To museums and Historic Sites as we learn about the history of the city and surrounding area. The cspan cities to her, taking you on the road toys for the american story. Host good evening everyone we are happy youre here tonight. We are very happy to have megan here with a new book, their three quarter, the union the confederacy native peoples in the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows the civil war, the indian wars, and western expansion, were all interconnected. The 1860s were truly at times, National Conflict which involve not only the more pleasant south but also the american west. Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nestor i specifically about nine individuals who worked towards it selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are generally well known to us like frontier carson. Others, like wanting to a navajo late
We are very happy the three cornered war of the union and confederacy and people for the fight for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian war and western expansion were all interconnected the 1860s were a time of national conflict, which involved not only the north and south poles of the american west. Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nelson writes specifically about nine individuals that work towards selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are fairly wellknown twell known to us lie frontiersmen kit carson, others like juanita that we get to know, their stories wersome of e lost in history until now. And nelson unearthed their story to show the importance of individual actions, even in the midst of a large military conflict. The book earned a star review and indeed its history that keeps turning
Government. Prof. Martinez good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for the semester. I want to talk today about Economic Policy and social events tied to the economy. I titled this feeding the confederacy. We will focus most of our attention on the Confederate States. We will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure your soldiers and civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me, that historians of the confederacy point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. The vast majority of the union and confederacy live on farms. But especially in the Confederate States. A populationg with that is overwhelming with people who live on farms. Yet, they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. This is surprising when you think of an agricultur
Emphasis on a decentralized government. Prof. Martinez good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for the semester. About to talk today Economic Policy and social events tied to the economy. I titled this feeding the confederacy. We will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure your soldiers and civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me, that historians of the confederacy point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. Of the unionrity and confederacy live on farms. We are dealing with a population overwhelmingly living on farms. Yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. This is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big ironing is secession documents before they founded the confederacy said we want
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the bookshop, we are happy you are here tonight to we are happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her new book, the threecornered war, the union, confederacy and native people and the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars in western expansion are all interconnected, the 1860s were a time of National Conflict which involved not only the north and south but also the mark in west. Her primary Source Research involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nelson write specifically about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination in the fight for the region. Some of these people are fairly known to us like frontiersmen, and wanita who we get to know their stories lost to history until now. And nelson unearth their sto