up nobody stood a chance. Reporter it was owned the heart of texas air balloon rides.