Michael good evening and welcome. My name is michael bishop. The result of a collaboration between our society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of Winston Church ill. Here students have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the National Churchill society by www. Ing our website, winstonchurchill. Org. A few programming programming notes. I hope youll return to the National Churchill Library Center on march 1 when eliot book,will discuss his new the big stick, the limits of soft power and the necessity of military power. And on april 26, former british secretary david away, now lord his, who will speak about book, cabinets finest hour, the hidden agenda of the 20th of may, 1940. Thechill is claimed as biggest leader of the 20th
The civil war photography. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photography, hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years, hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, Pennsylvania Cable Network and on history. He works full time as the chief historian of the American Battlefield trust. Without any further interruptions or excuse me introduction, i now present to you my friend, garry adelman. Thanks, tammy. Hello, everybody. All right, this isnt easy, doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if i get it done in 49 minu49 minutes or 53, whatever it takes. Good luck for those of you that like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and soon after, slaves are partly a person, for some purposes theyre a person, sometimes theyre not a person. You have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have the southerners look to the north and though they speak the same language, the
Let me introduce our first guest. He is the director americas of the u. S. Monitor center in newport news, and im sure many of you have been there, if you have not, you need to go, its an amazing collection of material that they have there. Hes the author of 17 books, to that would be interesting to all of you is the csis virginia, sink before surrender, and the monitor voice, the core of the union first. He has received many awards, including the National Trust for president award for Historic Preservation and many others. His top today is the ship that save the nation, please welcome mr. Quarstein. Thank you. On march 8, 1862, there was a terrible day for the union. It turned the tide in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships. The cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray, people were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing this super weapon, as they would call
Off north carolina. This was part of a seminar the. Without further ado, let me introduce our first speake he has received many awards including the National Trust for Historic Preservations president s award for Historic Preservation and many, many others. His talk today is the ship that saved the nation, the monitors recovery and conservation. Please welcome mr. Quarstein. [ applause ] thank you. Well, you know, on march 8th, 1862 it was a terrible day for the union. In fact, it turned the tide, it appeared in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships, the cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray. People were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing that this super weapon, as they would have called the merrimack, as southerners called the virginia, would be there soon and the war would finally end in a confederate victory. But all was to change as if magic, because
Was an important piece of research. Elizabeth one of the major conclusions that the Current Commission highlighted was that there was a wide swath of people who participated and it wasnt , these were young kids who were causing trouble and inherently violent. Does this has anything to do and thetball Players National anthem . I think until we foster a more equitable and Inclusive Society and really deal with the exploitation that the number of the groups are going to continue to see this kind of three assistants. What is your take away of this conference. Elizabeth it is my association. It is a wonderful organization. I think personally this is the point i have been making again and again we cant understand anything about the president until we look at the past. Present to then public and audiences that we can come to terms with the United States but worldwide what some and movestakes were forward and identify alternative pathways. What are those conversations or collaborations like .