Click this link to read a transcript of a discussion in 2000 on PBS’s NewsHour in the wake of South Carolina’s decision to cease flying the Confederate flag from the top of the state house at Columbia. Among the participants are Shelby Foote, Roger Wilkins, Ronald Walters, and artist Bill Dunlap.
Day: November 13, 2011
Two Views on James Longstreet
James Longstreet continues to be a person of some controversy in some quarters. Decide for yourself by hearing Bob Krick and Jeffry Wert hold forth on the subject back in 2000.
The Sunday Question: The Battle of Nashville
What do readers make of the battle of Nashville? Was it evidence of the greatness of George H. Thomas’s generalship, or a relatively easy Union victory made possible by John Bell Hood’s disastrous attacks at Franklin?
Crossroads 