Theater at the National Archives. I am chief of the archives. And that is just a fancy way that we run a lot of the public spaces on the other side of the building. He sends his regrets that he could not be here but his presence was needed at another one of the facilities. I will gladly steal his signature line and say welcome to my house. Im pleased you could join us whether you are here in this room today were here to listen to christian be keller. The Great Partnership Stonewall Jackson and the fate of the confederacy. He became the director of the military history program. With the american civil war. In the germans nativism ethnicity and civil war memory. In the inter induction to the book. They relate clearly and concisely several things including the value of this book the four doors with the text itself. As an archivist. With the interpretive value. And the reliability of source material particularly confederate related sources. Versus poorest postwar sources. This military his
Greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to our arts and culture news and before we get dazzled by some cutting edge of light art heres what else is coming up. In our continuing series 100 german must reads a personal account of the wrong realities of trench warfare in world war one. Our new series underground europe explores whats going on below the surface of the continents many must see locations this time in poland. And some exciting news in film as the latest from Marvel Studios and ventures and skate has become the highest grossing film of all time. Oh yes sociate light with bright ideas and at the worlds 1st Museum Dedicated entirely to light art there are certainly plenty of those housed deep in the belly of a former brewery in western germany the center for International Light art opened in 2001 when addition to its Permanent Collection its currently showing the finalists for the 3rd International Light art award with some brilliant explorations of a material that of course is
Headquarters company on the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. In 2014 he was selected for advanced civil schooling at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. He graduated with a masters degree in history in 2016. And assumed the position as an instructor in the department of history at the United States military academy at usma. He taught courses in both military and United States history. And currently directs the Academy Chorus civil war america, which studies americas society, politics, economy and military from 1816 to 1877. Hes joined tonight by his wife shannon and together theyve got three kids, nate, liam and elizabeth, 12, 2 and 1 years old. Turn over things now to major lambert. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for the introduction and thank you for being here to learn about civil war gun powder and logistics. As always, although i am a major in the United States army nothing i say tonight is the opinion or policy of the d. O. D. , all views are entirely m
The american war and most recently coedited. It is in the back. A beautiful book. His sense of the photograph. This is absolute treasury. With that, i would like to welcome gary gallagher. Thank you, we are on a very tight schedule. Just keep that in mind. I am delighted to be back for this years signature conference. I will start by saying thank you to carry and list for inviting me. He sees all the details seamlessly and with amazing good humor. I really appreciate that. Is also fun to see so many friends here. It is like a homecoming. That is very nice. Being is also reminded. I have been at the library for seven months. Getting off the plane reminded me that here in the east, you have what may be called weather. My feet are back on the ground. My job is to present an overview of theaters during the civil war. I have 30 minutes to accomplish that. Then 10 minutes for lectures. We will each reinforce those time constraints as we go along. I have divided knowledge into two parts. The
Of history and comparative american studies at oberlin college. We are glad to claim her as one of our own, receiving her ph. D. From uv. She will speak on i wore the uniform of blue making the case for africanamerican enlistment. I have the very difficult task of going after gary. I would like to thank you for inviting me and for will for for all of my traveling snafus and being so gracious. And to thank liz, whos my former adviser, and Gary Gallagher, whos also a dear mentor of mine, for not only having me here at the conference but also for years and years of mentoring that dont seem to end. Im going to talk about im going to begin with the battle that gary does not think is important. Because it is in North Carolina. To be fair, i dont think many people think that the battle of new bern is incredibly important or significant, so i dont think hes alone. Nor am i arguing that the western theater is more important than the eastern theater. I just want to throw my hands up and say that