Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand theres a whole crop leftparenthesis president ial beyond the one biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. Host you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in American History . How do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people and it seems a fair
General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand in a group of people who have the same passion that you do. You dont get looked at as strangely as you do when yo
Message to troops as they prepare for the assault at normandy. [video clip] soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force, you are about to embark on the great crusade. Eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In companies with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, elimination of snazzy and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battle hardened and he will fight savagely but this is the year 1944, much has happened since the nazi triumphs since 19401941. They inflicted upon the germans great defeats in open battle man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced them in the air and those to wage war on the ground. Our home front have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war and placed at our disposal great fighting
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. You are about to cru embark upoe great u crusade toward which we have striven these many months. O the eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march r with you. Ring a in company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other o fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy i, one. E. Batt your enemyle is well trained, wl equipped and battle hardened. T s he will fight savagely. But this is the year, 1944, much has happened since the nazi triumphs of 194041. The United Nations have le, ma inflicted upon the germans great defeats in open battle, of mantoman. Our airs offensivese hasri ser reduced their strength inn the r air and their capacity to wage h war on theel ground. Our homefronts have given us an
Country. But now the Prime Minister has been freed. Our reporter joins us live from beirut. Atia, good morning to you, and whats the latest . Reporter as you mentioned, just hours after his abduction by armed gunmen in the hotel he was residing in, the libyan Prime Minister has been released. The rebels who took him, in fact, said that the reason they captured him was because of bribery and corruption charges. They dont claim to have a connection to the u. S. Raid on saturday, but many speculate that there may be a connection, that the u. S. Commando raid that captured al liby for his involvement in the 1998 u. S. Embassy bombings in both kenya and tanzania may have been connected to the reason that this Prime Minister was abducted because they say that he did not condemn the raid. Both rebels and government officials were upset by the fact he didnt condemn the raid, and instead he said that u. S. And libyan relations would remain the same. But again, he released the details of todays