Women during shermans march to the sea. Plus a look at jesse james and his actions by the confederacy during the civil war. A panel this morning, of historians discuss the debates surrounding the leadership of George Gordon meade. He is also the author of an acclaimed book. To his left, scott hartwig. He is a longtime supporter and also a retired historian from Gettysburg National park. He has written a book on the battle of antigua. Antietem. To the left of scott is jennifer murray. She is a professor of history at the university of virginia and many of you met and last, we have brooke simpson, who needs no introduction. You do need an introduction . Not everyone on cspan audience knows you. Brooks is a professor of history at arizona state. Lets turn to George Gordon meade. The man who was behind one of the most important victories in American Military history is barely recognized for his role in defeating the army at gettysburg. Meade in fact, saw this coming. December 7, 1863, he w
Want to attack them as a frontal assault. Hoping forrates are a frontal assault. That is an excellent summary. We want to get to the question. Your question is . Meade when he did decide to move, part of his army moved 32 miles in one night. I dont have a question. I just want to bring this up. Thank you very much. Niceve done a very job of summarizing what has been said here. We appreciate your listening and summarizing. We should have had you up here. Go to the back mic. I am from howard county, maryland. Something was mentioned on the panel about civil war armies being indestructible, that meade realized the army of Northern Virginia was indestructible. I have heard that the typical civil war radel is when both parties come together, bang the heck out of each other, dont actually destroy each other, and live to fight another day. If civil war armies could not destroy each other, why is that . Or what does it mean to destroy the enemy in the civil war context . I heard the same thing
Women during shermans march to the sea. Plus a look at jesse james and his actions by the confederacy during the civil war. A panel this morning, of historians discuss the debates surrounding the leadership of George Gordon meade. He is also the author of an acclaimed book. To his left, scott hartwig. He is a longtime supporter and also a retired historian from Gettysburg National park. He has written a book on the battle of antigua. Antietem. To the left of scott is jennifer murray. She is a professor of history at the university of virginia and many of you met and last, we have brooke simpson, who needs no introduction. You do need an introduction . Not everyone on cspan audience knows you. Brooks is a professor of history at arizona state. Lets turn to George Gordon meade. The man who was behind one of the most important victories in American Military history is barely recognized for his role in defeating the army at gettysburg. Meade in fact, saw this coming. December 7, 1863, he w
Tv. Youre watching the tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. We are in new york city at the annual trade show. What we like to do during the summers preview some of the fall books coming up. Next we want to introduce you to zoe. She is the author of this book, crash override, how gamer gate nearly destroyed my life and how we can win the fight against online hate. What you do for a living . My day job is an independent developer. Lets go to the game or part of that, what exactly do you do . A lot of stuff. Im an independent game developer so i make most of the stuff on my own. Im a programmer, writer, artist and i usually nobody needs to hear my terrible music ever again. Its a bit of everything. I tried to make it move for people who dont silly think a game subject to school. Host but part of a game do you develop. Guest [inaudible] host describe what happens in this game. Arianna ts for something . I try to make my design as accessible as possible. So you just go to the websi
You again to the 2017 roosevelt reading festival. Fdr plans for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is king thely one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries. And this years group of authors reflects wide variety of research down here. And if you love the roosevelt reading festival, and want to support this and other programs that question do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall. Or onis line at fdr library. Org and if you havent already please do go see our new special, temporary Museum Exhibition images of internment incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. So let me quickly go over the format for the tevels sessions today. At the top of each hour, a session begins with a 30minute talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period. The author then moves to the lobby to sign books and talk