Depicted. He is a fellow with but the library of congress and the u. S. Capital Historical Society. This is about an hour. William welcome to the u. S. Capital Historical Society lunchtime lecture series. My name is william digiacomantonio im the chief of , stories here at the society. It is great to see everyone here. Our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. I want to read his title, because it is ponderous. Not like matthew. I do know what to leave anything out. He is the edwin earl sparks professor of latin American History and director of latin american studies at penn state. Oxford, ucla,d at and has published numerous books on the spanish conquest. Some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes he will be touching on from our last dome, where he has an article on how montezuma keeps inrendered in different ways the art of the capital. From his various titles and the subjects of his books you might and for correctly that he is an art historian, but this is a
And it was one of the primary engines of industry in the city. It has a legacy going all the way up to the present. Ok, cspan, you ready . Thomas j. Brown is a professor of history at the university of south carolina. He not only got his ba and phd from harvard. He also got his law degree. Despite the severe temptation i will spare you law your jokes. We are so ecumenical in this invite lawyersn to participate. More important than his professional credentials is dr. Browns expertise in all varieties of Civil War Monuments , and his discussions and in his discussions about the details of this program said that dr. Brown is the ultimate utility player in this field. Your Program Notes of many of his book publications including his most recent book civil of confederates memory in south carolina. Aat is canon with one n, not boom cannon. The publictoday is art of civil war commemoration a brief history with documents. I expect he will have an opportunity to share his wide expertise on Civi
Precedents in europe or the United States for what became so common after the civil war. That is, monuments where rankandfile soldiers lay buried or monuments put up by the communities or the institutions where from where the soldiers went to war. To the best of my knowledge, none of the american precedents predates the obelisk that the town of massachusetts installed on town green, inscribed with the names of local residents who died a quarter century earlier in the opening engagement of the revolutionary war. Almost four decades passed before the town of concorde placed a similar obelisk that gained attention through Ralph Waldo Emersons dedicatory program. The biblical allusions in that program were described as a replacement for the rude arch, where once the embattled farmers stood and fire the shot heard round the world. So it is biblical illusions that illustrate a millennial promise to Americans Associated with revolutionary legacy. It is worth noting that emerson refers to this
Phd from Harvard University but also got his law degree from harvard. I will spare you any lawyer jokes. Suffice it to say the thatgement of this program we even invite lawyers to participate. More important than professional credentials is expertise and all varieties of civil war monuments , africanamerican and confederate. And his discussion about the detail of this program aptly ultimateized the utility player, who can play any position on the field of civil war monuments. Your program lists many book publications. Including sites of confederate memory inside carolina. Its not a boom kamman, despite that his photograph, he has his hand on one of those cannons. His great contribution to our is a brief history with documents. Share his white expertise on civil war monuments. For now his presentation is entitled the invention of the american Soldier Monument. Dr. Tom brown. [applause] thank you to everyone at the library of virginia and the now center for lesbian involved in this progr
J. Carter brown for over 3,300 years, the pharaoh tutankhamun has gazed serenely at eternity, confident in his ability to conquer death. Everlasting life was his by right of birth. He was pharaoh, king of egypt, the mightiest empire of the ancient world. He was a god. Nothing was beyond his means. When tutankhamun sat upon his throne, thousands of years of history and achievement had already preceded him. Surely a nation that could bring itself into being and create wonders like the Great Pyramids could overcome mans final enemydeath. And overcome death tutankhamun hasat least according to the ancient egyptian funerary beliefs, for the very act of speaking his name provides magic to infuse tutankhamun with everlasting life. Names were important to the egyptians. A name symbolized ones personality and even ones very existence. To remember the dead was to make them live again. And so tutankhamun must, for the whole world has known his name ever since that day in november of 1922, when ar