she's the editor of "gettysburg replies: the world responds to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address." ladies and gentlemen, carla khorowski. [applause] good evening. it is an honor and privilege to be here with you tonight as part of the bernard and irene series.ished speaker i would like to thank the bryant park reading room, the new york public library, the new york historical society, and all of you for inviting me to speak with you this evening. although she passed away a few thankago, i would like to irene schwartz and her husband for underwriting this series. we wouldhis support not be able to be here with you this evening. i'm here to speak about gettysburg replies, one of more than 18,000 books that have been written about abraham lincoln today. you may ask yourself why so many? because, although he no longer walks this earthly plane he resonates from the words he has written and the documents he has left behind for our prosperity. yet deeplymple, complex man who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transcended all

and so that's why gettysburg, again, is so crucial here, because gettysburg, you have to find scapegoats because r.e. lee has a military record with one asterisk on it, and it's gettysburg, right? so now, early makes sense as does pendleton among others as to why they have to destroy not just longstreet's reputation but others, because they have to show the world they weren't outgeneraled. that also means the war doesn't exist beyond the appalachia mountains. it exists only in virginia. if it exists only in virginia, you can focus on lee as the general who was never outgeneraled, but wait, we have gettysburg, and with gettysburg, we have the great turning point in the war. if only longstreet or yule or stewart or name others had only done what lee wanted, things would have been different. and that part of the lost cause, it's still very much with us. keith and i are going to talk about this on monday. not all of you will be on the tour, but to me, what's striking is that longstreet's reputation has been redeemed, hasn't it? through the movie and through very good scholarship. there's mor

. >>> the civil war institute at gettysburg college in gettysburg pennsylvania recently held a conference on reconstruction and the panel of the civil war. a panel of historians talk about how southerners created their own narrative during reconstruction to explain why the civil war was fought and why the south lost. their talk is about an hour. >> all right. good evening. i'm peter carmichael. i am a professor of history at gettysburg college and also the director of the civil war institute. it's 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.

of history, also here at gettysburg. it is my pleasure to introduce mark summers. mark summers is the thomas d. clark professor of history at the university of kentucky where he teaches courses in 19th century u.s. history and political history. he is the author of numerous books including rum, romanticism and rebellion, the making of a president in 1884, as well as a dangerous stir, fear, paranoia and the making of reconstruction. this book was a groundbreaking monograph, one that examined the overlooked role of fear and emotions in reconstruction politics. most recently, dr. summers published this book, "the ordeal of reunion" and it is already sold out in our bookstore, just behind you. there will be more copies coming. this volume, which is part of the university of north carolina little field series, it is, what i think, a volume that needs to stand alongside eric foner's classic reconstruction. it is that important of a book. mark summers, this evening, he has the task to frame the reconstruction era for us. he is

it begins tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. >>> the civil war institute at gettysburg college in gettysburg pennsylvania recently held a conference on reconstruction and the panel of the civil war. a panel of historians talk about how southerners created their own narrative during reconstruction to explain why the civil war was fought and why the south lost. their talk is about an hour.

>> good afternoon, i'm peter carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. it is my pleasure to introduce our panelists this afternoon, conversation on lessons learned by the u.s. military. so let me first introduce our panelists. i will begin with jennifer murray, who of course is on my far right. jennifer is assistant professor of history at the university of virginia, her research explores the relationship between warfare and the creation of historical memory with particular emphasis on the preservation of battle fields. her first book on a great battlefield, the making, management, and memory of gettysburg national military park earned the 2014 award for contributions to historical understandings of the gettysburg campaign. many of you in the audience have benefited from her superb tours. she is working on a geography of general gordon meade which i hope will be published by the university of north carolina press. ian isherwood to the left of jen, he is the assistant director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college for a few more months. he has

with the monuments at gettysburg be taken to the ground? with baby for bid in -- would they be forbidden for soldiers? would the battle standard be put away and concealed? the state of massachusetts that had stood by sumner for so long passed a resolution against this man. what is going on? why would he do something like this? has some nerve deserted the cause? he has not. but it goes right to the heart seeow we ought to reconstruction, and that is what i am going to try to explain today. a duty here is to give you basic overview of reconstruction and how people see it, and i am going to try to do exactly that as best as i can. , thect, reconstruction further after the war it went, it became more permeated with this vision of reconciliation, where all people who served on either side were in some sense equally upright, equally brave, equally moral, equally good. by 1913, you can have cartoons like this, which called itself reenlistment, showing the dead rising to meet with their congress -- with their comrades again. assumed that the south

