Im director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure to welcome professor edward ayers for the robert bloom lecture. Professor ayers is the Tucker Boatwright professor of humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of numerous books and articles including in the presence of mine enemies the civil war and heart of america the winner of the bancroft prize. He also wrote the promise of the new south. Excellent book i read in grad school many years ago and most recently he is the author of the thin light of freedom the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america published in 2017, and the 2018 lincoln prize winner. One of the things that professor ayers has done throughout his career, hes made it a point to speak to public audiences. Professor ayers is again, i think hard evidence that this supposed gap between academics and public historians and academics and general audiences has if there is maybe a gap there, but it is ever so slight, an
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
Add communal farming to the brewery s list of cool side projects Visitors to Worthy Brewing can t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm came on suddenly, says Lisa Sanco, Worthy Garden Club s sustainability educator, as many of (founder Roger Worthington) s ideas do. Worthington is also the guy who deemed the brewery ought to have its own astronomical observatory, the Hopservatory. Chuck Greenwood