by the gettysburg college civil war institute. big thank you mr. carmichael. i am also of says i am a director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce elizabeth van lew who is the associate director for civil war history. awesome williams professor of american history at the university of virginia. thankfully, she is not a hockey buff. at least i do not believe she is. oh gosh, she said go caps. what has happened to american sports? i do not know. i never thought in a civil war conference people would be dying about hockey, but such is life. elizabeth is a published scholar. we need to be counted, white women. published by the university of the north carolina press 1998. this union which is one of my favorite overviews of the political crisis of the 18 fifties. it is quite good. published by the university of north carolina press. victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil war, published by oxford. it is an outstanding book. i
war history. all at the university of virginia. thankfully, she s not a hockey buff. i don t believe she is. she said, go caps. what has happened to the american sports scene? i don t know. i never thought in a civil war conference people would be jawing about hockey. such is life. a very accomplished scholar. she s published a number of books, including we mean to be counted, white women and the politics in antebellum virginia. this union, one of my favorite overviews of the 1850s. published by university of north carolina press. victory, defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war, published by oxford. it s an outstanding book. it s a way to look beyond the surrender proceedings and material culture, visual culture. how it resided in american memory. it s outstanding. i can t say enough good things about it. today, subject of her talk, she published true story of elizabeth van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy. [ applause ] i bring you greeti
van lew was published by oxford university in 2003 and 13 prizes including the library of virginia s people s choice awards. she will speak to us about her new book, armies of deliverance which was published earlier this year by oxford. a review in the wall street holzer calledold the book a highly original and sweeping new study. i had the good fortune to hear liz speak on the subject a few weeks ago in hampton roads, virginia and i m so glad we could have her here to speak to us. please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon. [applause] can everyone hear me? good. in his first time were message to congress delivered july 4, 1861 abraham lincoln casts secession as the work of a small band of conspirators who had duped and cowed the south into submission. after drugging the public mind of their section for more than 30 years as lincoln put it, relied on coercion to bring many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the government. there s much reason to believe
at the university of virginia. she is the author of five books that probe important issues related to the sectional conflict from the american revolution to the civil war. the trueful graffiti story of elizabeth van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy was published in three prizes. today, she will speak to us about her new book armies of deliverance: a new history of the civil war, which was bylished earlier this year oxford. a review by some guy named harold holzer maybe some of you have heard of him called this a highly interesting new study. i am so glad we could have her here today at the forum to speak to us. welcomingn me in elizabeth varon. [applause] prof. varon: all right. can everyone hear me? good. yes. all right. in his first wartime message to congress delivered on child july 4, 1851, abraham lincoln cast secession as the work of a small band of conspirators who had duped in calgary south into submission. the southnd cowed into submission
mission. our mission is quite simple. we wanted to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the american civil war from multiple perspectives. we wanted our visitors to have experiences unlike any other available. that meant from the buildings we wanted to create, to the buildings that we owned the needed repair and renovation, to the stories we wanted to tell. we have a remarkable staff that has helped bring that to fruition. for them, i am grateful. to anlso grateful extraordinary board, a board listened to us and allowed us to integrate, take calculated risks , and went out and advocated for us in ways i cannot begin to describe their incredible impact. here we are six years later. because most nonprofit mergers, including museum mergers, will fail within the first five years. this has been a team effort. that effort started with my friend and colleague, mr. rate rawls, who is the foundation president for the museum that is our fundraising arm. where are you? there