The director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy, he is responsible for the museum, art, and artifact collections, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the u. S. Naval academy, his 37 year career focused on intelligent. Professor richard strainer comes from Washington College where he is a professor of history and coauthor of 10 books and numerous articles. His new book how america can spend his way back to greatness comes out at the end of the month. John maxwell hamilton comes from Louisiana State university and he is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson center for international scholars. His career has taken him through journalism before academia. The book he is working on now focuses on propaganda in world war i to set the stage, we will start with you. 100 years ago a german uboat sank the luxury liner lusitania as it steamed toward port, killing nearly 1200 passengers
The vast number of confederate sailors, most of those guys that crew those three iron clads are from virginia and are based in and around richmond on the rivers. So they are actually not that cut poch one of the best things that helped sailor morale is right up until the end the navy eats better than the normally does. The amy has a far better ration system than the army does. But the one of the things too that sustains the sailors particularly the ones on the ironclads and particularly the ones, you know, on the rivers, is that they are defending home. They are making a visible contribution and these ironclads still remain a psychological advantage for the con fed rates. Were in an ironclad. In a new ship. The yanks will have trouble with us no matter what, and we will cause trouble for them. That helped sustain morale more than anything. Before wre wrap up, chris is the author of books. Something that is usually overlooked in light of the flashier gediesburg and vicksburg kind of thi