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Recently, and my favorite one recently was from last week. This is the headline. This is true, not fake news. This is an actual headline in post. Shington it said this. Can republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes that they dont like . [laughter] john thats what the Washington Post was wondering last week. Now the more notorious headline , was, joel alluded to this, was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader. Did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that, right . It was, albaghdadi, austere ofigious scholar at helm islamic state, dies at 48. That was the actual headline in the Washington Post. I dont know your experience, but that was like the best day ever on twitter. Because everybody started inventing their obituary headlines. Right . So there was one that said herod the great, noted for his special interest in small children, dies at 77. Do you guys know the author brad thor, the novelist . So he put up this one, john wilkes booth, renowned thespi
Then, Todays Campaign rally in New Hampshire where joe biden was joined by john kerry. Then Bernie Sanders holds a town hall in iowa. Susan you have a new book called american radicals. What years does your book cover . Prof. Jackson the earliest event in the book is 1817. To 1870s. 823 this is described as the second American Revolution. Why is that . Prof. Jackson the radicals in my book were calling for a second American Revolution based on what the revolution we know , fought by their fathers generation many had grandfathers who fought in the revolution. They described that revolution as merely political. They felt it had accomplished a separation from england. It had accomplished the foundation of a new political system. Revolution they had in mind would have to follow that merely Political Revolution in order to really bring into American Life the ideals of the founding that had to do with equality, with justice, that of livedingly not part american experience, even in this new l
Campaign trail. First we take you to New Hampshire where joe biden spoke to voters, introduced by former secretary of state john kerry. After that, to iowa, where senator Bernie Sanders spoke to potential caucusgoers. Susan you have a new book called american radicals. What years does your book cover . Prof. Jackson the earliest event in the book is 1817. It covers 1823 to 1870s. This is described as the second American Revolution. Why is that . Prof. Jackson the radicals in my book were calling for a second American Revolution based on what the revolution we know, fought by their fathers generation many had grandfathers who fought in the revolution. They described that revolution as merely political. They felt it had accomplished a separation from england. It had accomplished the foundation of a new political system. But the social revolution they had in mind would have to follow that merely Political Revolution in order to really bring into American Life the ideals of the founding th
Good morning, everyone. Im peter carmichael. A member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to welcome aaron sheehandean. Aaron sheehandean is the is it fray . The fred c. Fry professor of southern studies at lsu. Aaron is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington, d. C. As a congressional staffer and then moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. Published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press. The book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war just, again, published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him, of course, being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans, aaron is a selfproclaimed fo