Programmers. ,. A historian he has worked as a historian for the National Park service and Fredericksburg National Military Park. My eyes decided to water at an awkward moment. [laughter] sorry, chris. [laughter] he is also a historian for at National Park service Fredericksburg National Military Park where he gives stores at major battlefield. Major battlefields. Chris has authored or coauthored a dozen books on the civil war and his articles have appeared in all the major civil war magazines. He serves on the board of directors for the virginia trust. Welcomingn me in Chris Mackowski. [applause] im going to move through here. Thank you, sarah. [laughter] in november of 1879, mark twain was asked to give a speech at the reunion of the army in honor of ulysses as grant. A was the 15th speaker on long list of people offering accolades. He called it the perilous distinction. He said he was the last speaker on the list, and honor no person has ever sought. [laughter] you are going to see
Foreign help on the front lines of libyas civil war the United Nations accuses several nations a violation an arms embargo how outside powers redrawing the battle lines of this conflict and can they be stopped this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im mr. Foreign powers are making the fighting in libyas 80 along civil war even west a draft u. N. Report is accusing several nations of violating. Amplifying what it calls a proxy conflict in the past year u. N. Investigators have found that jordan turkey and the United Arab Emirates routinely and sometimes blatantly supplied weapons and soldiers from chad and sudan were deployed on the ground both sides and the wall received foreign help the un recognized government in tripoli and forces loyal to world plea for hafta the experts say its highly probable that a jet from a half to our like launched the air strike that killed 53 refugees its migrants sent to new tripoli in july the report doesnt name the country bot both the u.
Policy approach, hes the author of kissinger on kissinger, afflictions on diplomacy grand strategy and leadership, he describes president nixons relationship with the secretary of state Henry Kissinger and how is instrumental and developing Foreign Policy strategies they hosted this event, good evening ladies and gentlemen, im with the Richard Nixon foundation, welcome to the president ial library, before we introduce our speaker, i just wanted to mention a couple of special guests, we have our distinguished speakers lisa lord and her husband jack wild and we have betsy here its the wife of. Distinguish speaker just a doctor kissinger as to president nixon and he joined the security staff in 1969, special assistant working and traveling the world on every major Diplomatic Initiative in the midst of the vietnam war and the greater cold war, use with him during the talks in paris that culminated in the paris peace accords in 1973, he was with president nixon during his first president ia
Theater at the National Archives. I am chief of the archives. And that is just a fancy way that we run a lot of the public spaces on the other side of the building. He sends his regrets that he could not be here but his presence was needed at another one of the facilities. I will gladly steal his signature line and say welcome to my house. Im pleased you could join us whether you are here in this room today were here to listen to christian be keller. The Great Partnership Stonewall Jackson and the fate of the confederacy. He became the director of the military history program. With the american civil war. In the germans nativism ethnicity and civil war memory. In the inter induction to the book. They relate clearly and concisely several things including the value of this book the four doors with the text itself. As an archivist. With the interpretive value. And the reliability of source material particularly confederate related sources. Versus poorest postwar sources. This military his
Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Probably. Okay. Close enough. This is april 1775, so right after lexington and concord through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel . They havent really started fighting it. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else . Any ideas . Okay. This i