Its the middle of the week. And you all came out to be a part of this conversation. Im pleased to have you here. I wanted to talk about this image from Jacob Lawrence. It is a 60piece art creation. What is interesting about it is lawrence created it as a result of learning more about his own family. That his parents were migrants to the north. I think from virginia, if i remember correctly. He learned about the migration by talking to them and talking to other members of his family as well as other people in his neighborhood. It intrigued him so much he wanted to capture that story, capture that history, understood all the parts to it. I want to start with this because what i will talk to you about is the stories and the history he learned. Like to talk about it because i am, in fact, the grandchild of migrants. Migrated from first from south carolina. Pickens county, south carolina. Anybody know Pickens County . Bah. [laughter] from there to atlanta, georgia. You know that one. From t
West africa to iraq and has written on security and Global Affairs for a wide range of newspapers and magazines. Book,itical acclaimed which began with gettysburg, the value of the shadow, richmond, the dam at petersburg and will conclude with justice at conclude with judgment at appomattox, will be released on august 29. It will have a better cover. Yes, it will have a better cover. [laughter] you all will see a special advanced copy. We do have Copies Available over labor day weekend. I apologize that this is not released until the end of august. There will be opportunities to get signed copies. We are really grateful to have you back here, ralph. Thank you. He has been coming here since he is one of our favorites we 2013, havent the heritage center. Ralph thank you. [applause] ralph let me get my regular microphone back. It is great to be back. Everyone knows that this is a special place. Gettysburg is, and it is certainly a haunted place. Whenever i go here i get excited and i want
She received her phd from Boston College after teaching for a few years she moved to villanova. That is where she is now a professor. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including most recently sex and the civil war, soldiers, pornography, and the making of american morality. Home Something Like that. That is not right. The diary of a free black woman and philadelphia. Which my scholars just read and discussed, and we all want to know what happened. Sorry. Judie is much more than a academic civil war nerd. Though she is this, which i know because i ran into her family on the memorial day weekend heading to see the graves of black civil war soldiers as the rest of us eight barbecue. She is a devoted public historian having moved from editing to a new digital project, finding families after slavery. This open access database give scholars and students and genealogists a chance to examine thousands of information on lost friends and relatives advertisements that were taken out
It is our number one industry and today it is the foundation of our economy. I grew up on a farm. Many people in south dakota, i think most are one or two generations or immediately off a farm or ranch. That is our strength. We have Mount Rushmore, the badlands. Lots of things that bring tourism to south dakota. We are also a Financial Services locale. 1980s when the Interest Rates were skyrocketing and citibank was losing money in , they moved their credit card operation to south dakota, where it is continued where it continues to be based. Other credit card issuers have followed. Quite a few credit card operations. Of us thatt think way but we are. Who lives in south dakota . We have 860,000 people. Our demographic is not different than the nation. We have a few older people. Our population may be older than our population as a whole. We are increasingly urbanized in a sense that people in the rural areas are moving to more populated areas. That is chiefly because farming and ranchin
Part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. When i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. Hes getting married in a couple weeks. I will be a major life shift for it. He is the education director for the Mosby Heritage area and coauthor of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. He will talk with us a bit about what he considers to be a great defense robert e lee at , antietam. My pleasure is to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollak. [applause] kevin good morning, everyone. Thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set a Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of history. It is about to get crazy, if you will. Talking about robert at the battle of antietam. Even before last yea