Christy Ford Chapin of the Miller Center of Public Affairs joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the history of health care in America.
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Christy Ford Chapin of the Miller Center of Public Affairs joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the history of health care in America.
Historian Rick Britton joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss Civil War history.
Author Brian Nelson, joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss his book The Silence and the Scorpion discussing the coup against Hugo Chavez and the making of modern Venezuela.
Reverend Scotty McLennan, author of Jesus Was A Liberal , joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss his book.
Col. Keith Gibson
Regular listeners of our podcast or our live streaming feed might know Rick Britton. He’s a historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in conjunction with the Charlottesville Senior Center.
On Wednesday July 15th Col. Keith Gibson, the V.M.I. Director of Museum Operations, delivered a presentation on the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Fought on August 9th, 1862, Cedar Mountain — the first major acttion of the Second Manassas Campaign — pitted Confederate Gen. T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson with a large portion of his Corps (almost 20,000 men), against Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks with 8,000. During this large meeting engagement, Banks attacked furiously — and was actually driving back Jackson’s initial force — when Confederate reinforcements arrived and turned the tide.
On Wednesday, July 22nd, Rick Britton will conduct a tour of the Cedar Mountain Battlefield. After lunch the group will take a Civil War walking tour of the historic downtown area presented by Virginia Morton, the well-known author of Marching Through Culpeper! Bus tour departs from the Charlottesville Senior Center at 9:00 AM. There is a fee for the tour. Call 974-6538 for more info.
This is part four of a seven part series. The event is held every third Wednesday at the Charlottesville Senior Center.
Jim Kennan of the United Way Thomas Jefferson Area joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the history of the United Way.
Scott Harris
Regular listeners of our podcast or our live streaming feed might know Rick Britton. He’s a historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in conjunction with the Charlottesville Senior Center.
On Wednesday, June 17th, Scott Harris, Director of the New Market Battlefield Park, delivered a presentation on the Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, (which took place just south of Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley). Fought on March 23rd, 1862, this battle pitted Jackson with 4,000 men against Union Col. Nathan Kimball in command of approximately 9,000. Although Jackson was defeated, the battle led the Lincoln administration to make strategic errors that greatly benefited the Confederacy.
This is part three of a seven part series. The event is held every third Wednesday at the Charlottesville Senior Center.
Marc Selverstone is an Associate Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He joins Coy to discuss his new book, Constructing the Monolith, which explores the development of communism at the dawn of the Cold War.
Woden Teachout joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss her new book Capture The Flag .
University of Virginia Professor, Lois Shepherd, author of If That Ever Happens To Me joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the right to refuse treatment, Terri’s Law and the aftermath of the Terri Schiavo case.
Attorney Rae Ely joined Charlottesville Right to discuss her story involving the battles of citizen activism in the 1970s over land in historic Green Springs, Virginia.