the sun rose over the atlantic cloudless blue sky that morning. in the woods north of fort front line federal troops were in position waiting for orders to assault the great fort. according to general terry's attack plan, the naval ambardment would cease at prearranged time and then the soldiers from the army of the fort.would rush the the troops would make the assault in three brigades. one after another, aiming for western plank of the fort's land face overlooking the cape fear river. time, 2,000 men in a composed ofe sailors and marines drawn from would assaultt fort fisher's northeast bastion. the fort where the land face met the sea face at water's edge. naval brigade force which was admiral porter's idea was of volunteersely and they faced a deadly challenge. the fort overrge approximately one mile of open largely armed with nothing more than handguns and cutlasses. at 3:35 this that afternoon, the ceased fire and the warships blew their steam whistles which was the call for the assault to begin. in charge of the naval brigade officer,year-o

navy, to do important work in the japanese theater of war and the atlantic ocean as well. you can see the camaraderie of the women working on an assembly line operation using actual conveyor belts, and this was an important coming together for women from all over the country. once the waves were created, it was possible for a young enlisted woman who hadn't been to college, if she tested high for aptitude. she would be routed into the top-secret code breaking operation as well. women ended up writing troop train was from oklahoma, california, colorado, to join the code breaking effort. one of my favorite anecdoáes, one of the women i interviewed who actually came from a very affluent family on the upper east side, her parents did not want her to join the waves. it was very scandalous at first for women joining the military. there were rumormongering campaigns that the women were basically prostitutes and that was why they were going into service. so some families were resistant, but this woman, jane topsail, took the subway from the upper east side of manhattan to enable

we are modernizing the port of virginia to make it the deepest on the atlantic coast, so we can welcome the world's largest ships and export our goods to every corner of the globe. i thank you for supporting investments in this important infrastructure because transit systems, bridges, and roads enable virginia to compete in a fast-changing global economy. we have to invest to remain competitive. it's no secret that the current way we fund transportation is simply not sustainable. states across the country are dealing with this. clearly it's good that people are burning less gas and driving cleaner and more efficient cars. but that means revenues are dropping while transportation costs are rising. we need to reform transportation funding this session and start to make new investments in transit to help commuters and low-income people get to work. (applause) we also need to invest in broadband. (applause) because the changing economy is about much more than moving people and goods, it's also about moving information. broadband has become an economic necessity for business, for education,

we have the atlantic coast pipeline or dakota access pipeline. i had over 1,600 laborers on that job, and i'm not talking about for a week or a month, but for a year or more. rover pipeline, 3,000 construction workers, multiple-year project. atlanta sunrise pipeline, 2,500. line 3 replacement in minnesota, 3,000. atlanta coast pipeline which has its challenges which i'll talk about in a second, there is going to be about 1,200 construction laborers on it. we actually have, i saw one of the representatives here for pennsylvania, there's a plant with 7,500 construction workers on that facility. so the potential is incredible. and as i said, we've seen an absolu absolute, you know, thriving in the energy sector. oil, gas, we support wind, solar. we're doing a big nuclear facility in georgia. what are some of the challenges? i'm at least encouraged that on thursday i know the president is going to propose changes to nepa which are desperately needed from our perspective, to expedite the permitting process. when infrastructure projects and energy proj

they are building the airplanes for the nazis and building the atlantic wall. men are scarce. women are not. cover when a natural she goes behind enemy lines that men do not have. this is where it is important for our national security today. i got interested in this because i was interested in women in combat. a story that happened recently for armed forces. in 1994.and exquisite it is not until 2016 that we have a integrated forces. four years. i saw this coming and i was interested in women in male spaces. know how they behave and how they act. i realize that war is not a male space. war is a bipolar space. you have a male frontline and an occupied nation that is very female. women taking care -- children. it is not a bunch of men. we had to integrate our forces. we are not just woke. we have been fighting in iraq and afghanistan for so long, we learned you have a unit go into a small village deliberate them and it is only women there and they are terrified when it is a bunch of green berets. long ago, we were sending women behind and we called them combat support. the wome

