Jim Martin
A Civil War Weekend on Book TV (C-Span)
Mon Dec 18 20:42:46 2000


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A CIVIL WAR WEEKEND

Selected Highlights of "A Civil War Weekend":

Harold Holzer and Frank Williams, Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory: The "Rubber Room" Phenomenon

Lynda Sudlow, A Vast Army of Women: Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War

William Frassanito on Civil War Photography

Martin Marty on "Lincoln and the Ironic Tradition in America," the annual Civil War Institute Fortenbaugh Lecture

Gary Gallagher, on Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign

Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream

Jeff Shaara on work by his father, Michael Shaara, and his own new book, Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

William Davis, Jefferson Davis

Mark Neely on the Republican Party at War

James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Abraham Lincoln & the His Cabinet: David Herbert Donald receiving the Richard N. Current Life-time achievement award and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a book about the Lincoln cabinet that she is currently researching.

James Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend


James McPherson speaking at the annual anniversary of the Gettysburg Address