and asked him if he would help me with this project in 1994. but i had wanted to write about ellison s work for a long time. and finally, in 1977, i wrote an essay on ellison, called the historical frequencies of ralph waldo ellison, and in this piece, i try to make the case that ellison s essays, and at that time, many others, some of them weren t published at all, and many of the most compelling essays hadn t made it into shadow and act. ralph says he used to say, society and morality in a novel, tell it like it is, baby, really unbelievably superb in original essays, were rejected for inclusion in shadow and act if you can believe it and i tracked these down and tried to make the case that invisible man his essays rather not only , provided a way to read invisible man but also more broadly provided a way to read american literature as a continuing kind of engagement with the imperfect union of the declaration of independence, and the constitution and the sacred documen
dr. james iredell robertson junior associate professor of civil war history at virginia tech. he is the author or editor of various books, including shifting grounds, nationalism and the american south, which won the british association for american studies but prize, the book prize the jefferson , davis award for the museum of the confederacy, and the albert lee sturm award. his work has appeared in journals such as the journal of southern history and the journal of the civil war era. among his research research project are the south carolina cosman who achieved notoriety by caning senator charles sumner on the floor of the senate in 1856. and mapping the fourth of july and the civil war era, a project with colleagues in education, computer science and the libraries at virginia tech. he serves on the board of the society of civil war historians, the editorial board of the journal of civil war history, the board of the smithfield press foundation and the historians advi
own. that is what started my historical brain in thinking, how did we get to this point and did it exist historically? so i started to do that project. this project now is sort of a sequel to the first project. because i discovered in my first book that the history of miscarriage i stopped right around 1900. i realized there was a lot more to the story because by 1900, we still will were not going to a doctor during pregnancy. i was really curious as to win that started, because i thought it was going to happen earlier. that is why i started looking at the development of prenatal care and why exactly women thought that was a good idea. it was not just doctors saying you should come to us. historically doctors have tried that for many centuries for a variety of reasons and it does not always convince people. i wanted to investigate why women started going to the doctors while pregnant. steve: they did not go to doctors in the 19th century? shannon: no and doctors were not ,
hands, nothing in them. i stood up. hi, mr. kelly, my name is daryl davis. come on in. next, on the civil war, virginia tech professor paul about jefferson davis s political opponents in the south, including many governors who resented that he prioritized the confederacy over the states. this talk was put up a conference hosted by shenandoah university s civil board input institute. civil war institute. speakerext and final comes from an institution that, as i ll it into this morning, it is near and dear to my heart, virginia tech. dr. paul quigley is the director of the virginia center for civil war studies and the dr. james i robinson junior associate professor of civil war history at virginia tech. he is the author or editor of various post including shifting grounds, nationalism and the american south, which won the british association for american studies but prize, the jefferson davis award for the museum of the confederacy, and the albert lee star my award st
dr. paul quigley. as one would hope in a state that featured prominently in the civil war, virginia is blessed with a large and deep pool of scholars. they are getting younger by the day. [laughter] list katieheard one shively, now we will hear dr. paul quigley. he is familiar to many of you at the james i robertson junior associate professor of civil war studies and the center for civil war studies at virginia tech. and the face, and some would say the pleasing voice, if you happen to be an anglophile, for the center s many public programs. like his undoubted chairs ann dowd chair s namesakes, he writes for the popular media in the wider southwestern virginia community and staying active in the scholarly world. before he came to virginia tech in 2013, paul had been a lecturer in american history at the university of edinburgh, in scotland. he spent many years before that in the so-called valley of earning his ma and phd at the university of north carolina chapel hill, lect