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exploring iconic photographs. everybody wrote one essay and we will see the historic images. the program is moderated by one of the coeditors, professor gary gallagher. peter has given me the official go-ahead. we are going to display mercy in this panel at the end of a long day. what we are going to do is go down the table. matt joan, aaron are our panel. we are each room to talk about our photograph and i will start with matt. i am going to start with mattgallman matt gallman because this book was his idea. is it ok if i stay seated? this is a book that we did and my job right now is to tell you about the impulse for this book. and what the book really is. they are sure got back there so you have no idea. shrink-wrapped back there so that you have no idea. i am going to tell you something that might shock you, the idea emerges over beer. [laughter] matt: we were sitting around and talking about what might be a good idea for a book. how about so that you have n ....
people were corrupted to provide mostly with information about movements. other things as well, in exchange for not that much money , but fairly lavish lifestyles. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span s q and a. american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend featuring museum tour is, archival films, programs on the presidency. here s a clip from a recent program. i will never publish word of these reports, at least on my own, though i am proud of the work. one major report in tribal treaty rights. it involves analyzing a phrase in a treaty clause that ran less than a sentence. explaining the contemporary meaning of the words usual and accustomed places, and cultivate. parlayed those few words into a report that ran several hundred pages. the research led me to me considering myself for a time the leading historian on oyster cultivation, a title to which i never aspired it to which i did not have much competition. i ve experienced some of the most gratifying mom ....
allow speakers to examine various facets of the civil war experience. e shenandoah th valley offered that potential. let me talk about the valley. briefly. most of you know it is a place of breathtaking beauty and agricultural bounty, then and now. it extends from the potomac river in the north to beyond lexington in the south, with the blue ridge mountains on the east and the alleghenies on the west. the valley runs southwest to totheast and drops gently meet the potomac river. this means someone traveling towards the potomac goes down the valley in an audit circumstance where north is always up, in the valley, north is always up. the massenet and mountain divides the valley. shenandoahork of the meanders toward the potomac. in the east, the south fork runs through the page valley on its journey to join the north fork at front royal. image of thea good valley in your mind, but that is how we conceived of it when we were talking about it. we settled on it because of the ....
civil war institute. it s my pleasure to introduce professor joan wall of ucla. joan wall is a specialist in civil war and reconstruction. she is the author and editor of a number of books. the book, her most recent publication is a biographer of ulysses grant, called grant, american hero, american myth. it won multiple prizes including the jefferson-davis award from the museum of the confederacy. dr. wall has come to gettysburg college back in 2011. she is also a teacher instructor at ucla. she s received numerous teaching awards and i have learned that in her gilded age class, when she does a lecture on baseball that at the end of the class, she breaks out bags of peanuts. and she tosses them out to her students. i heard that she has a mean right arm. we have, joan, ordered boxes of hard tack. [laughter] she will be tossing out hard tack this afternoon. joan will be presenting the rebels are our countrymen, countrymen, [applause] thank you peter, for that hi ....
peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that while i published the book on grant, i have not finished with him yet. i became fascinated by the surrenders that he conducted during the war and really look at surrenders as a way to understand the nature of this war as i have done in my title, and what it meant for reconstruc ....