American civil war emirates at the university of virginia and the founding director of our cosponsor john l mal iii studies at university of virginia. And knowing is that gary was about to retire number of years ago and move west ive been writing about every introduction for him in the last few years as if it were the last time wed see him in richmond, i apologize to gary to frying to kick him out of the state every time he speaks. Im very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement meant farewell and very surprised he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. Im sure everyone knows garys contributions to the field of study are many and varied including writing more than 30 books and hundreds of artic thes and reviews articles and reviews and a frequent contributor and columnist in prominent civil war magnificent zee magazines and editor of the most popular civil war books civil war series and mentor to scores of students at penn state university. And university of vir
Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also want to pay tribute to i think one of the people for me and bodies bipartisanship. Hes involved in every effort to bring peopletogether across partisan lines and thats steve hadley, our former National Security advisor here as well. Our director is jan and 90 well, we you will be seeing anja as one of the people doing the interviews. The subject is china. I think all of us agree our relationship wi
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint
Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business. And wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his f
Come to order. The hearing today is to discuss one thatportant issue, will hopefully get some important answers. Could not be more urgent. Three weeks ago, a New York Times article revealed the ei had arrested Seven Members of an base, ation called the dangerous white supremacist group. Neonazis. The base is acceleration us, groupmystic, anarchy whose name speaks to the admiration for al qaeda and isis. And hate jews africanamericans but they do not like President Trump or the United States. The goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States. It may be a sick fantasy but domestic terrorism has claimed more rise lives than International Terror since 9 11. Last week, the fbi director told the Judiciary Committee that he was, elevated, racially extremism to ait National Threat priority. With the same band with homegrown violent extremism and isis. Enemies, especially russia, exploit these racial tensions to divide and we can American Society. The head of the b