Director of the civil war institute. I welcome all of you to our panel on georgia gordon meade. Im going to quickly go through this morning as line up. On my far right you to your left, we have john hennessey, and historian. He is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. To his left, scott hartwig. He is a long time friend and supporters of cwi and also a historian. Retired historian from Gettysburg National park. He is also written a book on the battle of antietam. It is a two volume study and the second voelume will be out in a few years. Excellent. Good. To the left of scott is jennifer murray. Jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the Gettysburg National park. And she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. And many of you met ken know. He was your adviser at auburn where she completed her dissertation. And last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. You do need introduction. And everyone,
harrow discusses his book. Developed washington d. C. s infrastructure and expanded buildings and sites, such as the u. S. Capitol dome and the Arlington National cemetery. This is just over 50 minutes. Joining us tonight is robert oharrow, a reporter with the Investigative Unit of the Washington Post who is focused on privacy, national security, federal contracting, and the financial world. He has won multiple journalism awards. The 2013 sigma delta chi award. Regional emmy. , a he previously won the top prize for investigative reporters and editors for exposing fraud, waste, and abuse in Homeland Security contracting. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice. He is the author of no place to hide. Michelle krowl is a civil war and reconstruction specialist at the library of congress. She received a ba in history at berkeley. She is the author of several articles and books on topics related to the civil war. She has worked at the Library Assistant at the Historical Society of washin
This mornings line up. On my far right you to your left, we have john hennessy, and historian. He is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. To his left, scott hartwig. He is a long time friend and supporter of cwi and also a historian. Retired historian from Gettysburg National park. He is also written a book on the battle of antietam. It is a two volume study and the second volume will be out in a few years. Excellent. Good. To the left of scott is jennifer murray. Jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the Gettysburg National park. And she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. And many of you met ken know. He was your advisor at auburn where she completed her dissertation. And last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. You do need introduction. And everyone, on cspan audience, they know you, brooks. He is a professor of history at Arizona State and his specialty as you know is the preside
This mornings line up. On my far right you to your left, we have john hennessy, and historian. He is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. To his left, scott hartwig. He is a long time friend and supporter of cwi and also a historian. Retired historian from Gettysburg National park. He is also written a book on the battle of antietam. It is a two volume study and the second volume will be out in a few years. Excellent. Good. To the left of scott is jennifer murray. Jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the Gettysburg National park. And she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. And many of you met ken know. He was your advisor at auburn where she completed her dissertation. And last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. You do need introduction. And everyone, on cspan audience, they know you, brooks. He is a professor of history at Arizona State and his specialty as you know is the preside
Sufferage d that surprise you . It particularly surprised me that Jesse Fremont opposed women sufferage, opposed women getting to vote. She seemed the one to be most obvious to it. But i think she didnt want to be public about that because it would reflect poorly on her husband later running for president in an era when that was not a popular political position. When you did the first first lady series, we discovered by course of doing our call ins and the like that there was a real hunger for womens history. And we have so many moms and daughters watching the series together. And they were calling us, even three generations and the like. So what we realized, we tapped into a vain of not enough told in this country. And theyre not understanding the role of the civil war. Thank you very much. Well have more American History tv tomorrow night from our american artifacts series. Well look at artists of the American Revolution and visit the andy warhol museum. Later, a conversation on the