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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Context Of Civil War Monuments And Memorials 20170408

On them that we see today. Booksedores 2011 an illustrated guide to virginias Civil War Monuments is the First Complete catalog of virginia from monuments. It is more than a catalog. It is this that he of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Has finished a similar study of tennessee monuments and is working on another one about mississippi. His wonderful wife patricia is a morehat she monuments and more states than anybody else in the union [laughter] rawls i think that the two of them have seen more monuments in any of the states than any of the residents of the state. Remarks today are entitled words, breath, text and landscape virginia Civil War Monuments in the context of tennessee and mississippi monumentation. Dr. Timothy ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Context Of Civil War Monuments And Memorials 20170416

Education, a masters in religious studies and masters of divinity and theological studies. So far, we got a museum person, a lawyer, and a you load in. And a theologian. He brings the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All of the monuments and our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups who decided to write the words on them that we see today. Dr. Sedores 2011 book an illustrated guide to virginias Civil War Monuments is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments. It is more than a catalog. It is this that he of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Dr. Sedore has finished a similar study of tennessee monuments and is working on another one about mississippi. His wonderful wife patricia tells me t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 2016 Mississippi Book Festival 20160821

Somehow it was about me which is, i think, a tendency of any young person who is 22, but especially someone who comes and does a Service Teaching program that has a year or twoyear stint. And i think, i think that the answer is that people coming in need to be more humble and to do better. I dont think we should justify peoples assumptions about children or about schools under any circumstances. At the same time, i think you have to recognize probably the difficulty for somebody who has no experience both of the south or of poverty or of our Public Schools and doesnt know the craft of teaching. They probably have, as you would know because youve taught, right . They have a lot to learn. And i just hope that people come to schools with humility, understanding that theyre not there to impose their will or vision onto the children or the schools. Made assumptions about the stu ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 2016 Mississippi Book Festival 20160820

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 id 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 ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Panel Discussion On Mississippi History 20160917

Availableforsale outside today and they will all be signinggn copies of their work. You can find the schedule for when they will be available to sign in your program. I encourage you to visit with them. Thank you for doing this. This is wonderful and we are excited about it. Our moderator for the panel today is jerry is the author of Theodore Roosevelt in the assessment. Assassination. Thank you chris. Thank you all for choosing to come to the mississippi History Panel this afternoon. We are fortunate that we have authors for interesting books that cover the entire range of mississippi history from the earliest historical up to the late 20th century. We couldnt ask for a better panel of authors that a wider range of mississippi history tot talk about today. I would like to introduce the authors. To my far left is jim barnett. Retired director of
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