Im here to introduce mary k. Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil
Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil war works on staff at the tr
Welcome to Atlanta History Centers, virtual author talk series. Im here for the history center, its my absolute pleasure to welcome tonights special guest, alan guelzo. Allen will be discussing his newest book, robert e. Lee a life, it comprehensive biography of a figure a lot of us think we might now, but will cover new interesting insight about him. If i said earlier, it was just published yesterday, so congratulations allen, were so excited to have you a day after publication day. You can purchase a copy of the book from the Atlanta History Center bookstore its online, we ship, there is instore pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And give an orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at the council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century american history. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. He lives in pennsylvania allen, we
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