Concept of honor and how that perception shaped their decisions during and after the war. This hourlong event was part of the annual summer symposium hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. David currently serves as a lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of courses in if civil war and reconstruction, civil war memory, and the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high schoolteacher, he in florida, he earned his ph. D at the university of North Carolina, chapel hill. He taught at the university excuse me, at North Carolina state university, and there he published his first book. It is a superb one. Moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt and civil war era North Carolina. It explores the shifting sentiments, both black and white, towards suicide, debt and divorce in the postcivil war south. This book received a number of awards. Hes got a new book thats coming out. His new book is entitled driven from
To introduce our panel on the return of the confederate century. Who are part of our life cspan audience, you can actually be part of this conversation. Twitter at cwi2016. Let me go ahead and introduce our panelists. Right, david, who is of americanlecturer history at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a range of civil war and southern history. His first book is in one published by the university of Carolina Press entitled moments of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era north carolina. Next to david is james. James recently assumed instructors up instructor university shepherd civil war. It is not far from the battle of antietam. He is also assistant professor of history. He has published a number of studies foritled the National Park service. He is on because of releasing his first book for publication at the university of Carolina Press. Jason phillips is the professor of civil war studies at west his book isversity titled diehard rebels, the confede
The civil war where you hear about the people who shaped the civil war and reconstruction. And the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies, to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. All this month in prime time and every weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up tonight on American History tv in prime time, a look at the civil war and reconstruction starting with a look at how southern honor impacted the war. Then photos of emancipation during the civil war. Thats followed by a discussion of the politics behind reconstruction and how the end of the war was being explained and redefined at the time. Thursday on American History tv prime time, the 40th anniversary of the national air and space museum. The celebration took place in july with the Current Museum director, retired general jack daley, and a look at exhibits on the start of aviation and into space exploration. It begins tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Next on American History tv, author a
His next book will be on the ends of the war, fighting the civil war after the end of appomattox. I am happy to have professor downs join us. I am going to talk about something that is overlooked in all kinds of narratives which is the importance of doing nothing. When congress came back in december of 1865 for many people it looked like they dont find a solution to address reconstruction until march of 1867. Despite things like the 14th amendment, this session can seem like and was critiqued at the time as a donothing session precisely because it didnt determine the end of the war. That it never established terms for war. But i want to flip that on its head and think about why it was so important for them not to establish terms for the end of the war and why doing nothing turned out to mean so much. I was led to this by contemplating the justly celebrated philosopher Jerome Allen Seinfeld known as jerry who said, doing nothing is not as easy as it looks. You have to be careful because
Of minor crimes like speeding as we point out in our brief, dui, littering, all kinds of minor crimes the person can make a fairly convincing argument sometimes that evidence on the phone would be relevant to that crime of arrest. I think that brings me where i want to end, understanding what the rule the government profounds would do in terms of just ordinary police work. Remember this case starts with a traffic stop for expired license plate. It is Everyday Police work that traffic stops are the beginning of criminal investigations and a leverage point into searches. If you adopt the rule at that says, even a gant rule that says, if you can making a argument that evidence on the phone would be relevant to the crime of arrest, take the suspended license, you may have an email from the dm vteling you better come in to renew. If that opens up every americans entire life to the police department, not just at the scene, but later at station house and downloaded into their computer forever