That kim is going to lead today. He and i started talking about this a couple of years ago and it is something i have been interested in for a long time. The growing intolerance and intimidation coming from the left. Actually the first book i wrote was called while we whisper and the subtitle was losing her right to say its wrong. It was about the growing intimidation of anybody who wanted to take a position that was based on any kind of traditional values, any judeochristian morality and how the left carries out that intimidation in a way that makes everyone whisper. The title of that book came from my experience of saying something in my Senate Campaign where i was pummeled in the media all over the place. Theres no public support for me but everywhere i went people would come up after the meeting and get real close and say, keep fighting, we are with you. But it was but it was always a whisper. People were so intimidated. Tim holmes has done a much more scholarly joof digging into t
Europe into some of it is not allowing them to some of is not that you can see the cathedral and the National Board for the time it was created. You have england, ireland and scotland. Of course the way that it takes place our collection holds a large quantity of items about that exploration which includes the moment plan they come to the United States so youve got the colonies in jamestown that is shakespeares world planting itself in north america and that is a complicated history and part of the history of the country. Host yes he was when he wrote tempest he wrote a pamphlet about a shipwreck in bermuda but he makes reference to stories about the new world of new world that were coming back and so he never visited it. He would probably have great information that when he but when he uses the phrase like brave new world, he is saying there is a place we havent explored overturning our expectations about what human beings are like and what nature is like. Thats something that is firi
Hood a fighter as commander of the army of tennessee. Hood repeatedly attacks sherman, trying to drive him back from atlanta and hood gets a series of bloody noses. Finally, sherman undertakes the last of his flanking moments at the end of august cuts the last railroad into atlanta coming in from the south forces hood to evacuate atlanta on september 2nd. And that has a huge political impact in the north, northern people have become wary of the war and the slaughter, especially in virginia, during the summer of 1864, with nothing to show for it. Or apparently nothing to show for it. And now comes the message from atlanta, from sherman. Atlanta is ours. And fairly won. People in the north go upset at this news. Its one of the major turning points of the war the nina turning point toward Union Victory is the6f4i fall of atl at the beginning of september 1864, it ensures lincolns reelection. It ensures the north is going to prosecute this war to ultimate victory. And sherman becomes the
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books abou
Previous year. They compare shermans goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books about william sherman, and i think we need to know how you can do it in a few minutes his family, his psyche, tell us something about this fellow in the double breasted uniform coat. This picture that you see was taken of sherman and he didnt want t