Plated and the locals helping the us get the wins already. It is casino of weird. Soccer has already started at the olympics, even though opening ceremonies arent until tomorrow. It makes no sense. But off to good start, so who cares, right . But they were booing our goalie. Booed her, right in her face. Not nice. Hi, alex. Hi, im lauren, how are you . Hello . High, my name is, my name is, my name is lauren in for alex today, who took the day off. Did you like the ten yesterday . I loved yesterday. Shall we have another . Lets do it. We want to double. Okay. A 20, and by tomorrow, it will be 30, because weve got a great weather pat american place. So unusual for the month of august, but we will take it for as long as it lasts. Bus stop buddy poolside today with his sunscreen. You will want to spends at lunch as much time as possible out of doors. In fact, sunrise kind of happening right now. The official time is 6 03. And look at that beautiful view, here in old city, of the ben frankl
All right. Good evening. Im peter carmichael. I am a professor of history at Gettysburg College and also the director of the civil war institute. Its my pleasure this evening to be moderator and panelist for this session on the anatomy of a lost cause. Joining me, to my immediate right is keith bohannon. Keith is an assistant professor of history at west georgia university. Keith has very long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. Daty is an assistant professor. She just received
Daughters of the confederacy in the early 20th century. This is when the National Reunification comes about. The lost cause has been sort of submerged in that. The daughters are Holding Contests about writing about the glories of the old south and r. E. Lee and at the same time theyre spewing their racial hatred, and they are supporting behind u. S. Militarism abroad. So you see all those what you would think are contradictory elements. They are able to come together. And again, talk to you about the evolution of the lost cause. Heritage is not hate is something you didnt hear in the 1920s. It is something you heard in the last 20, 30 years. I tried looking at it this afternoon and couldnt find the origin of the term, but i know its very, very recent. And to remind you again, here again the lost cause from the beginning from the ladies memorial associations in 1866 and 1867 saying were not political, were not political. Of course theyre political. Heritage, not hate . Thats deeply poli
University. Keith has long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. She is an assistant professor she just received her promotion excuse me, i just said assistant, i meant to say associate professor at virginia commonwealth university. Katy is a graduate or i should say a student of Gary Gallagher at the university of virginia, where she completed her dissertation, became a book called natures civil war and its published by university of North Carolina press. If any of you have any
Well, you know, it could be about 50,000 times 4. Its a lot of money to put a kid through college these days. Like millions of other american parents, paul and sarah start scrambling. Theyll need, somehow, to raise more cash. Mortgage the b b . Maybe. But what about those puzzling chinese pieces . I thought, well, you know, if they are worth 10,000, that would be a chunk of change for college. In 2014, they track down lark mason, the man who appraised the items all those years ago. Hes no longer at sothebys but running his own auction house. I sent him pictures in an email, and he was very excited. Excited because, lark says, a lots changed since the 90s, when he appraised the screen for thats appropriate to the time frame . For that time frame, yes, absolutely. Chinas economy has grown dramatically from the 90s up to the present days. Theres a lot more people with money, with ability to buy things. Seems the swelling ranks of 21st century chinese millionaires have shifted the market f