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
Teaching activities. She has presented her research at civil war roundtables and historic groups in california and across the nation, including the National Museum of civil war medicine. Her book takes a fresh look at the battle of newmarket for the emerging civil war series. Currently she is working on several Civil War Research projects, including the citizens and armies of Shenandoah Valley. As you heard last night she is a crucial part of our team. Provides a lot of the content, she edits our work, and she has a fulltime job and she lives in california. To sarah. Teful good morning. I want to say thank you to rob and dan for inviting me to share this presentation. Roomnd of had a back does newmarketow qualify as a lesserknown battle. We came to the conclusion that the battle of newmarket has name recognition. We will talk about that in a moment, but the campaign is not as well understood, and there are facets of the campaign we can dig deeper, and they qualify as lesserknown. I inv
Was five miles wide and eight miles wide by the time it reached lakeeren ie. It was like a pieshaped wedge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan started to wrangle over. Both ohio and michigan were focused on what was back then the port of miami, miami being the indian term for the river. It is that connection to the river basin and lake erie. Everyone knew eventually that would become a very important port. Both michigan and ohio wanted to be part of that. Theerie canal opened in 1925. People recognized the value of the canal system. Now you have the miamierie canal being built. They realized it had to be built somewhere in this area. Both michigan and ohio wanted that. What a legend is a fur trapper familiar with the area came down with the legislature and reminded them if they drew that line, they were going to lose the toledo area that we know today. So they made an adjustment and moved the line northward as they reached lake erie. That went into the 1803 statehood ap
Please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. [applause] kristen all right. First of all thank you to all of , you. Thank you to emerging civil war. It is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought in 1861 in a southwestern corner of missouri, my home state. The subtitle of this presentation is called this means war the battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. Louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the Nicest Hotels in the 20th 19th century. Important early war leaders met there. You have Nathaniel Lyon, his aide, francis p. Blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major clayborn jackson, governor jacksons aide. They come to keep the peace if possible. They are there to negotiate they , are there to prevent the outbreak of war in missouri. This meeting will last several hours and Brigadier General lion lyon becomes frustrated, to the point he looks at the secessionist leaders and ha
Tell me about your topic. Tinker versus des moines. Waras a case where students black armbands to protest the vietnam war. They took it to the District Court. They lost. They took it to the supreme court, and they ended up winning and securing these students right to free speech. How did you hear about this story . History and ap politics. This stood out to us because it students are age. Theres a lot of activism occurring and is important to understand why we have these rights and who to appreciate for getting us these rights. When i look at the design how youn you explain decided to create the visuals and the exhibit . Take the top to three movements that students in our community participate in. First, we have black lives matter, march for our lives, and a local organization which is telescopea 30meter that was going to be built on a Sacred Mountain in hawaii and there is a lot of controversy in the state, whether it should be built not. Commie about your school, where you are from.