the life of confederate general joseph johnston, highlighting his difficult relationship with confederate president jefferson davis. the top was part of the symposium called generals we love to hate, looking at some of the most controversial military leaders of the civil war. welcome back to our next speaker, our next session. we will go right into the introduction. our next speaker is craig simons. craig was the retired professor and chairman of the history department at the united states naval academy. but he told me that his retirement failed. [laughs] [laughs] he was no good at it at all. so he is now the earnest jay king distinguished professor of maritime history at the united states naval war college in newport, rhode island. he has listen civil war. his book lincoln and his admiral s received the lincoln prize in 2009 and the abraham lincoln book award. he also has just done a biography of joe johnston and that s with the talk is about today. let s welcome craig s
our next speaker is craig simons. craig was the retired professor and chairman of the history department at the united states naval academy. but he told me that his retirement failed. [laughs] [laughs] he was no good at it at all. so he is now the earnest jay king distinguished professor of maritime history at the united states naval war college in newport, rhode island. he has listen civil war. his book lincoln and his admiral s received the lincoln prize in 2009 and the abraham lincoln book award. he also has just done a biography of joe johnston and that s with the talk is about today. let s welcome craig simon. [applause] [applause] thank you everyone. good morning. i will start by putting our subject up on the screen here. here is old joe. i will happily acknowledge to this audience and the speakers who come before me that controversy and dispute hovered about the civil war careers of both ambrose burn side and don t carlos. i will also argue that few general officer
want to recap a few things we did in our last class. specifically, let s talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. blake, do you have anything you can contribute in this regard? blake: sure. we had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. one of our reasons to go were i guess humanitarian. we tried to help our little brown brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. joseph: it is really an ethnocentrism. blake: yeah. joseph: taylor, do you have anything to add to that? taylor: the one thing that stood out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u.s. had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. but in the u.s., there was also overproduction, so they were also looking to advance to new markets. joseph: good, good. anyone else have a reason? anyone want t
weekend. this should be a fun class. today, we are going to talk about the spanish-american war. but before we get into that i want to recap a few things we did in our last class. specifically, let s talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. have anything you can contribute in this regard? sure. had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. to go werereasons humanitarian. we tried to help our little brown brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. joseph: it is really an ethnocentrism. yeah. joseph: taylor, do you have anything to add to that? that stood one thing out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u.s. had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. but in the u.s., there was also overproduction, so they were also looking to advance to new m
video. joseph: i hope you had a great weekend. this should be a fun class. today, we are going to talk about the spanish-american war. but before we get into that i want to recap a few things we did in our last class. specifically, let s talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. blake, do you have anything you can contribute in this regard? blake: sure. we had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. one of our reasons to go were i guess humanitarian. we tried to help our little brown brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. joseph: it is really an ethnocentrism. blake: yeah. joseph: taylor, do you have anything to add to that? taylor: the one thing that stood out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u.s. had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down the