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welcome everyone. good evening. i want to thank you all for joining us tonight. on the evening of general and president ulysses s grants 200th birthday. this historic milestone comes at a time when grant star is rising. ulysses s grante is being commemorated and proclamations and other special messages issued by states across the nation the district of columbia and living us presidents. we have included in our dinner programs. just one of the proclamations from grants birth state of oh...

being with us. thank you so much for having me. im director of the virginia center for civil war studies. so our first speaker tonight and ill just introduce each speaker in turn right before they speak. so our first speaker is dr. sarah jones wixel and she and her phd from the university of chicago. shes now the director of research and publications at the american historical association in washington dc. shes also an expert in the material culture of the civil war and most especially...

the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so ive got a quote from woodrow wilson whos president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united thats 1913. thats 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want t...

welcome everyone. good evening. i want to thank you all for joining us tonight. on the evening of general and president ulysses s grants 200th birthday. this historic milestone comes at a time when grant star is rising. ulysses s grante is being commemorated and proclamations and other special messages issued by states across the nation the district of columbia and living us presidents. we have included in our dinner programs. just one of the proclamations from grants birth state of oh...

scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material le...

even on our current memory of the war. so ive got a quote from woodrow wilson whos president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united thats 1913. thats 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and weve talked about and karen cox talks about in her bo...

in metastasize ho bach broadly, is the core people who claim there been massive fraud, and that donald trump is the real winner of the election, was really quite small. it was a very loud chorus, because it included the sitting president of the united states, but in the first weeks after the election, it was really just rudy giuliani and his ragtag bunch of conspiracy theorists, of rag right-wing lawyers. they spewed a bunch of nonsense at the four seasons total landscaping press confe...

moment, now the stop the steal election denialism has metastasized so broadly, its at the core of the people that insisted that there been massive fraud and vote rigging, and donald trump is the real winner the election was really quite small. it was a very loud chorus, we because it included the sitting president of the united states, but in the first weeks after the election, it was really just rudy giuliani and his ragtag bunch of conspiracy theorists, of rag right-wing lawyers. the...

And they dehumanise people like that. Across the road, a very different tune. Siren records is the local mecca for those searching for rare vinyl. Ask them about politics in here and manager heidi kaye will tell you that america failed to deal properly with the January 6th Riots and that trump cant be allowed a comeback. We dont need more division. We just need to get on with the business of the country. And im done, personally, with the novelty of trump, and thats putting it lightly. One concer...

Lately. You might call it stormy weather. What the hell. Trumps so desperate he started reading those bibles hes selling. Then he got to the first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. Thats when he put it down and said, this books not for me. Thats President Biden with some jokes about his 2024 opponent during this weekends white house Correspondents Dinner. Well have more of the punch lines and the president s more serious message just ahead. Also ahead, well go through bidens l...