She hated politics, hated it with a passion. She did not move in to the white house with pierce. This couch is one piece that they took to the white house. They had eight rooms that they had to furnish with their personal furniture. When she did arrive, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her dead son. In her great grief, she calls him, my precious child, i must write to you, although you are never to see it or know it. A very poignant letter written by a grieving mother. They were on a train from boston to concord and there was a terrible accident. The train ride was very devastating for the family. An axle rod broke on the train and benny did not survive the crash. She concluded that this was gods judgment, that the loss of her son was gods punishment. The house was too much for jane to take care of. I dont think she was interested in housekeeping particularly. She just wasnt capable of taking care of a house. Most would regard that pierce himself as
Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came here. She s
Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came here. She s
And that. Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came h
And that. Good afternoon, everyone i Peter Carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Ashley whitehead luskey. She is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute here at the college. She works theres a wide range of science. I think one of her great contributions is with the cwi Fellows Program and our students. She oversees a wide range of research projects. They do. Many of them are online or on the blog. They do videos. They do original research. Shes also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. What she does is something that you cant get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. And in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. And when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came h