Pleasure to introduce caroline, caroline janney, professor of the American Civil War at the university of virginia, where she also served as director of the john l nels the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor, gary w gallagher. Shes the author or editor of 7 books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina prestigious civil war america series. She has served as president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. I am a 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book. I just this morning saw a brandnew review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named Harold Holzer and he calls it, immensely readable and utterly convincing. Please join me in welcoming caroline janney. [applause] good morning. So first, a big thanks to john, the entire class gets a quiz. So we can institute that policy right now if that will
Program, i im pleased to introduce our guest, author dr. Ken rutherford. Ken rutherford, ph. D. , is professor in the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmines. Survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Brother rutherford was prominent also as a leader in the International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1997 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the center for Internet National stabilization and recovery at gmu. Hes been a peace corps volunteer in mauritania, unhcr emergency refugee coordinator and somalia humanitarian and emergency relief officer in northern kenya and somalia. And as a fulbright scholar in jordan, he holds a ph. D. In government from georgetown university, a b. A. And mba from the university of colorado, where he lettered in football and was inducted into their hall for distinguished alumni. Dr. Rutherford has al
The Television Companies, and more, including comcast. Think it was just a Community Center . No. Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled lists so students from low income families can get the tools they need to get ready for anything. Comcast, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan 2 as a public service. All right, well, hello and welcome, everybody. Its good seeing you here today at the American Civil War museum. For todays program, im pleased to introduce our guest author, dr. Ken weatherford. Ken weatherford, phd, is a professor at the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network, and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmine survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Weatherford was prominent also as a leader in an International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1987 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the
2023 American Battlefield trust annual conference here in franklin, tennessee. We really appreciate you all coming out here and being a part of this event. And our next speaker is going to talk specifically about the battle here at franklin, which is one of the most famous or infamous battles of the American Civil War, which took place in november of 1864. Many of you will be traveling out to franklin to check out that battlefield site over the next few days. Youll be out there with some great historians, including my boss, gary edelman, as well as Eric Jacobson, who is part of the battle of franklin trust. Eric runs the Historic Sites out there, places like carton, rip avila and of course, the carter house, where really was the epicenter of the battle there at franklin. So were excited to get you out to the battlefield. We know that this is some of your first times to be out here at franklin and at the American Battlefield trust annual conference. And weve done a lot of work with our
2023 American Battlefield trust annual conference here in franklin, tennessee. We really appreciate you all coming out here and being a part of this event. And our next speaker is going to talk specifically about the battle here at franklin, which is one of the most famous or infamous battles of the American Civil War, which took place in november of 1864. Many of you will be traveling out to franklin to check out that battlefield site over the next few days. Youll be out there with some great historians, including my boss, gary edelman, as well as Eric Jacobson, who is part of the battle of franklin trust. Eric runs the Historic Sites out there, places like carton, rip avila and of course, the carter house, where really was the epicenter of the battle there at franklin. So were excited to get you out to the battlefield. We know that this is some of your first times to be out here at franklin and at the American Battlefield trust annual conference. And weve done a lot of work with our