Morning and certainly not as wet. Theres a little drizzle on your windshield some neighborhoods. As we take a look at the wide view on satellite we also have a Flood Warning in effect down if salem county along the salem river so thats an area where you want to be careful to turn around if you find any flooded areas. That should expire later this morning. And there you see on satellite a band of rain getting ready to come through did and it dumf rain and even gave us some gusty winds from some thunderstorms. Want to show you storm tracker6 live double scan real quick this morning, though. Theres just a couple of little blips of green here or there on the radar so a very light brief spotty shower around this morning. Eeing some ofhere it isnt that drizzle on the windshield so no more major rain on the way today. As we take a look at temperatures, were at 67 degrees in philadelphia and as matt mentioned and tam the humidity is down a bit this morning so a little bit humid if you start wo
Discussed how women participated in the civil war. She focused her talk on a nurse. The book is called hospital sketches. All right, welcome to read to a class that will focus on women and all tourism during the u. S. Civil war. Read a primary source a woman whotten by purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. Our classart off today by looking at possible hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, voluntarism n womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, enter and her hospital sketches, published during the war. They would be realized and published. Americans who read magazines they could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i wou
Discussed how women participated in the civil war. She focused her talk on a nurse. The book is called hospital sketches. All right, welcome to read to a class that will focus on women and all tourism during the u. S. Civil war. Read a primary source a woman whotten by purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. Our classart off today by looking at possible hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, voluntarism n womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, enter and her hospital sketches, published during the war. They would be realized and published. Americans who read magazines they could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i wou
You all read a primary source document written by a woman who purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. We will start off our class today by looking at possible at hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, and her hospital sketches, published during the war. T was serialized and published americans who read magazines it was published in could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i would like to hear your thoughts about this account of civil war hospitals. What makes you think about Louisa May Alcott . I will scoot this down so we can look at her while were talking about her.
Afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivist, you want someone who can do more than just pull the records off the dusty shelves. Youve got to have somebody who really understands t