we are kindred spirits, interested in american history, but most especially the founding of our nation s country. i reside in thomasville, georgia, 30 miles north of tallahassee, florida. i can say with some confidence that between 1775 and 1783, absolutely nothing happened in this part of the world. unless of course maybe you are a creek indian or a seminole. i am an anesthesiologist by profession. it is my nature to put people sleep. i sincerely hope that won t happen tonight. i want you to know if i catch anybody napping, i reserve the right to send you a bill. time in 2007this that i became a member of the society of the cincinnati of south carolina. my knowledge of the revolutionary war was rudimentary at best. i began to study. i was familiar with the battles of lexington and concorde, bunker hill, saratoga, valley forge, washington crossing the aware, the ballard trenton the battle of trenton. i was not very knowledgeable about the events that had taken place in my ho
four years and as a form president and chief he must have realized that this before the war is going to take place if we fail. there must ve been a great sense of responsibility. anybody else? does anybody want to grab c-span s attention with something outrageous? if not thank you so much, please get a copy of my book if it s available outside. [inaudible] i would like to add real native genius that s a perfect conclusion to my talk. thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] our author today is angela hudson who is an associate and soon-to-be professor at texas a&m university. she s an expert in american indian history, 19th century u.s. south, representations of american indians and pop-culture as well as intersection of american indian and african-american lives. she received her ph.d from yale in 2007, and has held fellowships at the newberry library, the american philosophical society, and the rare book and manuscript library, among others. her
put on the mantle piece so i was glad to get it. i thanked him for it and i was going to waco to do some research at baylor, wrapped it up in old dirty t-shirts and put it carefully in my suitcase and went down to waco in the rental car the next day, spoke well and came back and went to the airport at dfw, checked the bag to go to washington because i was going up there to a smithsonian program. i spent a few days at my brother s doing research in the archives. did that, the jar still wrapped up in its t-shirt. went back after i finished to the airport, checked the bag to go back to my home in americas where i was living then and changed planes in atlanta and they changed the bag to the little world war i plane that they used between atlanta and albany, georgia. got down to albany, picked up my suitcase, put it in the car and drove back. i was convinced that bell jar was broken and there would be a million pieces of glass and i would have to throw out everything in the suitca
to maintain tight control and lipity explains defined foraging parties and centralized distribution systems, chaos could ensue, and the army could really descend into a sort of armed mob engaging in pillage and so forth. so what s interesting is that you would have expected lipity to use sherman s march as his examples as he s making this complicated case. he doesn t. he actually goes back to napoleon s russian campaign. in fact, though, he doesn t ignore the march when he s talking about how an army can descend into chaos. that s where he uses napoleon. he actually defends sherman s march and he claims at first that when seizing household goods the men carefully discriminated between and this is actually the language from sherman s orders, discriminated between the rich who were generally hostile to us meaning the union, and the poor and industrious who were usually friendly or at least neutral, and he describes sherman as having this very organized system with rules and r
been demonized and morally unacceptable. the deliberate targeting was taken up in world war ii and ended in the deaths of millions. the bombing of european cities by both sides of the war and japanese cities by the u.s. as well as civilians and china and the philippines and korea by japan were consistent with and encourage by sherman s precedent. the logic of saving lives and the long run seems to be refuted by history. finally, if you scroll through this entry, the words related to william sherman tags at the bottom includes collateral damage, murderer, terrorist, and war criminal. let me be a little bit more honest and fair. this not the best source out there. it was written by somebody named text. it misquotes sherman at one time. if you look at the word association, it includes war hero. what it does represent is a popularly held view that william t. sherman and the march through georgia and the carolinas through the final months of the civil war have something to do with