Have accumulated and theyve led to this really distorted view of both men. But today well be talking about Braxton Bragg. Earl has written a fantastic biography of Braxton Bragg, i believe we have kolpi copies of volume as well. Earls going to speak to us today about a topic. Im pleased to see were not going to hear crickets here because the topic is Braxton Bragg who is the butt of all jokes and of course civil war historians. Not a particularly humorous crew. It is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you, pete, very much, for that generous introduction. Thinking about it this morning, what made me do this book, and i think it really is what pete mentioned. That whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, theres a titter of laughter coming up from the audience. Because he in some ways is kind of almost a joke. In some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning that someone
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a
Have accumulated and theyve led to this really distorted view of both men. But today well be talking about Braxton Bragg. Earl has written a fantastic biography of Braxton Bragg, i believe we have kolpi copies of volume as well. Earls going to speak to us today about a topic. Im pleased to see were not going to hear crickets here because the topic is Braxton Bragg who is the butt of all jokes and of course civil war historians. Not a particularly humorous crew. It is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you, pete, very much, for that generous introduction. Thinking about it this morning, what made me do this book, and i think it really is what pete mentioned. That whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, theres a titter of laughter coming up from the audience. Because he in some ways is kind of almost a joke. In some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning that someone
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a
Have accumulated and theyve led to this really distorted view of both men. But today well be talking about Braxton Bragg. Earl has written a fantastic biography of Braxton Bragg, i believe we have kolpi copies of volume as well. Earls going to speak to us today about a topic. Im pleased to see were not going to hear crickets here because the topic is Braxton Bragg who is the butt of all jokes and of course civil war historians. Not a particularly humorous crew. It is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you, pete, very much, for that generous introduction. Thinking about it this morning, what made me do this book, and i think it really is what pete mentioned. That whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, theres a titter of laughter coming up from the audience. Because he in some ways is kind of almost a joke. In some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning that someone