Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came here. She s
Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came here. She s
And that. Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came h
And that. Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came h
War at the university of virginia where she also serves as director of the john l. Now the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor Gary W Gallagher she is the author or editor of seven books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina presses prestigious civil war america series. She has served as the president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. Im about 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book and i just this morning saw a brand new review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named harold holzer. And he calls it immensely readable and utterly convincing. Please join me in welcoming caroline janey. Good morning. So first a big big thanks to john. Cell phones in my classroom when they go off the entire class gets a quiz. So we can institute that policy right now if that will help curtail the cell ph