I am peter karmanos, jr. Director of the civil institute here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make Civil War History
Good afternoon. I am peter karmanos, jr. Director of the civil institute here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make C
Written several books and several articles, and ive heard him talk on the treason in the civil war about merriman. In fact, last night i watched him on cspan going over with his class this topic. It was really fun. It was neat to see how he interacted with the students and brought out in them a different opinion of what they had when they first came in, how they learned something from the discussion. And it was fun. And in particular, one of the questions one of the girls asked, with all the interests in merrimans rights, what about the gross treason of the whole situation . It seems like were looking at a little tiny speck, and the whole civil war was treason. So how he dealt with that was pretty good. And he has another book out thats this book. And he has another book out, the one hes going to be talking about today, and im looking forward to hearing about it. The first book is treason, Abraham Lincoln and treason in the civil war. Its about the merriman trial, and about what he did
Emancipation. Next, Jonathan White oargues tht is not necessarily the case. Changes in the military command structure helped engender overwhelming numbers in favor of lincoln. This is part after symposium on the 1864 symposium hosted on the Lincoln Group of d. C. Well, youre in for a treat. Jonathan white, assistant professor of american studies at Christopher Newport university has written several books and several articles, and ive heard him talk on the treason in the civil war about merriman. In fact, last night i watched him on cspan going over with his class this topic. It was really fun. It was neat to see how he interacted with the students and brought out in them a different opinion of what they had when they first came in, how they learned something from the discussion. And it was fun. And in particular, one of the questions one of the girls asked, with all the interests in merrimans rights, what about the gross treason of the whole situation . It seems like were looking at a
Was sitting up on the hill and when he saw that happen, he knew he had lost the battle. Without the navy, without the ships to take his army south, there was no point in going on any longer. And so he recalled the army, and the next day they left. And they went back to canada. And the battle was over. He planned to come and fight again in the spring, but, of course, the treaty happened in between and the soldiers, the red coated soldiers were never seen again here in the United States. Abraham lincoln won reelection over Union General George Mcclellan in 1864 with more than 70 of the soldier vote. Some historians have argued that lincolns strong support from soldiers indicated that the troops also agreed with lincolns Greater Mission of emancipation. Next, author and professor Jonathan White argues that was not necessarily the case. Professor white says changes in the military command structure and the weeding of mcclellan backers helped engender such overwhelming numbers on the part o