In the online Virginia history (but not VA-HIST) discussion that I announced on Friday (please see the truncated rerun below the dashed line), comment 4 is my report on what President Obama actually did and did not say concerning Fort Monroe in his Hampton University speech on Sunday. (Partial summary: He alluded to it as "the Union garrison" and "the fort," but never said the two words -- "Fort Monroe" -- that would have changed our struggle to save that national treasure from mediocritization or worse.) If Fort Monroe is indeed a prospective World Heritage Site, that online discussion is about why. I'll bet that VA-HIST reaches people who, if they can make the time, would want to join it. Thanks. Steve Corneliussen Poquoson, Virginia - - - - - - Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:25 AM I hope that in this Virginia History forum I may invite people to join a discussion of Virginia history in an online forum called Virginia Tomorrow. The president speaks Sunday at Hampton University. The posting at Bob Holsworth's Virginia Tomorrow forum (http://virginiatomorrow.com/) is headlined "Obama’s Hampton Speech Could Promote Constructive Revisionism on Slavery and the Civil War: Historic Venue Closely Linked to Endangered Civil War Treasure, Fort Monroe." [snip] ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html