Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
Say, its one of the first books to explore social motivation, its an outstanding book is then vinny many others that include pickens charge, the rightful musket in the civil war, a book on field fortifications, and a lot of people dont know Braxton Bragg , im not sure you love them after you read the book but its a fair and very well researched analytical work at the controversial general. He is one a number of awards for his book on civil war tactic and i should know that this book fighting for atlanta was published by the university of North Carolina and will be his topic. We welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you for the generous introduction. Fighting for atlanta to tactics during entrenches in the civil war is the topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements the influences the course of up rations during the Atlanta Campaign which is the role of field operations. Its a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago for the eastern campaigns, volume
Colleague at the other end of the table, professor elizabeth warren, integral part of the now center. Thank you, liz. [ applause ]. Ill get a drawing. Well have a pretty envelope discussion here. Well throw out some questions that occurred to all of us as we have been listening to all these wonderful thoughts. The first question that i will throw out, i trust, has occurred to many of you in the audience and that is, its aimed at gary and chris to. Are your two interpretations garrish with the emphasis on the western teeth here and Eastern Theater, are they add out or compatible or reckon sitable. Im happy to have you go first. I hit it all in the definition of the word is. [ laughter ]. I dont disagree with gary on a lot of of lot of points but without the success of the virginia campaign, that stalemate would have tipped far longer. Im not sure exactly what sherman could have done if grant had not been successful by bringing a point. My point is not to criticize gary because minutes a
20 books. I have a long list here. One of my favorite books is girls. Is earls. Is one of the first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done any others that charge, ackets book on field fortifications. A lot of people dont love braxton bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched , deeply analytical look. He has won a number of awards. I should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by the university of North Carolina press. Let me welcome earl hess. [applause] pete, veryhank you, much. Fighting for atlanta, tactics, is the and the civil war topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements that influence the course of operations in the Atlantic Campaign. It is a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago on field fortifications in the eastern campaigns. That was volume two of that trilogy coverage. Atlanta campaign was one of four that heavil
you all. i am katie phang. welcome to the katie phang show. we are going to start today s show with a capitol hill countdown as lawmakers have just four more days of work before they head home for the holidays. i m joining you live from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. we have lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer. let s get started. failure to lead the president of a prominent ivy league university steps down amid public outrage after a disastrous congressional hearing on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. we re going to go inside the fallout ahead and a live report from capitol hill. state of emergency catastrophic storms strike tennessee, leaving a trail of death and destruction. six people, including at least one child, are dead, and dozens more are injured. we are live on the ground in the storm zone. no, i am not a threat. i will save democracy. the threat is crooked it joe biden. plus, day one dictator says he will save demo