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That is the one vindication i could not think of. But the way in which black ministers made sense of this, god had intervened in Human Affairs in 1861 and god had chosen Abraham Lincoln to do his work in 1862. That gods will was to transform the status of africanamericans because they were his chosen people. Now god had released them from bondage at there were great they great things in their future. One thing to keep in mind as we talk about the grim days of reconstruction and grimmer days of the jim crow south, there is an optimism that god cant be doing this to us if he will put us back in ...

Makes the case of the number of men from slave states that wore blue uniforms gave a decisive edge to the union in the end. He finds 450 thousand men from slave states were union blue. This is a new framework for thinking about the war. Lets talk a little bit about men in the ranks and give some examples to the audience of some of these troops and their stories. Prof. Gannon there are so many. One of the things people have no idea is how many medal of honor winners there were among colored troops there were 14 in one battle. Christian fleetwood was one of those medal of honor winners. Robert p...

Lincoln described vindication in a way. For the one group in particular for home the providential interpretation was unambiguous was africanamericans. The way in which black ministers made sense of this was that god had intervened in Human Affairs in 1861s. God had chosen Abraham Lincoln to do his work in 1862. That gods will was to transform the status of africanamericans because they were his chosen people. Now god had released them from bondage at there were great they their future. We talk about the grim days of reconstruction and grammar days of the jim crow grimm,erer days of the jim cro...

Countries and democratic. Very often we came to the relationship with those countries for security reasons. Like germany, germany, like south korea, but we saw the wisdom of helping them develop democratic countries that respect human rights. I think where things get a little bit complicated, its in the tactics the daytoday tactics of our Foreign Policy where you we will sometimes find some pretty serious disagreements that only the state department but around this town and maybe our country which is for example what you do about Human Rights Violations you have extremely significant interests...

But perhaps even more important is that i think we have an obligation to do that. I dont think we can shirk our responsibilities have that kind of strength of economic and military and having the kind of history and representing the kind of values that we do is an obligation on our part to continue to strive to play a leadership role in world affairs. Can we do it alone . No. Absolutely not. Its we dont have that power commensurate to what we talked about. But we should not want to. The various aspects, there is no possible way you will be able to deal with them except in partnership with othe...