so we decided we would let him talk about fort sumter because it is as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. i say all that because mark is a delightful historian, wonderful guy, wish i could get him to laugh on cue. his most distinctive feature is his laugh. which we all like to get him pumped up and going. but we are delighted to have him come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. mark? mark: thank you so much for that introduction, chris. [laughter] it is a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. we would love to have done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. as chris mentioned, my main passion is the american revolutionary war. but you know, i work for the national park service and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. i actually started my career with the national park service as an intern down at fort sumt
it is as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. i say all that because mark is a delightful historian, wonderful guy, wish i could get him to laugh on cue. his most distinctive feature is his laugh. which we all like to get him pumped up and going. but we are delighted to have him come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. mark? mark: thank you so much for that introduction, chris. [laughter] it is a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. we would love to have done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. as chris mentioned, my main passion is the american revolutionary war. but you know, i work for the national park service and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. i actually started my career with the national park service as an intern down at fort sumter and formal tree national historical park in charleston, sou
confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on something. it s a symposium on the warren east, hosted by the emergency bill war blog. welcome back to the emergence of a war symposium, great to have you with us my name is chris mackowski. our next speaker today comes to us, actually from our sister site emerging revolutionary war. mark maloy it s a historian with a national park service and he s like what can i do that s revolutionary war? and i said, mark know this is a civil war. so we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter because it s the closest we can get to the war to the revolutionary era. mark is a delightful historian, a wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue. the most distinctive feature that we are like is his laugh. but we are delighted to have him, and he came here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war act fort sumter. mark. thank you very much for that introduction, chris. and it s a pleasure to be able to spea
the revolutionary war era. mark is a delightful historian. i wish i could get him to laugh on q. his most on cue. his most distinctive feature is is left. we re delighted to have him speak on the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. mark? mark: thank you very much for that introduction, chris, and it s a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. we would love to have done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it, as well. but yeah, as chris mentioned, my main passion is the american revolutionary war. but i worked for the national park service, and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. i actually started my career with the national park service as an intern down at fort sumter in charleston, south carolina. i worked there for about a year, in charleston, south carolina, if you ve never been, it s a beautiful town. there s a lot of history, revolutionary war history, but most
remember. new is a cue from space friday it was the first that nowhere in the uk reached 20 celsius, and it is because of the brisk northerly wind vigilfor mama the daily mail dedicates its front page to the queen s childrens vigil at westminster hall, as the new king stands aside his mother s coffin. saturday s times also runs with the same story declaring it the vigil an emotional end to a week of national mourning for the united kingdom. the guardian focuses on the death of elizabeth ii and the invitation of the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, calling his visit a stain on the queen s memory . and crossing to a commonwealth country, the new zealand herald reports on the queues to see the queen lying in state reaching capacity, as people wait for 2h hours in line. in other news, the international edition of the financial times leads on german government s move to control three refineries. so let s begin. the new york times reports on the ongoing despairfor t