Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War

Sep 3, 2009

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean talked about his book Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (Oxford University Press, USA; December 2, 2008). The book contains maps of military campaigns and battles but also illustrates political and social developments during Reconstruction as well as during the U.S. Civil War. It offers a spacial as well as .. Read More
Aaron Sheehan-Dean talked about his book Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (Oxford University Press, USA; December 2, 2008). The book contains maps of military campaigns and battles but also illustrates political and social developments during Reconstruction as well as during the U.S. Civil War. It offers a spacial as well as temporal history of the war. Essays accompanying each map offer a concise history of the era. He was interviewed by the crew of the C-SPAN Civics Bus at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. The date of the interview is not known.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:15 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE TALKING WITH DOCTOR AARON SHEEHAN-DEAN ABOUT HIS BOOK "CONCISE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE U.S....
00:00:30 Unidentified Speaker I DID SMACK WHY USE MAPS TO TELL THIS EXTREMELY EXPANSIVE STORY?
00:00:35 Unidentified Speaker WELL, THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. THERE ARE A LOT OF ATLASES OF THE CIVIL WAR. THERE AREN'T MANY ATLASES...
00:01:17 Unidentified Speaker AND RIGHT IN THE TITLE IS AS IT IS CONCISE. HOW DID U., 150 MAPS, HOW DID YOU EXACTLY CHOOSE WHAT...
00:01:27 Unidentified Speaker IT IS 50 MAPS AND 50 PAGES OF TEXT. MY FOCUS WAS ON THE CAMPAIGN. THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD BATTLE MAPS....
00:02:24 Unidentified Speaker AS FAR AS THE SOCIAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPERS WHAT KIND OF BATISTUTA FIGHT EMERGING?
00:02:27 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME THAT IN 1862 THE WAR WAS GOING BADLY FOR THE NORTH. THE UNION HAD SUFFERED...
00:03:22 Unidentified Speaker SO YOU ARE MAKING YOUR BOOK ALSO CAPTURES POSTWAR, POST-CIVIL WAR TRENDS. WHAT DID YOU DECIDE TO EXAMINE...
00:03:31 Unidentified Speaker I'M LOOKING AT RECONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION, AT THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION, THE RECONSTRUCTION...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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