Panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. Coverage on American History tv on cspan 3. [no audio] everybody. Ning, were ready to get started. Welcome back to the last day of our conference. And also welcome to our cspan viewers. Were live. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. We still have some Tickets Available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if uyoyouve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to make knowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our
He went on to the George Patton museum, which got him involved with world war ii. He has written a couple of fantastic books, one on. Though and one of the stones river and the tullahoma campaign. Though one even per and one on the stones riverryville and the tullahoma campaigns. It was overshadowed by gettysburg and vicksburg. He is here today to talk little about stones river, that sets out tullahoma. That will wrap up 1862 and literally bring us into 1863 with one of the most great defenses of the civil war. Chris kolakowski. Its great to see everyone here today. I have a tough job. We follow those two. Im going to move with some of lack to you and keep ourselves on point. I want to talk about the battle of stones river. I refer to it as stones river. War. A great defense of the unpacking why this battle matters. Youve got a lot more than i thought. Sense of the ground, things like that. The first two days of 1863, just outside of tennessee. Actually smack dab in the center of tenne
We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a man who we should know is that who was during the civil war, deeply political. I is my pleasure to bring back to the stage tj stiles. [applause] question two very much. My grandfather to public speaking onetime summoned him up to him and said he wanted to go to the ballgame. A few times i find rather disappointing. I hope i dont jesse james is my first subject. I wrote about him to him because i want to write about the civil war and reconstruction is one story. I didnt want to write a boring story. s personal best through Popular Culture had a significant role in american history. Him thehan debunking way that scholars often do with popular figures, i found that he probably played a much more Important Role in recruiting people have previously realized. Very closely tied to the civil war. The reason why we know his name is because of the civil war. Im going to be talking book civil war a little
Information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. This is American History tv on cspan3. We are live from gettysburg, pennsylvania today for the annual Civil War Institute conference posted by denver college. We continue now with our live coverage. Im a member of the History Department here at the college. Im also the director of it cwi. Pleasure back to to on George Armstrong book heed upon a is 00 know the winner to put surprises. He will speak on another mistake the study of him by tj stiles. Its really at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship focusing on guerrilla warfare. Will ft. Myers yesterday theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Wenks to these scholars now have a more expansive view of civil war military history. Isse james unfortunately sometimes perceived as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a
Talks on generals robert e. Lee and ulysses s. Grant. American history tv in prime time begins at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Matt atkinson is a former park ranger with the Vicksburg National military park. Next he talks about the 1863 siege of vicksburg and the confederate defense of the city. This 50minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war, host by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker today comes to us from gettysburg National Military park. Weve just heard from gettysburg and were going to have the get ea gettysburg talk about vicksburg. Matt is a nate irof mississippi. He is everything you hope to find when you walk to the desk at the park and you want to talk to the Great Southern gentleman with the great accent. He is going to tell you about southern charm. Ironically, this is a man i i heard has been told that hes not southern enough. Is that right . Yeah, it is. Wait until he opens his mouth. I just wish you would stop with the gentleman part. I w