If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo
The Oregon Rare Books Initiative was begun three or four years ago. By a couple of colleagues here at oregon. Its aim is to increase the use of the rare book and special Collections Archives among faculty and students and in the classroom here at the university of oregon. The initiative was founded in 2013. Colleagues, including myself, have been upstairs in the vault where these rare books are stored, along with librarians, including bruce tabb wlorks have helped us to find , who have helped us to find books we did not know we owned. The been a rediscovery of some of the amazing rare and collectible books that have been here often since the early 19th century, and were using them in our research and classes in a way that we hadnt for several decades. When we invite a visiting scholar to come give a talk here, we encourage that person to consult in our collection upstairs and find some of the rare books that he or she has worked on and that are of interest in that field. Books specialt
Were called in 0 keep the fire from damaging nearby hopes. Firefighters say flames where is pushed by gusty wind in the area at the time. Right now it is under control. No homes were damaged. Crews are still on the scene watching for any hot spots. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. Im am map dates. That wasnt the only fire. Another heavily damaged an Elementary School in san rafael. Thick smoke poured from dixie elementary on idle berry road about 5 45 tonight. The Fire Department says a roofing project was happening on campus and roofing materials on several buildings caught fire. Its now out. Officials say the fire damaged the roof of some buildings. Crews are evaluating to see if was damage to the classrooms. A grass fire in napa is under control thanks to a Quick Response from firefighters. The owner of lobo wines shared video. The fire burned less than five acres near atlas peak road. 100 firings fought the blaze from the air and ground as you can see. There was one minor i
Yes. Im trying to brainstorm myself later on today. And the scheme is another home game, the last one for a while. And we have some clouds out there for now. They are not going last all day by any means. Here is the cloud cover. You can start to see the sun coming out there. And it will, once the sun gets a higher sun angle. And 69 degrees and notice the dew points at 60 and yesterday was a lot hire than that higher than that and we had some storms off to the east. And we will see the humidity stay up low and comfortable. And were into the 50s right now. And 54 as you head over to andrews and wall interpret waller. And once you head south to fort royal and the valley, that is where youll see the fog. And you see the cold front that is headed our way for tomorrow. So enjoy the nice weather. Were going to be 80, give or take a few degrees, across the region. No rain today but rain tomorrow. And ill track that coming up. President obama arrived in germany this morning to join other leader