We have a topic today that, we think, is one of the best we have come up with. It is a neglected civil war story because of the neglected march on georgia. There is little bit less attention on his other march, which followed that march. Take a look at this scowling man in that fantastic coke, as we begin talking about him. So, i am going to talk to john. Who, as you heard, has written two wonderful books about william sherman. And i think we need to know, i dont know how you can do in a few minutes, we need to know who this guy was . His family, psyche. Tell us something about this fellow in the doublebreasted uniform. John this picture that you see was taken of sherman. He did not want to have it taken. He is not a happy camper. This is not the best picture of him. But its very briefly, sherman has a very difficult childhood. His father dies and he is nine years all. He goes to live with a neighbor, while his mother is living just up the street because she simply cannot afford to tak
Actually to switch cotton production to Food Production. In fact what everybody realizes especially in the blockade in 1861s were probably not going to get our cotton out of here anyway, we all know about Jefferson Davis king cotton diplomacy and withhold our cotton and force britain and france to come in on our side so they can get our cotton, of of course they start getting conned from india and brazil, and egypt and elsewhere. Thats out of my realm, i dont know. But what will happen during the war itself is that the State Government in order to feed the massive armies and the population, they will call on farmers to actually switch production from cotton to Corn Production and other foodstuffs as well. In fact i fact i saw a very interesting piece of letterhead, i was doing some research and a letter was written in february 19, 1862 and the letter had had cornstalks and it said cotton is no longer king, corn is king now. It was the effort of course to get people to switch from comp
Mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like to crow introduce my kole legs. On the far right is timothy smith. Mike mallard, justin solonick, and tom parson and ill pitch it to tim. Its beautiful to be here with you today. I think what well do first is tell you a little bit about ourselves and introduce ourselves. My name is tim smith. I live in tennessee. I teach at the university of tennessee at martin. And mississippian at heart, though. A native mississippian, grew up in carrollton and went to ol mississippi misstate, got degrees from both somehow. Egg bowl day im a winner either way. My publications in ter
Much again. Up next on American History tv, historian don doyle discusses his book, the cause of all nations, and International History of the American Civil War. The war looks at how was viewed around the world and the perspectives of the foreignborn soldiers fighting in it. This event is a little over an hour and 45 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome don doyle who graduated from the university of california at davis. During his sophomore year, he took off a semester and travel to europe, where he developed a lifelong pastor lifelong question for history which took him to northwestern university, where he earned his phd. He spent much of his career at Vanderbilt University where he developed a strong interest in the civil war era. The professorcame of history at South Carolina. He also enjoyed numerous overseas teaching and research experiences. He was a fulbright professor of American History three times, and rome, italy, genoa, italy, and rio de janeiro, at universities in all th
Welcome everyone to the Dorothea Schmidt college of arts and letters here at Florida Atlantic university. So im the dean of the college at this partnership that weve established lois has been so valuable to our college having the Palm Beach Book festival here really is the heart and soul of our mission. We believe is your hometown Public Research university that these are the kinds of events that a university should be doing and bringing ideas to both our students as well as the community and theres no better way to bring ideas to a group than through reading great books. And so thank you for organizing this festival and bringing it to fau your home now for the Palm Beach Book festival this next the first author is really exciting to me all our authors connect to the colleges mission and different ways this one especially to we have a Africanamerican Studies Program here. Just launching in our college. And of course, we have a Creative Writing Program a masters of fine arts and creativ