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Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the c ....
Americans and thousands of europeans who formed the boots on the ground for the commission of relief of belgium. These people had studied those thousands of studies, and these quarter have been a study of north america to share that with you today. Our first speaker is branden little. He was working the tracing different files and found an early history of the crv. This led, as all good stories, to further research, further inquiry. He has written a book called band of crusaders. His book covers 50 years of humanitarian relief and explains what i call this creation story of the crv in the context of many competing agencies, difficulties of feeding people during world war i. It makes clear the special role, the pivotal role played by the crv and shaping later humanitarian efforts. I added, thanks to brandon, a new phrase what i do my tours and i speak of this band of crusaders. Jeff miller, our second speaker, came to hoover some time ago, to discuss the possibility of donating his gran ....
Library and museum hosted this event. It is my very great pleasure to introduce the speakers today, who will present. Ive known them all for quite sometime. Now my age, quite sometime means some indefinite number of years between five and ten. I met each as they came to the Herbert Hoover library. Now, im thrilled to introduce them and give them a chance to share with everyone, with you. I sometimes lead tours in the galleries here. I led one this morning. When i get to the world war i era and talk about the crb, i speak of hoover feeding millions, hoover organizing, hoover, hoover, hoover, and it is the hoover president ial library. But even as im giving this speech, i realize im doing a disservice to the hundreds of americans and thousands that were the boots on the ground for the commission of relief for belgium. Each of those people have a story, thousands of stories. These four have made a study of that, and theyre going to s ....
To help. The Herbert Hoover library and museum hosted this event. It is my very great pleasure to introduce the speakers today who will present. Ivve known them all for quite some time. At my age, quite some time means some indefinite number of years between five and ten. I met each as they came to do research on the relief for belgium. And now, im thrilled to introduce them and give them a chance to share what theyve learned with you. When i get to the world war i era and talk about the crv, i speak of hoover feeding millions. Hoover organizing. Hoover, hoover, hoover. And perhaps understand bring, its the hoover president ial library, but even as im giving this speech i realize im doing a disservice to the hundreds of americans and thousands of europeans who formed the boots on the ground, if you will, for the commission for relief in belgium. Each of those people have thousands of stories. Our first speaker, brandon little, cam ....
Volunteers who went to belgium to help. The Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is my very great pleasure to introduce the speakers today, who will present. Ive known them all for quite sometime. Now my age, quite sometime means some indefinite number of years between five and ten. I met each as they came to the Herbert Hoover library. Now, im thrilled to introduce them and give them a chance to share with everyone, with you. I sometimes lead tours in the galleries here. I led one this morning. When i get to the world war i era and talk about the crb, i speak of hoover feeding millions, hoover organizing, hoover, hoover, hoover, and it is the hoover president ial library. But even as im giving this speech, i realize im doing a disservice to the hundreds of americans and thousands that were the boots on the ground for the commission of relief ....