There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me. And the historians who study the confederacy really point to one is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation, and weve talked about this before. The vast majority of the population and the union are people who live on farms but especially in the confederacy states. Were dealing with a population thats overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. So this is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big irony here is that the foundations of the confederacy, the founding documents and the succession documents of the states before they joined the confederacy said we want a limited government with more power given to the states. And yet the confederate government is going to become stronger and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point in order to
Agriculture. Nations ive talked about this before, the vast majority of the population are people who live on farms. Especially in the confederate states. Youre dealing with the population that is overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet, they will struggle to feed themselves. More often they will run out of our moments. This is surprising when you think of agriculture nation. The second big irony here, is that the foundations of the confederacy, the documents and the secession documents, before they join the confederate say, we want in limited government with more power to the states. Yet, the confederate government is going to become stronger, and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point. In order to wage war, and try to feed everyone. Two key ironies, we are going to talk about how they come about. A flash point for this question of how you feed everyone is a series of riots. In the spring of 1863. In the confederacy, most notably in the capital city o
The secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. That really is a spectacular book. I consistently get asked questions if theres a short book, great for teaching at an introductory point. If youd have not seen proctors short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy in 2017. [laughter] she is presently working on a study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Tammy proctor. [applause] dr. Proctor to test this out, is it working . Yes . Ok. Good. There you go. Dr. Proctor all right, we are good. Thank you to laura for that nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. Its great to come to kansas city. As laura said, it is my hometown. Its always wonderful to be here. I would also like to thank dr. Kuhn for setting up my talk by mentioning famine reli
Defense minister reveals the fire on a deep sea submersible which claimed the lives of foreseeing sailors broke out in a press release battery compartment. Also gave assurances that the subs Nuclear Energy installation is secure. And. Theyre just on the 11 oclock in the morning here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now russias president Vladimir Putin is paying a flying visit to rome on thursday where hell meet with his italian counterpart and also go to the vatican to for talks with the pope speaking to journalists ahead of the trip he stressed the special time tested relations between italy and russia reporting from rome. Well it could be these special relations behind why president Vladimir Putin came to italy back in 25th thing when he wasnt exactly a frequent guest to europe but the e. U. Is not what it used to be 5 or 4 years ago different people are in charge of italy known for their euro skeptic policies and also a different approach towards anti russian sanctions s
Its just turned 3 pm welcome to the program more information has been released about the tragedy on a deep sea submersible in which 14 people were killed in a fire in russias north west were joined in the studio by artist donna for more on this so what do we know so far well indeed on july the 1st a deep sea submersible court while on a mission and were being told it was a Research Assignment by the ministry of defense indeed 14 people perished in the fire and that was pretty much it when it came as to what we knew about the incident well now russias defense minister sergei showing who has offered a bit of an insight as insight i should say as to what happened on board at the time apparently the crew saved a civilian the 1st we dont know any details as to who that civilian is we just know that it was an industry representatives we dont even know if it was a he. But anyway they saved that civilian then sealed should be behind them just to prevent the fire from spreading across the vesse