Good evening. Im harold, the chair of the lincoln forum. It is time now for our main event. I am proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people, not only as friends, but as colleagues in the civil war field. Gary gallagher and joan waugh. Individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophistication, and style. As your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is a Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War at the university of virginia and he is former director of the now civil war Sector Center there. You are all familiar with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. He is also, like many in this room, an aficionado, but more, an expert on civil w
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Convicters murderers and their regrets over ever picking up a gun. I took his buddy away from him. Me . How does that sit with me . Im chuck todd and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday are the New York Times david brooks Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Helene Cooper and gerald seib. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good morning. This is the scene outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church this sunday morning where the congregation is gathering for the First Service since a gunman murdered nine people there on wednesday evening at bible study. The victims, rev end clementa pinckney, sanders ethel lance, Myra Thompson rev end middletondoctor. Reverend Daniel Simmons sr. , ms. Jackson and cynthia hurd. It was the worst racial attack in decades. It brings back horrific memories the civil rights activist in june of 1964 in mississippi. In charleston the process of healing has already begun, that was shown when family members of the victims showed such
Convicters murderers and their regrets over ever picking up a gun. I took his buddy away from him. Me . How does that sit with me . Im chuck todd and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday are the New York Times david brooks Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Helene Cooper and gerald seib. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good morning. This is the scene outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church this sunday morning where the congregation is gathering for the First Service since a gunman murdered nine people there on wednesday evening at bible study. The victims, rev end clementa pinckney, sanders ethel lance, Myra Thompson rev end middletondoctor. Reverend Daniel Simmons sr. , ms. Jackson and cynthia hurd. It was the worst racial attack in decades. It brings back horrific memories the civil rights activist in june of 1964 in mississippi. In charleston the process of healing has already begun, that was shown when family members of the victims showed such