Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History, the names that came out were heir began, omalley, you know, all these irish names. And so they rioted. I will not ever excuse the riot. It was the darkest point in irishAmerican History. They strung up africanamericans, they burned down buildings, they nearly destroyed new york. They would have killed mara because he stuck to the union til the very end had he not been in washington d. C. They wen
Prize winning reporters Elizabeth Mehren and Sacha Pfeiffer. They focus on the future of community and Public Service journalism, which they deem fundamental to service life. This was recorded in Brookline Booksmith in brookline, massachusetts. 2016 marks the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize in this years crisis will be announced on april 18. Thank you all for coming. This discussion of pulitzers gold behind the prize for Public Service journalism will from st. Louis. It is something we have to adjust to. I am roy harris, the author of the book, and i am honored to have two top new england journalists, a list of his marriage to my far right, and Sacha Pfeiffer to my immediate right. Part of our goal is to look at the powerful contributions of this centurylong body of work. It was 90 years when i started work on it. We are almost up to a century. The Pulitzer Prize started in 1917. We look at the powerful contributions of this work, this body of work, that is represented in the book, bu
Intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. P is making it a poin oignant argument at the national scale. That is what i will talk about to bring us along in this argument. Settlementehash, cities and migration cities referencing lewis mumford. Basically, there are a set of cities. Other cities like new york, boston and migration cities the cities on interior water. How these two groups of cities were some of the earliest plans communities in the u. S. And how important they were to the process of planning and how they reflected each other, right . Creating this pattern of philadelphia, influenced cities subsequently. Today, we are going to extend that and talk about land. The Land Ordinances. We will talk about canals and roads. About thelk expenses of the u. S. Are parts ofieces the same argument about the intensity of National Planning and how this process unfolded. Not just the government in laid out a plan that determined what would happen with how states were de
Military career before and after the civil war. This talk is part of the university of Mary Washington great lives lecture series. [applause] good evening and welcome to the great lives lecture, one of the most controversial figures in civil war history, williams tecumseh sherman. This was helped in part by our good friends. Speaking this evening, mr. Oconnell, who received his degrees from the university of virginia, which is where i first met bob as a fellow graduate student. Obviously, many years ago. [laughter] in fact, Lyndon Johnson was president of the united state. Let me emphasize to these students that this was Lyndon Johnson, not andrew johnson. [laughter] [applause] in any case, bob has fashioned a very distinguished career, including 30 years with the intelligence community, where he held significant assignments, including arms control and a member of the delegation on the disarmament, and he has also taught to 2004. He was in monterey, california. A prolific scholar and w
Williams comes to William Tecumseh sherman. Part by ourped in good friends. Evening, mr. Oconnell, who received his degrees from the university of virginia, which is where i first met bob as a fellow graduate didnt ask a student. Obviously, many years ago. [laughter] in fact, Lyndon Johnson was president of the united state. These emphasize to students that this was Lyndon Johnson, not andrew johnson. [laughter] [applause] case, bob has fashioned a very distinguished career, including 30 years with the intelligence community, where he held significant assignments, including arms therol and a member of ,elegation on the disarmament and he has also taught to 2004. He was in monterey, california. A prolific scholar and writer, the author of several works, one novel and histories. , fierceof those patriot the tangled lives of William Tecumseh sherman, a New York Times bestseller. Of it was also the recipient a 2015 award for excellence in civil war biography. At the time of its publication