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Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in t...

S focuses on the vietnam war. Inability to the plans led to a battleground. This is about two hours. It is a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, he is veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. No surethor of victory. His new book reassesses american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press 2014. It was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff armys professional reading list. Welco...

Theres a scene on the day of the vote where Fernando Wood is waving papers saying i have affidavits. Thats not 19th century congress. Thats what you realize when you see a movie like lincoln. Or think about mr. Smith goes to washington, almost all of what we think we know about past politics comes from movies. And popular culture, and we absorb it so much, we think its real. Thats why its so important to try to sort it out. I dont want to be one of those scholar squirrels that gore vidal used to...

Climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. None of that happened. The note, we think, is real, though we dont have the original of it. Its a recollection from james ashley, but James Spaders character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. Nicolas hotel. The lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. The race sc...

And had the federal authorities not arrested him, put him in a cell at fort monroe, clamped him in irons and made a martyr out of him, he would have been denounced through much of southern history. But they turned him into the man who was persecuted for the white south but made him a hero. Even so, postwar confederates did not like to air their dirty linen in public and most of them did not do so. Johnston was also praised in the writings of his federal opponents. William t. Sherman had good thi...

Look at James Madisons role in creating the constitution. Next on American History tv, colonel Gregory Daddis discusses u. S. Military strategy during the vietnam war, featuring on William Westmoreland, he argues that the generals ideas were sound, but an inability to i implement them led to failures in South Vietnam. Its an hour and a half. Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United ...

Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United States military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, hes veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. He holds a ph. D. From the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and is author of no sure victory, measuring u. S. Army effectiveness and prog...

Fazel, a member of the the taliban five. He commanded main force opposing the u. S. Backed Northern Alliance in 2001. Served as chief of staff for the army under the taliban and accused of war crimes. One of the taliban commanders on the ground said it was the best news he had heard in 12 years. He said his return is is like pouring 10,000 taliban vit fighters into the battle on the jihad. Now, they have the right lion to lead them in the right moltment in victory. I think the American People de...

Justified the release of the taliban 5 . Were not at the end of hostilities in afghanistan. They said the reason we transferred the taliban 5 is because you traditionally swap prisoners when hostilities are over, therefore we get our guy back because the war is basically over and we release five of the taliban. I agree the end of hostilities that justice the transfer of these five is ridiculous. So i dont know why the administration would say that. Do you . Well, i said i agree with you, sir, ho...

Work. Rose we end with edward by lurks Anne Hamburger and aj sue buy. When men and women go to war. I dont think you can go over and do all those things and have things done to you and then come back and everythings just like you just unpause your life. Like thats not something thats possible. Rose we conclude with a canadian novelist, Margaret Atwood, her short stories. I called them tales because i didnt want people to think were inrealism although we arey because i dont think there are any re...