how the revolution and atlantic world touched arrest left-hand a ireland and many others. what tells us about the british army in which richard saint george soldier at how it respond ed to the challenges of fighting a difficult war than a foreign and hostile environment thousands of miles from home. students of war in military culture. the strenlts and weaknesses of the weapons systems that opposing armies employ determine tactical options. in addition, what soldiers wear reflects the values of the societies they serve both stylistic as well as the norms and traditions of the organizations to which they belong. it's also important to realize that what an army wears and carries, what it goes to war changes in the course of a conflict. the experience teaches officers and men what works and what does not. what should be retained or jet sans. i must acknowledged my fascination with military culture reflects one of my guilty pleasures. i pursued my undergraduate studies in the 1970s and youthful enthuse yampl led to my being seduced. while that confession, i'm unapologetic. i f

just as significant are the interconnections and immersions with the atlantic world, the western hemisphere, the nation, and global markets ideology and human experiences. one thing is clear -- it is no longer viable to reflectively portray the south, at any time, as separate from the nation or the world. the literature on the histories of the south is far richer for the questions asked in recent decades about the parameters, the essence, and existence of southern history. the narrative of social history race, gender, class remain but are energized by postmodern scholars interrogating the premises of this narratives, voices, expanded archives, and enlarged geographical context. so we gathered 40 scholars in teams of two to cowrite temporal and thematic essays on the scholarship of the south over the past two decades. the result is reinterpreting southern history. the table of contents for which you may find on the nearby seat. we invited five of the authors to join us today to offer thoughts on the process and conclusions and engage your questions about what they learned about southern his

is a huge link in that chain of events that leads from the ohio river all the way to savannah, the atlantic coast. if you consider the chattanooga, tennessee, it's the dagger thrust against the invitelvitale confederacy, they won with hard marching in july of 1863. it's not written in letters of blood, but the tullahoma does not deserve the obscurity that it's been placed to. thank you for your attention. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> we don't have time for questions. just to keep us on schedule. i will ask my brother to comment on one thing as we wrap up. why has this then been forgotten and how much of that is a factor of rosecrans being his own worst enemy in some ways? >> i think that's a part of it, rosecrans being his own worst enemy. everybody views the battles between bragg and rosecrans through the prism of in september of 1863. and it tends to overshadow everything that's gone before. here's the real fight in north georgia. when in reality, the two rounds before that, stone's river and tullahoma really deserve far more attention. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >>> all

tullahoma is a huge link in that chain of events that leads from the ohio river all the way to savannah, atlantic coast. if you consider the chattanooga, tennessee, the federal presence in chattanooga is the dagger thrust against the vitals of the confederacy, well, before that, the dagger thrust directly into the vitals of chattanooga is the federal army at tullahoma which they won over 11 days of hard marching and fighting in the rain and the heat in june and july of 1863. it is not written in letters of blood, rosecrans was right. but the tullahoma campaign does not deserve the obscurity it has been placed into. ladies and gentlemen, i liked to thank you for your attention. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. thank you very much. we actually don't have time for questions but i will ask my polish brother to comment on one thing as we wrap up. why has this, then, been forgotten? and how much of that is a factor of rosecrans being his own worst enemy? chris: i think everybody views the battles between bragg and rosecrans through the prism of chickamauga and focus on that and

petersburg railroad better known as the weld and railroad running south to the confederate only atlantic support. the railroad running west to lynch brig the fed the south, and the richmond and then ten railroad running southwest towards greensboro north carolina. by breaking these vital railroad arteries, and focusing his forces around peterborough. the enemy would be deprived of the material necessary to sustain a military campaign, and force them to retreat. james wilson's division of cavalry, and the smaller me from the army of the james would conduct the raid. need warned to grant that moving sheridan to petersburg would allow the confederate mounted arm underweight hampton to ride south and menace wilson. in part to neutralize that threat to the union raiders, and to expand the concept of isolating the northern army of virginia grant decided to send the second and six quarters westward to capture and hold petersburg and south stored railroads. extending the union perimeter all the way to the apple mattocks river above petersburg. in hindsight, sending just to course to completely e

