Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business. And wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his f
There . Guest well, theres always been, as is typical in all families, a sibling competition there. Alice was a very conservative woman, and about 17 years older than her younger sister, and as a result, she saw herself as surrogate parent, and nell was always extroverted and a little bohemian in her opinions and her appearance, and alice, for all of her life, served as the buffer between her younger sister and the world that was hungry to know more about her. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actually possible . And i began to investigate this. I
Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To be traced back to three people. One was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. And he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. But he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a c
Sky conditions, across the delaware valley, and as we head into our day planner, we keep the sunshine around, comfy, bright for the 9 00 hour at 68 degrees, as we head into lunchtime, 73, mostly sin, little bit after breeze picking up as we head into the afternoon, not as gusty as the winds we had yesterday. High temperatures topping off at 79 degrees. But, as we look ahead toward tomorrow, keep this in the back of your minds, we have this potential for some Severe Weather, not going to see widespread storm activity, but the storms that do form as we head into tomorrow afternoon and evening, could be a little bit on the stronger side. The Storm Prediction Center does have us in a slight risk of Severe Weather as we head into late day tomorrow. Talk more about the timing on those storms, meisha, coming up in your full forecast in just a couple every minutes. All right, lauren, thank you so much for that. And good morning, everybody. Happy friday. Take a look at the blue route, southboun
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