Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H
Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H
Schedule and view all of our programs and their entirety. Carmichael hello again. I am pete carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. Our final speaker is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university. The aggies. Where she teaches courses on Civil War History and reconstruction, 19thcentury american, and reform movements. Lorien got her start at the university of kansas where you did your undergrad and got her phd at the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentleman and the roughs manhood, honor, and violence in the union army is one of my favorites on the soldier experience. Did fantastic research. She dug into the National Archives and looked at courtmartial records which had really been underutilized until lorien got a hold of them. Superb book. And david brooks, a columnist for the New York Times you got a lot of praise from david brooks in his editorial. Well worth reading. Fantastic work. Her second book the ya
If you are getting ready to leave and coming eastbound on the schuylkill expressway all traffic forced off at university and make that left on to 34th street and that puts you right back on at grays ferry. They have at least one lane getting by, on the westbound side but it will be a rough go here, for folks that use the schuykill expressway this morning. As soon as we heard about this and car get dave kinchen says ill go, he is on the scene right now dave, what can you tell us. We will step out of the way and show you what is happening. You can get a live look at crews trying to get this beer off this tractor trailer that has been damaged significantly there. We saw Pennsylvania State troopers picking up one of the kegs and helping them be moved. We will show you you can see westbound side some cars moving through. It is down to one lane where we are right now as crews are continuing to deal with this situation. We are seeing one or two more police cars. Other side is completely shut
Happens every four years. You want me to tell you that the election in philadelphia and chicago will be fair. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton prepping for third and final debate but this morning new claims why the donald is saying the race is rigged. He mentioned philadelphia. Sure did. Hey, everybody. Well, lauren is in for alex. Heres the good news, we have another ten. You are wearing almost the same shirt. Almost. Different. Check out my tie. Were matching. I have purple in my tie. Yes. Look at that, were designing on the desk. Yes, were happy about the ten for weather by the numbers but there has been some fog rolling in, press i quickly this morning. It was fine a couple hours ago but suddenly were seeing a lot of moisture and that cloud to the ground. Buddy does not have a jacket the on today and that is key because of our mild temperatures. Fog any lancaster, pottstown at philly international, reduced visibility in reading, million wilton, atlantic city, the fog is taking over