gettysburg, antietam, the summer of 64? i think it is the summer 64. everyone is losing.sherman had taken off with atlanta and they waltzed all the way down. other offenses coming up the james river were disastrous. a campaign in southwest virginia fell apart. mr. lincoln wrote a conciliatory loader -- letter concerning defeat. and things turn around. suddenly they when enabled victory at mobile. a few months later, sherman takes control of the shenandoah valley. sherman takes atlanta. and the tide is beginning to shift and although grant has believed him down and seemingly nothing has happened, that is important stagnant points of the war. nevertheless, down momentarily. by autumn, the unions on to victory. brian: how big did abraham lincoln when? james robertson: it was not close. he allowed the soldiers to come home and vote. the soldiers who previously had been so much in support of mccullen now see that it is not an empty piece, but in the course victory we're capable of getting. the ownership was a determining force. brian: in your chapter on george mcclellan, hande

whatember her telling me her father had done at the battle of gettysburg.s link with the civil war very direct with me. so, from the time i was a young boy able to absorb history, i was interested in it, and i'm glad i am, because history is the best teacher. how many years were you teaching the civil war? prime minister lee: it was an elective course -- professor robertson: it was an elective course. students to get because they wanted to. 22 thousandbout students. how many books have you written? professor robertson: i don't know. i just write them and hope they do well. book onread that your stonewall jackson had done the best. so far.r robertson: it is about a confederate general. it's not the biography of a general, but the life story of a man. i got very involved with jackson. to overcome.ips his mother died when he was seven. he never knew why. he grew up on love. i wanted to try to get a hold of this man, and she told me, i would not tell my therapist -- and she described what he should quiet,introverted, humorless, not a conversationalist at all. t

she brings them here every year to gettysburg. i have had a fantastic time with judy out in the battlefield. she is a well-established scholar. she has published a number of books and articles. the book that has probably gotten the most acclaim is , sisterhood,il war and women's politics in transition. " and just recently, she has assumed the editorship of the journal of the civil war era. it is a fantastic journal out of penn state, also published by the university of north carolina press, and certainly worth your attention. our second panelist, just to the left, is sarah gardner. sarah is professor of history and director of southern studies at mercer university in georgia, cultural andches intellectual history of the 18th and 19th century american south. the associate editor for the voices of the american stop series, and she is irony."or of "blood and that is also published by the university of north carolina press. as you can see, the university of north carolina press has a real stranglehold on civil war history. almost ever

she's the editor of "gettysburg replies: the world responds to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address."

writing on the campaign of fredericksburg, they are writing on vicksburg and gettysburg. question as to what the nature of the last war is when you are looking forward when you're looking to a future war you can't predict. i think with that, and there are some a more themes we could discuss, but i'd like to open it up to the audience with any questions that you may have for us. we can talk about what you would like to talk about. >> my question has to do with the fact that the principal armies of the north and south were citizens and not military people. it was also to some extent large conscription process with the army. ,ilitary thinkers after the war how did they think about these type of soldiers and did they influence their thinking towards future wars? how did theion was legacy of the citizen soldiers primarily fighting the civil war affect postwar military thought in preparation? that's an excellent question. i'll start out by saying that there was great concern in the mentioned in my paper, not only about the treatment of native americans and the tactics that were

of history, also here at gettysburg. it is my pleasure to introduce mark summers. mark summers is the thomas d.

