. >>> next on american history tv, the university of virginia professor stephen cushman describes howil war affected the life of mark twain. he analyzes some of twain's writings to look at how the author interpreted the differences between imagining and experiencing the war. this 40 minute talk was part of a daylong conference hosted by the university of virginia's center for civil war history. >> so, our next acclaimed speaker of the day is none other than stephen cushman. he holds the robert c taylor professorship in the english department. he is a renowned poet and we are also thrilled to say that he is a scholar of the civil war, as well. three of his 14 books have dealt with the civil war, including belligerent muse and, of course, the book i already suggested you all get a copy of in the back. the recently co-edited civil war writing from the first

. >> so, our next acclaimed speaker of the day is none other than stephen cushman. he holds the robert c taylor professorship in the english department. he is a renowned poet and we are also thrilled to say that he is a scholar of the civil war, as well. three of his 14 books have dealt with the civil war, including belligerent muse and, of course, the book i already suggested you all get a copy of in the back. the recently co-edited civil war writing from the first conference with professor gallagher. with that, i will turn it over to professor stephen cushman. >> thank you very much. i am grateful to everybody. i won't repeat all the thank yous that have been said, but on behalf of tamika nunley and myself i would say thank you for being courageous and not being driven away this morning by that first talk. >> [ laughter ] >> all right, let's start with a large claim. here it is. without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. but why stop with one big claim. there is another that i will throw in free of charge. without mark twain, memory of the civil war woul

bank when it comes i had already planned to visit israel this week senior white house adviser jared cushman is expected to push both sides to join talks at camp david in the lead up to israeli elections in september. the latest was true so the. well just days after carrying out an extremely controversial series of demolitions of palestinian homes in occupied east jerusalem the israeli government is now sanctioning the construction of some $700.00 palestinian homes in the part of the occupied west bank which it controls known as area c. at the same time notably talking about the approvals of some $6000.00 units in illegal israeli settlements as well all of this coming at the same time as a tour of the region by president donald trump's son in law jared cushion or and his chief envoy to the region jason green blatt will be visiting both jordan israel qatar saudi arabia and the united arab emirates at a time when the israeli press is reporting that the u.s. intends to host a summit at camp david the presidential retreat for arab leaders to brief them on the details or at least the broad outlin

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luther from social services, cushman and wakefield are all going to be contributors to this. we do have a cafe and a restaurant going in here, and you're all expected to come and be big tippers when we open up that restaurant. bridge side, and i have to say, i'm looking at cynthia, marie tabor, give her a raise. she paid me to just say that. you owe me, marie, and in our office, several people have dedicated a large part of their lives to this. lastly, there are some empty chairs who represent back in the day. olson lee, we'll have the cobblestones along with the make america great caps. last, mayor ed lee. he loved this project. i remember talking to him about this the week before he left us, and he loved this. what a fantastic legacy for you to carry on, and don't think we forget about it, supervisor peskin. so with that, i stand between you and a free lunch, and there is one occasionally, so we are now going to do the ground breaking. somebody needs to get a shovel, and we need some earth. we'll do that, and then, we'll all get a free lunch. thank you very much, everybody,

luther from social services, cushman and wakefield are all going to be contributors to this. do have a cafe and a restaurant going in here, and you're all expected to come and be big tippers when we open up that restaurant. bridge side, and i have to say, i'm looking at cynthia, marie tabor, give her a raise. she paid me to just say that. you owe me, marie, and in our office, several people have dedicated a large part of their lives to this. lastly, there are some empty chairs who represent back in the day.