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,
Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
Peter carmichael. Member of the History Department at gettysburg college. Also the director of the civil war institute. My pleasure to intrude to professor of she an southern studies at lsu. He did an undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer and moved on to the university of virginia, published his dissertation with North Carolina press. Hisfederates fought most recent book published by the calculused of violence, how americans just the civil war became published in 2018. Aaron says lsu is a great place for him. Being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. A selfproclaimed foodie so he has lots of places to select from in portland but today he will talk to us about his to us about hisnd the important book and the book that has received said, my book is called the calculus of violence, that is the promo part. We will get right into it. Afriend said a long time ago 10 pound weight in a five pounds sack. To stay onan
Welcome to the West Virginia state museum, the state Cultural Center in charleston. The Western State museum was founded 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today, well be going the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state becoming a state, the industrial nation state. And well go into the later century, the 21st century and see where West Virginia is today. Were in Western State museum, selma and frontier, period. These are some of the early, early settlers, the land. Were staying beside George Washingtons case, where it has artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war and the telescope that he used to survey land here in the canal valley, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s during this time period of frontier and eartlement. This was western virginia. It was part of the sta o virgin
Welcome to the West Virginia state museum, the state Cultural Center in charleston. The Western State museum was founded 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today, well be going the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state becoming a state, the industrial nation state. And well go into the later century, the 21st century and see where West Virginia is today. Were in Western State museum, selma and frontier, period. These are some of the early, early settlers, the land. Were staying beside George Washingtons case, where it has artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war and the telescope that he used to survey land here in the canal valley, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s during this time period of frontier and early settlemen this was western virginia. It was part of the state of