I know of the civil war and their experiences attempting to make it safely to union lines. This talk was part of the Civil War Institute conference at Gettysburg College. Good afternoon again, im p. Carmichael, member of the History Program here at Gettysburg College. Our final talk for this evening or this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university where she teaches on history of reconstruction, 1960 america and reform movements. Loren got her start at university of kansas where she did her undergrad and got her ph. D. At the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentlemen in the roughs, manhood honor and violence in the union army. One of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug in the National Archives and looked at Court Marshal records which had been underutilized until lorien got ahold of them. David brooks the klummist from the New York Times mentioned in fact you got a
Librarian. She wanted it to be a big, open space. When you first walk in, it is very welcoming. They chose stencilling in there to welcome people. When you look up, there is a pineapple stencil all over the ceiling. Then there are bird faces eating berries on the sides of the walls. She was credited with also she was a populist which was kansas is really the only state that had populism. We had a couple populist governors and some big figures who were involved in the populist movement. She reminded them the workers, while they were working on the library, that at some point they would be holding a lot of books. So they did reinforcements knowing at some point there would be books on all of those shelves. There is a glass floor. At that time, a lot of libraries had glass floors to let the Natural Light filter into the building. And when people got electricity, they, a lot of times got rid of those glass floors. Luckily, we kept ours. The glass itself goes around the bookcases and so you
Librarian. She wanted it to be a big, open space. When you first walk in, it is very welcoming. They chose stencilling in there to welcome people. When you look up, there is a pineapple stencil all over the ceiling. Then there are bird faces eating berries on the sides of the walls. She was credited with also she was a populist which was kansas is really the only state that had populism. We had a couple populist governors and some big figures who were involved in the populist movement. She reminded them the workers, while they were working on the library, that at some point they would be holding a lot of books. So they did reinforcements knowing at some point there would be books on all of those shelves. There is a glass floor. At that time, a lot of libraries had glass floors to let the Natural Light filter into the building. And when people got electricity, they, a lot of times got rid of those glass floors. Luckily, we kept ours. The glass itself goes around the bookcases and so you
Whether the 14th amendment requires the state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex. On cspan2s the tv, author peter slavin looks at the life of our first lady to show obama. On sunday at noon on indepth, are live threehour conversation with documentary filmmaker and not their jon ronson who has written many books including so you have been publicly shamed, the psychopath test, a journey through the madness industry. We will also be taking your phone calls, email, Facebook Comments and tweets. Get the complete schedule at www. Cspan. Org. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring topeka, kansas. It refers to a series of violent political contra confrontations between antislavery and proslavery groups. Between 1854 and 1861. The influx of proslavery and free state settlers during this time helped establish toby get as a Major Political topeka as a Major Political force in the area. Cspan city tour staff recently visited many sides exploring the rich history.
That visitors can move into the first gallery of exhibits which will set the importance of education in after American Community and that leads up to the decision to use education as the legal issue whereby the naacp would end all segregate segregation laws. Then all of the other dominoes of segregation institutions would fall. They did not fall easily pair one of the most powerful portions of the exhibit was the hall of courage, news footage gathered from around the country, in opposition from the decision and the movement and that took place all over the nation, including where there were riots. There were not any major disruptions here in topeka and kansas but there was on a National Level extremely costly to the United States. To imagine what it must be like to he a 16yearold boy or girl or be and be confronted by the mob is what the hall of courage attempted to create. It is probably one of the most powerful parts here. One of the things we are here to do is help engage in dialogu