History. Well, its such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. Holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. Now. We are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but its been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another thats not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. Mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at Duquesne University in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the History Department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. She also has served as the visiting heraldkay johnson chair of military history at the Us Army War College out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the Carlisle Barracks and is currently during this Academic Year at west point where shes serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. She is also has been co
The relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. Her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettiesburg National Military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical nderstandings of the getty sburg campaign. Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our s
Many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. She is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of North Carolina press. Ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for a few more months. He has accepted a position as a assistant professor in war and memory studies which i assume will be part of the civil War Studies Program right here at Gettysburg College. Its a good thing for our students, not a great thing for c. W. I. He has been a very important part of what we do here. He is fantastic, though, with our students. He is especially, especially gifted when it comes to developing our Students Research interests. In fact, he took one of our students to oxford to deliver a paper and i believe, ian can correct me on this, that he cowrote a paper, a war and memories study, the journal, did i get that wrong . Prof. Isherwood war and society. It will
Tactics and systs. Joining meme today twtwo analysts workingg on optptions to help develop a key strategy. Bob isith the center for strategic and budgetary assessment. Welcome back. Full disclosure i know i have participated in some of the discussions you guys are going about doing the serious work here. Talk to us a little bit about the complexity city about the specific sets s of challengeges that we face. Folks are being g more open about some of the things we are facing specifically in our abilility to operarate around e world. Bob hes tryiying to o restore u. S. Convtion protectionn capability, and we essentially face for core problems. Ports and airfields are increasingly vulnerable to attack, and we rely on those bases to project power. Second is surface combatants including aircraft carriers, are increasingly subject to being tracked and targeted an extensive rangeses. Third, network and defenses make it difficult for nonstetealth aircraft to operate, and forth spac is no longe
Daschle hammond likened the season in which people knew for the hippie or stereotypes about to be, but i really wanted with season of the witch to tell the history of the city as Daschle Hammond might have written it, with the same sense of the citys toughness, of its mystery and of its kind of rugged atmosphere. Many people forget that San Francisco before the 50s era was a tough Irish Catholic, Italian Catholic town, very traditional in many ways and the first wave of hippies who came to this city really have the drawbridge pulled up on them. Many of the kids couldnt get treatment when they had drug drop bombs and other medical problems. They were given the Cold Shoulder by the city and city officials. The cops were after them. So that was only the beginning of what became the first first culture wore a pink right here in San Francisco. Americas first culture war was a civil war within San Francisco itself between these new social forces that began squeezing in the 1960s and 1970s wi