Ceo. Am the president and this is really a Cultural Center that is meant to tell the story of the influence and evolving mexicans influence of and mexicanamericans throughout the history of los angeles to celebrate the culture and educate people. Is a brandnew institution in los angeles and were hoping many people will come and visit and discover something new every time. Do not collect objects, we collect stories. People will see different objects and listen to different stories or tell their own stories as well. Los angeles is a city always looking forward, always looking to the future. Sometimes we forget the origins of the city and how it came about. Native americans were here and they had been seen from afar from the boats and ships the spanish were sailing up and down the coast. 1780 one, the Spanish Government decided they needed to settle in view of the various areas around the coast and they went to mexico to look for some volunteers to track 1000 miles to come here to los ang
He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The book is called bloody autumn. He followed that up with hurricane from the heavens, and most recently, calamity in carolina the battles of bentonville. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful job with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for just a month or so. He is taking time to talk to us about a subject that eric introduced us to just moments ago, the the foundational document of the lost cause. Phill is going to talk to us about where that goes and how that legacy remains with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, phill greenwalt. [applause] phillip good morning. Good morning. Phillip the good thing about the lost cause or remembering Southern Confederate history is that
Daniel davis and Philip Greenwalt talk about the 1864 battle of the harbor that took place in the civil war. This program is next on booktv the place harkens a sense of doom. A child visiting for the first time with my dad making our way through and around the entrenchments found a certain sense of foreboding. The perception persists today 150 years later we see the images after the war from the battlefield which is that on the cover of the hurricane from the heavens and we read words such as the six core of the potomac. Its very interesting to visit the battlefields of the war but i never heard anyone as engaged that expressed an interest in the harbor. Its a peoples of earth and the rifle pit and traversed covert way theyve now yielded to the sun and the plow but it remains in american history. It would become the final battle that took place in the spring of 1864 virginia between the u. S. Assist grant and robert e. Lee. Beginning in the wilderness wilderness the fighting would move