Civil war scholar james morgan discusses the battle of balls bluff that occurred in virginia. Five during the first year of the war, he argues this union was loss was due to misinformation and miscommunication among the officers. This event was part of pamplin historical parks big battles, small battles, big results symposium. Are forced speaker today is james morgan. Long civil war enthusiast and current president of the new fort sumter civil war roundtable in charlston and recently joined the border of the fort sumter historical trust. Jim was also a cofounder and chairman of the friends of falls isff, his tactical study widely considered to be the definitive work on that subject. Lets welcome james morgan. [applause] good morning. Everybody hear me ok . Im going to be moving around. We are good on the sound . Ok. Topic is smallur battles and large results. Balls bluff meets that criteria. A very small battle. 1700 men on each side. The numbers were almost dead even. Makes it amusing
An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. Most recently, he is the author of the thin light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america, published in 2017. And the 2018 lincoln prizewinner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made a point to speak to public audiences. He is hard evidence that this supposedly gap between academics and public historians there is maybe a gap, but it is ever so slight. It is close in large part because of academics like professor ayres who also does a Popular Program entitled back story, which you can get on a podcast. Please welcome professor edward ayres. [applause] hello, everybody. Did you have a good lunch . I had five carrot pieces and a bag of m ms. I am fired up. I had the peanut m ms. There is little protein in there. I know you folks have been thinking and working hard about this issue. I wanted to be honest. I wanted to come here and be sincere. I owe you an explanation. I had an idea
Begins right now good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan and happy to be back with you on what will no doubt be a very busy monday. Here is how your money and the Global Markets are setting up their day coming off that. Friday, 623 point drop another wild session last week now futures right now if youre waking up, dow, that is not a misread on the screen. We are solidly higher. Dow futures are up 281 points. What makes this even more remarkable is that just about two hours ago they were down more than 100 points, but they made more than a 300point swing higher in the last couple hours. All that as President Trump said that china is ready to come back to the trade negotiating table look at that, that was about 3 00 a. M. In the morning when our hardworking staff is already here, by the way, futures making a big turn up and this is where we stand right now. What a turn. President speaking on the sideli
Im director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure to welcome professor edward ayers for the robert bloom lecture. Professor ayers is the Tucker Boatwright professor of humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of numerous books and articles including in the presence of mine enemies the civil war and heart of america the winner of the bancroft prize. He also wrote the promise of the new south. Excellent book i read in grad school many years ago and most recently he is the author of the thin light of freedom the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america published in 2017, and the 2018 lincoln prize winner. One of the things that professor ayers has done throughout his career, hes made it a point to speak to public audiences. Professor ayers is again, i think hard evidence that this supposed gap between academics and public historians and academics and general audiences has if there is maybe a gap there, but it is ever so slight, an
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. I had my students go online and say, what do we think about reconstruction . They came back with the same answer. What were teaching our students is that reconstruction was a failure. Either from the left or the right, people are saying its a failure. I thought that was too easy. The most ambitious experience in American History, calling it a failure doesnt seem adequate. Here is what we found is that the opponents of freedom, the opponents of reconstruction fought so long and hard during and after the war that the u. S. Government, the u. S. Army and a small majority of white northern population was empowered, virtuvi virtually forced to destroy the roots of slavery. Without confederate cessation, emancipation was impossible. Without the war, emancipation was politically impossible. Without the violent resistance to the freedom of the people they held as slaves, there would have been no radical reconstruction. As one republican paper put it, the whi