He is a professor of southern studies at lsu. He is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer. And then we have gone to the university of virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher and published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press which is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. It was published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. He is a selfproclaimed foodie though he has lots of places to select from in new orleans. Today he will talked with about his very important book and a book i should add has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formally the museum of the confederacy and now the American Ci
Our first speaker of the afternoon is dr. Caroline jenny. Dr. Jeannie is the john l noll, and i pronouncing it correctly . Professor of American Civil War and director of the john l now, i will get it right, silver personal history and university of virginia. She is a graduate from uaa, worked at the National Park service as a historian, an active lecture as you might imagine, winner of a number of different teaching awards. She is coeditor of the university of, and oppresses American Civil War series, past president of the Society Civil war historians, published five books, have them listed on your program, civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. She edited petersburg appomattox to work in virginia, and another one on the list is during the debt but not the past, it is memorial associations and the lost cause. Her talk today is we were not surrendered, parole and lees army after appomattox. Good afternoon. It is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience. I know th
Pleasure to introduce caroline, caroline janney, professor of the American Civil War at the university of virginia, where she also served as director of the john l nels the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor, gary w gallagher. Shes the author or editor of 7 books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina prestigious civil war america series. She has served as president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. I am a 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book. I just this morning saw a brandnew review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named Harold Holzer and he calls it, immensely readable and utterly convincing. Please join me in welcoming caroline janney. [applause] good morning. So first, a big thanks to john, the entire class gets a quiz. So we can institute that policy right now if that will
John singleton mosby was born in 1833 new richmond, virginia. He grew to be of medium height and flight of weight. His spare complexion and delicate features revealed nothing unusual about him. He was frail as a child and spend his time reading and studying books, but rode his horse daily to school. His small stature led to him being picked on by the other kids. Mosby never backs down from a fight. At the age of 17, he entered the university of virginia. All studying greek and mathematics, he encountered an incident that would affect him for the rest of his life. In his third year, he encountered a fellow student by the name of george turpin, who had a habit of bullying others and set his sights on young mosby. When mosby heard turpin was looking to eat him up raw mosby pick of a pistol in his defense. When turpin came after mosby, turbine charged, mosby shot him and in and nearly killed him. He asked the prosecutor for his law books, which he leant tom mosby, who spent his time in jai
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