If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo
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