On just that focus on the website. Well her first from elizabeth varon about some of the stories that this project has revealed and then well turn to will kurtz to learn more about the website itself. So with that i am pleased to introduce my colleague elizabeth warren. Professor veron is the langborn em williams professional professor of american history and a member of the now centers executive council. Her books include a biography of Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lu and an account of lees surrender to grant at appomattox her most recent book armies of deliverance a new history of the civil war when the 2020 Guilderleman Lincoln Prize and was named one of Wall Street one of the Wall Street journals best books of 2020. Please join me in welcoming professor van. Thanks so much. So in the summer of 1887 the Cleveland Gazette leading black newspaper of the late 19th century published a Feature Story on prominent clergyman who had triumphed over the barriers of Slavery And Prejudice as a paper
Introduce you to ben muchler our featured speaker for this evening. Ben is an associate professor of history at Oregon State university. He received his ba from harvard and actually played music professionally for a period of time after graduating. He then went on to Columbia University where he received his phd in american history. Ben has been a fellow at multiple institutions including the american antiquarian society, massachusetts historical society and the omahaundra institute. This is bens first book and let me just hold it up here. Its called the province of Affliction Illness in the making of early new england. So i will turn it over to ben so he can go over some of the main themes of the book before we go into our discussion in Q A. Thanks so much ashley into jim and Kayla And Scott as well and welcoming scott in his new position. Its been too long since ive been at the american antiquarian society in person, but i have very fun feelings of it. And i remember my fellowship th
Group guilford courthouse, nasa, military park and morristown national historics vanessa is currently the Project Manager of interpretive Media Development for the national Capital Area at harpers ferry center. She received their Bachelors Degree in historic preservation from the university of mary, washington in fredericksburg, virginia, and our Masters Degree in Resource Interpretation from stephen F Austin State university in texas. She enjoys researching family histories drinking Craft Beer and helping animals of all kinds we welcome vanessa as she presents american revolutionary war from the bottom up southern theater misconceptions. Thank you so much phil. Alright everyone. Hi. Thank you so much for having me today. I am hopefully gonna be talking to you guys a little bit about the southern theater and some misconceptions that go along with it. So let me first kind of go over what we consider the southern theater seems pretty straightforward enough and it pretty much is so the so
And its also about music. And music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree more congenially and more profitably then you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely, i you know. Assures the the patriots were were carrying their swords and their guns they were carrying their pins and they were carrying their pros and they were carrying their poetry alone with them to move this revolution forward and to our country forward. Henry David Thoreau once wrote when i hear music i fear no danger. Im invulnerable. I see no foe and im related to the earliest times and to the latest. And that pretty much sums up. I think what we wanted to write about when we sat down down to write this book. Yeah. Throw yeah throw. Until about thrice until about three weeks ago mcgraw thought thoreau was a running back for lsu. So you are here at a inflection point. In the life. Hes the reason we won the national champi
Nicole hi, i am nicole rhodes. Nice to see you. Thank you so much for being here. Im the director of Audience Engagement at the pennsylvania horticultural society. And, we are so excited to learn about the movement and principles that inspired the creation of philadelphias only public landscape designed by the olmsted firm of landscape architects. To understand the historical parts of this space as many of us repair to visit it, and also in advance of the upcoming olmsted 200 bicentennial of which lori is the honorary chair. Laurie is the honorary chair. Lots of intersections to this landscape right now. We have many people here from outside the region. Welcome all of you. For any of you new to phs, we use Gardening And Greening as a tool for community development. That means everything from investing in community gardens to increasing the number of trees planted in on streets throughout the region. And, providing better resources for people who want to pick up the mantle of gardening