Developments shaped the civil war, and hopefully get a sense of whats going on outside, in the rest of the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been writing diplomatic histories of the civil war really since the years after the conflict ended. But the combination of the sesquicentennial, a new rethinking of 19thcentury globalization, and really the current context in which americans are sort of rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world, in a postcold war era, has generated a lot of rich scholarship that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. Were fortunate to have three young, excellent scholars who will help guide us through this, and we of course look forward to your questions at the end. Im going to start here to my left. Dave thomson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university, and is proud to acknowledge he was a High School Scholarship student some time ago. [applause] his research focuses on finance during the America
In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been writing diplomatic histories of the e the conflict ended. I think a combination of the centennial rethinking of what 19thcentury globalization is. And our current context in which americans are rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world in a postcold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. We are fortunate to have three young and excellent scholars who are going to help guide us through this. We look forward to our questions at the end. I will start here to my left, assistantson is professor of history at sacred heart university. Proud to acknowledge he is a High School Scholarship student some time ago. His research focuses on finance during the American Civil War and his first book Global Financial markets and civil war era is slated for publication in 2020. Left of him is andre fleche, a professor of history. His first book, the
They are doing. I want to thank my publisher and my editor is here. [applause] now, what i want to mainly talk about today is some of the stories that are in the book. , and arizona, a new law came into effect that banned ethnic studies. The conservatives took over the review of the board of the estate board of change the rules so that and they change the curriculum, so slaver is no longer mentioned. They changed it so no longer would there be references to the of the Civil Rights Movement read the tea party at a meeting with the governor of tennessee where they wanted to change the curriculum. These questions that we think are just questions of history really are debate. They are about different perspectives on how we understand how this country has evolved, and who has been on what side of particular kinds of questions. Usually with historical debate often they are about contemporary issues. The civiltalk about, rights was really about states rights, which is not true, they are talki
York city, this event is about 90 minutes. This is a great chance to talk about the book and get ideas and exchange and ideas from people. Ive been doing the book talks about the black history of the white house, one of the is gs that im discovering theres more and more that people are able to contribute. Being down in washington, d. C. , im getting more responses of book, but in the whats not in the book. Because people are saying, oh, grandfather used to cut grass at the white house, my uncle used to work there as a butler. Theres followup to the book that im going to try to do to eally capture a lot of these stories now that the book i think has helped to let people know these are important. Family stories but important for all of us. Et me thank the Harlem Public Library for having me and the human bookstore. Important institutions in our community and we should make sure we celebrate and herald the work theyre doing. Thank my publisher and y editor is here who is just superb as we