discusses this in massachusetts for 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. it s an honor to be introduced by a fellow nantucketer both of our kids were educated by them and it is great to see you here in brookline and it s wonderful to be in the coolidge center theater with this great bookstore and co-sponsored with the massachusetts historical society, which has been an institution that has been absolutely essential to my life as a historian. i sometimes sort of feel like i ve taken up residence in the archives there, and every book i ve done there has been a central information that has come from there but among the more so than bunker hill. one of the characters i delve into, the papers are there at what we call the mhs and it is an organization that is essential to anyone that is looking into not just the history of boston, but this country. and the genesis for a bunker hill really goes back to the summer of 1984. my wife and i had just moved to boston full-time. we were liv
and thus paralyzing the whole machinery of our government. captain alfred lee fought at gettysburg and dreaded the prospect of the northern sympathizers with secession, establishing rule over the whole chain of cities, tearing up the railroads, destroying supplies, cutting off reinforcements. as it was, new york city blew up in draft riots 10 days after the battle. if robert lee had been crossing with the army of northern virginia, the susquehanna on that day, instead as he was crossing in retreat, that might now have been the army of northern virginia, which was called in to restore order in new york city ,-com,-com ma rather than union veterans fresh from their victory at gettysburg. gettysburg did not end the war in one stroke. but it was decisive in us to restore the sinking morale of the union. to keep at bay the forces that hope that lincoln could be persuaded to revoke emancipation. decisive enough to make people look back and understand that the confederacy would neve
next the director of civil war era studies at gettysburg college recounts the battle of gettysburg which took place between the union and confederate armies on july 1st to third, eighteen sixty-three and resulted in 50,000 casualties. this year marks the 150th anniversary of the conflict. [applause] thank you to all the members of the atlanta history center and to the trustees of the living selector fund for making this possible, making possible for me to visit again here in atlanta this beautiful joule of the city, what a pleasure it is to be here especially at the atlanta history center so devoted as it is to the study of the history of the city, the state of georgia and the united states. it is great to be back again. i wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. looking back over 20 years, alexander stewart web declared that the battle of gettysburg was and is now throughout the world known to be the waterloo of the rebellion. cer
textbook which i use for my course. that book is more draw, more academic and it costs four times more than high price . time for someone else. thank you. thank you all for coming. final question? em man has a question. i want to say how much i appreciate the book, i appreciate you, i appreciate your commitment to bring in your expertise to bear. there is a lot of anxiety, ambivalence about this to me as indicative of the deeply rooted myths that operate in our society. they have been destructive in society that have nothing to do with knowledge or facts and everything to do with prejudice and fear. much of the continent of actor got africa are under painful misapprehensions about sex and the transmission of aids and millions of people die because they refuse to understand what is necessary to treat or prevent the transmission of hiv and i hate to think that in this day we want to not appreciate, at least information. everyone will respond accordingly as individual
thanks to sheffield and members of the at lant at this history and lecture fund and making it possible to for me to come visit again in atlanta, this beautiful jewel of a city. what is pleasure it is to be here especially at the atlanta history center, so devoted as it is to the study of the history of this city, of the state of georgia and the united states. it is great to be back again. i wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. looking back, over 20 years, alexander stewart webb, declared, that the battle of gettysburg was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the waterloo of the rebellion certainly alex webb earned the right to speak with authority about gettysburg. he was 26 when the civil war broke out in 1861 and even though this grandson of a minuteman at bunker hill was only six years out of west point, he rocketed up the ladder of promotion to brigadier general, just a week before the union and confederate armies