Lectures tagged "Civil War"

Eternally Green: Natural Burial and New Cemetery Landscapes
Mark Harris
February 13, 2010
01:05:00
Environmental journalist Mark Harris presents a history of the changes in American burial practices, from natural burials in the 17th and early 18th century, to the beginning of the funeral industry during the Civil War, to today's modern funeral with embalming (and its toxic chemicals), metal caske
Thomas Ricks: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq
Thomas Ricks: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
February 1, 2010
00:45:21
Washington Post correspondent Thomas E. Ricks discusses his newly in paperback exploration of the Iraq war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq.
On Hallowed Ground: The Arlington National Cemetery
Robert M. Poole
November 7, 2009
00:39:51
Robert M. Poole talks about his book, On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery, which explores the history of the cemetery and its transition from the plantation home of Robert E. Lee to a military burial ground. Dr.
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Sam Richards' Civil War Diary
Wendy Hamand Venet
July 12, 2009
01:03:30
Georgia State University professor Wendy Hamand Venet discusses her book, Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front. Richards' diary includes the period from October 1860 to August 1865.
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson
David O. Stewart
June 23, 2009
01:08:54
Writer David O. Stewart delves into his latest work, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
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Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
David O. Stewart
June 15, 2009
00:54:29
Author and Constitutional lawyer David O. Stewart reveals how the first President Impeachment Crisis was wrought with corruption and greed. In 1868 when the nation was healing from a bloody civil war, the US Congress impeached Lincoln's successor, President Andrew Johnson.
Slavery by Another Name
Douglas Blackmon
April 10, 2008
01:13:34
Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name illuminates a little known, widespread and legal form of slavery that continued in the US from the end of the Civil War through 1945.
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Robert Smalls: Yearning to Breathe Free
Andrew Billingsley
July 26, 2007
01:14:15
Andrew Billingsley discusses his new book, Yearning to Breathe Free, the biography of Robert Smalls, a South Carolina slave who became a Civil War hero and US Congressman. Mae Gentry, Atlanta-Journal Constitution writer and expert on the African American experience, moderates.