The professor spoke at the opening of the gettysburg civil war institutes annual conference which focused on the end of the war and its aftermath. Peter good afternoon. I am the director of the institute. It is my pleasure to invite aaron sheehandean, the professor of southern studies at lsu. He is professor of southern history as well as civil war and published a number of scholarly works, including a monograph on a book published by the university of virginia. He has done a number of things as well as the editor with myself for civil war america which is published by unc. Aaron came to cwi in 2013. This is your third year at lsu. We will have to note if theres a change in his accent. Do you have a cajun accent now . He is shaking his head no. He will speak on the war in 1865. Welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway i talk too fast. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native
The only difference is a slight increase in humidity. Trenton, 76. Allentown, 73 a refreshing 71 in the poconos. Satellite and radar, lots of clouds approaching from the west. These the blow off cloud tops from the meso scale convection system. Some of those could sneak in, well call it hotter, high temperatures near 90. As i mentioned the humidity levels will be slightly higher than yesterday. Still tolerable. Tomorrow night and tuesday the humidity starts to jump and the thunderstorms come back in. Happening today marlin mosby the prosecute for baltimore will be the keynote speaker at the naacp. She has been in the National Spotlight since the death of freddie gray, she is prosecuting 6 Baltimore Police officers. Grays death set off days of unrest. Some protester e tersers took to the treat protesters to the to the street here, as well. Recent polls show Race Relations have become worse during the administration of president obama. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch will speak at t
Gunman after a began is shot dead at a city play ground. Baltimore state attorney general Marilyn Mosby bringing her message to philadelphia. After weeks of negotiations and missed deadlines diplomats may have struck a deal on the iran nuclear program. Those stories in a moment, but first the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, a bright spot in the day. Reporter good afternoon to you both. Its perfect out hear, it is, especially for july standards. We have cloud cover upstairs, mostly sunny skies for the most part a breeze blowing from time to time and slightly humid conditions, but not too bad. Not a bad afternoon at all. 83 in trenton. 86 in philadelphia. Reading, 84. Sea isle city and on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, 80 degrees both locations as the sea breeze starts to kick in. Satellite and radar weve been tracking a complex of showers and thunderstorms off to the west all morning. And now you can see the cloud cover starting to roll in from the west from that system. But r
Peter good afternoon. I am the director of the institute. It is my pleasure to invite aaron sheehandean, the professor of southern studies at lsu. He is professor of southern history as well as civil war and published a number of scholarly works, including a monograph on a book published by the university of virginia. He has done a number of things as well as the editor with myself for civil war america which is published by unc. Aaron came to cwi in 2013. This is your third year at lsu. We will have to note if theres a change in his accent. Do you have a cajun accent now . He is shaking his head no. He will speak on the war in 1865. Welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway is i talk too fast. People know that i am a yankee. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native in that regard of the food of baton rouge. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to start things off. I
268,000, it is the second most populated city in the state, and home to the university of nebraska. What the health of our Time Warner Cable partners, for the next hour we will explore the history and literary culture of this capital city. One of the most american writers of the 20th century, she was given almost every literary award possible. Least 3000hind at letters that we know about. Those letters are all over the world in different repositories. But we are fortunate that the good collections are here in nebraska. We are in the heritage room of the nebraska authors in the Lincoln City Library in lincoln, nebraska. Trimurpose of they are to is to collect and celebrate and promote the works of nebraska authors. We began the collection in 1949. The library and originally helped just one bookcase where fromould put books nebraska authors. Now we have 13,000 volumes. We represent more than 4000 nebraska and authors. We began our special look at lincoln with the story of chief Standing