After the discovery of a new cluster of cases. And an inquiry into the actions of Hong Kong Police during last years prodemocracy protests clears them of using unnecessary violence saying the officers were responding to threats. Welcome to the program germans love their holidays in the sun and where the government starting to have pandemic border controls the only things getting in the way of their summer dreams are other countries borders so getting them to lift their controls is now a matter of the highest level of politics and diplomacy and germanys foreign minister is due to discuss exactly about issue with his european counterparts next week. The endless beaches of france and the majestic mountains of austria in any normal summer German Tourists love to head for these and many other european beauty spots but because of the corona virus the route to germany is neighbors has been blocked at the borders for many the pandemic has given travel a new importance of which gets a lot of co
My book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. The National Park service manages 70 sites that are civil warrelated. The battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites time, significantly. If you look at the photograph on the top right, that is an aerial view. The mostne of commercialized areas in the 1940s and 1950s. The image on the left should be familiar to many of you. Perhaps you have the opportunity to go up and the old tower that 1970s. Up in the how the battlefield has been commercialized and how it has changed over time. One of the questions i try to reconcile is what makes gettysburg different . This battlefield is different and antietam. Its different than chickamauga. Its different than perryville. Its different than shiloh. 51,000ttle, producing casualties in three days, is the bloodiest conflict in American History. The man in the slide is a soldier from the fifth massachusetts who was wounded in the fight at gettysburg. His name is john
With a longtime contributor to cwi, jen murray. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. She is as you know an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has i would say a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memory of get Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a i biography of George Gordon meade which will hopefully be publi published in the civil war america series. She is a veteran faculty member here. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding. Its largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years . For nine years. So it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg Na
Sam hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, south carolina, five days ago. And if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, we werent able to move into the so we arere buying living out of boxes and crates and things. It sounds strange to say i drove up from south carolina. Im used to driving down here. I have been looking forward to this for several reasons. Theis, when the theme of symposium is generals you love , i dont have to worry about what peoples expectations are. , ended a fan of John Bell Hood even though i am not as closely related as the name implies. I am a collateral descendent. I think i am a second cousin. Grandfather,s andrew hood, comes off a different branch, but i am a big ,an of general hood because like most people i am a big fan of an underdog. Fan ofm also a huge people who are not around to defend themselves, and they deserve a defense. I, for probably 20 years, have been researching general hood. And
Down about 357 points now. Well more impact to how the world is reacting. Less begin with sue herrera. A lot of us experiencing heart palpitations, but things seem to be bouncing back. It is bouncing back a bit. It was a very difficult opening for the market, this would be the 1,000point loss. It would be the biggest one day intraday point loss, but percentagewise its not as significant as one might thing. Pointwise, it was a heart stopper, but it didnt last long, it kind of stabilized down about 600 appoints, and then slowly start to do crawl back. We go the to the back where we were only about 150 points down. Why . The worries about asia did hit the market hard, but that was mostly pentup selling from friday. There were a number of big institutional traders that couldnt get out of the market in time, so they had sell orders in for monday morning. Thats why we saw the plunge. We did see some significant buying by big institutional traders at the lows, thats whats bringing us back up.