All right. Good evening. Im peter carmichael. I am a professor of history at Gettysburg College and also the director of the civil war institute. Its my pleasure this evening to be moderator and panelist for this session on the anatomy of a lost cause. Joining me, to my immediate right is keith bohannon. Keith is an assistant professor of history at west georgia university. Keith has very long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. Daty is an assistant professor. She just received
Pennsylvanians cares at all, at least in terms of the slave, was defending fugitive slaves and taking no fee. If im mott mistaken in the 1838 Constitutional Convention when pennsylvania decided to take the right of voting away from blacks who until then had that right, there was only one member who refused to sign that constitution and that was Thaddeus Stevens. The father of the Public School system of pennsylvania, the great voice for equality and the great commoner. He is a man who deserves great credit and great honor and i dont have to tell you as well that Thaddeus Stevens when he died in 1868 would tell a reporter the great pity of my life is i have lived long and so uselessly. For he believed then that reconstruction would not be able to survive. The commitment was not there. When this man died we had him buried in the back church yards. He said i reside here in this quiet spot, not from a desire of seclusion, but finding that every other cemetery makes a bar on the basis of ra
University. Keith has long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. She is an assistant professor she just received her promotion excuse me, i just said assistant, i meant to say associate professor at virginia commonwealth university. Katy is a graduate or i should say a student of Gary Gallagher at the university of virginia, where she completed her dissertation, became a book called natures civil war and its published by university of North Carolina press. If any of you have any
Yesterday. Israel says at least three people have died. They are fighting back with their own missile launches and air strikes. This is what happened on the ground in gaza, huge mushroom clouds of destruction, buildings left in ruins. Israel says it targeted more than 300 terror sites. Thats what they call them in gaza and the bombs fall, neighborhoods go up in flames. Bodies on the streets. Health Ministry Officials say 18 palestinians have been killed. Cnn sara sidner is in gaza city, witnessing the violence and heres what she told wolf blitzer this afternoon. Watch. Reporter okay. Im going to move out of the way. Im going to let you get a look here. Im going to let you get a look at what is going on. I can see the black smoke. Its difficult to capture on camera but you saw that flash. This is what we have been dealing with all day. We have also been dealing with, im sorry, the power has just gone out, we have been dealing with power outages, wolf, but this feels like war. It may not
Cnns cedrick prankins was where air raid sirens went off. One sounded when i was on the air with Cnn International anchor colleen mcedwards. Heres what happened. Reporter the crews working on the ground and that seems to indeed be part of all of the rocket that has handed here. People here spend most of their days indoors there is another attack. Theres another rocket alert going on right now. Weve got to get out of here. Okay, go, fred. There you see it, a strike in ashca lan, just a short time ago, were seeing pictures there, weve got the pictures you up as fred and our camera crew get out of the way. The sirens sounding again in ashcalan, a sign that another strike is coming. Can we listen here . Reporter now we have the impact. Colleen, we can stay on. Were with you. Reporter you still there . Yes, were with you. Go ahead. Reporter okay. Colleen, basically what just happened is the air sirens went off, and we then ran to a sort of a shelter we have right here. This is a residential