Its a great to give our audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore. You wrote the book with the awardwinning reporter the Baltimore Sun reporter final to the 2016 Pulitzer Prize with the death the freddie gray. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, baltimore with black and White America and the half broken truth and the incomplete stories that stop us from being one community. So thats a way to think about uprising and reckonings in america. Im just really pleased to have this conversation with you. Lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. But then leaving the funeral all the different parts Baltimore Society and knit the thread to paint a story to reflect what was going on and baltimore and by extension, the country but talk about freddie gray and why his death rocked the city and the nation. Freddie gray was a 25 yearold young man who committed the crime of making eye contac
It is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. The development of the temoak inof the telegraph came 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were saying. There is that. There is also just the fact that it is a
The first is a little disturbing. It is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. The development of the temoak of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were saying. There is that. There
The first i guess is a little disturbing that it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. Particularly in the news media, the development of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were
He is also from Indiana University of pennsylvania. He holds a masters degree in Library Science from the university of pittsburgh and the director of the elderly library at waynesburg university. Where he also is professor. He is author of the Gettysburg Campaign guide, a study guide. He essayed pint of no return as part of the turning points collection. It is on the 1864 president ial election. And the doom of the confederacy. Currently, from gettysburg churches become battlefield hospitals, a walking tour and brief introduction to civil war medicine is what he is currently working on and forthcoming later this year in 2018. In 2016 he received permission from the Pennsylvania Historical Museum commission to create a memorial marker for lettermans childhood home. This marker was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. Since 1993 he has reenacted in the American Civil War as a federal infantry man, medical service captain and most importantly as president Abraham Lincoln. With that please