The last archives shes also won numerous awards for her books including International Bestseller eaves truths, the history of the united states. Her next book is how the cybernetics preparation and better the future will be published in september 2020. Speaking to her today about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as my colleague john haskell director of the john w flutie center of the library of congress. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to National Book festival presents. Hello jill, its good to have you with us despite the circumstances. Thanks, its nice to be here, or better to be there but its nice to be with you. Some pieces he written recently help us sort through this new and confusing time including the fascinating piece in the new yorker on what you call contagion tables. What are the earlier works in this genre a i would like to say what a pleasure it is to speak at the National Book festival and on behalf of the library of congres
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Most of us know google as a search engine. It actually derives its name from the mathematical term. A one followed by a million zeros. Google is also the number of books that Eric Wittenberg has written. Eric is a nationally renowned speaker and the authority on Union Calvary. Particularly calvary operations in the east. What i like about erics overall has beenbooks is he boldly exploring all sorts of cool things and taking his explorations in meat directions. Work on aonly at manuscript of george meade and has conflict with the joint committee on the war and how that impacted him. Which does not seem like a calvary operation, to me. Yet it makes eric one of the most interesting historians working in the field. Coming from columbus, ohio to talk about his awardwinning book on john buford, Eric Wittenberg. It is always a pleasure to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to visit with you. Nobody wants to be the guy to go right after lunch. It fell upon me. If anybody falls asleep bec
In the United States army and traveling home. Going away. Going back to where you came from. John julie was one of the soldiers who did not surrender. He went with the confederate government when Jefferson Davis evacuated richmond and headed west. Along the way, as he escaped into the carolinas, he was seeing a lot of signs the war was coming to a horrific conclusion. , abandonedong fences muskets of struggling soldiers. Some were broken, that other barrels of others, bent, and choked with mud. The cartridges landsat confusion along the road. Heart seemed slow, for here lies unmistakable evidence of a set of determination. A shameless indifference as to whether the world knows it or not. Professor miller the lecture today will examine particularly the transition that confederate veterans will go through as they go from soldier back to civilian. We will look at a few particular things. The hardships they pay they faced. The limited assistance they found, particularly as they were dealin
Their money towards large monuments and proconfederate. Propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. Professor miller april the 12th, 1865, was the surrender date. Robert e. Lee, Ulysses Grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. On that day, the confederate Soldiers Left in the army in Northern Virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. Packing their guns. You can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the victors in the United States army and traveling home. Going away. Going back to where you came from. John julie was one of the soldiers who did not surrender. He went with the confederate government when Jefferson Davis evacuated richmond and headed west. Along the way, as he escaped into the carolinas, he was seeing a lot of signs the war was coming to a horrific conclusion. He wrote along fences, abandoned muskets of struggling soldiers. Some were broken, that othe