Civil War Weaponry

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

News, History, Politics

4.2 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Guilford Technical Community College professor Jeff Kinard taught a class about Civil War weaponry and shared artifacts such as muskets, carbines and revolvers. He described technological advances, such as breech loading and rifled barrels, that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN.
0:04.4	This July 4th weekend, lectures in history will discuss Civil War Weaponry.
0:08.8	Guilford Technical Community College Professor Jeff Kinnard teaches a class on Civil War
0:13.4	Weaponry and shared artifacts.
0:15.6	He describes technological advances such as breach loading and rifled barrels that allowed
0:19.9	soldiers to fire faster and more
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0:55.3	All right, guys.
0:57.1	How are you all doing today?
0:59.1	Welcome to class.
1:03.1	Today, as I talked about a little bit earlier this week,
1:06.4	we have a special lecturer here.
1:10.0	Dr. Jeff Kinerd, you may have a class with him.
1:13.7	He is the chair of our history and political science program here at Guilford Technical Community College. What you may not know about Dr. Kynard is that
1:19.6	he is a military historian. He's an expert in military history. He is published at least four books on anything from weaponry,
1:30.8	weaponry from the Civil War, Revolutionary War. He collects a host of artifacts, which he has
1:36.8	brought and will share with us today. He is a Ph.D., a earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
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