War, womens history, the history of childhood, and reconstruction. I have had an opportunity to meet many of judy students. They are outstanding. She brings them here every year to gettysburg. I have had a fantastic time with judy out in the battlefield. She is a wellestablished scholar. She has published a number of books and articles. The book that has probably gotten the most acclaim is entitled civil war, sisterhood, and womens politics in transition. And just recently, she has assumed the editorship of the journal of the civil war era. It is a fantastic journal out of penn state, also published by the university of North Carolina press, and certainly worth your attention. Our second panelist, just to the left, is sarah gardner. Sarah is professor of history and director of southern studies at Mercer University in georgia, where she teaches cultural and intellectual history of the 18th and 19th century american south. She serves as the associate editor for the voices of the america
Teaches a range of courses of 19th century u. S. History, civil war, womens history, the history of childhood, and reconstruction. I have had an opportunity to meet many of judy students. They are outstanding. She brings them here every year to gettysburg. I have had a fantastic time with judy out in the battlefield. She is a wellestablished scholar. She has published a number of books and articles. The book that has probably gotten the most acclaim is , sisterhood,il war and womens politics in transition. And just recently, she has assumed the editorship of the journal of the civil war era. It is a fantastic journal out of penn state, also published by the university of North Carolina press, and certainly worth your attention. Our second panelist, just to the left, is sarah gardner. Sarah is professor of history and director of southern studies at Mercer University in georgia, cultural andches intellectual history of the 18th and 19th century american south. The associate editor for t
Kippur be war that you refer to, when, indeed, after a number of snafus an emergency airlift of weapons was organized from the United States to tel aviv. The soviets are are detected by american intelligence sensors shipping Nuclear Warheads through the dardanelles into the mediterranean. The National Security council, kissinger, cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs meet. Nixon is noncampos mentis because that week had happened the saturday night massacre in which the attorney general and the assistant attorney general quit because nixon ordered them against law to fire the special prosecutor investigating watergate. So while this crisis is happening, nixons upstairs drunk in the residence, non compos mentis, and six elected officials put the United States on a Nuclear Alert one step short of imminent nuclear war. So there was some Decision Making that was just part of American Foreign policy, okay . That went contrary to his own biases against what he called the establishment. H
Tectonic plates of politics undergird us. Theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last halfcentury of American Life, the. Ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading midcentury. He consensus liberali
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important becau