Covering your ass. It was written by his closest and favorite lieutenants including the academic and later columbia scholar gilbert hiett. He was married to Helen Mcinnes which is interesting because she was writing antinovels that made the nazi atrocities about which was also propaganda in the form of fiction. I believe they are recognizable for the style. It is fairly academic and dry. Suddenly, you will come across a chapter that begins, looks like a goat, in terms of one politician, and another politician looked like a horse. This would be dahl trying to liven up an official report. I used it it heavily would be an overstatement. There are portions that are more reliable than others. The dahl section i know what he was doing every day. I knew where he was. I could compare it, track it with his entry in the history and substantiate many of his claims. I was willing to use him there. Other claims made by stevenson i dont mention in the book. I dont think they can be substantiated. Ce
Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. Revitalizing Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of la
Babe ruth and given talks on everyone from Thelonious Monk to over elvis [indiscernible] please welcome jim barber. Jim barber welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. Very appropriate for february is black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this face to face series, series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge. The connection is the thread, back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anniversaries. One, the older one being the 400 anniversary of the founding of jamestown. The second anniversary was the 200 anniversary of the birth of robert e. Lee. One of the hardest things to do for anyone is to get a sense of time. Think back to hundred years 200 years if you can to robert e. Lees era. And then another 200 years back to jamestown. That is hard to do. If someone just says 400 years ago, we cannot really envision
Freedom be finally secured. This kind of the world will never be built by bombs or bullets. Yet the infirmities of man are such that force was often precede reason and the waste of war the works of peace. We wish that this were not so, but we must deal with the world as it is if it is ever to be as we wish. Join American History tv on april 9 and 12 for live coverage of ceremonies marking the 100 80th anniversary of the surrender appomattox. In april of 1865, confederate general robert e lee met Union Village ulysses s. Grant and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from the National Historical park in virginia on both april 9 and 12 as historians reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenactments of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and open our phone lines to take your calls for the authors. The surrender appomattox, live april 9 and 12 here on American Hi
Well, it was an experiment, an experiment that did not work. They wanted us to start out flying 260horsepower vehicles rather than cubs which were 45horsepower, and theres a major difference. The flying part did not bother us, but they made the mistake of putting 20 redblooded american boys in jarvis hall of tcu, the girls dormitory. Back in 1943, that did not work. Everyone else forgets, but i can tell that i played football for texas christian university. Time goes on, after a few more, i might have been all confidence. Truth is i never did get in the ballgame. We broke kid of arms and a fractured cheekbone, and the navy pulled us out. We broke two arms and a fractured cheekbone, and the navy pulled us out. Did not get to finish. It was an interesting program. They dropped the qualifications for navy pilots to have a College Degree after the battle of midway. They dated they needed pilots. They took me in, obviously. I had a very poor background in high school and every Educational I