Monthly Archives: June 2017
Religion and the Shenandoah Valley
Here’s Professor John Matsui of the Virginia Military Institute speaking on Religion in the Shenandoah Valley and how it affected events there. This is part of the 2017 Nau Signature Conference at the University of Virginia. The video’s description reads, “Professor John Matsui talked about the role of religion in the Shenandoah Valley during the […]
Complicity
If you have never been taught about or read about the Triangle Trade, if you never knew all the original 13 colonies had slavery, if you didn’t know Democrats, even in the North, generally supported the right of slave states to have slavery, or if you didn’t know there is a difference between being antislavery […]
Union Command and Shenandoah Valley in 1864
Here’s Professor Joseph Glatthaar of UNC-Chapel Hill speaking about the Union command structure in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. This is a pretty good presentation and was part of the 2017 Nau Center Signature Conference at the University of Virginia. The video’s description reads, “Joseph Glatthaar talked about the political intrigues within the Union Army’s […]
Stewart v. Kahn
The citation for this case is 78 US [11 Wall.] 493. On August 10, 1860 the New Orleans trading firm of Bloom, Kahn & Company took out a promissory note to the New York firm of A. T. Stewart & Company, and promised to pay $3,226.24 at maturity of the note, which would be on […]
1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns
Here’s Professor Edward Ayers, formerly the President of Richmond University, giving a typically outstanding presentation on the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. This was part of the 2017 Nau Center Signature Conference held at the University of Virginia. The video’s description reads, “Edward Ayers talked about the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaigns during the Civil War. He […]
Confederate General Richard Taylor’s Memoir
Here’s Professor Stephen Cushman of the University of Virginia’s Department of English speaking at the 2017 Nau Signature Conference at the University of Virginia on the portion of Richard Taylor’s memoirs dealing with the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. The video’s description reads, “Professor Stephen Cushman talked about Confederate General Richard Taylor’s 1879 memoir, Destruction […]
Confederate General Edward Porter Alexander
Here’s Professor Gary W. Gallagher of the University of Virginia speaking at the Virginia Historical Society on the confederate artillerist Edward Porter Alexander. Professor Gallagher edited Alexander’s memoirs, Fighting for the Confederacy, which was a more unexpurgated version of Alexander’s Military Memoirs of a Confederate. As always, Professor Gallagher gives an outstanding presentation. The video’s description reads, […]
Civil War Era and the Constitution
Here’s Professor Tim Huebner of Rhodes College speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA on Lincoln, slavery, emancipation, and the Constitution. The video’s description reads, “Timothy Huebner talked about the Civil War Era and the Constitution, focusing on the history of slavery during the antebellum period and its eventual abolition with the 13th […]
Reunion Without Compromise
This book by Michael Perman considers Southern views of Presidential Reconstruction and the early years of Congressional Reconstruction. In the Preface, he tells us, “The post-war status and position of the Confederacy’s political leadership was what Northern policy-makers believed reunion and reconstruction were all about. Should the post-bellum South continue to be led by the […]
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