Not wanting to intervene on slavery in the territory. They saw this as a divisive issue. The authority to intervene in the federal territories in respect to what is happening utah in utah is as much a slavery. The constitution is quite clear. The federal government has that authority. More weake one can take one more question. Was that a political solution . Was it available to buchanan to shortd resolve the issue of what Andrew Jackson had done when South Carolina was threatening secession during his presidency . Was there a political path through the briarpatch of the moment . Michael thats the right question to ask. I will be very blunt and say no. There is no solution. Who areot top people working on trying to find a solution, and nobody can find anything that is going to satisfy all the relevant parties, particularly the republican party. I think if you go backwards, you could say buchanan could have forestalled the crisis of 1860 and 61 by not mucking it up with dred scott and ka
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast
First is john quist, the tall one standing behind michael birkner. History. Rofessor of he teaches classes in 19 century u. S. History and 20th century as well. He studied at the university of michigan. A student of james mills important portend. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan. And his cospeaker today is michael birkner. Michael is the Benjamin Franklin professor of liberal arts and professor of history at Gettysburg College. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivotal role in the transition. Let me just say, there is not a person on this faculty that i rely more on than michael birkner. He has been indispensable to what i have done here, with my staff has done, and the way we have been able to connect with Gettysburg College students. And they are students who adore him. I hear time and time again that michael birkners class on historica
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo
Destination for people looking to experience the citys history and nearby beaches. With the help of our Charter Communication partners for the next 90 minutes will learn about e citys history from local authors. Weegin with author Chris Bonneville on for interested in the battle for wilmington during the civil war. [inaudible] were actually standing on the path of the crest of fort emerson. This was the largest confederate fort in the lower cape fear interior that guarded the western land approaches in the river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. The fort was initially started in march of 1862, construction was ongoing throughout the war and there were still working on it when it was attacked in february of 1865. The fort was built on top of the old seaport of brunswick. This was the leading seaport on the Cape Fear River in colonial times, in fact it was the first enduring settlement on the Cape Fear River. After the American Revolution brunswick faded into oblivion and the enti