The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and chester made and sustained the bold claim that defeat u. S. Army africanamerican troops have dealt a death blow to all that army stood for, including favorite old. They insisted not only the union armies at jury emanated from superior virtue of the black troops in particular exemplified by virtue. Most important, africanamerican soldiers interpretations of the surrender of described the civil rights message into the mud animist terms of the sprecher, emphasizing the promise of appomattox, depicted
Knowing theres talented leaders in the room. Would you want to revive that in some way . Something that would fit on a billboard . I mean, i think again the myth that the gentlemans agreement between grant and lee is a compelling one and not one that doesnt have merit. It was a great achievement for these two men to end the war. I would like to say parent radically, sometimes people these days well talk about a long civil war and appomattox didnt win the war. Effectively, appomattox ends the civil war. There are surrenders to come. Yes armies in the field, but what happened after appomattox is not going to revive hopes were confederate independence. They die here at appomattox. It is the effective end of the civil war and a great achievement to end the war. This notion of a narrative about a gentlemans agreement exists from the very start and even some of these editors like really who were arguing about the terms. Theres an air selfcongratulation that america ended at civil war and awa
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. Create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners had molded in to so formidable a fighting machine. After awkwardly exchanging pleasantries about service in the mexican war, the two men agree to the surrender terms and ended the civil war. In essence, grants term salve for the army of north virginia on there arent. The promise that they would never again take up arms against the United States. Great magnanimity in this relates to the
Headquart Hillary Clinton doing well. This is on the night where she gave what amounted to her victory speech out there. I want to bring in sherry dan, liz flank and business insiders josh barrow. Josh, lets start with you sense youre new to our table. Ill start with the big question. Sometimes we get so lost in the details. The big question is what does it mean for the Democratic Party to have picked a woman nominee . What does it mean for america . What kind of night on it . I think its a big night, but the night is diminished somewhat by the fact that we knew this was coming for months. Headquarter hg has turned away from Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail, now officially she could say she does. But i think with, you know, this election is going to be so much referendum on donald trump and the vision of what he could do for the country, what his supporters believe he would do to make it great again and what his growing number of opponents believe with that he would pose as dangero