The screen. Sign up for the American History tv newsletter today and be sure to watch American History tv every saturday or any time online at cspan. Org history. Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. Its my honor to be with you. Today well be talking about world war ii on americas doorstep. I represent noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric association. This system encompasses more than 600,000 square miles of marine and great lakes waters from Washington State to the florida keys and from the huron to american samoa. We represent the sanctuary off the coast of North Carolina, which you can see here with the arrow. Heres some other representations of our sanctuary, but we are located about 16 miles off the coast of cape hatteras, North Carolina. And were in 230 feet of water where the labrador and gulf stream currents collide. Not only is it casualties and only a dozen wounded. That evening the u. S. S. Monitor arrives in Hampton Roads after coming from new yor
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. So well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how mu
Jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and thats great. Of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. Were really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we dont get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether theres anyone out there at all. So please do keep those. Some responses coming. We really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. So our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone whos attended Virginia Tech civil war weekend before William C
Horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at Virginia Tech before that. She earned her phd at unc chapel hill. Shes working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. And by the way, she g
Im director of the Virginia Center for civil war studies. It was my job one of my jobs to split these nine talks into three different sessions one for each week and the theme the kind of sub theme i came up with for this week is manpower and horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. He talks have taken place. So were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she work