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and in our more perfect union series, a pair of texas furniture stores opened for people who need food and shelter. the owner says we have got to give people hope. but we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. the first responders are so busy. 911 calls are not being answered. the situation in port arthur continues to be dire. tropical storm harvey makes a second landfall overnight. unless you re in imminent danger, you re just going t have to figure out a way to deal with it. torrential rains all through the overnight hours. we re seeing catastrophic flooding again in texas this morning. the record-breaking rainfall that flooded houston is expected to wind down today. rescues continue, the need in this region is only growing. thousands who fled harvey are jammed together at double capacity. there has never been anything so expensive in our country s history. there s never been anything so historic in terms ....
part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. when i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. if we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. he s getting married in a couple weeks. i will be a major life shift for it. he is the education director for the mosby heritage area and co-author of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. he will talk with us a bit about what he considers to be a great defense robert e lee at , antietam. my pleasure is to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollak. [applause] kevin: good morning, everyone. thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my bachelor party. i think we might set a virginia state record for the largest bachelor party in all of history. it is about to get crazy, if you will. talking about robert at the battle of antietam. e ....
virginia. they will talk about how these monuments influence memory of the war, and how public perception, particularly of confederate monuments, has changed. this is about 50 minutes. we will reconvene the panel. it has been a good day so far. what we will do is recognize you, you raise your hand, wait for the microphone. if you ve got a question, it should be referred to one of the panelists, please designate that, and please try to stick to questions rather than statements. and let me start with a question that we got in virtual space. my name is mike powell. we are the largest roundtable in the u.s. i ve have gone to great lengths to keep politics out of the roundtable. this topic, monuments, has elements of both history and politics. what do you think should be the role of roundtables, if any, on this issue? we thought that was a very good question. civil war pops buffs, who know more about the general public, what should we do about this issue? tom, i will ask ....
this morning s line up. on my far right you to your left, we have john hennessy, and historian. he is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. to his left, scott hartwig. he is a long time friend and supporter of cwi and also a historian. retired historian from gettysburg national park. he is also written a book on the battle of antietam. it is a two volume study and the second volume will be out in a few years. excellent. good. to the left of scott is jennifer murray. jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the gettysburg national park. and she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. and many of you met ken know. he was your advisor at auburn where she completed her dissertation. and last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. you do need introduction. and everyone, on c-span audience, they know you, brooks. he is a professor of history at arizona state and his specialty as you ....
create a space in which we can begin to have some conversation about the lee jackson windows here in the cathedral and the larger issues of race and the legacy of slavery in our nation. if you do not know the recent history of events regarding these windows, i invite you to read about that history in the information we provided for you within your program in your program for tonight s conversation. tonight, please know is the first in an ongoing series of conversations over the next two years intended to foster conversation and a deeper understanding. while the leadership of the cathedral made the decision to remove the confederate battle flags from these windows, the larger question of whether the windows should stay in the sanctuary or be moved to a different location was intentionally left open for a period of two years so that we might engage in conversation and education around the difficult issues of race in our history and in our present life together. as i sai ....