discussed how women participated in the civil war. she focused her talk on a nurse. the book is called hospital sketches. all right, welcome to read to a class that will focus on women and all tourism during the u.s. civil war. read a primary source a woman whotten by purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. our classart off today by looking at possible hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. out and ready to see. the big question that we are posing and investigating today, voluntarism n women s volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war? [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. so we start with louisa may alcott, enter and her hospital sketches, published during the war. they would be realized and published. americans who read magazines they could read about her experiences in the civil war era
you all read a primary source document written by a woman who purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. we will start off our class today by looking at possible at hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. out and ready to see. the big question that we are posing and investigating today, is how did women s volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war? [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. so we start with louisa may alcott, and her hospital sketches, published during the war. .t was serialized and published americans who read magazines it was published in could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. so, i would like to hear your thoughts about this account of civil war hospitals. what makes you think about louisa may alcott? i will scoot this down so we can look at her while we re ta
a name and a clearer picture of the suspected shooter in the mass shooting at a black church. take a look at this pick of him. we just got this in to the newsroom from our sister station. the fbi says this is 21-year-old dylann roof in the colombia area, two hours away from the crime scene in charleston. they say rooff opened fire inside the emanuel african episcopal church during a bible study. he was reportedly inside the church for an hour before he started shooting. three people survived the attack. i am going through their accounts right now. i will tell you more about that in the next half hour. thank you molette. nine people died in that shooting, six were women and three were men. one was clemente pinckney. someone draped his seat in the south carolina state house with a black cloth. communities across the country are praying for the families of the victims. people are looking at how to balance the open arms of the church with the sense of security for the faith
age from 26 to 87 years old. chilling new details are emerging about what happened inside that church. one survivor says her son was trying to talk roof out of killing people, but roof wouldn t listen telling the black people inside, you rape our women. you re taking over our country. and you have to go. roof evaded capture for more than 12 hours overnight, until a suspicious car was reported in north carolina. the massacre has rattled americans up and down the east coast. we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. governor nikki haley there from south carolina. witnesses say roof sat inside that church for at least an hour before opening fire. the church founded back in 1816 is one of the nation sathe nation s oldest african-american churches. the pastor who was killed is remembered as a kind and peace. man devoted to his family. clementa pinkney was a state senator who became the youngest member of the state house when he was elected the a
a couple of days of clear iphoto and please a warm thank you for mr. tom brokaw. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] [applause] next history professor sally mcmillen discusses her biography of the abolitionist and suffragist lucy stone. from the library company of philadelphia, this is about an hour. it s now my distinct honor and privilege to introduce dr. sally mcmillen babcock professor of history at davidson college in north carolina. a graduate of wellesley college and her ph.d. at duke university and along the way we learned today got a degree in library science. she has been one of the most important and productive scholars of 19th century women s history in the past decades. her many books include motherhood in the old south, southern women black and white in the old south and seneca falls and the origin of the women s rights movement. her brand-new book which we are celebrating tonight recently received a wonderful review in the l.a. times is entitle