Role of ohio in the 2016 election. I have written a book with my colleagues called buckeye battleground. It is not technically outofprint but i think copies are hard to find by this point. Although you can always go to amazon and get a copy. We started with this idea, why is ohio a battleground state . If you have paid attention this year, you may have heard now and then someone saying that ohio will not be the decisive state in this election. Id like to have about what makes ohio a battleground state or not, and factors that will push the state one way or the other. Hopefully at the end i will give some perspective of where the future lies with regard to ohio politics. Let me get started here. St i want to i understand i want to identify four specific factors that are true in any election and any context. I am a social scientist so i am interested in looking at social human phenomena, seeing what factors we can identify that seem to cause outcomes to occur in multiple environments. Th
Stir things appear after lunch, we are going to talk about the campaign as we get going. Man who hass a shown me the inside and out of the wilderness batters battlefield. Starting things off, we are here at spotsylvania talking about the Overland Campaign and i am pleased to introduce a man who has shown me the ins and outs of the wilderness battle. Kris familiarity is routed to the fact that he has spent so much time on the ground. Until you are on the ground, you do not understand the war. His encyclopedic knowledge is grounded in all the time he has spent there. The wilderness is particularly tricky. It is quite developed. Once upon a time, it was about as impenetrable as you can find. It is one of the most confusing battles you can imagine. To shed a little ironic, introduce my friend and colleague. Kristopher totally full of it. That is why i love him so much. Just to start off today, at the National Park service, i was the guy who went around the boundary of the park which was 10
Okay . So lets just go back and look one way to look at this is to look at the maps that i hate which are just Electoral College which suggest that we live in red or blue states, you know, that we are a certain kind of people. Actually you see, this is a more accurate, you see this has west virginia. It may be that we dont have county level data, okay. Are you less confused . Right . What you did is called our attention to the fact there are brand new states that are just voting for the first time which is another advantage the republicans have. All of these situations actually play to the advantage of the republicans, that they have not only the army but also new states that have been formed under the aegis. Okay . Anybody else have another question . Yes. Theres one on each side. Dr. Ayers, writing a book about the shenendoah valley and activities there, will you address in that book or today the importance of david hunters actions at the battle of piedmont 5 june, his subsequent mov
Most important slave conspiracies in american history. He spoke about it at the university of richmond 20 years ago and hes going to be interviewed about that book later today for television. Most of dr. Egertons work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization and abolitionism during the American Revolution and Early National period. You will find a partial list of his publications in your program. His work deals with the intersection of race and politics. His most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, steven douglas, Abraham Lincoln and the election that brought on the civil war. And the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from that final book and the title of his talk today is black activism in the wars of reconstruction. Ladies and gentlemen, doug egerton. Thank you. Good morning. Nice to be back in richmo. I have already learned at least one important lesson this m
Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a