alabama football coach bear bryan on campus for practice, but bill said he was always a little timid to approach the university coach. after serving in the air force, bill went to tuscaloosa for graduate school. his teaching too many him to millsaps college and then north carolina state where he served as chair of the department of history. whether teaching, he wrote lincoln and his registration of the union, lincoln s last months, which came out in 2004 and received our own institute s book award. lincoln s rise to the presidency, which was awarded the henry adams prize by the society for history and the federal government, lincoln and the border states 2011, which was co-winner of the lincoln prize, and his latest book, lincoln and congress, which treats the sometimes contentious, sometimes cooperative relationship between lincoln and capitol hill, although perhaps more cooperative than we sometimes think. lincoln, according to bill s work, really only had one important vet
life, i would have written a book about andrew johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. it s not that i don t think he s an interesting person. he really is an interesting person. and not that i didn t know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. and it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. but i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. there s something about it that is just maddening to me, and i think what it is is that it was a moment of opportunity. when i think of the people in the 17th and 18th century who have very primitive ideas about many, many things in the world, and you know there are lots of things they don t know, i can not totally forgive them, but it s not as irritating to me, exasperating to me as a period of time when you h
he is also from indiana university of pennsylvania. he holds a masters degree in library science from the university of pittsburgh and the director of the elderly library at waynesburg university. where he also is professor. he is author of the gettysburg campaign guide, a study guide. he essayed pint of no return as part of the turning points collection. it is on the 1864 presidential election. and the doom of the confederacy. currently, from gettysburg churches become battlefield hospitals, a walking tour and brief introduction to civil war medicine is what he is currently working on and forthcoming later this year in 2018. in 2016 he received permission from the pennsylvania historical museum commission to create a memorial marker for letterman s childhood home. this marker was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. since 1993 he has reenacted in the american civil war as a federal infantry man, medical service captain and most importantly as president abraham lincoln. with t
this talk was part of the symposium hosted for the emerging civil war block. good afternoon, it is my pleasure to introduce ray andrew red, a native of county pennsylvania. he holds a bachelor s degree and masters degree in american history from indiana university of pennsylvania. he holds a masters degree in library science from the university of pittsburgh. he is the director of the library where he is also an adjunct professor. two volumes of the study guide, point of no return is part of the turning points collection. it is on the 1864 presidential election and the confederacy. currently, gettysburg churches have become a brief introduction to the civil war medicine as what he is currently working on forthcoming in 2018. in 2016 he received permission to create a wayside memorial marker in canada spur pennsylvania. let herman was the medical service director in 1862 and 1863. this market was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. since 1993 he has reenacted american civil
history from the indiana university of pennsylvania. his pennsylvania certification as secondary education is also from indiana university of pennsylvania. holds a master s degree in library science from the university of pittsburgh and he is currently the director of the albert e. lee library at waynesburg university where he is an adjunct professor. he is the author the gettysburg campaign guide, a study guide two volume. his he is say a point of no return is part of the turning points election, it is on the 1864 presidential election and the doom of the confederacy. a walking tour and brief introduction to civil war medicine is what he s currently working on and is forthcoming later this year in 2018. in 2016 he received permission from the pennsylvania historical museum commission to create a memorial marker for letterman s childhood home. this marker was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. since 1993 he has reenacted in the american civil war as a federal infantry man,