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lexington. i do not know whether ending with mark means we are ending with a southerner or a northerner. he went to berkeley for his phd. or one of those famous border states. i lectured in kentucky in many times and i learned that kentucky seceded after appomattox and became a confederate state. before that, it was the united states. in a sense, that is the complexity of the history we have been dealing with. when the 13th amendment was being considered, the delegates from the house and kentucky tried to get an exemption to the 13th amendment. they did not do so. mark is working on two books, one on andrew johnson s impeachment and another on gilded age politics. imd am delighted that he has come to join us and tell us about andrew johnson. thank you. most kind of you. thank you for giving me a chance for giving me the half hour i have. we were asked and advised that we should treat this talk the way we would teaching a class as opposed to reading a paper. in my case, that
aaron is a native of michigan not far from lansing, did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington, d.c. and moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. his most recent book, published by harvard, titled calculus of violence: how americans fought the civil war. just again published in 2018. aaron, lsu is a great place for him. aaron is a self proclaimed foody so has lots of places to select from in new orleans but today we ll talk about his book, which has received two recent awards including the jefferson davis award from formerly the museum of the confederacy, now the american civil war museum in richmond. let s welcome aaron sheehan-dean. [applause] prof. sheehan-dean: good morning. thank you all. i will start by saying happy father s day to everyone in the audience. it s a weird thing to spend sunday morning talking
developments shaped the civil war, and hopefully get a sense of what s going on outside, in the rest of the world. in some ways, this is not a new thing. people have been writing diplomatic histories of the civil war really since the years after the conflict ended. but the combination of the sesquicentennial, a new rethinking of 19th-century globalization, and really the current context in which americans are sort of rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world, in a post-cold war era, has generated a lot of rich scholarship that situates the u.s. civil war in a broader context. we re fortunate to have three young, excellent scholars who will help guide us through this, and we of course look forward to your questions at the end. i m going to start here to my left. dave thomson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university, and is proud to acknowledge he was a high school scholarship student some time ago. [applause] his research focuses on finance duri