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>> i had so many thoughts leading up to this assignment as to what it was gonna be like. trying to imagine going down this road, knowing it's a one-way trap. there's this moment when you get this last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steal match. >> louisiana's highway 66. it's a beautiful countryside. it's undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they'll most likely die. but road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary. a former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola, named after the af...

If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern...

River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may a...

Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broad...

Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broad...