Want to say, reminder, on thursday, we will continue talking about the civil war in the west. We will do it all week long. Thursday, we will talk about the book civil war in the southwest borderlands. I am trusting that, like me, you all have studiously read the book the entire semester and taken deep notes and are ready to talk about it on thursday. Today we will talk about two borders. Is it week 12 . Lets say it is week 12. Our week 12 learning objectives, to explore the experiences of the border states and what many called the borderlands. And to understand how the war affected native americans and confederate and union interests in the west. We will hit all three of these today. We will be dealing with all three learning objectives throughout the entire week. So let us begin. First, there is more than one border. This is my reason for doing Historical Research and teaching civil war era southern history especially, to remind people there are border states and there is the borderla
Announcer 1 watch american artifacts sunday 6 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. On lectures in history, Utah State University professor Maria Angela Diaz discusses the civil war in the west and looks at the conflict in states and territories like missouri, kansas, texas, and arizona. She explores how the diverse populations of the region reacted to the war and decided between siding with the union and confederacy. She focuses on the larger role guerrilla warfare played in the west. Today we areo talking about the civil war in the west. Before we get started, i just ont to say, reminder, thursday, we will continue talking about the civil war in the west. We will do it all week long. Thursday, we will talk about the book civil war in the southwest borderlands. I am trusting that, like me, you all have studiously read the book the entire semester and taken deep notes and are ready to talk about it on thursday. Today we will talk about two borders. Is it week 12 . Lets say
Before we get started, i just want to say, reminder, on thursday, we will continue talking about the civil war in the west. We will do it all week long. Thursday, we will talk about the book civil war in the southwest borderlands. I am trusting that, like me, you all have studiously read the book the entire semester and taken deep notes and are ready to talk about it on thursday. Today we will talk about two borders. Is it week 12 . Lets say it is week 12. Our week 12 learning objectives, to explore the experiences of the border states and what many called the borderlands. And to understand how the war affected native americans and confederate and union interests in the west. We will hit all three of these today. We will be dealing with all three learning objectives throughout the entire week. So let us begin. First, there is more than one border. This is my reason for doing Historical Research and teaching civil war era southern history especially, to remind people there are border st
Posted this 90 minute event. Good evening everyone. Can everyone carry while . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t sherman. For i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to stay questions at the end of the program. We have mike a mic so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last year in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that
We got three reporters covering it all there. Phil lebeau on the cars and the crash tests. Housing, diana olick and the economy, steve leisman. But we do start with phil and these new crash tests on the ford f150. Give us more details, phil. Mandy this is a mixed review from the Insurance Institute for highway safety. Look at the crash test video. The good news for ford and for f150 owners they tested two versions of the truck, the super crew version which is the most popular version, all good ratings across the board. Extended cab, four good ratings but one acceptable citing injuries to the driver. Ford says it is making changes in the extended cab for 2016 to ensure that it passes all of the safety tests. But heres the negative news in this review by the iihs. It has to do with the cost of repairing the aluminum panels on the f150. They say those repair costs could be 26 more than the old repairs against a steel panel version. They say that repairing aluminum is timelier or takes mor