, ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where we first met as park rangers many, many years ago. He is worked in manassas, vicksburg, and gettysburg. He will tackle the elephant in the room about gettysburg versus vicksburg, which one of these two battles he considers being a native mississippian and having worked at both parks, which he considers to be the biggest turning point. Gettysburg or vicksburg . I will let matt get up here and explain. Matt atkinson. [applause] matt thats what it is. I understand you all had a row last night about something. Right there, right . The most important battle, a top the top 10 battles in the american civil war, and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story. I was invited down to a richmond roundtable. We were at the willow oaks country club. We had virginia ham. That is the only time they go out there. Anyway, i was having a great time. I was in richmond and the man who did the top 10 last night lives th
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I was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to College Station to my grandfathers library and they have the archives there. My coauthor and i are like, we are here for a day and a half, lets do it. We walk in and mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start . She opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks and videos and things. We are like, what . We only have a day and a half. We started in her scrapbook. My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of Barbara Bushs scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at one of about 120 scrapbooks that mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for
We are opening up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zone, your telephone number is 202 7488000. If youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, your telephone number is 202 7488001. We are opening up a special line for people who voted this year already in the 2020 primaries. If you voted in the primaries, your number is 202 7488002. Tell us what happened. You can keep in mind always text us at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media on twitter and facebook. What happened in the georgia primary earlier this week has caused concern around the nation about what will happen for this fall election. And there is a story in politico that was written about what happened in the georgia primary. I will read this to you. Some voters and george are experiencing our long lines to cast ballots in todays primary, with official trading blame for who exactly is responsible for the latest trip up and holding an election during the pandemic. Since polls op
In vietnam. And earned a masters degree in history from George Washington university in 1971. He currently lives in middleburg, virginia. And is a member of the library of Virginia Foundation board. He has been a former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in washington, d. C. He has written for Many National newspapers and magazines, among many others, the smithsonian, the washington post, the New York Times, baltimore sun, chicago tribune, and the Christian Science monitor and usa today. He is the author of five books, including the one that hell be speaking on today, including, saving monticello, published by the free press in 2001. A book that received excellent reviews and offered the First Complete postjefferson history of this american icon. The book reveals an amazing story how one jewish family saved monticello for posterity and used the house as a family home for 89 years, which is longer than the tenure of the jeffersons at monticello. Mr. Leepsons newest book is flag an