Each year, Time Magazine selects the person who had the most influence on events during the preceding 12 months. Five historians were asked who they believed Time would have selected as the …
1,047 viewsAuthor William Cooper, former president of the Southern Historical Association, talked about his book, We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861, in which…
1,472 viewsThis week, Professor William Cooper examines the idea of honor in the Antebellum South. Professor Cooper explains how a person’s “honor” was significantly defined by public perception. And f…
1,592 viewsThis week on The Civil War, two historians discuss the wartime leadership styles of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. This is the first in a series of sessions we’ll air over the next f…
2,518 viewsThe panel members discussed biography as history and the problems of writing about notable figures in American history. H.W. Brands, author of The First American: The Life and Times of Ben F…
547 viewsA panel of authors discussed their books about the U.S. Civil War. Professor Cooper wrote Jefferson Davis, American: A Biography, published by Knopf. Professor Foner wrote The Story of Ameri…
376 viewsWilliam Cooper talked about his book Jefferson Davis, American: A Biography, published by Knopf. Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, was elected on February 10, 1861. In …
3,176 viewsLSU hosted a panel discussion on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "All the King’s Men". The 1947 novel is the fictional story of politician Willie Talos, loosely based on re…
1,357 viewsThe co-editors James McPherson and William Cooper moderated a panel discussion of their book, Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, published by University of South Carolina Press.…
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