next on american history tv, historians present talks on two aspects of what the soviets aspects of the operation. ready toow getting hand the stage over to an associate professor in the department of history at the university of windsor in canada. we met rob last year when he came down for our 2018 conference as an attendee. we are delighted to have him back with us to moderate our first session of the day. without delay, dr. nelson. [applause] good morning. bout.e to the heavyweight these three major fronts for those of us, he saved the biggest one for last. operation, one of the greatest, the most significant with a name that none of us can pronounce. i don t speak russian. i can say it in french way. then there is the funny, easy pneumonic device. operation bag of rations. can kind of spell it out along the way. words spelling out the with the emphasis on the final syllable. about the eastern front and how significant it is, difficult to bring the numbers and figures
mariners museum in newport news. it s an amazing collection of material they have in their exhibit. he s the author of 17 books, two in particular, that will be interesting to all of you is css virginia, sink before surrender, and the monitor boys. he has received many awards, including the national trust for historic preservations presidents award for historic preservation, and many others. his talk today is the ship that saved the nation, the monitor s recovery and confirmation. please welcome mr. quarstein. [applause] mr. quarstein: thank you. on march 8, 1862, there was a terrible day for the union. it turned the tide in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the elizabeth river and sunk two major union warships. they were the cumberland and the congress. the union navy was in disarray, people were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing this super weapon, as they would call the merrimack, would be there soon, and th
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good evening everyone. can anyone hear me well? good. i am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the smithsonian associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. i m also like to let you know that this program is being filled by c-span to be aired at a later date, so if you ve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks c-span and see if it is up. sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. so it s worth checking periodically. it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. she tells me as a little girl she s to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. so some thought she was obses