President of the millennium challenge corporation. Mccave a fully installed president. I think that is something that is worthy of applause. When we give our friend sean a round of applause . [applause] congratulations. You get the prize for saintly patience and diplomacy. I am really glad you are in this job. I think it is important Government Agencies have Senate Confirmed leaders. It is important you have have been entrusted with his role. I wanted to give you a chance to share some of your views with our friends here about how you see the future of the mcc. Before that, maybe you ought to give this group i think everyone in this audience if they are here probably knows about the mcc, but maybe just so we are all on the same page. If you would just do the 101 from your perspective, what is the mcc . And, how does it work . I have a couple of softball questions for you. Sean i am prosoftball questions. Before that, thank you, dan, and thank you csis for hosting the event. We apprecia
With a longtime contributor to cwi. Jen murray is currently an assistant teaching assistant professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university and she is, as you know, an expert in the civil war and also a specialist in military history in general. She has, i would say the full publication resume, the most important book in the most recent, entitled on a great battlefield, the making, management and memory of Gettysburg National park, published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography, general George Gordon meade that will hopefully be published in the civil war america series. As i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member and many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian the seasonal here at gettysburg for nine years. So, it is my pleasure to welcome jen murray who will be speaking about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park.
He is a professor of southern studies at lsu. He is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer. And then we have gone to the university of virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher and published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press which is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. It was published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. He is a selfproclaimed foodie though he has lots of places to select from in new orleans. Today he will talked with about his very important book and a book i should add has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formally the museum of the confederacy and now the American Ci
Professor at the university of georgia let me just say a few roles i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes, i have to read. Stephen berry always brings with his research, incredible, beautiful writing. With rich insights, i think many of us, we like him so much, that is a good thing because his work is so good that you may come to jealousy but you just cant because hes such a wonderful guy and a fantastic teacher as well. Many of my students work with him over the years at the university of georgia, hes not only been a prolific scholar, he has either written or edited six books, my favorite is all that makes a man, love, ambition, in the civil war south. That was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of North Carolina, his advisor who is still there, teaching in carolina, another book i would highly recommend, that he edited, the fantastic book called we are doing the war, stories from the civil war ragged edge. Other things hes en
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. I had my students go online and say, what do we think about reconstruction . They came back with the same answer. What were teaching our students is that reconstruction was a failure. Either from the left or the right, people are saying its a failure. I thought that was too easy. The most ambitious experience in American History, calling it a failure doesnt seem adequate. Here is what we found is that the opponents of freedom, the opponents of reconstruction fought so long and hard during and after the war that the u. S. Government, the u. S. Army and a small majority of white northern population was empowered, virtuvi virtually forced to destroy the roots of slavery. Without confederate cessation, emancipation was impossible. Without the war, emancipation was politically impossible. Without the violent resistance to the freedom of the people they held as slaves, there would have been no radical reconstruction. As one republican paper put it, the whi