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i teach in the history program here. i also am the director of the project on slavery, race, and reconciliation. institution s endeavor to not only understand a particular history, but the obligations that that history has had for us. it is my pleasure today to introduce our speakers in order of their appearance. first up this morning is professor tracy campbell of the university of kentucky. professor campbell received his ba from the university of kentucky and phd at duke university. history ofmarkable teaching and scholarship. , here arriving at kentucky taught at mars hill and union colleges. since he has been at kentucky, he has been recognized not only for his scholarship but especially for his skill as a classroom teacher. he is the author of numerous articles and five major books, including most recently, his 2013 study of the gateway arch in st. louis, which he tellingly calls a biography. perhaps directly related to our symposium today is his history of electi ....
us. it is my pleasure today to introduce our speakers in order of their appearance. first up this morning is professor tracy campbell at the university of kentucky. professor campbell received his ba from the university of kentucky and phd at duke university, has a remarkable record of teaching and scholarship in history in the united states of the 20th century. before arriving at kentucky, he taught at mars hill and union colleges. since he has been at kentucky, he has been recognized not only for his scholarship but especially for his skill as a classroom teacher. he is the author of numerous articles and five major books, including, most recently, his 2013 study of the gateway arch in st. louis, which he tellingly calls a biography. this is directly related to our symposium today. his 2005 work, deliver the vote: the history of election fraud in american political tradition. this is a book that we need to take up today, if not for the first time, even for the second ....
hosted by the university of the south in sa womanny, tennessee. this discussion is about 90 minutes. good morning, everyone. good morning again. thank you for joining our second session today. my name is woody register. i teach in the history program here. i also am the director of the project on slavery, race, and reconciliation, the institution s endeavor to understand not only its particular history, but slavery and slavery s legacy but also the obligations that that history has bequeathed to us. it s my pleasure today to introduce our two speakers in order of their appearance. first up this morning is professor tracy campbell of the department of history of the university of kentucky. professor campbell who received his ba from the university of kentucky and his pad at duke university has a remarkable record of teaching and scholarship on the political and social history of the united states and the 20th century. before arriving at kentucky, he taught at morris hi ....
great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago works progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. block. they were. that meant there was a lot more out there. in addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. i did want to try to cover all areas of the state. i have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as i d like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. there could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. the different additions used to be. i do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. i did the best i could. i found some wonderful letters. i tried to have men who ....
mississippi or their hometown in many instances. they were going overseas to fight for a cause. they were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. i had one letter from an individual who fought with the canadian expeditionary forces. he went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. we always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war? what my question is, what if we had not entered that war? the world would be a vastly different place. as for its relevance today i would not have know this if i d not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. all of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. conflict is still resulting today because of th ....