This microphone at the pillar , that would be great as we are audio recording for book tv is filming again. So wed like to have yourquestions in their. Following the q and a we will have a signing at this table and if you could just leave your chairs where they are as we have a couple more readings today, that would be fantastic. So today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb celebrating his book the better angels five women who changed civil war america. A collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting out the conflict left openings for women to assume rules usually held by men and showing the depth of their passion and commitment. Plum recounts area cabins work in the underground railroad, traces her move from teaching in massachusetts to a core position in washington where he began the work that led to her establishingthe American Red Cross. Chronicles how Harriet Beecher stowe drew on her staunch abolitionism
Books that we usually organize events around here at cato. But i can assure you the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist with decades of scholarly work in forming this publication. The subtitle of the book two economists drink their way through the unfree world gives us the flavor of their unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle didnt surprise me though. I attempt to run into ben powell and bob lawson at academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably they have drinks in their hands probably because we chat at event perceptions and the like but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. That is also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate for two it is rather that we are featuring today the first day of the late lovell Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman one of the great economists of the 20th century and a champion of economic and overall human
Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have got to read. Stephen berry also always brings to his research, incredible and beautiful writing with rich insight and we like him so much because his work is so good and stephen is such a wonderful guy and is a fantastic teacher as well. And i have as well as many of my students have worked with steve over the years. A
He is the great professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me say i have a few rules i live by in our field, this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes ive got to read. He always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. We like him so much. His work is so good. You want to be jealous but you cant, steve is a wonderful guy. A fantastic teacher as well. I have sent many students to work with steve over the years. And at university of georgia, he is not only a prolific scholar, he has written or edited six books. My favorite is all that makes a man, love ambition in the civil war south. That was his dissertation. Done some time ago at the university of North Carolina. William barney was his adviser who is still there, teaching at carolina. Another book that i would highly recommend he edited, fantastic book called weirding the war, stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And other things that he has engaged in, a lot of D
Good morning, everyone. Take your seats. All right. If we could get seated, please. Let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audiences. I am peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. I am a member of the History Department here. Welcome myeasure to good friend, Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. I have a feway rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have to read. Brings berry always incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. It is what i think many of us like so much. That is a good thing because his tok is so good that you want come to jealousy but you cannot because stephen is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher. I have sent many students to work with him over the years. At the university of georgia he has he is not only a prolific scholar he has written or edited six books. My favorite was his dissertation, done sometime ago at th