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making business in michigan. he s not married. so he sits down with his mom to write out his final will and testament now. he is a fairly talented individually starts off as a company commander after two years a war though. now he is the colonel of the fourth, michigan. between the battle of gettysburg in the battle that happens right before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. so he has a vacation of about two weeks while he s home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the american civil war and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. we d go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. not only b ....
before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. so he has a vacation of about two weeks while he s home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the american civil war and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. we d go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. not only because of the ensuing confusion that would cause all so because we had all joined as a community people from our community had died defending that flag, and you never your flag. after two years of war the fourth michigan flag was fairly shot up. and so the townspeople show up and present harrison jeffords with a brand new flag for his ....
the modern world. what i found even more telling was how things are invented. how invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. at least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. it s easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. we americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. but what does that mean exactly. ? i am a believer in american exceptionalism. but as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. how did we earn it? how did we do what we did and ? and how could we get back to doing it right? as the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, united states has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. we invented almost everything about america. we have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. above all, our definition of who ....
as best we can. i m going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. this book i wrote. the best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. i learned a great deal writing this. americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. what i found even more telling was how things are invented. how invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. at least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. we americans like to think of as s natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. but what does that mean exactly. i am a believer in american exceptionalism. it hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. how did we earn it? how did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right? as the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, united states has also insisted when making things when we we ....
are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on american history tv. tv,ext on american history novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius: how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. at an event in cape cod, mr. baker describes what he think s are key factors in the nation s innovative spirit. guestant to thank our tonight. kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. he has experienced being a massachusetts person. tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. mark, for having me. great to be on the cape, if only virtually. hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. the best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. i learned a great deal writing this. americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many i ....