He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who havent had a chance to read it yet. Thank you in absolutely. Thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the Virginia Book festival for including us. Im looking forward to a great event. So my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. As the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against the north against the United States, but much of their attention was also perhaps unexpectedly abroad. So i have one example the editors of the richmond daily dispatch wrote in ma
Further ado, please let me introduce our speakers. Our first Speaker Today will be nl Tucker Author of newest born of nations european national movements. Nationalist movements and the creation of the confederacy. She uses an historian of the us south and civil war in an international perspective. She is an assistant professor of history at the university of north georgia. Thank you anne for being here and let me introduce our our second Panelist Today and that is adrian brettle who is author of our second book colossal ambitions confederate planning for a post civil war world. He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who haven
And let me introduce our our second Panelist Today and that is adrian brettle who is author of our second book colossal ambitions confederate planning for a post civil war world. He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who havent had a chance to read it yet. Thank you in absolutely. Thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the Virginia Book festival for including us. Im looking forward to a great event. So my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. As the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against
Roosevelt institute. The Hoover President ial library, and the lbj foundation. Before found joining the faculty at the university of New York she taught palermo and rome. Betty is the author of a number of books including first ladies, the everchanging rule, which we will be talking about tonight. Ladybird and lyndon the hidden story of a marriage that made president. The roosevelt women, and inside the white house. She currently resides in new York City, and sometimes, although not, now in venice italy. Welcome betty. Thank you very. Much happy to be here. I know our audience is looking forward to this conversation, so were going to have a read back and forth and they were going to go to questions from our audience. At the beginning of our, book you discussed the rule of the early first ladies and how they set important precedents. Can you elaborate on those early first ladies . Women such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and dolley madison. How they influence the role. Yes we kno
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