Peter carmichael. Member of the History Department at gettysburg college. Also the director of the civil war institute. My pleasure to intrude to professor of she an southern studies at lsu. He did an undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer and moved on to the university of virginia, published his dissertation with North Carolina press. Hisfederates fought most recent book published by the calculused of violence, how americans just the civil war became published in 2018. Aaron says lsu is a great place for him. Being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. A selfproclaimed foodie so he has lots of places to select from in portland but today he will talk to us about his to us about hisnd the important book and the book that has received said, my book is called the calculus of violence, that is the promo part. We will get right into it. Afriend said a long time ago 10 pound weight in a five pounds sack. To stay onan
App. Is Deputy Editor for the military times. Plans to take up its defense policy bill, what are some of the key priorities . There are quite a few issues dealing with military housing. A lot of folks have been following that issue. A lot of issues have arisen. This is going to put 300 million towards that program. A lot more planes, ships. Of 750 top line 750 billion in spending. Than Congressional Democrats have been looking for. The Armed Services committee has marked up one 17 billion less. To be a key point as these move forward. As the Senate Version hits the floor, who should we be watching . Some of the key issues they are going to be talking about . Enough he will be laying out what the priorities are. Pass a committee with bipartisan support. Jack reed has made arguments about why this is good. ,n terms of the lower spending it will be interesting to see who in the democratic side steps forward and argues this may be an excessive bill. House side is more in favor of it. It is
On the second of june, Prime Minister wilson of Great Britain was welcomed to the white house. The visit had been arranged to discuss the urgent problems common to both governments. However, a crisis that developed with suddenness would be given priority. The recent impasse in the historically explosive middle east situation. We come here today in another time of trouble when peace and justice are again in the balance. It is on occasions like this that the council of old and trusted friends is most welcome. Israel facing yet another climactic point in her 19 year struggle for survival saw not only the threat of maritime buck blockade but the threat of extinction. With all attempts at private negotiations failing, solutions through diplomacy and United Nations intervention seemed increasingly remote. The time for talk was over. Together Great Britain and the United States drafted a maritime declaration. Its principles were simple. The gulf of aqaba was an international waterway. All nat
While the cartoon implies that madison fled from the british in panic. In fact, he and most of the , including monroe, state on the field until the end. They narrowly avoided capture. The british moved on to washington, d. C. , where they burned many public buildings, including the white house. In the aftermath of this disaster, armstrong resigned as secretary of war. And monroe assumed the office while remaining secretary of state. All of the british departed fort departed washington and failed to take fort mchenry. The possibility of another attack on the capital was spurred. The war ended in february 1815 with the u. S. Ratification of the treaty of ghent. Monroe was elected president in 1816. A culmination of his Public Service career that had taken him through so many different offices and experiences, here and abroad. He and his wife elizabeth undertook the restoration and refurnishing of the white house process that would occur , a throughout his two terms in office. It cannot b
Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h