Up next, a look at former slave abolitionists and minister Josiah Henson. In uncle toms cabin. Josiah henson is one of the unsung heros of the underground railroad. He was enslaved has a child and managed to escape from enslavement with his entire family, carrying two children on his back. He made it to canada where he started a school and a settlement for other refugees. He was widely known in england, canada, and the eastern United States as father henson and was very much in demand as a preacher and a speaker. He became an inspiration, not the inspiration, for the literary character uncle tom in uncle toms cabin. And they actually were alike in some ways only. Hair yet beachrriet beecher sto characters but she was developing a character who was a very, very devout christian, tried to persuade other people to deepen their faith, sacrificed themselves for others, was beaten, tortured, died, and forgive his tormentors as he died. Thats really not Josiah Henson. Thats christ. Even thoug
20 books. I have a long list here. One of my favorite books is girls. Is earls. Is one of the first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done any others that charge, ackets book on field fortifications. A lot of people dont love braxton bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched , deeply analytical look. He has won a number of awards. I should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by the university of North Carolina press. Let me welcome earl hess. [applause] pete, veryhank you, much. Fighting for atlanta, tactics, is the and the civil war topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements that influence the course of operations in the Atlantic Campaign. It is a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago on field fortifications in the eastern campaigns. That was volume two of that trilogy coverage. Atlanta campaign was one of four that heavil
Boundaries, that become beyond the nation and become cosmopolitan and an example was Nuclear Power play plant explosions. I was writing on cosmopolitanism and at this time the Fukushima Nuclear disaster happened. And that altered how i was going to talk about cosmopolitanism in my research and i did work on publications feeling with fukushima and helping with the 35th anniversary conference here with three mile island and it was just an uncanny coincidence that i find myself working at a campus location close to three mile island having studied fukushima so thank you everyone for being here. And i want to at this point introduce our keynote speaker, Arnie Gundersen. So Arnie Gundersen is the chief engineer and a member of the board of directors for the nonprofit fair winds energy education, founded by his wife, maggie. An Energy Advisory with more than 47 years of Nuclear Engineering experience, mr. Gundersen earned his bachelor of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from polytech in
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Family and the active reform work in the 19th century. You will find collections about antislavery and abolition in new england, particularly connecticut as well as womens history as it relates to the suffrage movement. The center began collecting works on and by Harriet Beecher star and come as early as our founder in 1930s and 40s but she found our organization in 1931 and weve been collecting ever since. This archive archive vault was n the 1970s to house really rare documents, paperbased collection. Today well look at collections that focus on Harriet Beecher still and a how she came to wrie local pubs cabinet of her most famous antislavery novel which galvanized the Antislavery Movement towards abolition in the 1850s. These materials we look at today really are the platform for which we are able to tell her story. Without the collections and the building that she lived in we can tell her story as best we know what but these are tangible reference to the past. User papers and docum