On the making of his online project, the valley of the shadow government which tells the story of the civil war from the perspective of two communities, one northern and 17. The talk was part of the Gettysburg College civil war. Nstitute annual Summer College good afternoon. I am Peter Carmichael, member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Welcome pleasure to professor edward airs for the robert bloom lecture. Rightthe top your boat professor of the humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including in the presence of mine enemies, civil war in the heart of america, which was the winner of the bankrupt prize. He is the winner of the new south super excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. Thin the author of the light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation. And the 2018 lincoln prize winner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made it a point to speak to public a
An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. Most recently, he is the author of the thin light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america, published in 2017. And the 2018 lincoln prizewinner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made a point to speak to public audiences. He is hard evidence that this supposedly gap between academics and public historians there is maybe a gap, but it is ever so slight. It is close in large part because of academics like professor ayres who also does a Popular Program entitled back story, which you can get on a podcast. Please welcome professor edward ayres. [applause] hello, everybody. Did you have a good lunch . I had five carrot pieces and a bag of m ms. I am fired up. I had the peanut m ms. There is little protein in there. I know you folks have been thinking and working hard about this issue. I wanted to be honest. I wanted to come here and be sincere. I owe you an explanation. I had an idea
Sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Next, a panel looking at ways to improve the budget process held before the House Committee on modernization of congress. Congress. The meeting will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled recommendations from previewing the budget and appropriations process. A look at the work of the select Committee Budget and process reform and i now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. The 104th congress which convened in 1995 was the last to pass all Appropriations Bills prior to the start of the fiscal year. That was almost 25 years ago. Most house members serving today have never seen a process that works the way its supposed to where stand alone bills are passed on time. And the joint select committee on budget and appropriations process reform on which i served, along with my colleague rob woodall was established, and the committe
The subcommittee on oversight and management accountability will come toward her. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on oversight of i. C. E. Detention facilities and is dhs doing enough . Good afternoon. We are here to discuss the oversight immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility and by the dhs is doing enough to ensure that i. C. E. Owned that tension standards are being met. Before we started like to take a moment to acknowledge some of the challenges the subcommittee had in arranging todays hearing we are holding to panel this afternoon because i. C. E. Is declined to sit on the same panel with nakamato the contractor. The departments lack of cooperation makes it more challenging for congress to do its job. They recently stated at a meeting with dhs leaders its important in the subcommittee to bring everyone together pray that is how we can best identify challenges and find ways to solve them. This is important to me as two of i. C. E. So these th
Im interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. It is also true that children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. More than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to these students, to examine why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. There are school buses in my own district. Most take other modes of transportation, including walking, biking or riding in a car, going on public transportation. Children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. We have figure showing 264 students who died in School Transportation related accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle while walking near the bus. We are going to hear today from what congress can do to stop violations by drivers who illegally Pass School Buses loading or unloading pa