start with a question of transportation issues, it's a big problem in districts like mine from the atlantic to ohio. at my roundtable in districts in oregon, 2017, i heard from a woman that had to travel from five hours to another state, washington, to find a provider to get her off of her addiction. for each, what is your state doing to address access where there is no local health? thank you for the question. north carolina has 100 thank you for the question north counties. we have about 20,000 people a day in our opioid treatment program into the largest strategies to address the access has been first and foremost moving as much care into the office based outpatient treatment as programs that is how we would like to see the data act waiver requirements moved to try to make that easier. we've doubled the number in north carolina and have a long way to go. we are not going to get the large-scale providers there. we have been investing in the project e-echo which is a leveraging ability to try to get the providers to provide the support they need to take on the patients. as you know, in the

that means in 1864, one of the rosencrantz takes on the drive towards atlantic. -- atlanta. meade is left alone to assume the offensive in virginia. and grant is either in arkansas louisiana are moving against mobile. and, ultimately what does that mean? we don't know. we can't know. because it does not happen, right? a counterfactual history is fun. the first step you take is on solid ground, but everything after that is quicksand. but we do know things would have been different, right? day,e end of the counterintuitively, and it is easy to understand why the south did what they did. i would have made the same decision. but, if you look back now, and probably would have been far better to leave long street in the hands of lee and let lee assuming offensive in virginia. where that takes you nobody knows, but it certainly wouldn't have wound up with you resist s grant and william sherman running the union were effort -- 1864.ort-- war effort in it is not a boring six months. and a lot happens. it does not deserve the dark hole of history has been shoved into, which is why was

partly because we lost fewer than those other countries did in world war ii and we're separated by the atlantic ocean from germany. but president bush felt confidence that the democratic west germany that was our ally throughout the cold war was mature enough, strong enough to absorb east germany and become the same kind of democratic peaceful multilateral nation that west germany had been. but bush, it was very important to him that this new united germany stay in nato. and he really lobbied very strongly for that. and ultimately together with chancellor cole persuaded mikhail gorbachev who really had to sign up on the dotted line giving up his trophy from world war ii and east germany and ultimately in the summer of 1990 gorbachev agreed so that on october 3rd, 1990, germany united and had the right to decide for itself what alliance did it want to be apart of. and nato was the answer. >> one of our callers brought this up earlier. november 9th not just significant for the history of the berlin wall falling but also a significant day in the history of the holocaust as well. >> exactly. novemb

deployment environment will be, how these systems will be used if they don't ask questions like what the atlantic tenants were concerned about >> i want to give miss lyons a chance before my time runs out. >> it is critical. the standards being used matter. one of the regulatory options is to have requirements that say government use have to be evaluated or have been ranked by some external objective tester that has clear transparency into what the standards were and how would was measured and how it was done. >> thank you. i yield back. >> the gentleman from texas is now recognized for questions. >> facial recognition is extremely important and viable for our government. places like border patrol in law enforcement. at the same time, there is also no question that this technology allows for any individual to be identified in public spaces be it through the private sector or government entities. therein lies the potential problem and grave concern for many people, both in the private sector or government should bare the responsibility of individual privacy and data security. i am not exactly wher

a big problem in districts like mine, just to put it in my perspective mine would stretch from the atlantic to ohio, almost bigger than any state east of the mississippi. at my round tables i heard from a woman, she had to travel five hours in to another state, washington state, just to find a provider to help her with treatment to get her off her addiction. for each of the witnesses what's your state doing to address access to treatment faced by rural patients where there's no local help? if you could be brief on that because i have another one on 42 cfr part 2 i want to get to as well. if anybody wants to weigh in on how to help in the rural areas? yeah. >> thank you for the question. north carolina has 100 counties. we have -- we are dosing about 20,000 people a day in our epidemic treatment programs. i think our largest two strategies to address rural access has been first and foremost moving as much care into office-base the outpatient treatment programs as possible. that's why we would love to see the data x waiver requirement removed to make that easier. we've doubled the number of p