Coronavirus. Next a look at one of our citys tour visits. Toledo is known as the glass capital of the world because from that one company that came here in 1888. Bolivia Glass Company came all of these tertiary companies that have built this economy of glass here in toledo. So we are standing in the glass pavilion which is part of the Toledo Museum of art. Well, the purpose really is to showcase the glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection here. Its actually almost a third of the overall collection here in toledo. Its also one of the larger collections of glass in the United States and the city has a wonderful history of glass both in terms of the industrial contribution in toledo and also in terms of what the Museum Presents Edward German libby was our founder and Edward Libbey was the proprietor of the libby Glass Company and it was through his ties with olivia Glass Company that he made his fortune and because he and his wife had no children. He left
John f. Marszalek discusses his process for writing in his relationship with Abraham Lincoln and what he mainly focused on with civil war and not his presidency. Held at the lincoln form symposium, this is one hour. So, let us begin with our last session for the 23rd form. I am Frank Williams your coach. We are delighted to have with us once again, every other year, we have the john and craig show. applause and that is much deserved, because they get high grades, high marks from you. Deservedly so. Im not even sure what it is there going to talk about this morning. But we will be entertained. I can tell you that. What can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time. A long time on our board of advisers. John john f. Marszalek is our dear friend from Mississippi State, university. Executive director of the Ulysses Grant association and president ial library where i served as president. He is recently the editor along with david mullin and louis gallows of
They are going to talk about this morning. [laughter] mr. Williams but we will be entertained, i can tell you that. So what can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time on our board of advisors . John marszalek is my dear friend from Mississippi State university and executive director of the ulysses s. Grant association and now the ulysses s. Grant president ial library where i serve as president. And he is recently the editor, along with david nolen and louie of the annotated memoirs of ulysses s. Grant. The first time this has really been done. I highly recommend it. It is in the bookstore. Get one. And get two. [laughter] mr. Williams Craig Symonds, who is really a naval historian, but turned to lincoln and wrote a great book that won the lincoln prize here at gettysburg on lincoln and his admirals. I have to say this book that just came out, world war ii at sea a global history, absolutely superb. Published by oxford. Please get a copy. Ine of us a
Table for ian isherwood, who is going to moderate this panel, and introduce him very briefly. Ian is a historian of war. His Research Interests are in british history and war studies, where he does yeoman duty at gettysburg college. He holds a masters degree from dartmouth college. Ian is currently an assistant professor in the department of interdepartmental studies at gettysburg college. Hes the author of remembering the great war writing the experiences of world war i, as well as scholarly articles on veterans and war writing. Hes currently working on a book on the life and death of an Infantry Battalion in world war i. Ian is going to be our moderator now and will take this slot. Ian . [ applause ] all right. Thank you. Thank you for that very generous introduction, michael. I had the good fortune to have been a student of professor birkners here in the late 1990s where i took historical methods from him. Those methods, of course, i have kept as kind of in the back of my mind and c
Pleasure. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer 1 you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Like us on facebook. This year is the 75th anniversary of operation overlord. It was on june 6, 1944 that allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, france. Next, naval historian Craig Symonds talked about dwight d. Eisenhower and the naval decisions that led to the dday victory. Mr. Symonds is author of operation neptune, the dday landings and the eisenhower invasion of europe. The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College and the dwight d. Eisenhower society cosponsored this event. Ian my name is ian isherwood. I teach history here at Gettysburg College, and it is my distinct pleasure to welcome dr. Craig symonds, the distinguished visiting ernest j. King professor of maritime history at the