Known for his work at the National Park service. He was parked historian at vicksburg and became chief historian of the National Park service until his retirement. He published many books, primarily relating to the western theater of the war. He has a Campaign History of vicksburg, which is viewed as a classic. In 2015, legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions. His talk today is recovering the uss cairo from the yazoo. Mr. Bearss. applause thank you so much. Always a pleasure being where we are today at longwood university, to talk about the raising of the cairo. If you want to find out how to raise a vessel, you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrived at vicksburg in 1966, i injured on duty, and after i had been there for about a year, the superintendent called me in and said, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gunboat cairo. It was one of seven ironclads built by the United States. I said yes, i would be interested. And i
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On cspan. In partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that ive had a profound impact on the country. In this program the journals of lewis and clark, from their tour of discovery published in 1814. In 1803 the size of the United States nearly doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, the vast tract of land was largely unknown. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory. There crew of explores juried up the Missouri River, cross the Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Coast. Lewis and clarks twoyear tour of discovery ended in september 1806 and they returned with maps, sketches and it journals. Detailing the regions path, animal life, geography and indigenous people. In 1814 Many Americans were able to learn for the first time about the western land, upon the publishing of the book titled history of the expedition under the comman