house divided coming to you from abraham lincoln book good afternoon and welcome to a house divided, coming to you from abraham lincoln bookshop in chicago. if it s on our shelves, it s history! my name is bjorn skaptason and i will be the host for today s episode of a house divided. we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book, professor jonathan w. white. we ll be talking with jonathan in just a moment here. this program is coming to you from abraham lincoln bookshop in chicago, we are a retail book shop, and book shop. eight 83 years old now. independent, antiquarian book shop. we specialize in american history. specifically, that means books about the life and presidency of abraham lincoln. the u.s. civil war and the u.s. presidency. we carry both old and new books. antiquarian books that we sell on the secondhand market and new books, like this one. you can get them from abraham lincoln bookshop. we also have many other historical art
The topic of the second panning is the stream of memory of the war which is often termed the lost cause. We have there three his torians, john cost can i Caroline Janey and ed air. I want to start the panel to talk about what the lost cause interpretation of the war meant and what are the principal tenants of the lost cause explanation for the coming of the war and the conduct of the war. I think its important that we talk about the origin of the term. It harkens back to Sir Walter Scott and the revolution or the rebellion of 1745. Its also important for people to realize while we today tend to think of it as a term it did originate during the war and used shortly after the war. It was a term that we used widely by former confederates in the generation after the war. It was in fact a magazine out of louisville kentucky. It said, defeated but not dishonored. It seems like a strange name to give something that youre in favor of. You know . Its sort of focusing on the lost part of it seem
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T
Not viable Supreme Court candidates. I think that is a terrible loss. Right. Ralph, john, thank you very much. Great conversation i think we all know that u. S. Constitution there are three branches of government. They just did a survey that less than 30 of americans can name off three branches of the government. The executive branch, which is the president. Which is the legislative branch of congress, the Judicial Branch which is a Supreme Court. They are supposed to be three equal branches yet none of them feel the others live up to their potential. On that note i want to thank you guys. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you all for watching weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including wow. The world has changed, today a fast, reliable Internet Connection is s