Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in
Individually and as a team, they are interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and their engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, great sophistication and great style. As your biographical pacts enumerate, they have individually and together enriched and enlived the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is the john now the third Professor Emeritus in the professor of civil war at the university of virginia and youre all familiar, i know with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. Hes also like me and many others in this room, an oh fish gnaw doe, but more an expert on civil war themed films but his passion has inspired a terrific 2008 book causes won lost and forgotten. How hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. Hes the coed or the of with liz who just published new perspectives on the union war. Joan waug
Confederate surrender at appomattox and the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln in this period of uncertainty americans wondered how the new president Andrew Johnson would lead the divided nation many especially in africanamericans were hopeful that johnson would actively promote cause of black equality. Black leaders. However became disillusioned with johnson after a dramatic meeting with the president at the white house Frederick Douglass attack johnsons policies in a number of lectures across the country. Johnsons conflict with congress over reconstruction eventually led to his impeachment. Within the records of the National Archives is the resolution to impeach johnson written on a scrap of paper and introduced in the us house of representatives of february 21st, 1868. Three days later the house voted 128 to 47 to adopt the rest of resolution. In the failed promise Robert S Levine portrays the conflicts that brought Frederick Douglass and the wider black community to reject
Conversations with nonfiction authors and others making things happen. Weekly hour long conversations that regularly feature authors on Nonfiction Books about a variety of topics and behind the scenes of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Industry with industry updates and best sellers lists. Find our podcasts by downloading the free cspan app and wherever you get your podcasts and our website, cspan. Org podcast. April, 1865 brought the confederate surrender at appmattox and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and many africanamericans were hopeful that johnson would promote. And they were disillusioned with johnson, after Frederick Douglass talked about it. And eventually led to his impeachment. Within the records of the archives is the impeachment of johnson, february 1868. Three days later 12847 voted to adopt the resolution. In the failed promise, Robert Levine brought Frederick Douglass and wider black community to reject Andrew Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachm
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