Thank you very much for that kind introduction and thank you for all your patience in advance. I woke up this morning quite nervous, more usually more nervous than i usually am when i am going to be giving a talk. I noticed that a number of your teachers. Is that right . Thank you. I appreciate that. I will just look at kevin. Kevin is a teacher, in addition to blogging. To being insed front of unruly crowds and you may have some experience with a particularly nerveracking speaking engagement. Where youre not quite sure if the subject matter of your talk fits with the events at hand, and then you learn, i dont know, maybe that cspan is going to broadcast your event live because Live Television still happens, apparently. But if you have done any public speaking, you also know that moment when a sense of real calm settles over you. I know that pete does that because i have watched him speak beautifully in the last couple of days. I just want you to know that that is not happening to me r
Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University Student because it sounded deeply jewish. At first he spelled it corda, then he changed it toor host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was perhaps at the prototypical Film Producer also film director. Directed hit first film at a teenage age in 1914, and directed at least 100 and perhaps twice as many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many, many, many, many. Europe, United Kingdom, and of course in hollywood, when he was there. He was an affable genius, and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . Guest he, your father, and your other uncle . Guest well, you know, first of all, an enormous respect for talent of any kind. By definition. People were good at making films, got at recognizing talent, even though they dont share it themselves. And secondly, although they were inte
Washington journal is live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Next on American History tv, Brian Craig Miller of Emporia State University discusses confederate general John Bell Hoods campaign into tennessee in the fall of 1864, resulting in the almost total destruction of his army. This event is from the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference that took place in june. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Im peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute. Also professor of history here at Gettysburg College. Its my pleasure to introduce Brian Craig Miller. Brian is associate professor and associate chair of history at Emporia State University in eastern kansas. He teaches a variety of courses in 19th century u. S. , including the civil war, of course. He is the author of several books. John bell hood and the fight for civil war memory published by the university of tennessee. And he has recently edited a punishment on the nation an iowa sol
Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a
World was saudi arabia. In this vast desert without rivers, streams, they were far apart. It was built more than 1000 years ago on a caravan from baghdad. Since those days, they eked out a meager existence in a lost world. On the same desert through the summer and winter of 1947, motor caravans appeared. Camps were set up, the sorts never seen here before. Airplanes on a Reconnaissance Mission roared overhead. They were carrying arabs and americans, surveying the route for a great pipeline, a pipeline along western europe, the middle east, and the stability of the world. Oil is scarce in many areas today. The cause is they lack of economical distribution. The logical source of oil for u. S. Is the middle east. Here are more crude and readily accessible reserves than in all of north and south america together. The region is rapidly being developed. In eastern saudi arabia, the Arabian American Oil Company Discovered five major fields during the decade after the first commercial producin