Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. I had my students go online and say, what do we think about reconstruction . They came back with the same answer. What were teaching our students is that reconstruction was a failure. Either from the left or the right, people are saying its a failure. I thought that was too easy. The most ambitious experience in American History, calling it a failure doesnt seem adequate. Here is what we found is that the opponents of freedom, the opponents of reconstruction fought so long and hard during and after the war that the u. S. Government, the u. S. Army and a small majority of white northern population was empowered, virtuvi virtually forced to destroy the roots of slavery. Without confederate cessation, emancipation was impossible. Without the war, emancipation was politically impossible. Without the violent resistance to the freedom of the people they held as slaves, there would have been no radical reconstruction. As one republican paper put it, the whi
Soldiers how men thought, fought, and survived in civil war armies, this is an hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is the director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c. Flurer professor of civil war college. He is the writer of essays as well as several books, and the last generation Young Virginians in peace, war and reunion published in 2005. His most recent book the war for the common soldier how men thought, fought and survival in civil war armies was published just last year in 2018 and he is the recent recipient of the 2018 nymas civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposi symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. Im not dehydrated, i just have, as you can tell, a little scratchy throat, but i think it will be fine. Can everyone hear me okay . How are we doing . Yes. Okay. Fantastic. Actually, thank you so much for that introduction. The pers
This talk is part of the Civil War Institute civil war conference, about an hour. Good morning again. I am Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Green whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year, correct . She came here and enjoyed herself im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates, theyre tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoy mr. Greens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, it is an important book and one of the things that patrick and i talked about it is just its just a shame.
Ms. Cheney the republicans are going to make sure we get the message out and the americans want responses from their elected officials. One of our most important responsibilities as elected members of the house is to provide for the common defense and will be marking the National Defense authorization act and we asked the republican leader of the Armed Services to join us to o talk about the markup. Mr. Thornberry leader mccarthy and i were among those to attend he 75th ceremonies at normandy for dday recently and thinking about the incredible acts of bravery of those folks who scaled the cliffs, i think all of us were mindful of all that has been built and accomplished since that time. And as liz said, this week in the house, both in the Armed Services committee with our Committee Markup and also on the floor with the defense appropriations, we have the opportunity to build upon what those in normandy fought and sacrificed for. We consistently had testimony in the Armed Services commi
Values of liberty and justice for all and equal protection under the law to life and are ducing dr. Gates remininged everyone in the room, june 1619, the first slave ship left the west coast of africa and arrived two months later in virginia. And jim crow to the civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement through the years of president obama and now to the moment that we are in and opportunity for us to reflect on why we do what we do as democrats fighting for the people particularly as it relates to h. R. 1 and our democracy reform legislation and effort to make sure that every single american regardless of race, regardless of gender, zip code, regardless of Sexual Orientation or gender, identity, regardless of religion has an opportunity to participate in our democracy and we will continue to dedicate ourselves to that cause as we move forward inla of Voter Suppression and those trying to turn back the clock as we try to move america forward. Three representatives announced the rela