It has been used for trade and travel in the river continues to serve as an important trading route. Begins50 miles long that in the enron duck mountains and ends in york harbor. At its widest point it is almost three miles wide and at its deepest merely to enter feet deep. But the river is one of Americas National treasures and it played an important part in the history of development of new york state. It is the principal river of new york and was an important highway of commerce. It is hard to remember in these days the superhighways in these days of superhighways, but in the early 1800s transportation was a difficult task. Roads were primitive, railroads had not been invented, and travelers and trade goods were often delayed by currents on the river. And it all changed with the invention of the steamboat. On august 14, 19 1807, robert. s steamboat made its First Successful voyage from new york to albany and back again. In 62 hours. A journey that would have taken a week with sailbo
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
Various aspects of the neville in the pacific. Without further ado, anthony tully. Anthony thank you all. Thank you all for coming. What i would like to do is segue to the battle and drop back in time a little bit in the setup leading into that. At the end of march there was the completion very. Barrier. If you see this red line here. This barrier is what they called the defensive barrier for the areas they have just conquered, starting from pearl harbor all the way through february, to the start of march, the concord they conquered indonesia, singapore, borneo, the philippines, this area was the consent of the Japanese Army to make sure they continue to defend. The next question that arose was which direction with her next offensive go. The japanese general headquarters, but the navy and the army, they want to go down here to cut off the supply line and what australia in a position that they could even look at raids or the invasion of some of the coast. This was the preference of the
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 evolution of American Forces from 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. Welcome 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 Shenandoah Valley in 18
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. Welcome 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 Shenandoah Valley in 1864, contribute to overall confederate defeat. Yet, scarcely missing a beat after the confederate surrenders in spring 1865, he seized control of the historical narrative to substantially redeem his reputation and position himself as chief authority on Robert E Lees army of Northern Virginia, when robert e. Lee died in 1