to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address" reads passages from the book and writings from jimmy carter, and others.l, >> it is my great pleasure to introduce tonight's speaker, carla khorowski. we have met a couple of times before. most recently at the new york historical

i am the director of the civil rights institute at gettysburg college. a professor of history here at gettysburg. it is my pleasure to introduce mark summers. mark summers is the thomas d of history atr the university of kentucky, where he teaches courses in political history. he is the author of numerous books including "rum, romanticism, and rebellion," as well as

and allison, who has made sure that everything happened seamlessly from massachusetts to gettysburg. tonight i want to talk to you about the book that i co-authored with debra willis. debra willis if you don't know who she is is the leading scholar on the history of african-american photography. mcarthur award winner. just a brilliant woman and a dear friend of mine. and she and i were colleagues for many years, and over the years had many conversations about photographs of enslaved people that we came across in the course of doing other research projects, and i would say to her, you know, you are the photography scholar, explain to me why i have never read anything about the history of the photography of slavery and emancipation, and she would say to me i don't know. you're the historian of slavery and emancipation. you tell me. so for truly a decade she and i would go out to lunch, go out to dinner, have a drink and show each other these photographs, and one day we said there may actually be a book project here. and the book indeed turned out to be "envisioning emancipation." our q

the world responds to the gettysburg address tonight at 8:50 p.m.astern. >> his presence still resonates he left rtifacts behind. he looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transsended all other presidents who have served before him and since. his great american story has reached and continues to reach across borders, in oceans, races and religions, politics and party lines. >> then at 10:00 p.m. on real america, the march in washington august 28, 1963, the u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. this year marks the 40th anniversary of the nasa viking landing on mars. historians recently discussed the viking program which landed the first u.s. spacecraft on mars on july 20, 1976. >> the events surrounding the that week are incredibly exciting. when it landed it was almost the team had programmed in photographs to be able to confirm that they had in fact landed on mars. >> then at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the pr

peter carmichael, member of the history department here at gettysburg college. i am also director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure to welcome you to the panel discussion on reconstructing southern womanhood. i will introduce our panelists beginning of my far right -- judy,ing on my far right, a professor of history at villanova univers

pennsylvania put up a monument in gettysburg and from afar it looks like all of it. ledge is inthe isnd -- ingrained and she immobilized in eternity. that story affected people. there are some funny things. aroundraced the dell is a few years old. said oh no you are an ugly man. it may make you more attractive to the voters. he said ok. he blew that bill for what he is now famous. that is human. that is anhe blew emotional andy consist of empathy that we can get with those people. you cannot sit back on -- and pass judgment on events over 150 years ago. someoneset when i hear that if the general had done this, he would've won the war. you cannot pass judgment like that. you have to acknowledge it. that is the only way you will understand history. host: how much money did the north have and the south have to support the work? prof. robertson: that is almost incomparable. the south was leaning heavily on agriculture. sherman, he said he people are crazy. is going to farmers wage a successful war against industrialists. it was this industrial revolution. these mass char

i am a history has her -- professor here at gettysburg college. it is my privilege and pleasure to introduce our panel on the return of the confederate century. who are part of our life c-span audience, you can actually be part of this conversation. twitter at #cwi2016. let me go ahead and introduce our panelists. right, david, who is of americanlecturer history at the university of edinburgh in scotland. he teaches a range of civil war and southern history. his first book is in one published by the university of carolina press entitled " moments of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era north carolina." next to david is james. james recently assumed instructors up -- instructor university shepherd civil war. it is not far from the battle of antietam. he is also assistant professor of history. he has published a number of studies foritled the national park service. he is on because of releasing his first book for publication at the university of carolina press. jason phillips is the professor of civil war studies at west his book isv

introduction was actually at the gettysburg battlefield. was a high school trip and it was love at first sight. i was taken by the extraordinary nature and how important a role they played in the history and education but also the civil war. lifelong goal my to visit a national park any chance i get. from

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from gettysburg to bull run near where i live in virginia. to fredericksburg, to the wilderness, vicksberg. it is an extraordinary service the parks service the has. that piece of our history that was so critical and so pivotal in changing the country. >> when great decisions were made to preserve big chunks of land and even historical sites, starting i guess with ulysses s. grant. certainly through teddy roosevelt and president obama.

