Concept of honor and how that perception shaped their decisions during and after the war. This hourlong event was part of the annual summer symposium hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. David currently serves as a lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of courses in if civil war and reconstruction, civil war memory, and the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high schoolteacher, he in florida, he earned his ph. D at the university of North Carolina, chapel hill. He taught at the university excuse me, at North Carolina state university, and there he published his first book. It is a superb one. Moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt and civil war era North Carolina. It explores the shifting sentiments, both black and white, towards suicide, debt and divorce in the postcivil war south. This book received a number of awards. Hes got a new book thats coming out. His new book is entitled driven from
The civil war where you hear about the people who shaped the civil war and reconstruction. And the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies, to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. All this month in prime time and every weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up tonight on American History tv in prime time, a look at the civil war and reconstruction starting with a look at how southern honor impacted the war. Then photos of emancipation during the civil war. Thats followed by a discussion of the politics behind reconstruction and how the end of the war was being explained and redefined at the time. Thursday on American History tv prime time, the 40th anniversary of the national air and space museum. The celebration took place in july with the Current Museum director, retired general jack daley, and a look at exhibits on the start of aviation and into space exploration. It begins tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Next on American History tv, author a
scores maybe the result of cheating. now the superintendent is fighting back. and there s something missing from this georgetown university clock tower. why the school cannot rush the replacement. we begin tonight, though, with the hunt for those two dangerous criminals. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. police say they re behind two incidents this month both on jones lane in potomac, one victim kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint. now investigators have released surveillance pictures. take a good look. fox 5 s karen gray houston working this now. police are looking for two dangerous armed robbers who bumped into motorists late at night in north potomac last month. they were two separate incidents and in one the motorist was assaulted, placed in the trunk of his car and taken to atms to get money. they are scary looking pictures of a masked bandit at an atm. if anything about him resembles anyone you know, police want to hear from you and