Thursday, June 22, 2017

McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), Part 3

Note: Due to the large number of notes I collected for this fascinating period of U.S. history, I divided this blog post into several parts:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Other C-SPAN Video:

### David S. Reynolds and Brian Lamb, "Walt Whitman's America," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 04 April 1996.Book Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Edna Greene Medford, "President Millard Fillmore," C-SPAN, 08 June 1999.
### Edna Greene Medford, "Franklin Pierce Administration," C-SPAN, 10 June 1999.
### Edna Greene Medford, "Political Climate During President James Buchanan Administration," C-SPAN, 16 June 1999.These three interviews with Prof. Medford summarize the political issues of the 1850s.
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### Eric Walther, "Fire-Eaters in Congress in 1860," U.S. Capitol Historical Society Spring Symposium, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2010.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Orville Vernon Burton, "President Lincoln and Secession," U.S. Capitol Historical Society Spring Symposium, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2010.Book Mentioned:~~~~~~

### Jonathan Earle, "The Speakership Fight in 1860," U.S. Capitol Historical Society Spring Symposium, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2010.~~~~~~

### Brooks Simpson, "War Planning in 1861," U.S. Capitol Historical Society Spring Symposium, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2010.~~~~~~

### Lesley Gordon, "The Bull Run Panic," U.S. Capitol Historical Society Spring Symposium, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2010.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Michael F. Holt, Bruce Levine, Elizabeth R. Varon, Marc Egnal, "The Origins of the Secession Crisis and the Civil War," 2011 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 17 March 2011.~~~~~~

### Edward L. Ayers, Christy S. Coleman, Eric Foner, Gary W. Gallagher, Thavolia Glymph, "Civil War Historians Discuss the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation," Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN, 17 September 2012.~~~~~~

### John Stauffer, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," 18th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17 November 2013.
### John Stauffer, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Vermont Humanities Council, Burlington, Vermont, 15 November 2014.Book Discussed:
  • John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis. The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### David S. Reynolds, "President Lincoln's Assassination," City University of New York, 14 April 2015.Book Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Civil War in 1865," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, 19 June 2015.~~~~~~

### Lesley Gordon, "16th Connecticut Regiment's Final Year of War," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, 21 June 2015.Book Discussed:
  • Lesley J. Gordon. A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### James I. Robertson, Jr. and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with James Robertson," BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 July 2016.
### James I. Robertson, Jr., "After the Civil War," Museum of the Confederacy-Appomattox, The American Civil War Museum, 11 April 2015.Book Discussed:
  • James Robertson. After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### T.J. Stiles, "General George Armstrong Custer's Trials," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, 10 June 2017.Book Discussed:
  • T.J. Stiles. Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### T.J. Stiles, "Confederate Jesse James," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, 11 June 2017.Book Discussed:Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### John Quist and Michael Birkner, "President James Buchanan and Southern Secession," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, 10 June 2017.
  • Michael J. Birkner, Department of History, Gettysburg College.
  • Dr. John Quist, Faculty, History and Philosophy Department, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
Book Discussed:
  • John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner, editors. James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

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Other Video: Lectures

### 2014 Teach-In: The Civil War, University of Oklahoma, 10 March 2014.
This is a collection of lectures and a panel discussion with some well known historians participating:~~~~~~

### David Zarefsky, "Texas Annexation and Slavery: The Fatal Mix in Politics and Rhetoric," IPFW School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Series, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, 22 October 2003.~~~~~~

### Elizabeth Brown Pryor, "Robert E Lee: Reading the Man," Georgia Center for the Book, WGBH Forum, 2007?Book Discussed:
  • Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. New York: Viking, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Eric Walther, "William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War," Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama, 15 April 2010.Book Discussed:
  • Eric H. Walther. William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Steven Hahn, "Why the Civil War Mattered," Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture, Idaho Council for History Education Annual Conference, Boise, Idaho, October 2010.Some Books by Steven Hahn:
  • Steven Hahn. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Steven Hahn. A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910. (Book Series: The Penguin History of the United States.) New York: Viking / Penguin Random House, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Michael Klarman, "Slavery and the Constitution," Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 22 August 2011.~~~~~~

### Ed Ayers, "The Logic of Secession," Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 24 August 2011.~~~~~~

### Gary W. Gallagher, "Presidents and Generals: Command Relationships during the Civil War," John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, 04 November 2011.~~~~~~

### Randall Fuller, "How the Civil War Transformed American Literature," Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 10 April 2012.Book Discussed:
  • Randall Fuller. From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Donald Stoker, "The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War," U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 12 September 2012.Book Discussed:~~~~~~

### David Goldfield, "America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation," Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture, Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2012.Book Discussed:~~~~~~

### Gary Gallagher, "Robert E. Lee and the Question of Loyalty," Civil War Lecture Series, Lovett School, Atlanta, Georgia, 14 November 2012.Wikipedia Articles:~~~~~~

### Stephanie M. H. Camp, "Slavery: Antebellum America's National Institution," Slavery and Freedom in the Making of America, Fall 2013 Lecture Series, Department of History, University of Washington, 06 November 2013.Books by Stephanie Camp:
  • Stephanie M. H. Camp. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp, editors. New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Leonard G. Gougeon, "Culture and Conflict: New England, Old England and the Civil War," University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 21 September 2013.This talk highlights differences between British and American views of the war among literary intellectuals.
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### Stephen Berry, "When Mettle Meets Metal: The Hard Realities of Civil War Soldiering," The 19th Annual Elizabeth Roller Bottimore Lecture, University of Richmond and the American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 2014.Book Mentioned:
  • Stephen Berry, editor. Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Edward L. Ayers, "The Shape of the Civil War," University of Rochester, 18 March 2015.Book Mentioned:
  • Edward L. Ayers. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Andrew Zimmerman, "The American Civil War: Obsolete Myths and Real Questions," National Capital Area Skeptics, Rockville, Maryland, 21 November 2015.Books by Andrew Zimmerman:
  • Andrew Zimmerman. Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Andrew Zimmerman. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Civil War in the United States, Second Edition. Andrew Zimmerman, editor. New York: International Publishers Company, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Don H. Doyle, "The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War," America's Conflicts Lecture Series, Friends of Boca Grande Community Center, Boca Grande, Florida, February 2016.### Don H. Doyle, "The Cause of All Nations," 2016 Bottimore Lecture, University of Richmond and the American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 22 September 2016.Book Discussed:
  • Don H. Doyle. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. New York: Basic Books / Perseus Books Group / Hachette Book Group, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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### Walter A. McDougall and Gregory J. W. Urwin, "The Geopolitics of the American Civil War," Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, 16 March 2016.~~~~~~

### Gary Gallagher, "All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship," 2016 Cross Lecture, Department of History, University of Virginia, 13 April 2016.~~~~~~

### Edward Ayers, "Civil War History and Digital Humanities," Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 22 September 2016.Books Mentioned:
  • Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin. The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward L. Ayers. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward L. Ayers. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Remembering Robert E. Lee" Lecture Series, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

William W. Freehling, Lectures etc.:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This post continues in Part 4: Encyclopedia Articles and Period Publications.