Good evening. My name is arthur hessel. Im Vice President of the haberman institute for jewish studies. I want to welcome those you who are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is ou
Civil war. My name is molly mersmann and i am a postdoctoral associate here with the Virginia Center for civil war here at virgin tech, which is sponsoring this event, the center regularly hosts talks like and other activities which include academic conferences scholarships and grants, outreach programs in museums and, Elementary School classrooms and more besides, basically sharing wonderful civil war era history. As many different people as we possibly can. You can keep up with what is going on with the center on our website, which is civil war dot v teen dot edu or you can go on facebook or twitter. On to tonights event. Our speaker is dr. Meghan bever, who is an associate professor of history and chair of the social department at Missouri Southern state university. She received her ph. D. From, the university of alabama, but i am a little more excited that she received her undergraduate degree at purdue university, which is where i went for my graduate work. So im excited to have t
Happening that day . October 4, 1930, is 770foot long airship, the largest thing everer clung, larger than the titanic about to take off on a trip which was in india as part of scheme by the British Empire and it was kind of a moonshot. One of your chapters is titled dream and imperial vision, hows much was the airship . A nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding about is the two writing about, it is the focus of all of this effort to persuade people that airships were the way to go. A good
Thank you for having me. Withdelighted to be here the emerging civil war. Lets talk about Horseshoe Ridge. Let me tell you that its not a horseshoe shaped nor a ridge. More on that later. In september 1863, the union army of a cumberland and Confederate Army of tennessee came together in north georgia and thought the threeday battle. The secondlargest battle of the civil war, 130,000 men. Approximately 340,000 casualties Confederate Army of tennessee out of that. One of the things i found while researching this is that everybody has a Different Number for the casualties. As noted, it is i a confusing battle. I will give you a brief sketch of the first two days of the battle. September 18, 1863, largely a recovering force action. Thank you, derek. Youre defining that. There are a lot of parallels with reactions on july 1 at gettysburg. Brigades went well. Across Chickamauga Creek for the best part of a full day. They disrupt the confederate battle plan. As a result, the fighting that be
Less than an hour ago we took these pictures. If you look closely you can see the rooster tails spraying water behind those cars. Lets go to drew tomb and live dopplar 7. The rain gear certainly getting a workout tonight. Life dopplar seven showing you were tracking widespread showers. I do want to take back about an hour and a half ago because live dopplar seven showing a couple of thundershowers on the west. A couple of lightning strikes. Many of you were saying you saw lightning and heard rumbles of thunder and thats why. We have downpours through san leandro just worked through castro valley, 880, highway 105 showing those downpours to the peninsula. Belmont, south to redwood city, atherton, palo alto. Benicia downpours in your neck of the woods. Highway 4 we are wet at this hour even into the east bay, downpours there working through alameda and right now San Francisco just some light rain overhead. Lets get you out the door tomorrow morning lots of clouds and isolated sprinkle. T