What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th
And now, from alexandria virginia, the closing session from the emerging revolutionary war symposium. A panel of historians summarize their thoughts from the day and discuss the causes of the American Revolution. All right, cool, thank you all for coming out today. Thank you to alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are trying to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible so we cannot get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. You know, this is the first inaugural emerging revolutionary war symposium so we also thank cspan for coming out here to film this and, you know, its going to be an annual event so keep your eye out for next years symposium. To keep up with a movie emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, please check out our blog and you can also follow us on facebook and twitter to find out everything we are up to. You can also check out our books, rob and phil wrote a book about battles, in concord and i myself wrote a book and we got a c
Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books. Rob and phil wrote a book about battles at lym s at lexington a concord. We have a couple books coming up early next year about valley forge. Keep up with us. This really im glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown, but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to cities, new york, philadelphia, charlton, everywhere you go ther
Give you a timeline as to what robert ely did in the postwar years, often the most overlooked portion of his life. The other main theme of this lecture i will try to get across i would amount of not say he did a lot of work but through his own personal example is probably the best way. Robert his own example, e lee tries to reconcile the nation. Havei think a lot of us forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. Is the view of a lot of people that lee surrendered at appomattox and then, bam, we will forget about it. We will just hold hands and reunite and continue down the path again. Decades,the country some would say a century, someone say not even yet, for the country to reunite. I would put the country seriously coming back together in the spanishamerican war when we all had a common enemy once again. That would be roughly 30 years after the end of the civil war. Robert e lee does not live that long. He is only going to live for five years. But you think about who symboliz
Director of the civil war era studies program. He did his graduate work in history at the university of pennsylvania, where he focused on the history of religion. He also has holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that im not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allen guelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography and doings. What im going to do here is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what well be doing this afternoon, and ill just read it. Abraham lincoln redeemer president , 1998 and won the first of allens lincoln prizes. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, end of slavery in america, published by simon and schuster in 2004 brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas that defined america, simon and schuster 2008 for some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Fateful lightning, new history of the civil war and reconstruction cam