above all, the bogus antietam episode offer the best target of attack. especially potent was a poorly executed cartoon headed commander-in-chief can ciliates the soldiers vote on the battlefield, which you also have in your papers. it places lincoln at the center in a long cloak and holding a cap, a reminder of disguise was said to have worn when cutting short a journey to washington as president-elect. several dead bodies are being carried from the field as an officer tends to a wounded soldier. a distraught figure signals his distress by holding a hand to his eyes. he demonstrates as the president demands, sing us a song or something else that is funny. songbooks routinely deployed this reading of lincoln endeavors -- you may call your -- substitute your vulgar jokes for liberty and loss. nold by the memory of our fathers and the graves, we will perish on a thousand fields and we become your slaves. in a song, the first verse is tribute to mcclellan's victory at antietam, the second verse runs abe may crack his jokes while yet -- yet the guns grow cold

above all, the bogus antietam episode offered the best target. especially potent was a cartoon headed the commander in chief conciliates the soldiers vote on the battlefield, which you also have in your papers. it placed lincoln at the center clad in a long cloak and holding a cap, a reminder of the coward's disguise he is said to have worn when cutting short his journey to washington as president-elect. several dead bodies are being carried from the field while an officer, evidently mcclellan, tends to a wounded soldier. a distraught figure is back to the viewer, signals his distress by holding a hand with eyes. he recommend straits as the president demands, now marshall since us picayune butler or something else that's funny. couplehood song books routinely deployed this malignant reading of lincoln in their verses. i quote, you may call your black battalions to aid your sinking cause and substitute your vulgar jokes for liberty and laws. know by the memory of our fathers, by those green unnumbered graves we'll perish on 10,000 fields as we bec

it was only after careful reflection that he opted not to respond publicly to the antietam fiction. in the time after his death, his reputation as a presidential storyteller, joke teller, and ready, wet would come to take on a character wholly positive and benign. that, however, was not the case during the dark and deadly days. my argument is that lincoln's sense of humor has to be taken seriously. we should recognize which variety and complexity of purpose understands the ethical dimension, and remain aware of the political risks lincoln ran in telling jokes while the republic was suffering and engaged in an existential struggle costing at least three quarters of 1 million lives. as the nation suffered, so, of course, did the president. humor was his lifeline. lincoln was a shiny example of the truth proffered by the theologian reinhold neighbor who perceived humor as proof of the capacity for self to gain advantage from which is able to look at itself. people with a sense of humor do not take themselves too seriously. they are able to stand off from themselves, to see themselves i

it was like after antietam. it can't be an unequivocal defeat if the union army doesn't even pursue. they must be so damaged they can't pursue and so there was a very very mixed reaction to gettysburg that contrasted very strongly with the really gloomy reaction to the loss of vicksburg. and i think that the other measure of how little impact gettysburg really had is that it affected not at all lee's reputation in the confederacy and you see all these accounts. not that long after we're talking about how lee's never been defeated and he never will be anything. what it's one of the main things quoted to prove. what a disaster gettysburg was is is they go to that you can always find something in some account that will make it sound like it was a disaster and one of the greatest confederate. gyrus, of course was their great ordinance genius and his diary has a passage where it says that after you know, it seemed we were winning the war then after vicksburg and gettysburg were tottering to our destruction. that is q

do not run an antietam. they were put out a position. they were green and they were look he's that doesn't mean it wasn't difficult and challenging for them to process and then presented to the public in a way that it was flattering and i'm sure was the case but it's always struck me that if this monuments that this regiment certainly it broke in it ran as odd that they didn't put a monument there. they obviously did not see it that way. i'm not saying that they were celebratory about it as well. and that leads me then to the final question. one of the ones that we have sort of skirted around in part because to my surprise but also to my delight that this volume does not hit head on the issue of post-ramatic stress disorder or trauma. i was relieved actually because you know this supposed dark turn in civil war historyography. i thought is in part responsible for these binaries. i putting people into campus is never a good thing period just i think it almost always leads to bet history. i think it's a special bad for graduates to feel li

we have civil war battlefields including manassas, antietam, monocacy.e have the home of frederick douglas and ford's theater, where next week we will remember the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln's assassination. so whether you like being outdoors, walking, hiking, jogging, biking on trails and paths, relaxing by the water with a picnic lunch, enjoying live music, or learning more about the stories of triumph or struggle, there's something for everyone in the wealth of national parks in this area, and next year, in 2016, the national park service will celebrate its centennial year. and just last week, we started our national awareness campaign. although the idea of national parks has existed much longer than the agency that now manages them, in fact, here in washington, our federal park lands can be traced back to the public land that was set aside in the 1790s, and rock creek park is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. the founding of the national park service is nonetheless a very important milestone and a moment we have been anticipating

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i'm churchill is showing you know this strong antietam at stand in 1945. thank you. good. well, i you know, i think it's clear. however that you know churchill knew and we talked a little bit about this earlier that churchill knew of stalin's record track record, you know, and he knew that stalin ultimately was not someone he wanted to be friendly with, you know, he had to be so during world war ii and you know, it was a good thing in the in the end for the for the allies. however, you know, the the human rights atrocities the the philosophical differences was one that churchill did not in fact want to participate in so yeah, i think he did see it as a threat and and doing nothing as he says quite clearly in the iron curtain speech was not an option. so i think you know churchill was was quite staunch in his belief on that front. one of our social media followers wants to know. if you know whether churchill blame the soviet union's influence for his election defeat. it no, i don't know if it's anecdotal or not. but at the potsdam conference allegedly winston churchill is t