Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech with teaching, research, and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19thcentury u. S. History, including, of course, the civil war era, but also north american slavery more generally. Warfare more generally as well. Appeared inhas civil war monitor and Civil War History journal, among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her phd dissertation into a book. That will be well worth looking out for a few years down the line. It is on the very same topic. You can see the powerpoint is already up there. Under the rebel lash black prisoners of war in the confederate south. She will speak for about 25 to 35 minutes, which will give us plenty of time for discussion. And i think a big advantage of the zoom format is you will be able to type in your questions using the q a feature. You will not be able to use the chat in the webinar, but you can use the q a button if you have a question, and you can type those
And at the base of capitol hill, speakers included in the world designer frank perry, former secretary of state, senator pat roberts and president eisenhowers grandchildren david in susan eisenhower. Exploring the american story. Watch it on cspan 3. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ramification of the 14th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Up next on American History tv, climbs in University History professor oval vernon why was essential to ratify after the abolition of slavery. This is hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society is 45 minutes. Now with great pleasure, i get to introduce our first speaker oval Vernon Burton, who holds the judge math jay perry distinguished chair. In history panafrican studies sociology anthropology and computer science. If you think its weird but i do baseball, vernon does it all. Hes actual one man university. At Clemson University in South Carolina. Hes also the director of the clients Cyber Institute in addition to that, he recei
Gary not from adults. [laughter] peter we dont want to speak only about your scholarship. You said you didnt want to make it all about you. Im interviewing you, so that is going to be hard to avoid. He says no. Its going to be ok. Gary i said ill do whatever you want to do. Thats what i said. Peter i can assure you he did not say that. Case any of you are wondering, this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary because there you are. Youre going to write about tonight. You have two diametrically different comments. You need to pick one and pretend thats correct. Peter so this evening, we did agree upon this. Again, were going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesserknown gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. We wont divulge all your secrets. Is that ok . We didnt agree upon that either. We did . Ok. Were having trouble getting out of the gate, arent we . Gary im just listening, peter. Youre the one controlling the gate. [laughter] peter
Skaggs scads of books and articles. You dont hear the word scads very often. Gary not from adults. [laughter] we dont want to speak only about your scholarship. You said you dont want to make it all about you. He says no. Its going to be ok. Gary i said ill do whatever you want to do. Peter i can assure you he did not say that. Gary this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary because there you are. Youre going to write about tonight. You have two diametrically different comments. You need to pick one and pretend thats correct. Peter so this evening, we did agree upon this. Again, were going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesserknown gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. We wont divulge all your secrets. Is that ok . We didnt agree upon that either. We did . Ok. Were having trouble getting out of the gate. Gary im just listening, peter. Youre the one controlling the gate. Peter so your first professional job, can you tell us a little