Experiment of war, we demand that immediate efforts made for a cessation of hostilities, peace may be restored on the basis of the federal union. What the platform is saying immediately ceasefire negotiation with the south, the only issue, union. Emancipation completely off the table. This then is the two sides. The two sides are drawn, but one very significant thing happens before the general election. The momentum on the field of battle turns. If theres single critical event, it is the fall of atlanta, which had been the object of Union Attention since the spring, fall of atlanta on the second of september. This is immediate greeted with jubilation across the north, and may have been the single thing what turns the tied of the northern opinion. In the election that follows, you see two very queer strategies. If you are a democrat, youre going to emphasize race. What northern democrats are going to do throughout the election of 1864 is constantly remind northern voters this is an unne
Total war is genghis kahn, tamerlane, what the russians and the japanese did in world wars i and ii. You go in and you have mass rapes and murders of civilians, intentional, deliberate destruction of civilian population. Total to me meaned unfettered you use every weapon at your disposal and obliterate the enknee ene enemy. What the north did to win was to exercise hard war. That term is used a lot too and i think its much more accurate to describe what happened. The north went in and did a lot of damage. They burned barns, burned craps, killed animals e. They basically imposed severe economic damage on the south, but thats not total war. Books continue to be written. What sherman did to us and things like that. And basically i said, well, sherman gave you break because he didnt go around killing people. Very few deaths involved in his march. And the same thing is true of sheridan. There were sprinklings of minor skirmish skirmishes, basically go in and destroy the infrastructure. That
Right . Which is supposed to be saying a Little Something about his masculinity, and he is accompanied, of course, by the peace democrat riding a donkey. The whole idea is to say this is a ludicrous, ludicrous combination. In the end nothing matters more than the fall of atlanta. Nothing matters more than the belief that the war is again being won, and the result in the end was abraham lincolns very comfortable electoral victor. You will see here he takes 91 of the electoral vote, but the one thing id want to stress is that his opponent takes 45 of the popular vote. 45 of northerners cast a ballot for a party who has declared the war a failure and has unanimously repudiated emancipation. Its important to us because when we think about our reunified United States in the aftermath of the civil war, what conclusion must we draw . Clearly a large majority of the American Free population was not enthusiastic about emancipation, and to come back to a final theme that has been the bedrock of
At the Georgia Historical Society as senior historian, his duty is to serve as managing of our scholarly publication. He is also bestknown around the state of georgia as the host of today in georgia history. Program reduced by the Georgia Historical Society and georgia public broadcasting. Ofhas been an integral part the success of our society and is one of the key players, one of the stars of our team. It is a pleasure to introduce him. Tonight, he speaks on the theme of this years history festival. Is howe of this talk the real mad men changed world. His welcome dr. Stan deaton. [applause] dr. Deaton good evening to all of you. Had other of you things you could be doing, so your attendance is much appreciated. I hope you find this informative, and lightning, entertaining. We will take a Little Journey back in the postworld war ii america. I hope everybody catches the mading of the real men. It is of course a Television Series about the advertising world of the 1960s. We will talk abo
What if my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond one of my regrets was that i had never seen Strom Thurmond. He has such a unusual appearance about him. I am on the flight and i look ahead in front of me. I see a man who has got orange colored hair. These firstgeneration hair plugs. Think to myself, that must be what Strom Thurmonds head looks like. Of course, it was Strom Thurmond. I knew that when people were trying to shake his hand, that kind of thing could i wanted to shake his hand thing. I wanted to shake his hand too. I was about to speak to my fathers rotary club and tell him about all the famous people i have met in washington, and so i was trying to shake his hand, but as i got off the plane, there were already people lined up to shake it could shake his hand. I did not get. Im not a softer linnean, i dont have anything to say to him, really. I was a bit selfconscious, it was a busy airport with a lot of different kinds of people. This is a man best known for his