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Bristol, england, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statutes have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone memory, monuments and myths that explores questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year we find that spring has brought new and urgent crises that require attention and consideration and this year more than in any in recent memory, demands that and more. Today we explore some of these questions with you. Im pleased to welcome dr. Hillary green and kevin levin to todays cabinet conversation. Both dr. Greene and mr. Levin have written extensively on how a wide range of americans commemorate the civil war and reconstruction. They are currently coediting a book sharing different perspectives on civil war memorials. Theyve also been active in recent debates. Dr. Green is an associate professor of history in the department of gender and ....
You go did you know all cspan American History tv programs are available to work only with work history your response. Thousand shooter nation Available Online cspan. Org history. Organist today i want to introduce. The book is of work, unfinished army. Take a quick look. This is going to be a fun show. The unfinished fight. Unfinishet lees army after appomattox comes to from university of North Carolina press whom we think forgetting professor on this program with us and for publishing this fine book. We are selling to you in the First Edition. It is three to 31 pages, illustrations and maps are going to share some of those with you during the course of this conversation. We are send this First Edition copy ....
company via the 20th company. he was shot in july, 1918. he laid in the field overnight and lived another 75 years. he told the small story about how that had happened to him. in the morning some french colonial stretcher bearers would walk around kicking guys and see if they were still alive. he apparently ground so they picked him up. that story just fascinated me and it took me a while to get the agent majority were acted properly addressed the. as a story written by him. he live to 101 if i remember? yeah, 101 he died in 1993. that s incredible, wow. in val upping the story and the book, you do spend a lot of time not only talking about york s background which i found very interesting being a son of the south reading about the rural part of east tennessee. his in a lot of ways, rudimentary upbringing. very little education you also look at the background of the other soldiers involved in the york stroll. i think that is the point of the book. i was curious i ....
am glad to be with the abe lincoln bookshop again. thanks very much. we also wish you were here in person because it s so much fun. even having a conversation like this, if it s face to face it s just so much more fun to interact. we will have those times again. sure. we are coming to the end of this current unpleasantness. we will have those days again. we are here to talk about karen s new book, but before we do that, i also wish to send out greetings and salutations to those of you who may be watching this conversation on c-span book tv. we are recording this event on april 12th 2021, which is the date of release of no common ground. so those of you who are watching this on c-span book tv will be watching this at some other time. but we thank you for your attention to it, and we hope that you will enjoy this conversation if you are watching it later. if you are watching it later, we will still have copies, first edition signed copies of no common ground availab ....
years, and so he told the small story about how he had that happened to him and in the morning some french colonial stretcher bear bearers would go around and kick guys and pick them up if they were alive. and i got to he lived to 101 if i recall. he was 101 and died in 1993. well, in developing the story in the book, you do spend a lot of time not only talking about york s background, which i found very interesting, being a son of the south, reading about the rural parts of east tennessee and his very in a lot of ways rudimentary upbringing, very little education, but you also look at the background of the other soldiers involved in the york patrol which i think is the point of the book. just was curious if there was another particular soldier that was compelling soldier stories, that was compelling the well, as it emerged, otis was also a corporal became a pain in york s heel. and bernard was actually acting sergeant and led the patrol when it started ....