A good friend of the heritage area. He is an attorney working in the Business Development and litigation arenas. Born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. As many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the American Civil War ever since. He is an alumnus of Dickinson College in pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. He has a masters degree and a doctorate from the university of Pittsburgh School of law. He is also an awardwinning civil war historian. His specialty is calvary operations with an emphasis on the army of potomacs calvary court. He is the author of 19 published books. I cant imagine what he does as a lawyer. 19 published books. He is the author of a book about john buford at gettysburg, which won the round tables 2014 book 5 book award. He is also the author of a book about protecting the flank at gettysburg. His first book, gettysburg for action
Cover it that way at all either. Is this the future member of president trumps casting . That is governor rick perry. He got eliminate frd dancing with the stars. Its never out of you. The governor, could he have a new job in the cabinet with his hat on backwards . Let me remind you. It is wednesday. Tomorrow is thanksgiving and youre with friends. Thinking about turkey for tomorrow. Johnny roekts a nationwide chain is set up here to celebrate their 30th anniversary on this National Jukebox day. That is adorable. I have a problem with Johnny Rockets, my family cannot walk by that without going in. Thats good for them. Bad for your wallet. Right. Absolutely. So cheap and affordable. Boy, can they dance. Reminds me of me in my heyday. Can you do that . Are you going to be dancing with them . If i get my way. If theres enough time in the show. A lot of times i go to dance and the show is over. I will buy you Johnny Rockets the rest of the year if you dance. Were running out of time alread
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne
Pretty much the same way only to discover that that is not true. We also, of course, have formalized this notion, and it is something called the one drop rule, which we used to distinguish Race Relations on most of mainland america, or compare race or understanding race on mainland north america from elsewhere in the world, and it of course speaks to the fact that African Americans and africans have had a common enemy and have had a shared experience, all of which complicates our understanding of the question of who is black, and those of you who were here last night, when our discussions kind of mobilized and moved notions of identity, the question of exactly what blackness means clearly grew and became on the floor. We know this from a historical perspective, we know people who were dragged across the atlantic started off not as africans but as congols, and angolans. On that trip, as sidney mintz and Richard Price tell us, there is something called shipmates that began to arise with