Slavery and jefferson life have changed over recent decades. Watch friday beginning at eight eastern and enjoy American History tv this weekend every weekend on cspan three. Up next on the civil war, a story and harold holder and Valerie Perry of the New York Historical society talk about artifacts featured in their joint publication the civil war and 50 objects. In this program they discuss objects at the end of the war, and president likens assassination. This conversation took place on line in the New York Historical society provided the video. Good evening and welcome to the eighth and final episode of history our. Tonights topic is saving the union and ending the civil war at the battlefield and at the ballot box. As usual and i want to remind you which is being recorded will last 45 minutes. This includes 15 minutes for questions and answers. Please submit your questions via the cuban a function on your resume screen at any time during the. Top we will respond to as many as possi
Good evening. Im harold, the chair of the lincoln forum. It is time now for our main event. I am proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people, not only as friends, but as colleagues in the civil war field. Gary gallagher and joan waugh. Individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophistication, and style. As your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is a Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War at the university of virginia and he is former director of the now civil war Sector Center there. You are all familiar with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. He is also, like many in this room, an aficionado, but more, an expert on civil w
Millville, philadelphia, pilots half inch of rain. Up to this point in doylestown,. 43. As you can see theres plenty more to go. This extends into the ohio valley pittsburgh, cleveland troilt detroit all seeing wet weather. Thats the back edge pushing through washington, d. C. The metro area. That will swing through this afternoon. The steadiest rain shut off around 1 00 p. M. Give or take, and then we have scattered showers. 56 degrees morning rain, afternoon showers, it will be on the mild side, however. When i come back in just a few minutes, ill let you know when this moves out and drier weather moves in and cooler numbers in the seven day forecast. Now the final goodbye for officer Robert Wilson iii. The caisson procession started marching early this morning to the palestra. Thats where a viewing is underway. This is a live look inside. Annie mccormick is outside the palestra with more, annie . Reporter eva officer Robert Wilson was an year veteran of the force, when he died in th
Representatives hammered out a contract. He met with coach kelly and took his physical. Murray led the nfl rushing last year in the Dallas Cowboys and he joined the rival eagles because this is a great opportunity to win a super bowl. And definitely was not biggest contract. But it was something that about this organization and team that caught by eye and i felt that there was a great chance to win here and thats what you want a place that has great fans and be in places that have a great coach in chip kelly and place you have a chance to win and be successful. You have to run the football in this league and thats what i believe an we lost a talented running back and making that decision and losing lesean is how do you replace that caliber and we did. 21 million guaranteed and its a double whammy. Eagles strengthen themselves while hurting cowboys and they signed matthews to three year deal. You have demarko murray, ryan math ruse and sproles thats one three headed attack. Thank you du
Did get to talk to them i remind myself that i would never know what he told me was really accurate or not and i got a lot of information through shall we say accounts that were written at the time, and i depended on them so as far as getting the true story i am not sure i lost that much. But he died in march so no more chances. Of this year, yeah. He was 89 years old a thing. He was younger than the others. He was 19 when he went overseas. He had been raised in england. He went to be in and was american by birth but english by training you might say so he was really eager to get back there while london was being bombed and endanger. I guess they had just escaped the danger of invasion but he wanted to be over there. Yes . I am interested in your first book and im wondering if its kind of it and ambitious or if its kind of set you the wanting to write another one and im wondering where you are on that . Is there a sense of closure and completion or heavy now got the bug . Yes, and yes.