Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A
The virginia sesquicentennial organized this hourlong event. Welcome back everyone. We are here in our fourth and final panel. I am joined by fitzhugh brundage, barbara gannon, and Thavolia Glymph we want to begin with a discussion of the scope and significance of the service in the u. S. Army of African American troops. Barbara, maybe want to get us started. Prof. Gannon u. S. Colored troops are more than anyone ever imagined. The u. S. Colored troops are federal volunteer units, theres over 140 of them of various times. They were a significant military force. Its interesting, at the beginning of the war, none of the white northerners would have ever imagined you would have had black northern soldiers. In fact, they turned many, many patriotic northern free men away. Its only the process of the war, the high discounts, sickness, and the fact that it didnt go well, that prompted people to really think about arming African Americans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. You had