risk wanting -- responding to the gettysburg address, reading passages from the book at 8:50 p.m.tes from the words he has written and the documents he left behind for prosperity. he was a simple, deeply complex man, who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe that abraham lincoln transcended residents that had served before him and nce. his story reaches across borders, oceans, races, religions, politics, party lines. >> at 10:00 p.m., the march in washington. theugust 28, 1960 three u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington or jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. this marks the 40th anniversary of the nasa viking landing on mars. historians recently discussed the viking program, which landed the first u.s. spacecraft on mars in 1976. >> the weeks surrounding it exciting.edibly when it landed, it was almost powered up. 2e team programmed in photographs to be taken so they could be delivered quickly that to earth for the press and for nasa to be able to confirm the lander had landed on ma

i am peter carmichael, professor of history at gettysburg college. it is my pleasure to introduce rauthamer. theis a professor at university of massachusetts-amherst. her first book i have right in front of me -- her first book

i am peter carmichael. >> i am the director of the civil rights institute at gettysburg college. i am also a professor of history here at gettysburg. it is my pleasure to introduce mark summers. mark summers is the thomas d clark professor of history at the university of kentucky, where he teaches courses in political history. he is the author of numerous books including "rum,

it was one memory after another because she had lived and went to high school in gettysburg, lived close, and so here is where i met khrushchev in the house. i said, actually, you know, i actually got close to his plane in '59. she's looking at me, my dad was a master sergeant at mcguire air force base. i'll never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought nikita khrushchev to the united states. he was the most senior master sergeant on the base so, you know, there was a viewing area well back to the fence, he could get us pretty close, my brother and i. so it was wonderful. but, yeah, she just, you know, what a treat. and she's, you know, sitting there and listening to stories about her grandfather and her grandmother and what they were like and see the things in the home but have a personal touch put with them. this was this, this was where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that or the other. i mean, it was just fabulous. >> host: i don't know if you picked up peter carlson's of "the washington post"'s book about kruschev's trip -- >> guest: no, i h

to gettysburg and hwy 41. . in only ten days steven george/ found pet tortoise "tortoises, people think they're really slow but this tortoise was really fast."it seemed maybe a mission. nancy knauss/ tortoise owner "where did you find her?" steven george/ found pet tortoise "across the street over. there's a dome that goes on top of the water outlet, and it was trying to make love to it i think."the 100 year old near-sighted tortoise had found a friend. george says he spotted it at his neighbor's house climbing onto this domed mount over his neighbor' s water pipe. steven george/ found pet tortoise "a large tortoise didn't belong to them so i felt i had to go down there, bring it home and find the rightful owners. " knauss "say hello, say hello."george found the ad for the lost tortoise on social media, and the rest is history. knauss "yes there's a lot of bad in our world right now, but there are a lot of very really good people that care too." a popular board game - played out on the farm. coming up - how trac

i am peter carmichael, professor of history at gettysburg college. it is my pleasure to introduce rauthamer. theis a professor at university of massachusetts-amherst. her first book i have right in front of me -- her first book entitled "black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the native ." quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of enslavement by choctaw and chickasaw indians in the 18th and 19th century. arbara has also co-authored book on slavery, emancipation and freedom published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the talk is entitled "envisioning : black americans and the end of slavery." please welcome barbara. [laughter] professor krauthamer: hello, good evening. thank you for staying this late into the night. thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, who has managed to make everything happen seamlessly from massachusetts to gettysburg. book i

book of musings by public figures and ordinary americans celebrating or responding to lincoln's gettysburg editor of replies" reads passages from the book. tonight at 8:50 p.m. eastern. froms presidency resonates the words he has written and artifacts and documents he has left behind for our posterity. was a simple, yet deeply complex man who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. transcended lincoln all other presidents who have served before him and since. great american story has reached and continues to reach and oceans, races and religions, politics and party lines. >> then at 10:00 p.m., on reel america, the march in washington. on august 28, 1963, the u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern, marks the 40th anniversary of the nasa viking landing on mars. historians recently discussed the viking program which landed u.s. spacecraft on mars on july 20, 1976. >> the events surrounding the of july 20, 1976, were incredibly exciting. land

but in a place like gettysburg you can tell not only the physical activity of the civil war but the meaningehind it, such as the release and freedom of over 4 million africans that became african-american citizens. >> what would you say has been the most important change in the park service in the last 50 years? >> well i think that on one part we haven't changed that much. we still have our strong mission orientation, public service to the american people, and that has been a strong continuity. but i think broadening the story, trying to fill in the gaps in the american experience, it's not one narrative, it's multiple narratives. and i think using strong scholarship, working with his storians to better understand the complexities of the american narrative is how the park service has changed. >> how has technology changed the visitor experience? >> well, you know, there are those who are opposed to technology in the national parks. but actually i'm a proponent. i believe that technology provides an opportunity to deepen the experience. and certainly the private sector has stepped up with a

i'm peter carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. it's my pleasure to introduce barbara krauthamer. she's associate professor of history at the university of massachusetts at amherst where she teaches courses on antebellum u.s. history, epans pags, a -- emancipation, native american history. her first book black slaves, slavery, emancipation and citizenship in the native american south. that's quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of the enslavement of indians in the 18th and 19th centuries. barbara has also co-authored a photographic history of slavery emancipation and freedom publ h published in 2013, published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight she will be speaking about her recent work and the talk is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans, and the end of slavery. please welcome barbara. >>> hello. good evening. thank you for staying this late into the night. thank you for staying awake. thank you, peter, for th

the editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address, reads passages from the book saturday night at 8:50 p.m. eastern. >> his presence still resonates from the words he has written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our posterity. he was a simple yet deeply complex man who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transcended all other presidents to have served before him and since. his great american story has reached and continues to reach across borders and oceans, races and religions, politics and party lines. >> then, at 10:00 p.m., on reel america, the march in washington on august 28th, 1963, the u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. and sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the nasa viking landing on mars, at nasa's langley research center, historians recently discussed the viking program which landed the first u.s. spacecraft on mars on july 20t

there's some out west by gettysburg. outside we have the action cam by the water work looking by the schuylkill expressway there's the 6abc zoo balloon in the background. get that ride in now, balls later we'll have the thunderstorm chance. temperature, 79 degrees. dewpoint 71 an indication how thickly humid the air is. it's fairly overcast weapon don't have the sun beating down on our shoulders, too. 78 in wilmington, 75 in atlantic city. 79 in millville. too much tracker 6 shows you while we start out the day overcast every now and then a break of sunshine is possible and there's the chance in the humid air mass of the drenching downpours developing. by 3:00 p.m. you can see them here and there across the region. mooft same by -- more of the came by 6:00 p.m. the northern suburbs got inundated with the flood watch. we get into midnight and most of this is dieing down. in the lehigh valley flash flooding is possible with drenching thunderstorms where they hit. 85 warm and humid otherwise. down the shore look out for sho

editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address reads passages from the book saturday night at 8:50 p.m. eastern. >> his presents still resonates from the words he has written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our prosperity. he was a complex man who looked at complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transseconded all over presidents to have served before him and since. >> then on real america the march in washington on august 28th, 1963, the u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. and sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern this year marks the 40th anniversary at nasa's langley research center, historians recently discussed the viking program, which landed the first u.s. spacecraft on mars on july 20th, 1976. >> the events surround -- were incredibly exciting. when the. >> for the press to see and to see that the landers had, in fact, landed on mars. >> at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, histori

repliesf gettysburg that the world responds to passages in the book, tonight at 8:50 p.m. eastern. >> it still resonates from the words written and the artifacts and documents left behind for our posterity. he was a simple, yet deeply complex, man who looked a complex issues plainly and purely. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transited -- transcended all other presidents before him and cents. his great american story has reached and continues to reach across borders, and oceans, races and religions, politics and party lines. ask then at 10:00 p.m. on reel america, the march on washington on august 28, 1963. the u.s. information agency films the march on washington and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern, it is the 40th anniversary of the mars.iking landing on historians recently discussed the viking program, which landed the first u.s. spacecraft on mars on july 20, 1926. julyrrounding the week of 20, 1926, it was incredibly exciting. when it landed, it was almost powered up and the team had programmed in two phot

