My name is ruth robinson. It is a pleasure to welcome you for our program. Before i get started, i would like to ask you to silence your cell phones. No photography or filming. Suggest you might want to sit up straight. We have cspan here tonight, they are going to be filming. [laughter] after 50 seconds of fame just might happen tonight, you never know. It is a pleasure for me to a compile quickly. Ely is in the History Department at virginia tech. A native of manchester, england, he holds degrees from Lancaster University and university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Author of shifting grounds, nationalism and the American South, 18481865, which won the British Association for american study book prize. And the Jefferson Davis award for the museum of the confederacy. He has also published articles and journals suggest the journalists of the history and journal of the civil war era. Among his Current Research projects, the South Carolina congressman who achieved notoriety by caning
Maximilian, in full Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, (born July 6, 1832, Vienna, Austria died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.), archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution. The younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, he served as a rear admiral in the Austrian navy and as governor-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. In 1863 he accepted the offer of the Mexican throne, falsely believing that the Mexican people had voted him their
Maximilian, in full Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, (born July 6, 1832, Vienna, Austria died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.), archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution. The younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, he served as a rear admiral in the Austrian navy and as governor-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. In 1863 he accepted the offer of the Mexican throne, falsely believing that the Mexican people had voted him their