chris is the historian here. bed andworking breakfast, conference center, a great place to hold the symposium. he has just written a book, which will be available. he has co-authored two magazine articles on the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. those are available through the emerging civil war website. chris and i have known each other for 11 years. , fightlike john and paul a little bit, get along, but we are best friends. he met his life right where our projector is set up. chris, one of our friends described him as the rupert murdoch of civil war publishing. he is now becoming a very prolific author. atwas a former historian fredericksburg and spotsylvania national parks. chris will talk about the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. pleasure toor and bring you this prolific speaker, author, and my best friend. [applause] that the firsty symposium i spoke at here, jennifer was where matt is. no offense. he is here all weekend, folks. tom delighted to be able sha
racial supremacy. when they squared off for that famous fight in 1938, 100 million were tuned in worldwide to hear this match set up as a confrontation between democracy and fashism. he enlisted a month after the attack at pearl harbor and became the face of a recruitment campaign encouraging black men to enlist in the army. was using his fame for what was a very segregated military. again and again, lewis shifted the conversation from america s record on race to nazi german s record on race. encouraging black americans to prioritize, destroying faticism first. he did his basic training in a segregated unit and spent the last of his recruitment fighting in exhibitions fights around the world. but despite his celebrity status, lewis was no stranger to humiliations that were experienced by black soldiers. segregated facilities, lack of resources, lack of opportunities for advancement. racial epithets being told to move to the back of the bus. the poster sets up sort of a perfec
if you ve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. it s pristine. there are a few monuments out there, but you re seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. the tree lines are pretty accurate. the fields are pretty accurate. then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. if you want to after our program this afternoon, i ll be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. but i hope over the course of my talk, i ll be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. to understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where they re fighting
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