intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses coming. we really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. so our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone who s attended
about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and that s gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. he talks have taken place. so we re looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. that s part of the excitement for us going into this evening. our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. caroline wood newhall, and she s very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the virginia center for civil war studies here at virginia tech before that. she earned her phd at unc chapel hill. she s working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. and by the way, she gave a terrific talk on that topic last fall soon after she arrived in blacksburg, which is now available at the youtube channel for the virginia center for civil war studies. you should be able to find th
war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses
about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and that s gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. he talks have taken place. so we re looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. that s part of the excitement for us going into this evening. our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. caroline wood newhall, and she s very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the virginia center for civil war studies here at virginia tech before that. she earned her phd at unc chapel hill. she s working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. and by the way, she gave a terrific talk on that topic last fall soon after she arrived in blacksburg, which is now available at the youtube channel for the virginia center for civil war studies. you should be able to find th