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Silver prize for best first book on the civil war and she is currently conducting a biographical study of jubal a. Early. Welcome Kathryn Shively meier. [applause] you forr meier thank having me. Im delighted to be here. I think you will see some connections between my talk on talksearly as the earlier you heard on richard taylor. Confederate general jubal a. Was one of the most influential losers in American History. Known for a petulant personality, early lost the Shenandoah Valley to Philip Sheridan in 1864, contributing to the overall confederate defeats. Seized control of the historical narrative to substantially redeem his reputation and position himself as chief authority on robert e. Lees army of Northern Virginia when lee died. Jubal earned866, accolades from northern and Southern Newspapers for his proficiency as a general and the cherry historian. By 1869, a former confederate general proclaimed early nearer to the hearts of the southern people than any other man. The story
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An
The Smithsonian American Art Museum allows me to the guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. I photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon, Governor Brown in california and and many of the events he was present at. Why this exhibit here in the American Art Museum at this time . It is the centennial of his birth 100 years ago on may 29. How do you put an exhibit like this together . First you start with a few researchers. We collected 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. Six months and became the basis of a very important book that we published. From those 400 odd pictures in the book we were able to select 77 photographs that we felt told the story of jf k and his life and times. John f. Kennedy was a president who saw americas place in the world. He was a man who understood history, who served in world war ii. He understood the issues of civil rights. He understood many of the conflicts around the world. Exhibit addresses the issue of jfks vision for america. Of