http://appomattoxtours.com World at War Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_04/the-road-to-appomattox-live-with-beyond-borders/ http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_04/the-road-to-appomattox-live-with-beyond-borders/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:06:52 +0000 fuad http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_04/the-road-to-appomattox-live-with-beyond-borders/ Andrew mcknight & Beyond Borders filmed at Franklin Park Arts Center, Purcellville VA (5/9/09). Video editing done by Dustin delage. The concert also includes Andrew’s photos and video on the big screen. Andrew’s haunting original Civil War ballad also appears on his 3rd CD “Turning Pages” (Falling Mountain FM-1031). Andrew – lead vox, acoustic guitar; Les Thompson – harmony vox, banjo; Stephanie Thompson – harmony vox, upright bass; Lisa Taylor – drums.

]]> http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_04/the-road-to-appomattox-live-with-beyond-borders/feed/ 0 http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-to-appomattox-and-beyond-the-end-of-the-war-and-a-search-for-meanings/ http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-to-appomattox-and-beyond-the-end-of-the-war-and-a-search-for-meanings/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:49:29 +0000 fuad http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-to-appomattox-and-beyond-the-end-of-the-war-and-a-search-for-meanings/ The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight uses Herman Melville’s poem “On the Slain Collegians” to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that would eventually lead to Union victory, but at a staggering human cost, was Ulysses S. Grant, brought East to assume control of all Union armies in 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. While Robert E. Lee battled Grant to a stalemate in Virginia, however, William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union forces took Atlanta before beginning their March to the Sea, destroying Confederate morale and fighting power from the inside. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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