His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
First of all, whether you chose to sort of target a very niche group of women when you were writing this book and how and whether you deal with issues of race and class with all of these issues of perfection. Yeah. Its a really good question, and i know its one im going to be getting a lot. The book is largely about white women, women of privilege and straight women. And its that way because thats who i am. And i made the decision early on in writing the book that that was really what, for me, was the only honest route to take. If i had tried to include chapters oh, and this is what its like to be poor and black, i would have had to write a very different book. And so i decided to be what felt honest to me and say, you know, this is the world that ive experienced x it is a very and it is a very elite world, you know . Im not struggling to feed my family, thank goodness. But i think its worth at least conveying these problems even from the iewb rah elite if thats what most of us in this
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