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Book Review: Major Butler\u27s Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family, by Drew Gilpin Faust
No full textThe future of news: Journalism in a post-truth era
No full textMedia soul-searching continues as editors and reporters from outlets from CNN to The Weekly Standard to The New York Times gathered at Harvard University for an event centered on the question of the role of journalism in a “post-truth era.”
Streamed live on 31 Jan 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 4 - 6 pm., Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Welcoming remarks Drew Gilpin Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University
Remarks William Kristol, Editor at large, The Weekly Standard
Story Kathleen Kingsbury, Managing editor, Digital, The Boston Globe
Conversation:
Ann Marie Lipinski, Moderator, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Gerard Baker, Editor in chief, The Wall Street Journal
Lydia Polgreen, Editor in chief, The Huffington Post
David Leonhardt, Op-ed columnist, The New York Times
Story Lolly Bowean, Reporter, Chicago Tribune
 
'To live and die [for] Dixie': Irish civilians and the Confederate States of America
No full textAround 20,000 Irishmen served in the Confederate army in the Civil War. As a result, they left behind, in various Southern towns and cities, large numbers of friends, family, and community leaders. As with native-born Confederates, Irish civilian support was crucial to Irish participation in the Confederate military effort. Also, Irish civilians served in various supporting roles: in factories and hospitals, on railroads and diplomatic missions, and as boosters for the cause. They also, however, suffered in bombardments, sieges, and the blockade. Usually poorer than their native neighbours, they could not afford to become 'refugees' and move away from the centres of conflict. This essay, based on research from manuscript collections, contemporary newspapers, British Consular records, and Federal military records, will examine the role of Irish civilians in the Confederacy, and assess the role this activity had on their integration into Southern communities. It will also look at Irish civilians in the defeat of the Confederacy, particularly when they came under Union occupation. Initial research shows that Irish civilians were not as upset as other whites in the South about Union victory. They welcomed a return to normalcy, and often 'collaborated' with Union authorities. Also, Irish desertion rates in the Confederate army were particularly high, and I will attempt to gauge whether Irish civilians played a role in this. All of the research in this paper will thus be put in the context of the Drew Gilpin Faust/Gary Gallagher debate on the influence of the Confederate homefront on military performance. By studying the Irish civilian experience one can assess how strong the Confederate national experiment was. Was it a nation without a nationalism
This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War
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Faust, Mothers Of Invention - Women Of The Slaveholding South In The American Civil War
No full textIn an award-winning new book, Drew Gilpin Faust provides another side to the Civil War: the experiences of slaveholding women in the South. After mining the diaries, letters, essays, memoirs, fiction, and poetry of more than 500 Confederate women, Faust pledged herself to writing an accessible yet scholarly work on this important topic. "After two decades as an academic historian, I sometimes fear I no longer can communicate in a manner that will engage a general reader," she writes, "but the compelling nature and human drama of this war story have made me want to try." The results are happy ones for teachers, as this is a volume that will overcome the usual undergraduate resistance to serious monographs
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
No full textDeath and Dying in the Civil War Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death By Schantz, Mark S. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Faust, Drew Gilpin One of the most memorable scenes in Gone with the Wi...
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: the Civil War and America\u27s Culture of Death
No full textDeath and Dying in the Civil War Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death By Schantz, Mark S. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Faust, Drew Gilpin One of the most memorable scenes in Gone with the Wi...
The Living Dead: Death, Identity, and Citizenship in Free, African American and Irish American Communities During the U.S. Civil War
No full textThis work analyzes how the free, African-American and Irish, Catholic immigrant communities viewed and experienced death leading up to and during the U.S. Civil War. Inspired by Drew Gilpin Faust\u27s This Republic of Suffering, this thesis explores how these communities used death and sacrifice in order to obtain their place in American society and their rights as U.S. citizens
Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832–1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 282. $25.00.
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