Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to th
Emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of purposes, some of whom are some of whom are from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defenses. For those of you who come to the symposium in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun and cool ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs to the panel, let them talk a little bit, and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation, for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have working with us here at emerging civil war. I am going to start to my immediate right with my great polish brother. People are like chris. Which one . The polish one. That still does not narrow it down. [laughter] chris is the director of the memorial town in norfolk. If
Nixon can do. What can we do so that johnson and humphrey do appear for the victory. And then the talks will resume when i am president and we can make something happen. Powerful example of how our understanding of the past is always changing and new evidence can also introduce new interpretations and how perhaps some of the, some of the things we thought were true about what a president did and why he did it can change many decades after his death. Announcer watching the entire program at 8 00 and midnight on lectures in history. American history tv only on cspan3. Announcer monday on the communicators, a look at small town and rural broadband. Mrs. Bloomfield told him our organizations disaster for rural expansion to be a greater priority. She is interviewed by Communications Daily Senior Editor david account. What would you say your biggest priorities are in congress or the fcc . How do we make sure broadband is part of a package that is considered . I look at it and think are they
In existence. It still is obviously. He is the author and editor of 60 books related primarily to the civil war, but also 19thcentury southern u. S. History. 60 books. Few, hisse just a first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history 40 years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle historys ever written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c breckenridge, the general history of the confederacy, a book on the end of the war in florida and other locations. When i was working at the Florida State archives i corresponded with him about the escape of some of the florida cabinet members. He is the editor of a recent series on the civil war in virginia, a separate volume for each year. He was the editor i guess its 20 years old, but the newer photographic history of the civil war, the image of war which is a great supplement to the older history. The on camera was Senior Consultant and commentator for 52 epi
One of our own, a phd from 2010, Kathryn Shively meier, who is now an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches courses on the American Civil War and American Military history and environmental history credit her Research Interests history. Her Research Interests involve the 1600s and 19 century, with focus on the interactions of soldiers with their natural environments and their mental and physical health. Her first book, common soldiers in the environment won the wily silver prize for best first book on the civil war, and she is conducting an early study on jubal early. Elcome Kathryn Shively meier [applause] kathryn thank you for having me. Im delighted to be here. I think you will see some connections between my talk on jubal early and the earlier talk we heard on richard taylor. The confederate general jubal early was one of the influential losers in American History. [laughter] kathryn known for a petulant personality, early loss at the