An awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, Research And Outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History including, of course, the civil war era, but also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally as well. Her writing has appeared in civil War Monitor and civil War History Journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. Thats going to be well worth looking out for a few years down the line. Its on the very same Topic Shell speak about tonight. T as you can see, the Power Point is already up there, under the rebel lash, Black Prisoners of war in the confederate south. Shell speak for 30, 35 minutes. Another advantage of the Zoom Format is you can type in your questions using the q a feature. You wont be able to use the chat in the webinar, but you will be able to use the q a button if you have a question. You can type those in any time during the talk, after the talk.
You know, you bring to the history table. I think you bring a unique perspective and some great ideas. Oh, thank you, jake. Well, i started out as an his tore yafnl i earned my b. A. And m. A. In history from Shippinsburg University of pennsylvania and i went on to work alongside the u. S. Army corps of engineers as an historian and archivist, and about a year into that i began the tattooed historian on facebook. I used it as a way to showcase some of the archival thanks that we were showing, and i was really enjoying that process because we were doing what is called an archival asettlement and we were going through the archive and looking to see what was in the archives and the condition that it was in. I was taking photographs of different artifacts and papers, documents, stuff like that to showcase to the public who may not be able to go and check those things out, and strangely enough this thing blew up, and i wasnt expecting that. I was expecting to get maybe 100 people follow alo
A sexy thing. So i was using facebook. Everyone was on facebook. As time went on it, it built up more and more. I got on a couple more platforms. I started reaching on twitter and instagram. I went fulltime with this project in april of 2018. So ive been doing it fulltime for two years now. What i wanted to do was make history accessible and have what i call friction free history. Theres no pay to play kind of Thing Or Anything like that. I also wanted to give a platform to historians. I didnt want it to be me showcasing what i know all the time. I want it to have people on who had done historical work 90 of the time and showcase something they were doing and 10 of the time its me showing you historical sites or something. With all that being said, i really want to dive into todays topic. Im going to step away. Im still going to be here. But im going to turn over the floor to you, john, and tell us a little bit about Hygiene And Nutrition in civil war soldiers. Before i go into the scr
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