At the civil war continues now with author Patrick Breen on his book the land should be deluged in blood. This talk was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Good morning. Good morning, again. Im Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note, hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here. And enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. I can say to you its one of the finest books ive read on southern history in a very long time. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates,
Continues with other Patrick Breen on his book the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of the nat turner revolt a new history of the nat turner revolt. This was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. It is about one hour. Good morning. I am Peter Carmichael a member of the history department. Im the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen who is an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note he is also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Patrick is the author of the land shall be dilution blood. I can say to you it is one of the finest books that i have read in southern history in a very long time. Its a book that i have assigned to my undergraduates this spring. As we all know undergraduates are tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoyed his writing. It is a bold book, it is an im
Primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph nd tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. Also a paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. And they enter at a local level, students who win move up to the state level of competition, and then the winners come here to the national event. So about 600,000 kids participate at the first level, in every state, d. C.
Outpouring of support from our friends at the Eisenhower Foundation, as well as the friends of the Kansas City Public Library tonight. Our world class exhibits and programs like this are made possible by the friends of the Eisenhower Foundation and other donors. I especially want to thank the Ewing Foundation for supporting this lecture series tonight. Perhaps you are aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. Its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history and its the First Comprehensive renovation in more than 345 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged by the response that we have received thus far and i am pleased to report that we have raised 98 of our goal. [applause] thank you. We want to finish the campaign before june 6 so that we can publicly announce this milestone to all the veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial library and museum that day
Executiveith, the director of the Eisenhower Foundation. It is wonderful to see such an outpouring of support from our friends of the Eisenhower Foundation and the Kansas City Public Library tonight. Our worldclass exhibits and programs are made possible by the friends of the Eisenhower Foundation and other donors. I especially want to thank one foundation for supporting the lecture series tonight. Perhaps you are aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. It is the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundation 73 year history, and it is the First Comprehensive exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged by the response we have received thus far, and i am pleased to of ourwe have raised 98 goal. [applause] we want to finish the campaign before june 6 so we can publicly announce this milestone to all the veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial l