As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with Rebecca Harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. Today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. So the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . W
And Judy Woodruff and jim lehrer raised the president ial president ial debates they better be ready. So if the media starts to say what is this all about . Is china really doing these things and are we so naive and gullible we will get our president ial candidates to become engaged in the topic. So far only two of them have really talked about it. Elizabeth warren has a comment on one of her speeches, Elizabeth Warren is talking about losing jobs and middleclass and how china invests deeply and infrastructure as he gives the percentage of gdp. So shes kind of admiring the chinese model that only america could be like that. That is the title of a book by tom friedman which is quite good. I think it is roughly what he used to be like that. There is a similar book by richard fox the council of Foreign Relations called the Foreign Policy begins at home with a big section on competing with china. So the idea is there but its not yet a president ial issue because theres so much complacency.
Screeria nigeria. Lincolns life. Professor wilson. [applause] professor wilson good morning. See what it says here. My name is douglas wilson. [laughter] im the codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center in illinois. It is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln institute symposium. He is a young scholar. He has already earned an array of honors. He was educated at penn state where he took his bachelors degree in two dozen one, and the receipt of maryland where he earned a masters degree in 2003, and a phd in 2008. The department of history maryland awarded him a price in potable history. His doctoral dissertation earned a prestigious prize and thousand 10. He has already authored several books. Including to lincoln titles most recently, emancipation, and the union army and reelection of lincoln. More than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarly journals and Popular History magazines. In 2005, he won the john t hubble prize for the bes
Intense strife that had been left out of the story. And a moment that resonates into the present day. With Union Victory in confederate defeat that first week of april 1865, everything was at stake. Black freedom had been seized and delivered, but would it last . Peace would soon be declared but coded into her could it endure . Where and how would former slaves live and work, could they become citizens . What kind of nation with the people and their leaders create . Two days after lees surrender president lincoln addressed a crowd at the white house. No one knew at the time that this would be his last speech. Reflecting on the nations reconstruction, lincoln stated that he would prefer his word the Voting Rights be extended to black men who were very intelligence and who serve our cause as soldiers. This cautious suggestion irritated abolitionists heard as one white new england are in her diary, why cant he cut down the whole tree instead of just lopping off the branches. Unsurprisingl
The battle of columbus took place in 1865. James wilson is a Union Cavalry officer. Their job was to attack the states of alabama and georgia. Their goal was to destroy important targets like columbus because of industrial output. They wanted to disrupt supply lines and communications, anything to further along the collapse of the confederacy. An ironclad like the jackson would be used at a port city. If there was an approaching army, the vessel can move up and down the waterway and fire its big guns at the opposing forces. This is what confederate ironclads did. She is right at completion in april 1865. There is no crew yet. The navy has her on the list as the next ship to the commission to. The war is winding down and the confederacy is collapsing. During the battle of columbus, she said of the navy yard. The navy guys never could come aboard and get her steam up here in there was not enough men available to do that. Its a nice showpiece. The next morning, wilsons men came into the n