[roll call] commissioner mcdonald has an excused absence pick we welcome you but we ask you turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting, please. we would ask that you take any secondary conversations outside to. if you would like to speak on an item today, we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. how many minutes per each item today? how many people here intend to speak to the commission, by rays of hand? okay. we will do two minutes per. okay. each person will have two minutes to speak on each item today for public comment. please, some of you may not have been here before, but a couple of things when you speak, please speak into the microphone microphone. anyone who is speaking. anyone else should be able to hear. when you make public comments, you will hear two bells. the first one is just letting you know you have 30 seconds back in the second one means your time is up. so when you speak, if there is an item of intere
antwan: and tonight a fourth person has died in legionnaires disease in the south bronx now the investigation is underway to track down that source opinion hello good evening everyone i m antwan lewis christina is off. new york city health department announced fourth death today. 60 cases have been reported in the south bronx since early a last month. fox 5 lidia curanaj has the very latest from the mott haven neighborhood. the cooling tower here at lincoln hospital is one of five site it ises that tested positive for the bacteria that caused legionnaires disease. all five sites decontaminated but people here in the bronx say they can t help but wonder is the worst over? we have to walk around around we have to breathe. yet that is how 65 people in the south bronx were sickened with legionnaires disease. they all inhaled a bacteria that causes the-like illness so far four died and 55 remain hospitalized. ferghts that s public, you know, public places that s scary as
getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know that it won the flannery o connor award. is a very good writer who has decided to turn to the craft of history. his most recent book is entitled the end to war: fighting the civil war after appomattox. i am not the most perceptive but i am guessing your trick is different than what we heard from patrick gallagher last night. [laughter] peter carmichael: we re looking forward to hearing your presentation, the a war that could not end at appomattox. greg downs. [applause] gregory downs: thank you so much and i want to thank also allison jordan and diane and everyone at the cwi for inviting me and taking car
america. american history tv was live today from gettysburg, pennsylvania, on a symposium on the end of the civil war and its aftermath. coming up next, all of our coverage from the day including consequences and treason and loyalty in the civil war era. the talks were part of the annual conference. good morning. i am peter carmichael. i am a professor of history at gettysburg college. director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure to introduce gregory downs. greg has recently accepted a job at uc davis on the other side of the coast so this summer he will be packing up his family and getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know that it w
good morning again, i am peter carmichael. i am a member of the history department and the director of the civil war institute and it is my pleasure to introduce lesley gordon. she started her academic career at the college of william and mary ann went on to the university of georgia where she studied. she completed her dissertation on general george pickett which became a book which is a model biography, published by the university of north carolina. and the inspiration for all of this of course begins right here at the civil war institute in 1983. she was one of the high school scholarship recipients that came here. one of many who was gone on to have academic careers. as you all know we have a strong contingent of high school scholarship award winners this summer as well. she now teaches at the university of akron undergraduate as well as graduate students. for a very long time she was the editor of the journal of civil war history and i believe her tenure is coming to a c