Jonathan white and im vice chair of the Lincoln Forum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session. We are on Hallowed Ground and it is altogether fitting and proper that we come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the robert c. Flour professor of civil war studies at Gettysburg College and cwi hats around this morning its wonderful to see those here. He holds his, ph. D. From Penn State University where he had the fortune to study under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including the last generation Young Virginians in peace, war and reunion published by unc press in 2005. He is one of the series editors for unc presss civil war america series and i know him best through this capacity. He was my editor for midnight in america and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and his generosity resources made my book a better book
We come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the professor of civil war studies and director of the Civil War Institute at gettysburg college. I have seen some cwi hats around, wonderful to see them. He has a phd in history from penn state university, where he had the good fortune to study under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including last generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion, published in 2005. He is also one of the series editors for a civil war series, and i know him best in this capacity. He was my editor and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and generosity with sources made my book a better book. Today, he will tell us about his most recent book, the war for the common soldier, which was released in 2018 as part of the prestigious littlefield series with unc press. A review recently concluded, it is a
Call michael talks about his book the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies. This is one hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is a director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c professor of civil war professors at gettysburg college. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and essays as well as several books including one published in 1998 and the lost generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion published by unc press in 2005. His most recent book, the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies was published by unc just last year in 2018. And he was a recent recipient of the 2018 civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. [ applause ] thank you. I am not dehydrated. I just have as you can tell a scratchy th
Soldiers how men thought, fought, and survived in civil war armies, this is an hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is the director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c. Flurer professor of civil war college. He is the writer of essays as well as several books, and the last generation Young Virginians in peace, war and reunion published in 2005. His most recent book the war for the common soldier how men thought, fought and survival in civil war armies was published just last year in 2018 and he is the recent recipient of the 2018 nymas civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposi symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. Im not dehydrated, i just have, as you can tell, a little scratchy throat, but i think it will be fine. Can everyone hear me okay . How are we doing . Yes. Okay. Fantastic. Actually, thank you so much for that introduction. The pers
Overseas profits. So under the new plan that reportedly is emerging, corporations will have a 21 u. S. Tax rate. But if you move your business or company overseas, its zero, not 21 just like today those corporations that move their businesses overseas will have to pay taxes to those foreign governments on the profits they make overseas. But lots of those corporations can shift those profits to parts of the world where theres zero income tax liability. And republicans in the house and senate claim that they solve this problem by going to a minimum tax on certain foreign profits. And heres how our republican colleagues claim they fix this problem. Lets say you have a company that keeps it either has its headquarters or puts its profits in the Cayman Islands. I hope my colleagues will follow this and fix this while theres still time. So you have a 2 million profit in the Cayman Islands. So you pay zero foreign taxes, as the Cayman Islands doesnt have any tax. And of course under this plan