Many of you saw the news early many of you saw the news early on monday when the new York Police Department decided to fire the Police Officer involved in the death of eric gardner. This is what the police had to say on monday about that decision. [video clip] being a police is one of the hardest jobs in the world. That is not a statement to. Licit sympathy, it is a fact cops have to make choices, sometimes quickly every single day. Some are splitsecond, life or death choices. Oftentimes they are choices that will be thoroughly and repeatedly examined by those with much more time to think about them than the Police Officer had and those decisions are scrutinized and secondguessed both fairly and unfairly. The officer went to bed thinking he would make choices and take actions during a routine arrest that would lead to another persons death. An officers choices and actions even made under extreme pressure matter. It is unlikely mr. Gardner thought he was in such poor health that a brief
The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia will welcome the audience. This is live coverage on American History tv on cspan3. Good morning, im Gary Gallagher and i very pleased to welcome all of you this morning. To our symposium titled ordinary people, extraordinary times. I do this and welcome you on behalf of the library of virginia, the American Civil War the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Treadway, they library and would perform this task,
Aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway i talk too fast. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native and that regard of the food of baton rouge. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to start things off. We congratulate ourselves on the if youre civil war historian or somebody the last couple of years may have seen longer do not know how the war is going to end. It is exciting for me to tell you how it finishes after the years not knowing. I would like to shift to a slightly more omnipotent perspective and talk about the ways in which participants were trying to make sense of the experience. How did they ascribe meaning to what they just went through . And one level up, how have we over time and i will do this quickly songs about the question of what the civil war means . That category of analysis, thinking about is distinct from why the war ended. This is the question a lot a civil war historians have spe
The professor spoke at the opening of the gettysburg civil war institutes annual conference which focused on the end of the war and its aftermath. Peter good afternoon. I am the director of the institute. It is my pleasure to invite aaron sheehandean, the professor of southern studies at lsu. He is professor of southern history as well as civil war and published a number of scholarly works, including a monograph on a book published by the university of virginia. He has done a number of things as well as the editor with myself for civil war america which is published by unc. Aaron came to cwi in 2013. This is your third year at lsu. We will have to note if theres a change in his accent. Do you have a cajun accent now . He is shaking his head no. He will speak on the war in 1865. Welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway i talk too fast. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native
Peter good afternoon. I am the director of the institute. It is my pleasure to invite aaron sheehandean, the professor of southern studies at lsu. He is professor of southern history as well as civil war and published a number of scholarly works, including a monograph on a book published by the university of virginia. He has done a number of things as well as the editor with myself for civil war america which is published by unc. Aaron came to cwi in 2013. This is your third year at lsu. We will have to note if theres a change in his accent. Do you have a cajun accent now . He is shaking his head no. He will speak on the war in 1865. Welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway is i talk too fast. People know that i am a yankee. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native in that regard of the food of baton rouge. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to start things off. I