I want to welcome you in our session and military history, im been here a long time at the university and we have for very young historians so i feel a generation or two and beyond. Ill introduce them in a moment. But before i do, i want to tell you are actually here. Our historians our specialists and the American Revolutionary and particular interest and military aspects. As you learn from listening to them, their approaches for independence are very considerably and speaking up by the way because there is no microphone in here and allows you to do the same we get to the queue or nay. We are going to hear remarks on gender and personal narrative in the meetings of con reds and the influence of military service and state formation and we have called the session the military history of the American Revolution but whatever we call it, our panel is theyre going to illustrate the Central Point of all military history. That is the field encompasses of all perspectives and it could bring to
We will show you a clip of the watergate hearings. As carla hayden just mentioned, we launched a. A period exhibit on the coverage of the watergate hearings and that will mark the first time the complete Online Access to the hearings has been made to made available to the public on might. The next panel come up and you can run the clip . [video clip] here is impact ceo correspondent. From washington. We are going to bring you the entire proceedings in the first day of the second watergate hearings. Hearings to bear the truth about the wide range of illegal, unethical, or improper activity. Surrounding the reelection of president nixon last year. We are writing at all each day because we think these hearings are important and because we think it is important if you get a chance to see the whole thing and make your own judgments. Some nights, we may be an const competition with the late news. We are doing this as an toeriment experiment, give you the whole story. However many hours it ma
Miss engl is a phd candidate in history at lehigh university. Her dissertation, americas first band of brothers, friendship and camaraderie within the Continental Army during the revolutionary era explores the reallife experiences of men who fought in the army by uncovering the significance of personal connections they developed throughout the conflict and their ability to sustain these ions into the years of the early republic. Her research has been supported by several institutions, including the Mcneil Center for early american studies at the university of pennsylvania, the Gibson Institute for 18th century studies, and the david library. She was awarded a society of cincinnati scholars grant to support one week of study. She is the amanda and greg gregory fellow at the National Library for the study of George Washington at mount vernon. The topic of miss angles dissertation and the subject of her lecture this evening hearkens perfectly to the third a mutable founding principle of t