Enslaved. Including those born free in the north. The senator for a civil war study said Virginia Tech hosted this online talking provided the video. On todays event speaker is doctor Caroline Wood newhall, she graduated with a ph. D. Earlier this year, from the university of north carolina. She joined us just a few weeks ago, at Virginia Tech, as a post doctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for several more studies. I am certainly really glad she is here, and i think you all will be as, well once you hear her talk. Its clear that shes going to bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech, in terms of teaching, research, and outreach programs, as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History, including of course, civil war era. But also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally, as well. Her writing has appeared and several war monitors and Civil War History journals, among other publications. And her big projects at the moment are converting her ph. D. Dissertations
[applause] i would like to welcome all of you to this special evening with acclaimed author neal bascomb to discuss his work on the captors and trials of Adolf Eichmann. Neal also did a webinar with students earlier today. The program has been very well received so far. Tonights program is a part of our exhibit that i hope many of you were able to see in the last hour or so that you are here. This is about the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann. It is currently on display. In those special exhibit hall. This is presented here in new orleans and a wonderful coproduction with several esteemed partners. The museum of the jewish people in tel aviv, israel. And the museum of heritage in cleveland, ohio. If you have not been able to see the exhibit yet, it is open until january 25. Eichmann was the head of the Jewish Department and managed the transport of millions of people to nazi camps and vanishes after the war. Neal was host more about how teams from the Israeli Mossad capture them and
Power and horse power, which sounds kind of weird but was the best way i could come up with two separate these topics out. You are going to hear three really excellent talks on a theme tonight. Each speaker is going to speak for about 15 minutes. So, fairly short presentations. That is going to leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end. You can type your questions into the question and answer box anytime throughout the evening. And we will respond to those later, after all three talks have taken place. So, we are looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much, that is the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline new hall, she is very well known around here because she works as the post doctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at Virginia Tech, before that she got her ph. D. , she is working on a book about black p. O. W. Experiences in the confederacy, she gave a ter