In surfside, florida, Rescue Teams have now gotten the all clear. They have resumed digging through that massive pile of rubble hoping against hope now really to find survivors. 24 people are confirmed dead. 121 still now unaccounted for. Meantime officials are looking at the structural integrity of other buildings in the nearby area. Charles watson is tracking that development from surfside. Hi, charles. Good morning, gillian and griff. What we mains of champlain towers south came down in a matter of second after a long day of planning. Demolition crews imploded the 13 story tower. You can see the explosives go off and the building hits the ground. The plume of dust in the air was so thick you could see it nearly a mile away. Miamidade officials were racing to bring the building down as concerned grew over its structural stability. Now with the building gone there is Hope Rescue crews can get Toeathat Up until now have been off limits. Really we were stuck that we couldnt get to a cer
Bicentennial american Art Scholarship really took off like a rocket but one of the things that happened as a result of the bicentennial i think is that we tended to look at historical events as benchmarks along the way nodes of progress as this great country developed, but there wasnt a lot of analytical work done on the effect of some of those events and unless you were working on an artist like Winslow Homer who directly engages with the civil war in general the war occurs as an event in a number of these artists lives. Its sometimes shows up directly in works, but most of the time not and as a result, theyre never really had been a deep Study And Understanding of what the war years did to american art in this country it its a parallel that holds and doesnt hold but i couldnt help as i was. Using about how to put this exhibition together that in the wake of 9 11. Look at what one day did to us as a country. You have a before a during and an after and we know that nothing is ever quit
Bicentennial i think is that we tended to look at historical events as benchmarks along the way nodes of progress as this great country developed, but there wasnt a lot of analytical work done on the effect of some of those events and unless you were working on an artist like Winslow Homer who directly engages with the civil war in general the war occurs as an event in a number of these artists lives. Its sometimes shows up directly in works, but most of the time not and as a result, theyre never really had been a deep Study And Understanding of what the war years did to american art in this country it its a parallel that holds and doesnt hold but i couldnt help as i was. Using about how to put this exhibition together that in the wake of 9 11. Look at what one day did to us as a country. You have a before a during and an after and we know that nothing is ever quite the same. We dont travel the same way. We dont look at each other the same way. We dont respond to events quite the same
Gestating for an awfully long time in the wake of the bicentennial american Art Scholarship really took off like a rocket but one of the things that happened as a result of the bicentennial i think is that we tended to look at historical events as benchmarks along the way nodes of progress as this great country developed, but there wasnt a lot of analytical work done on the effect of some of those events and unless you were working on an artist like Winslow Homer who directly engages with the civil war in general the war occurs as an event in a number of these artists lives. Its sometimes shows up directly in works, but most of the time not and as a result, theyre never really had been a deep Study And Understanding of what the war years did to american art in this country it its a parallel that holds and doesnt hold but i couldnt help as i was. Using about how to put this exhibition together that in the wake of 9 11. Look at what one day did to us as a country. You have a before a dur
Longtime fans know. Im a Stonewall Jackson Fanboy. Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons Death is far more entertaining than mine is but chancellorsville is a battlefield where both of us are really cut our teeth as younger historians and so his insights on the battle of chancellorsville known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees greatest Defeat Chris is the senior Education Manager at the american Battlefield Trust doing some great work preserving our battlefields including a lot of preservation at chancellorsville itself. Hes the and coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now, weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few people out i