Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will 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. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu
Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
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And Donald Trumps Campaign Amid another controversy. This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. World leaders are in paris today. Theyre discussing Climate Change and what they can do to save the planet. White House Press Secretary josh earnest saying this is the first time in years there is hope for reelection. Weve seen countries warned the world take the kind of steps they were unwilling to take. Weve seen steps around the world which brings us optimism there is built up momentum coming to an agreement that will fight Climate Change. The leaders much 150 nations are taking part in the talks in paris. Al jazeeras mik mike viqueira. You heard josh earnest talking about the positive and hope to come out of this meeting. Real action on climb change. But its relative to when has happened before. There is a meeting in 2009 youll recall in president obamas first term in copenhagen in denmark. No agreement reached there. And what theyve done here theyve eventually sai
Grandchildren so when they look back and they see what we did here in paris they can take pride in our achievements, let that be the common purpose here in paris, a world that is worthy for our children, a world that is not marked by conflict but cooperation and not by human suffering but by human progress, a world that is safer and more prosperous and more free than the one we inherited, lets get to work. Thank you very much. That was president obama speaking at the Climate Change summit in paris. Your world this morning begins right now this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet. That is todays top story, tackling Climate Change and president Obama Joining dozens of World Leaders in paris and time is running out to limit Global Warming. Day in court the alleged gunman accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood will face a judge today. On trial jury selection beginning with one of the officers charged in the death of freddie gray in baltimo