skaggs scads of books and articles. you don t hear the word scads very often. gary: not from adults. [laughter] we don t want to speak only about your scholarship. you said you don t want to make it all about you. he says no. it s going to be ok. gary: i said i ll do whatever you want to do. peter: i can assure you he did not say that. gary: this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary: because there you are. you re going to write about tonight. you have two diametrically different comments. you need to pick one and pretend that s correct. peter: so this evening, we did agree upon this. again, we re going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesser-known gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. we won t divulge all your secrets. is that ok? we didn t agree upon that either. we did? ok. we re having trouble getting out of the gate. gary: i m just listening, peter. you re the one controlling the gate. peter: so your first professi
with a longtime contributor to cwi. jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at oklahoma state university and she is, as you know, an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. she has, i would say the full publication resume, the most important book in the most recent, entitled on a great battlefield, the making, management and memory of gettysburg national park, published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. she is currently working on a biography, general george gordon meade that will hopefully be published in the civil war america series. as i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member and many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian the seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years. so, it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the gettysburg nati
good morning. it won multiple prices. the doctor came to the college back in 2011, where she deliveredd a lecture. she is also a noted teacher and lecturer at ucla and w has received numerous awards. when she does a lecture on baseball, at the end of the class, she brings a bag of peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that w
we will impress your friends with your inside knowledge but, first, to charlotte where mike is with the clinton campaign. mike? good afternoon. hillary clinton is on the way to charlotte, north carolina, hoping to fire up young voters on this college campus the she is spend day in north korea with the recent in north carolina with a poll suggesting a close race. the latest average of recent polls has clinton with 2.5 edge over donald trump so it is competitive race. clinton this afternoon has been working and encouraging voters do go to the polls ahead of november to participate in early voting. she started her day in an african-american church in durham, north carolina, trying to appeal to the african-american vote and talked about systematic racism and choosing hope over fear in this election. how critical is north carolina? certainly sit one of the path for donald trump because of the 270 electoral votes and hillary clinton will bring not big guns returning here on thu
16th president made it abundantly clear to young americans everywhere i say to all those young americans that are watching this today on c-span, that they can go forward and achieve whatever it is they want to achieve, because the 16th president of america made that very, very clear. you can be born common and become uncommon. if you have an extraordinary hunger and desire and you are prepared to do whatever it takes to keep getting up off that mat and getting back up on that horse. last one. yes, sir. i tell you, it s interesting that you would say lincoln. i m wondering, given everything that you said, what you really think, will bring us to the point of action, because i suspect what i m suggesting is that it requires lincoln-like leadership, and i say that because the roots of liberalism historically, if you look at prior to world war ii, and as an perch chamberlain coming back and declaring peace forever, only churchill stood up in parliament and said we have tod