Defended the reputation. As well as the inability of soldiers to defend themselves against germs and infection. This hour and 15 minute talk was art of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of voices, some of those who are a emerging from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defense. For those of you who have come in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs, lets talk a little bit and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have here. I am going to start to my immediate right with my great polish brother. People like chris, that still does not narrow it down. Chri
Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if youve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Weve also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance acknowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our day. I really like our speakers presentation title today. Mission impossible rethinking george b. Mcclellan. After what weve heard so far in this conference, i think it is even more impossibler. Dr. George rable is the Professor Emeritus at the university of alabama, roll tide. He held the Charles Sumner so chair of history. He is the author of fredericksburg, fredericksburg, which won a lincoln prize. His most recent boo
Questions. So keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. I will introduce them briefly. All three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. The first book is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. Say a few more words about each and it is for the general reader. The author, david, will show, has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by Elizabeth Smith brownstein, an experienced washington journalist, talks about what is today called president lincolns cottage. It was the other white house for lincoln and mary lincoln during three of the summers that they were occupying the white house the rest of the year. A third is carl adams, who has just moved to the washington, d. C. Area from illinois, where he did Landmark Research on the case of a young slave named nance or nancy, who was freed as the result of a lawsuit filed by Abraham Lincoln
Building and we will start putting of steel in another month. We are right on schedule to open a museum in early 2017. Narrator that was the first of a twopart look at the collections of the museum of the american revolution. In part two, we will see part of George Washingtons camp tent from the revolutionary war. Narrator all weekend, American History tv is featuring the city of lexington, kentucky, home to kentucky senator john pope. The pope villa is one of only three remaining domestic designs by architect benjamin latrobe whos more notable designs include the white house and u. S. Capitol. Hosted by our Time Warner Cable partners, cspan city tours staff recently visited many sites so katie showcasing the citys history. Learn about lexington all weekend here on American History tv. We are at ashland, the henry clay estate in lexington kentucky. Clays original home had to be rebuilt. It fell into disrepair, and his son found it could not be saved. He built upon the foundation, so wh
He earned his hd at Johns Hopkins. His phd at Johns Hopkins. He is known for his 2008 efforts tried by war, Abraham Lincoln as commanderinchief. His most recent book which we have in the back is the war that forged a nation. Why the civil war still matters. Today, we will be focusing on the battle cry of freedom. It was published in 1988. 900 pages long, 1500 footnotes but that did not scare away popular audiences. It sold more than 600,000 copies. A thousand . James about. Peter you must have a ton of twitter followers. Peter battle cry of freedom was also in the New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks and hardback and 12 weeks and paper. I believe that outcry freedom stands as ecb will best volume on the civil war. Before we delve into the book, i thought that this would be an opportunity for us to address your most recent book. The war that forced a nation, why the war still matters. And because of the tragedy that occurred in charleston, i thought it would be a perfect opportun