As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms 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 whitman, emerson . W
Debates. Hans nichols, great to see you. I will be reading axios in a little bit. You can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for me this morning. Im yasmin vossoughian. Morning joe starts right now. Having the two men appear on camera worldwide to all of planet earth was a statement that will be understood very well by north korea. This president , ill tell you, is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face. On planet earth. Okay. All right. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe. Whats that about . I have they been its a lot. Its about him. Its wednesday, july 1st seen like lost in space, willie . He needs to feel big. Like warning, warning. Whats going on . These people are weird. Yeah. Theyre just strange people. Along with joe, willie and me, we have they know theyre i was just going to say, they know what their job is. They know why theyre sent out there, so they go to the most extreme statements they can possib
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were 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 its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre 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 well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well 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. Shes 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 you know how mu
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were 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 its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre 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 well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well 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. Shes 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 you know how mu
Jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes 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 you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and thats great. Of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. Were really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we dont get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether theres anyone out there at all. So please do keep those. Some responses coming. We really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. So our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone whos attended Virginia Tech civil war weekend before William C