and the spotsville military park, he is now working as an interpreter in military programs at the colonialsburg foundation. he lives in williamsburg with his wife johanna, and please welcome we join me in welcoming ryan quint. well, thank you. how is everyone doing? yeah. everybody excited to be here? yeah. good. it would not be a great answer if you said no, because we are five minutes into the program. awesome to see you and great to see some not so familiar faces. i was so excited when the program was announced with the forgotten battles of the civil war. and so my book was in 2017 and then the question was what s next? at the time i worked at the s s slosingberg park. and so when you look into some of the battles the smaller they are, the easier they are to be forgott forgotten, and i then found dranesville that i have been working on and hope the make a book out of it. so, polling the audience. has anyone heard of the battle of dranesville? okay. second question, d
controlling this area meant access to charleston, south carolina, an important confederate port city. this was part of the emerging civil war blog symposium. it s 50 minutes. it s my honor to present our next speaker who currently serves as a primary and secondary educator with the public school district in northeast ohio. previously dan was the education programs coordinator for the gettysburg foundation and also continues to serve as a seasonal park ranger at gettysburg national military park. dan received his bachelor of arts from youngstown state university where he studied instrumental music education, particularly in the french horn, which i understand is pretty much means learning how to play on the upbeat for anything that souza has composed. dan provides a valuable service here for emergence civil war, something you receive every month. he solicits all the news and notes for the merging civil war newsletter. and it s certainly a tasking, thankless job. for as much
[applause] ryan: well, thank you. how is everyone doing? everyone excited to be here? not a great answer if you said no five minutes into the program. awesome to have you. i was excited when the program was announced and the idea of the theme, forgotten battles of the civil war. the question became what to do next, and at the time that i worked at the fredericksburg military park, the thing about fredericksburg, they were massive battles. huge. i like to study the smaller engagements. the problem with that, the smaller they are, the harder they are to study. so, dranesville. i was hoping to create a book out of it. i was especially excited to talk about it tonight. poll the audience, has anyone heard of dranesville before? whoo! ryan: ok. do you know where it is? less hands, but still a good number. it helps if you turn it on. first things first, dranesville is 15 miles east of leesburg and 20 miles west of washington, d.c. engagement we will be talking about happens in d
april 1971. it was scheduled to be released on the anniversary of the first earth day. it has become famous as the crying indian video put out by keep america beautiful. it is one minute long. we re just going to watch it. here we go. some people have a deep respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. some people don t. people start pollution. people can stop it. that is pretty crazy, isn t it? what do you think? initial reactions? i will get to that in a minute. it was a heart-wrenching image for a lot of americans back then. is nothingerg: there ironic about how that was presented. thehe contrast of how native americans view the environment. prof. isenberg: other thoughts about this? [inaudible] i was hopingg: somebody would say that. the first 20 seconds of the advertisement you would not realize this is set in a modern time. iron eyes is paddling a canoe down the river. a highway.is there is all this garbage. other thoughts? this was the early 1970 s. c
it was scheduled to be released on the anniversary of the first earth day. in 1970. it has become famous as the crying indian video put out by a group called keep america beautiful foundation, or keep america beautiful organization. it is one minute long. we re just going to watch it. here we go. [video clip] some people have a deep , abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. and some people don t. people start pollution. people can stop it. prof. isenberg: that is pretty crazy, isn t it? what do you think? initial reactions? is that iron eyes cody? prof. isenberg: i will get to that in a minute. yes. it was a heart-wrenching image for a lot of americans back then. prof. isenberg: there is nothing ironic about how that was presented. it shows the contrast of how the native americans view the environment versus european settlers. prof. isenberg: absolutely. other thoughts about this? the video itself? [indiscernible] prof. isenberg: i was