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WAS BOOK PANEL ACE PANEL ON CIVIL WAR PERSPECTIVES. >> PLEASE TAKE YOUR
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SEATS AND WELCOME. MY NAME IS JOSEPH GLATTHAAR. I AM THE DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL AND THIS IS THE PANEL...
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| 00:03:51 |
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GO THROUGH THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTING OUR BOOK, "THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865". THERE IS A CONFLUENCE OF FUSE...
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GREAT. WE SIT HERE TODAY ON THE NINTH OF APRIL, 2011. 150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AMERICA WAS WARY ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AT FORT SUMTER AND 146...
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| 00:26:31 |
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DOESN'T REALLY COME WITH THE CIVIL WAR. OBVIOUSLY ANDREW JOHNSON WAS ALIVE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE WAS PART OF IT. HE WAS A MILITARY GOVERNOR IN...
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| 00:35:12 |
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THE FLOOR FOR QUESTIONS. PLEASE WAIT UNTIL THE MICROPHONE IS GIVEN TO YOU AND MEANWHILE, WHILE THE MICROPHONE IS GOING TO THIS INDIVIDUAL HERE I AM GOING...
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BACK TO SOMETHING ANNETTE GORDON-REED SAID IT IS INTERESTING TO THINK OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF JOHNSON FROM THE PERSON EXPECTED TO BE AN AVENGER. MALVAL...
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| 00:37:15 |
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THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A PROMINENT AFRO-AMERICAN REPUBLICAN LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLASS WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ANDREW JOHNSON? >> I
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| 00:37:27 |
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STRIKE THE BOOK WITH FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HIS FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH ANDREW JOHNSON. AND HE SEES ANDREW JOHNSON ACROSS THE ROOM AND JOHNSON LOOKS AT HIM...
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| 00:38:50 |
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DOUGLASS HAS SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH LINCOLN. LINCOLN FAMOUSLY HATCHES A PLAN WITH HIM WHICH I OFTEN CITE AS EVIDENCE OF LINCOLN'S SINCERITY IN MAKING...
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| 00:39:53 |
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WHITE HOUSE AND IS BARRED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. AFRICAN-AMERICANS DIDN'T COME THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR TO GO TO RECEPTIONS. HE GOT IN AND LINCOLN SAID...
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| 00:40:50 |
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DRINKING BECAUSE JOHNSON HAD BEEN ILL AND IN THOSE DAYS PEOPLE FOUGHT WHISKEY WAS MEDICINAL. >> YOU MEAN IT IS NOT? >>
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| 00:40:54 |
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I HAD BEEN DRINKING BECAUSE JOHNSON HAD BEEN ILL AND IN THOSE DAYS PEOPLE FOUGHT WHISKEY WAS MEDICINAL. >> YOU MEAN IT IS NOT? >> I WAS SETTING SOMEBODY...
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| 00:41:00 |
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A NOTE TO. THE CURIOUS PSYCHOLOGY OF THIS MAN -- ANNETTE GORDON-REED DID A GOOD JOB PLUMBING THAT PSYCHOLOGY THE 2-HOUR I IT IS ODD BECAUSE HE WAS...
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| 00:41:59 |
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AT A CRITICAL TIME. THAT IS THE REAL PARADOX. HERE WAS A PERSON WHO WAS NOT LOVABLE IN THE WAY THAT WE THINK OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LOVABLE BUT NEVERTHELESS...
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| 00:42:17 |
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WE CAN GET ANOTHER QUESTION. WHEN THE AGE OF THIS SURROUNDING -- JOHNSON WAS CONSIDERED A MISUNDERSTOOD HERO. HE WAS STILL BEING TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS...
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| 00:42:54 |
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NEXT QUESTION? YOU IN THE BLUE SHISTT. >> TWO
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| 00:43:02 |
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QUESTIONS. I CAN TO WAIT TO READ THE BOOK, THE COMPILATION OF NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES AND THERE IS THE CD AND IT TO. ARE THESE DIGITIZED? CAN I SEARCH...
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| 00:43:20 |
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YES. IF WE HAVE ALL OF THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED ON THE CIVIL WAR CONGRESSIONAL THERE IS A LENGTUA PIECE ALSO ON THE RUN UP FOR DID. IT BEACKNS IN 1850...
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| 00:44:02 |
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ADMONITION. NOT A GREAT SALES PITCH BUT THE NEW YORK TIMES WERE PIONEERS IN SCAHE CING. SOME OF THE SCAHE CING IS NOT EXACTLY PERFECT. WE CHEERED ON...
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| 00:44:23 |
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OF C. HERERING THE WAR, WINSLOW HOMER AND THE POET, WHAT WAS THE SITUATION OF YETTING ILLUSTRATIONS? >> ALL HOLE OTHER
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| 00:44:37 |
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SESSION. THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY PUBLISHED IN NEW YORISTT FRANK WAS LEE, HARPER'S WEEKLY AND SEVERAL OTHERS SEND WAR ARTISPER' OUT AND OTHERS TO THE FRONT....
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| 00:46:00 |
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MORE ABOUT THIS YOU NEED TO READ TWO OF HAROLD'S 218 BOOKS, THE UNION S THE AGE AND THE CONFEDERATE IMAGE. >> WHAT WAS THE NEW YORK
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| 00:46:13 |
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TIMES EDITORIAL POSITION DURING RECONSTR01TION AND DID IT EVOLVE? >> THE NEW YO ONE TS THE ES REMAINED
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| 00:46:21 |
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A PARTY PAPER UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF HENRY RAYMOND AND IS S01CESSOR. RAL.OND DIED IN 1869. FAIRLY YOUNG AND WAS TAKEN OVER BY HIS BUSINESS PARTNER. THEY...
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| 00:47:30 |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES FROM ITS OWNERS IN TERRIBLE SHAPE AND LOSING READERS THAT THE MODERN NEW YORK TIMES THAT WE KNOW COMES INTO BEING. THEY ARE THE ANTECEDENCE...
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| 00:47:57 |
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QUESTION. WAIT FOR THE MICROPHONE. >> THERE HAS BEEN SOME
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| 00:48:01 |
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ALLUSION TO THE AMBIVALENCE ABOUT SLAVERY. PETER DRUCKER AND PAUL JOHNSON, THE HISTORIAN, HAVE RECENTLY WRITTEN ABOUT THIS AND SAID THAT THE FOUNDING...
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| 00:48:53 |
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DON'T THINK THE FOUNDING FATHERS HAD GIVEN UP ON SLAVERY BECAUSE OF THE COTTON GIN. WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. THAT IS THE CHANGE...
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| 00:49:47 |
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TIME TO BRING THIS SESSION TO A CONCLUSION. THE 146TH ANNIVERSARY OF WE'S SURRENDER, WHAT EMERGES KNOWLEDGE THE UNION WON THE WAR BUT WON THE PIECE PARTIALLY....
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| 00:50:42 |
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GORDON-REED, HAROLD HOLZER, CRAIG SYMONDS AND JOSEPH GLATTHAAR GIVING A FEW PERSPECTIVES OF THE CIVIL WAR. IN A FEW MOMENTS WE WILL BE BACK FOR THE...
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