intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
create a space in which we can begin to have some conversation about the lee jackson windows here in the cathedral and the larger issues of race and the legacy of slavery in our nation. if you do not know the recent history of events regarding these windows, i invite you to read about that history in the information we provided for you within your program in your program for tonight s conversation. tonight, please know is the first in an ongoing series of conversations over the next two years intended to foster conversation and a deeper understanding. while the leadership of the cathedral made the decision to remove the confederate battle flags from these windows, the larger question of whether the windows should stay in the sanctuary or be moved to a different location was intentionally left open for a period of two years so that we might engage in conversation and education around the difficult issues of race in our history and in our present life together. as i said in m
the text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. david white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whitman, emerson? who said a fire never extinguished ? i have been doing a little research and have one possible source. one is edward everett hale, a well-known unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. he is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the atlantic monthly in 1863. it is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. it is designed as a story
but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. david white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whitman, emerson? who said a fire never extinguished ? i have been doing a little research and have one possible source. one is edward everett hale, a well-known unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. he is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the atlantic monthly in 1863. it is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. it is designed as a story to rally support for the union
as a way to highlight the transformation. yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle tom s cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. so the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. david and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whit