Im Heather Cox Richardson at boston collegage im thrilled to be here at the National Book festival this year although i, of course, am not in washington here on the coast of maine sitting in front of all of the books i use to write the books i write. And in the space where i produce things so im thrilled to be here talking about my new book, how the south won the civil war democracy and continuing fight for the control of america a name by the way i did not come up with but somebody listen to what i was trying to write about saying this was only possible title you can have and reason she said that was the book is really started really as an attempt to understand why today Republican Party is so clearly tie to the image of the american confederacy like how did the Confederate States of america which lost in civil war become such a private symbol for todays what today Major Political parties it is kind of a funny question to you think about it. And the more i got into figuring out why th
Good morning, weve been talking about the effects of the American Revolution and framing that around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kind of changes could it negotiate in american society, american law . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than a war for independence . And we talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure, and the last time we met were talking about the impact of the revolutionary on African Americans and on the institution of slavery. We saw in that case, the legacy was quite mixed. The revolution said the institution of slavery on the path of destruction in the northern states but was instrumental and trying to deepening and strengthening institutions in the southern states. Today, i would like to talk about two topics that are closely interrelated. And that our two sides of the same coin, i want to talk today about how the revolution aff
From the university describes the conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and native americans. Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and kind of framing that discussion around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Wide should we think of the revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in our revolution, and on the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery, we saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institutional slavery on the path to destruction in the nor
Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So, we talked about weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talked about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in revolution. On the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery. We saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institution of slavery on the path to destruction in the northern states but was instrumental in kind of deepening and strengthening the institution in the southern states. Today i want to talk about two topics that were closely interrelated and that are really two sides of the same coin. I want to talk today about how the revolution affected native americans and how the revolution created a
Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra