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I am pete carmichael, the member of the History Department here at Gettysburg College and the director of the civil war institute. Our final speaker for this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university. The aggies. Where she teaches courses on Civil War History and reconstruction, 19thcentury america, and reform movements. Lorien got her start at the university of kansas where you did your undergrad and then went on to get her phd at the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentleman and the roughs manhood, honor, and violence in the union army is one of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug into the National Archives and looked at courtmartial records which had really been underutilized until lorien got a hold of them. Again superb book. , and david brooks, a columnist for the New York Times you got a lot of praise from david brooks in his editorial. It is well worth readin
I am pete carmichael, the member of the History Department here at Gettysburg College and the director of the civil war institute. Our final speaker for this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university. The aggies. Where she teaches courses on Civil War History and reconstruction, 19thcentury america, and reform movements. Lorien got her start at the university of kansas where you did your undergrad and then went on to get her phd at the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentleman and the roughs manhood, honor, and violence in the union army is one of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug into the National Archives and looked at courtmartial records which had really been underutilized until lorien got a hold of them. Again superb book. , and david brooks, a columnist for the New York Times you got a lot of praise from david brooks in his editorial. It is well worth readin
I am pete carmichael, the member of the History Department here at Gettysburg College and the director of the civil war institute. Our final speaker for this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university. The aggies. Where she teaches courses on Civil War History and reconstruction, 19thcentury america, and reform movements. Lorien got her start at the university of kansas where you did your undergrad and then went on to get her phd at the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentleman and the roughs manhood, honor, and violence in the union army is one of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug into the National Archives and looked at courtmartial records which had really been underutilized until lorien got a hold of them. Again superb book. , and david brooks, a columnist for the New York Times you got a lot of praise from david brooks in his editorial. It is well worth readin
Jackson as a frontiersman is too simplistic. He believes that jacksons upgrading upbringing in the south is more in line with an elite southern gentleman. This 50 Minute Program was hosted by the library of congress. Professor cheathem thank you. My name is jeff flanery, i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The menu for the the Manuscript Library is related to American History and culture. Among our collection of personal papers of 23 u. S. President s and numerous other wellknown americans including such notables as Walt Whitman Orville and wilbur wright, carl sagan, and civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the. Between the onslaught of the slavery crisis that overran midcentury america. One could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern already and says. Modern audiences. The librarys manu