Conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. I would like to give you an little overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them for sale currently. If you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk. [applause] dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very important
Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last from, the guy who falls dysentery, t
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senate is expected to vote on legislation to curb the president s powers to use military action against iraq. in spalls organizers of the tokyo 2020 olympics a phase of the current of ours won t delay the games and as he waits to confirm his olympic place le bron james powers the lakers and talk among lead going into the stall break. the at. the end. thank you for joining us we start this news hour in china where there s been a huge surge in the number of corner virus cases across the country more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone up from just 1600 the day before 254 more deaths have been announced bringing the total to nearly 1404 officials from whom a province the epicenter of the virus have been. socked over their handling of the outbreak and that includes the province s communist party chief john tower laying more than 60000 people in 26 countries have now been infected in japan 44 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship docked in
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