Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of johns work are his published work are many and varied with something of a focus Abraham Lincoln with the legal and constitution, as well and hes coauthor of a book entitled Civic Education and the work of citizenship and because he has news they wrote our little monitor, the greatest invention of this civil war. I asked him to put it on a topic, and it draws from oth
Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in
Symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Our next speaker is john white. John white is an associate professor of american studies at Christopher New Port University in new port news. When i look at johns vida, his academic resume i think of an old graduate School Adviser and im talking about you, jim wittenberg, would say to us when he would come to our offices to find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Wittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific hiftor yap, but more projects on more backburners than ive ever seen on the stove award. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see
You just saw newlyreleased surveillance video, haunting graphic video released by turkish officials. One of the shots you see the gunman inside of the terminal opening fire. People scrambling for their lives. As we now know what became tuesday nights bloodbath at ataturk airport in istanbul. Another video you see gunman pull out the weapon, open fire, pointblank range on plain clothes officer. 44 people killed. More than 230 others wounded. Death toll continued to go up. More than 100 people remain hospitalized. Some in serious and critical condition. Now that said, turkish authorities released nationalities of three attackers saying one was russian. One was from uzbekistan and a third from kurdistan. We dont have anything more concrete such as identities or ages or they lived in istanbul together or traveled separately from another country or countries. There is a lot of speculation and con ficking reports. Were trying to pin down some of that information. That said, turkish officials
All right. Good evening. Im peter carmichael. I am a professor of history at Gettysburg College and also the director of the civil war institute. Its my pleasure this evening to be moderator and panelist for this session on the anatomy of a lost cause. Joining me, to my immediate right is keith bohannon. Keith is an assistant professor of history at west georgia university. Keith has very long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. Daty is an assistant professor. She just received