And i concur with daniel boone. They have found the sub perfect subject for their unique brand of history. Hes a wellknown historical adventurer shrouded in legend. This fastpaced and fiery narratives fueled by contemporary diaries and journals newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts. Is sturring as stirring chronicle of the conflict over americas first frontier that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epic and its a gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. Bob drury and tom clavin are the number one New York Times bestselling authors of the heart of everything that is. Lucky six six halseys typhoon last man out and the last stand of box company which won the marine corps heritage foundations general wallace m green junior award. They have just learned today that the book is on the New York Times bestseller list. And it is number one at watermark books and cafe on our bestseller list. So i just want to give you both a warm welcome and i will turn the virtual stage over
Revolutionary war period our next speaker today is one of the newest faces at emerging civil war one of our emerging voices if you will john tracy has worked both at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park as well as gettysburg National Military park. Hes done some fantastic work on the website forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings hes going to talk today. You can find a rabbit hole and really fall in and thats what todays topic is today. Hes coming to us from the university of West Virginia where he is just finishing up his masters degree in public history. Ladies and gentlemen, john tracy. All right. Hi so today were going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of john rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nic
Adventurer shrouded in legend. This fastpaced and fiery narratives fueled by contemporary diaries and journals newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts. Is sturring as stirring chronicle of the conflict over americas first frontier that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epic and its a gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. Bob drury and tom clavin are the number one New York Times bestselling authors of the heart of everything that is. Lucky six six halseys typhoon last man out and the last stand of box company which won the marine corps heritage foundations general wallace m green junior award. They have just learned today that the book is on the New York Times bestseller list. And it is number one at watermark books and cafe on our bestseller list. So i just want to give you both a warm welcome and i will turn the virtual stage over to you bob. Thank you sarah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And thank you, lauren and and thanks to everyone at watermark. I h
Im going to start by asking the two of you and the book that youve recently published. Its what maybe just a few months old. There we go. Okay. Well, i believe yeah, okay. The war went on. Fantastic and i like for you to just give us a sense. As to why you all came together and decided that this was a volume that needed to be done. I think ill start in. Thanks, pete and ashley for for having us here and allowing us participate in this program. The book emerged from a concern that evan and i had about ongoing debates in the subfield of veteran studies within civil war history. We really felt that the subfield had become unnecessary contentious that in the last decade and a half. Weve seen an outpouring of new and important work on veterans, but that a lot of the field have been kind of framed in a falsely dichotomous way right veterans were either maladjusted or they were well adjusted they were either civically engaged citizens, right . They were all over window homes extelling the sno
Im Betsy Peterson the director of the American Folklife Center here at the library of congress and on behalf of the staff and everyone. I want to welcome you and i also for the record one and to be reflected that we do have pretty much a full house moving into standing room only so at any rate todays lecture the botkin series lecture series is it allows the American Folklife Center to do a couple of things it allows us to present the latest and the very best scholarship in folklore, ethna musicology, oral history cultural studies, and it also allows us to enhance our collections here at the American Folklife Center. All of these lectures are recorded videotaped and they become part of the permanent collections of the center in addition. The lectures are also posted as webcast so that people around the world can can hear what were talking about and listening to today and they will also be available for generations to come. So with that said let me ask you if you have a cell phone on rig