Talk about charleston in 1863. And neal, first analyzes and researching Naval Operations. There are civil war. He was born and raised in new orleans and spent nine years as a u. S. Navy Surface Warfare officer. So he knows wherever he speaks, both in active duty and in the reserves. Neal is a graduate of the university of new orleans. The university of houston, and the university of louisiana. Monroe. He lives in the greater houston area, teaching both lone star college, north harris and coral. Once you senior high school, he is the author of defending the arteries of rebellion confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River valley, 1861 1865, and front like devils, the confederate gunboat mccrae and hes. Hes going to talk about both the army and the Navy Operations in the great over the confederacy. The charleston where both services were together and separately. Meyer later conquered the city and and hes got some very interesting things to say about that. So welcome, neal. Gent
All right. Anchor i bet you all think the army won the war, right . Well, youre going to have to sit through one navy talk, but im sure you are. Enjoy it. My friend. Oh, now, chaplain, its good to talk about charleston in 1863. And neal, first analyzes and researching Naval Operations. There are civil war. He was born and raised in new orleans and spent nine years as a u. S. Navy Surface Warfare officer. So he knows wherever he speaks, both in active duty and in the reserves. Neal is a graduate of the university of new orleans. The university of houston, and the university of louisiana. Monroe. He lives in the greater houston area, teaching both lone star college, north harris and coral. Once you senior high school, he is the author of defending the arteries of rebellion confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River valley, 1861 1865, and front like devils, the confederate gunboat mccrae and hes. Hes going to talk about both the army and the Navy Operations in the great over th
The political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause weve ever had in the political system disintegrated. Have three people to talk about this. We have tried to mix the generations. Comment. State general we like to mix the generations. We dont want everyone as old as me. Our first speaker will be pamela brand line. She holds a professorship in Political Science at the university of michigan. She has also taught at ut austin. Historians andof social scientist to. She is the author of two important books. Rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. A title long before the age of trump. That was a slip, i didnt mean that. Honestly. Pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking Party Appeals and capitalist contexts. Lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. Hes part of the macmillan center. He did his phd at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Is teaching a course here at yell on jacksonian de
This statue . We are all chicagoans. I am going to shame you a little bit, you should know what may be the best sculpture of lincoln from the 19th century, linkin park. Lincoln park. There is free admission there. Aep outside next time, it is amazing sculpture. It is called the standing lincoln. But we will get back to this. I love this material. Hesso moved by lincoln, his error his era. I am in love with his body there are lots of things to say about his photographs. I do not dress up like Abraham Lincoln, even though i am tall and thin my came. Maybe one day. Thatg said that, i realize public history or formative history or living history is really important. Lincoln actors have a wonderful place in history. We have one of them and our history department. I used to give lots of talks like this in the state of illinois leading up to his bicentennial, the bicentennial of the birth of lincoln back of Abraham Lincoln in art andin 2009. He was born in 1809. Illinois is a huge state, and
Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c