At the university of virginia. She is the author of five books that probe important issues related to the sectional conflict from the American Revolution to the civil war. The trueful graffiti story of Elizabeth Van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy was published in three prizes. Today, she will speak to us about her new book armies of deliverance a new history of the civil war, which was bylished earlier this year oxford. A review by some guy named Harold Holzer maybe some of you have heard of him called this a highly interesting new study. I am so glad we could have her here today at the forum to speak to us. Welcomingn me in elizabeth varon. [applause] prof. Varon all right. Can everyone hear me . Good. Yes. All right. In his first wartime message to congress delivered on child july 4, 1851, Abraham Lincoln cast secession as the work of a small band of conspirators who had duped in Calgary South into submission. The southnd cowed into submission. Relied on in had ge
Troops continue to use that advantage, which provided them with an unsuccessful contour, the offensive of the armed forces and are developing their attacks in the kurgan direction, the Us State Department stated that peace negotiations with russia on ukraine are not being conducted, because moscow does not show them it is interesting, it remains to be hoped that this is true, and that in the future our position will not change in the sense that russia, of course, does not need negotiations with terror. By that state and its sponsors, and their complete unconditional surrender, right now bytes on the Company Begins a new stage of the ukrainian contour offensive, the us officially approved the dispatch of the first batch of abrams tanks , cnn reported today, citing us army purchasing chief dagbush. It is known that american tanks will be delivered through europe along with ammunition, spare parts, equipment for refueling repairs, a total of 31 combat vehicles will receive the apu. As exp
Coming up next, a conference on the end of the civil war. Historians discussed the postwar political and cultural environment in the north. The virginia secretary organized this event. Our topic is the union cause in the war and in the framework of how americans remembered it from the wartime generation and later. Everybody is awake. Matt, john, and joan are our panel this time around. The first question i want us to talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. About is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. To begin, i would like all of you to discuss what loyal mea nt within the context of the u. S. Effort during the war. Joan i will start. One of the members of the audience came up to me and asked me to make sure there were more jokes in the session. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level, i think these concepts are very tied together, Union Loyalty and sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism. It meant loyalty or country, loyal to t
Confederate to act for the north to make it look more realistic. [laughter] the most recently seen in richmond a couple weeks ago this was to also in a commemorative mark of troops entering richmond in 1995. In a similarly and a Similar Program was part of the one 50th and Richland Richmond a few weeks ago. Union troops entering the city. It was led by africanamerican reenactors. That pose, almost entirely ethic, to glory. And the movie lincoln has done aside what it has done for interest in lincoln, has done what historians have wanted to do, which is focus on the 13th amendment. Bravo to spielberg for doing what few historians have done. Cochair varon what did you think of the spielberg movie and his handling, depiction of the politics echo chair holzer well, i was an historical consultant who was ignored. [laughter] so, i love the parties and the premiers and meeting daniel daylewis, but yeah, i loved it. I thought it was perfect. It is a movie, not a history lesson. I thought the c
Live coverage at 1 30 eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Next professor Jennifer Murray from the university of virginias college at wise talks about how reunions have change from the reconstruction era to the present. She described how the years after the war focused on reconciliation but has expanded to deal with slavery as a cause of the war. This class is 1. 5 hours. Last time we met with our discussion of the culture of the civil war commemoration we left off talking about david blake and reconciliation, and civil war reunions and we had a reading from james foster and his conversation of the confederacy. What i want to continue the conversation with today, for todays topic, the culture of civil war commemoration, looking at these themes we have talked about an postcivil war america, from 1855 to the present. What i thought would be useful backing up on the conversation this specifically with the context we have talked about, to reiterate the point on how important the Ameri