It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 days, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
90minutes conversation. Allen is the third professor of the gettysburg college. He serves as the director of the studies program. He did his graduate work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography. What i am going to do here is areion books i think especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. First is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998 and won the zes. T of the lincoln price emancipation proclamation published by simon schuster. It brought him his second again lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas. Published in 2008. It did not win the lincoln prize. [laughter] the next came out from Oxford University press in 2012. Th
That this breach of the state Department Emails was one of the largest ever of the federal system and was accomplished by, according to the press either china or russia. Im im wondering if you are able to give us any insight into whether it was in fact the russian who had been to the state Department Email system or whether that is still under investigation . Not in this open form i cannot. Okay, im hoping we can get some insight in an appropriate classifieds setting on that. Now, we have watched was some concern, i know you are also concerned about the russian intrusion into our election system. It is been reported to us that the russian hacked into the Democratic National committee database, they also hacked into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It seems that they are making an effort to influence the outcome of this election. We have been warned that the information stolen my not just be release but also be altered and forged and then leaked in an effort to impact th
Conversations]. I want to recognize the Homeland Security and investigations, Caroline Lynch. After 15 years working on capitol hill, caroline has decided to move the back to her home state of arizona to be close to her family and to pursue the next steps of her career. We are very sad to see caroline go. During her time in washington, dc, caroline works for john ofdegg in this chief counsel House Republican policy committee. She came to work for the House Judiciary Committee and in 2008, she became chief counsel of the judiciarys crime subcommittee. She has had an enormous impact on criminal and National Security laws. Few people in washington have done as much to promote the safety of our community. Caroline has overseen the drafting safety. Caroline has overseen the drafting negotiation and passage of critical legislation regarding the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, the Electronic Communications privacy act and the most sweeping set of reforms the government practice in 40 y
More than 20 die in flashes in bagdad, well look at what spot the rest European Union discuss is making it harder for russians to travel to the block Eastern Countries back the idea that france and germany ward a band could be counter productive in the war, and ukraine has traumatized millions of children. The w visits a summer camp trying to keep young people and their families a break on the heart. The culture. Ah, im children welcome to the program. United nations has issued an emergency appeal for funding to help pakistan recover from devastating floods. The rains have now stopped, but theyve left up more than a 3rd of the country under water affecting more than 33000000 people. On this map shows the vast areas hit by the flooding, stretching the entire length of the country, and many of pakistans bread basket provinces, in the south have been submerged, raising concerns about food security, a village underwater in pakistan. Sind province, one of several key agricultural regions th