We have here two very accomplished authors who are known in part their writing about the american south. And theyre both from the american south. And the occasion is the publication Howell Raines new book a silent cavalry, which covers some interesting ideas about how the white southerners have responded more favorably to the civil rights notes to the civil war, to not to the civil war, but where supporters of opponents of succession. Thats what im trying to say. How i was born in birmingham and got a masters from birmingham, southern, a masters from the university of alabama. He worked for three southern newspapers, joined the times in 1978. As of correspondent in atlanta. He then White House Correspondent and then became deputy Washington Correspondent Bureau chief to became then London Bureau chief, then became Washington Bureau chief. As you can see, he was moving up the ladder. Then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. Finally, in 2000, one was named executive edito
We have here two very accomplished authors who are known in part their writing about the american south. And theyre both from the american south. And the occasion is the publication Howell Raines new book a silent cavalry, which covers some interesting ideas about how the white southerners have responded more favorably to the civil rights notes to the civil war, to not to the civil war, but where supporters of opponents of succession. Thats what im trying to say. How i was born in birmingham and got a masters from birmingham, southern, a masters from the university of alabama. He worked for three southern newspapers, joined the times in 1978. As of correspondent in atlanta. He then White House Correspondent and then became deputy Washington Correspondent Bureau chief to became then London Bureau chief, then became Washington Bureau chief. As you can see, he was moving up the ladder. Then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. Finally, in 2000, one was named executive edito
We have here two very accomplished authors who are known in part their writing about the american south. And theyre both from the american south. And the occasion is the publication Howell Raines new book a silent cavalry, which covers some interesting ideas about how the white southerners have responded more favorably to the civil rights notes to the civil war, to not to the civil war, but where supporters of opponents of succession. Thats what im trying to say. How i was born in birmingham and got a masters from birmingham, southern, a masters from the university of alabama. He worked for three southern newspapers, joined the times in 1978. As of correspondent in atlanta. He then White House Correspondent and then became deputy Washington Correspondent Bureau chief to became then London Bureau chief, then became Washington Bureau chief. As you can see, he was moving up the ladder. Then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. Finally, in 2000, one was named executive edito
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on
So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind of biggest problem. So well start here. Adam smith, pretty famous dude economist, right around 1776, just as the americans are