gettysburg college, pennsylvania. of theus was the legacy civil war. , a panel of historians talk about the challenges confederate veterans faced after the civil war. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am peter carmichael. i'm the director of the civil war institute. it is my privilege and pleasure to introduce the speakers for our conversation or panel on the return of the confederacy. -- from the confederacy. those of you who are part of the audience, you can be the conversation. we are course twitter, chas been ready. cwi2016. let me go ahead and introduce our panelists. to my far right, david, who teaches a range of courses on civil war and southern history, reconstruction and civil war. this first book is an excellent moment of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era north carolina. next to david is james brumar. he recently assumed the directorship of shepherd university's george tyler center for the study of civil war. shepherd university, as many of you know, is just across

author of gettysburg replies reads passages from the book. >> his presence still resonates from the words he has written and the artifacts and documents he has left behind for our prosperity. he was a simple, yet deeply complex man who looked at complex issues plainly. he accepted and spoke the truth. many believe lincoln transcended all other presidents to have served before him and since. his story has reached and continues to reach across borders and oceans, races and religions, politics and party lines. then at 10:00 p.m. on real america, the march in washington. on august 28th, 1963, the u.s. information agency filmed the march on washington for jobs and freedom and produced a documentary for foreign audiences. and sunday this year marks the 40th anniversary of the nasa viking landing on mars. historians discuss the program which landed the first spacecraft on mars on july 20th, 1966. >> the events surrounding the week were incredibly exciting. when the lander landed, it was almost powered up and the team had programmed in two photographs to be taken so that they could be delivered f

gettysburg, antietam, the summer of 64? i think it is the summer 64. everyone is losing.an had taken off with atlanta and they waltzed all the way down. other offenses coming up the james river were disastrous. a campaign in southwest virginia fell apart. mr. lincoln wrote a conciliatory loader -- letter concerning defeat. and things turn around. suddenly they when enabled victory at mobile. a few months later, sherman takes control of the shenandoah valley. sherman takes atlanta. and the tide is beginning to shift and although grant has believed him down and seemingly nothing has happened, that is important stagnant points of the war. nevertheless, down momentarily. by autumn, the unions on to victory. brian: how big did abraham lincoln when? james robertson: it was not close. he allowed the soldiers to come home and vote. the soldiers who previously had been so much in support of mccullen now see that it is not an empty piece, but in the course victory we're capable of getting. the ownership was a determining force. brian: in your chapter on torture:, handed up -- georg

this hour-long event was part of the annual summer symposium posted by the gettysburg college civil war institute. >>> -- currently serves as a lecturer in american history at the university of edinburgh in scotland. he teaches a wide range of courses in if civil war and reconstruction, civil war memory, and the u.s. south. after beginning his career as a high schoolteacher, he -- in florida, he earned his ph.d at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. he taught at the university -- excuse me, at north carolina state university, and there he published his first book. it is a superb one. "moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt and civil war era north calina." it explores the shifting sentiments, both black and white, towards suicide, debt and divorce in the post-civil war south. this book received a number of awards. he's got a new book that's coming out. his new book is entitled "driven from home, north carolina's civil war refugees," and should be out in october, published by the university of north carolina press. i'm so pleased that he is here. in fact, his son was a s

to gettysburg and hwy 41. . in only ten days found pet tortoise) "tortoises, people think they're really slow but this tortoise was really fast."it seemed maybe touc? was on a mission.(nancy knauss/ tortoise owner) "where did you find her?"(steven george/ found pet tortoise) "across the street over. there's a dome that goes on top of the water outlet, and it was trying to make love to it i think."the 100 year old near- sighted tortoise had found a friend. george says he spotted it at his neighbor's house climbing onto this domed mount over his neighbor' s water pipe.(steven george/ found pet tortoise) "a large tortoise across the street in the felt i had to go down there, bring it home and find the rightful owners. "(knauss) "say hello, say hello."george found the ad for the lost tortoise on social media, and the rest is history.(knauss) "yes there's a lot of bad in our world right now, but there are a lot of very really good good morning--another arrest is made in connection with the unrest in sherman park that

. >> we have more coverage now of a recent conference posted in gettysburg college, pennsylvania., a panel of historians talk about the challenges confederate veterans faced after the civil war. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am peter carmichael. i'm the director of the civil war institute. it is my privilege and pleasure to introduce the speakers for our conversation or panel on the return of the confederacy. -- from the confederacy. those of you who are part of the audience, you can be the conversation. we are course twitter, chas been ready. cwi2016.