This talk was part of the symposium hosted for the emerging civil war block. Good afternoon, it is my pleasure to introduce ray andrew red, a native of county pennsylvania. He holds a bachelors degree and masters degree in American History from Indiana University of pennsylvania. He holds a masters degree in Library Science from the university of pittsburgh. He is the director of the library where he is also an adjunct professor. Two volumes of the study guide, point of no return is part of the turning points collection. It is on the 1864 president ial election and the confederacy. Currently, gettysburg churches have become a brief introduction to the civil war medicine as what he is currently working on forthcoming in 2018. In 2016 he received permission to create a wayside memorial marker in canada spur pennsylvania. Let herman was the medical Service Director in 1862 and 1863. This market was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. Since 1993 he has reenacted American Civil War met fede
History from the Indiana University of pennsylvania. His pennsylvania certification as secondary education is also from Indiana University of pennsylvania. Holds a masters degree in Library Science from the university of pittsburgh and he is currently the director of the albert e. Lee library at Waynesburg University where he is an adjunct professor. He is the author the Gettysburg Campaign guide, a study guide two volume. His he is say a point of no return is part of the turning points election, it is on the 1864 president ial election and the doom of the confederacy. A walking tour and brief introduction to civil war medicine is what hes currently working on and is forthcoming later this year in 2018. In 2016 he received permission from the Pennsylvania Historical Museum commission to create a memorial marker for lettermans childhood home. This marker was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. Since 1993 he has reenacted in the American Civil War as a federal infantry man, medical servi
Across america. Here is the recent program. I think people around here know a lot about ranching history. Texas tends to be about itself with its own history but this history is about middle american regional stories that havent really been told. It is almost like the isolation of the ranching history. It lookinghed without instead of looking within. Museumin the historical that is the largest Historical Museum in the state of texas if you count it by the number of artifacts. Cowboys,ition title is cattle, and culture. Here whenime curator we set up the show, both of us are native to kansas city. In why thisested space felt so familiar to us. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the permanent collection. And it turns out that there were over 1000 objects in the database. We started looking at what kinds of objects there were and we found such a good array of a variety of options. We needed to do a show that pulled the sister city hood. That amarillod might grow up lo
Largest Historical Museum in the state of texas if you count it by the number and the exhibition title is cattle, cowboys and culture, kansas city and the Amarillo Building in urban west. The fulltime curator here and i are natives to kansas city. We were always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us. Michael started looking at the number of objects in the panhandleplains Permanent Collection that related to kansas city. It turns out there were over 1,000 objects on a database that he pulled up. We looked at the objects and we found a good array of a variety of objects we thought we needed to do a show that told and sterhood of amarillo kansas city. This closeness is basically around the train system and cattle industry that drew those two cities together. We tell the story of that in this show. In 1870, cattle being driven by the cowboys, meaning walked across the plains, like for example from texas to montana. So for example longhorns were the best kind of walking cattle
This event. Mr. Graybill good evening. Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is if there is anything that can depress the turnout, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you this evening. Raybill. Is andy g i am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the rhonda andpecially ruthanne who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of gover