coke. citizen coke. originally i was thinking about citizen cane when i thought about the title of this book and citizen cane was about the problems of american capitalism. though this book is about coke, i was interested in thinking about how coke was into some of the environmental problems with 20th century american capitalist growth. it is kind of catchy title citizen coke . i was from alabama, i grew up in coke country here in atlanta and i had gone to a school that was heavily funded by coke money in atlanta. i was saying coke has been this good sit in life. promoting corporate citizenship. are they good citizens? when we look at their environmental foot print, do they look like a good citizen, or pretty big costs that we haven t seen in the past? as you research the book, we are here in atlanta, visibility is everywhere, take us back to the origins of the product. how was it developed? it is a bizarre story. stranger than fiction. it started literally a couple of
yes. jill s book tells the story of a woman who would not be put down. the book paints a vivid pore train of belva lockwood. and should gain from her life the public attention long overdo. women in the public eye nowadays are courted by various archives seeking to be the repository of their papers. not so in lockwood s time. piecing together her work and days required the relentless pursuit of a determined sleuth and that s just what jill became in this process. a most persistent detective. in the introduction to the biography. i noticed that elizabeth stanton had compared lockwood to shakespeare s portia and she does resemble it in this respect. they were both individuals of impressive intellect, who demonstrated that woman can hold their own as advocates for justice. like shakespeare s portia lockwood used wit and lockwood used no disguise in tackling the prevailing notions that woman and lawyering, no less politics do not mix. not only did they became the first woman adm
didn t have any confidence that they could hold this position in this, so, yet, the army retreated yet again. sherman, at this point, is pretty optimistic about the course of the campaign up to this point. and in a wonderfully e voktive phrase, he writes this is at the beginning. with are like a vast hive of bees and expect to swarm over the chatahoochie in a few days. johnson s army was in the alatoona mountains. sherman was very familiar with the entire section of georgia. he had spent time in the 1840s. he had been stationed here. sherman knew it would be foolish to try and attack johnson in the alatoona mountains. so what johnson tries to do is execute another flanking march. this one would involve some risk because it would move the union army some mimes away from the western atlantic. the objective of this march would be the town of dallas. johnson s calvary informed him in pretty timely fashion of this movement toward dallas. and johnson shifts away west ward to tr
it s 150 years since the u.s. civil war and a number of countre are under way this year and next to mark the occasion. over the next new hours, we re going to take a look at hollywood s perception of the issues. now, a panel of history professors traces slavery as depicted in films in the 1930s. this hour and a half event is from the society from civil war historians bihandle meeting in baltimore. in the past two years, three feature filmses who focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews and all of them were profitable. django unchained made 160 milli million. lincoln made 182 million. 12 years a slade made $26 million but only cost $26 million to make. roughly the same. this mini upsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about the depictions of slavery and freedom of film and other forms of media, visual media and television and documentary, youtube shorts and different series. we are continue iing t
their research. this years conference was held in atlanta. about 2000 historians attended. bart elmore is a professor at the university of alabama and author of the book citizen coke . explain the title. it s kind of a funny story. originally citizen kane, one of thought about the title of the book, and it was all about the problems of american capitalism. though this book is about coke, i was really interested in thinking about how coke was a lens into some of the environmental problems with 20 century 20th century american capitalist growth. so i felt it was kind of a catchy title, plays with in a way citizen kane, which deals with the history of business in the united states. in the interest of full disclosure, i grew up in coke country in atlanta, and i had gone to a school that had been funded heavily by coke money in the south side of atlanta. so i was sitting there saying, coke has been a good citizen in my life, and one of the things that they promote tod