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
She is the author of Stonewall Jacksons warhorse little , an Unlikely Hero of the civil war. Post Sharon B Smith was a police beat reporter, covered the texas state legislature, and was a weekend anchor. Share and then worke went east aere she worked as legislative reporter. And after espn went on the air she moved into sports journalism. She anchored sportscenter, and stretch, down the the first weekly Horse Racing Program on Cable Television. She anchored the kentucky derby, the breeders crown, and the to lookian, which i had up before i gave this talk. She is the author of several books on horse racing, training, and the civil or, including retraining, teaching previous new skills to old horses. Why are you writing books if you know so much about betting on horses . War a guidecivil for travelers, and most recently, Stonewall Jacksons little sorrell an Unlikely Hero of the civil war. Please welcome Sharon B Smith. [applause] sharon yes, i did write a book on betting on horses and re
I am glad that you are not stuck in traffic on i95. I am sure some of you have enjoyed that wonderful form of torture in the past. Glad to have you here with us. It is my distinct privilege to kick involved by introducing my ecw cofounder kristopher white. Christopher is currently the education manager at the civil war trust, of it as soon a position he has had since the beginning of the year. That has turned the civil war into his playground across the country. He has been going from one event to the next. We are glad he could land here in spotsylvania. As our chief historian, his job is to contextualize our symposium. The theme is great defenses of the civil war. We are going to talk about some great battlefield defenses both federal and confederate. We want to invite you to think about that notion of defenses and a larger, broader context as well. Perhaps it is not just all mud and blood. To help us get our gears turning. It is my privilege introduce my friend chris white create kri
Allow speakers to examine various facets of the civil war experience. E shenandoah th valley offered that potential. Let me talk about the valley. Briefly. Most of you know it is a place of breathtaking beauty and agricultural bounty, then and now. It extends from the Potomac River in the north to beyond lexington in the south, with the blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the alleghenies on the west. The valley runs southwest to totheast and drops gently meet the Potomac River. This means someone traveling towards the potomac goes down the valley in an audit circumstance where north is always up, in the valley, north is always up. The massenet and mountain divides the valley. Shenandoahork of the meanders toward the potomac. In the east, the south fork runs through the page valley on its journey to join the north fork at front royal. Image of thea good valley in your mind, but that is how we conceived of it when we were talking about it. We settled on it because of the logistical and
While we wait for the next speaker, you can also watch all their award to Conference Coverage you can watch all of our Civil War Institute Conference Coverage online. Us your thoughts and connect with us on facebook. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. To introduce to you lisa tendrich frank. She is an independent historian, editor, and writer on all issues related to the american civil war. She is based out of tallahassee, florida. She studied at the university of florida where she received her phd. She did her phd under one of the Great Southern historians. Birchame is her chum wyatt brown. He had an incredible career, his most important book entitled so honor. Southern she has a very impressive publication record, or most recent book released by else you and the title, the civilian war, confederate women and Union Soldiers during shermans march. We have talked a lot about original research and those historians who love to dig into the archives. Thats book is full of primary