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2012 lectures to bring returning guests, new inspiration to Amp

August 27, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Chautauqua’s 2011 Season brought a multitude of speakers, ideas and experiences to the Amphitheater. Authors and historians shared the stage with spies, health workers and economists. Some lecturers made “A Case for the Arts,” while others focused on “The Path to the Civil War.”

Next summer, audiences have the chance to see nine weeks of new talks, each day an opportunity to learn, to grow and to be inspired. The 2012 Chautauqua morning lecture series kicks off on June 25 with a guest who’s no stranger to the Amp — writer Roger Rosenblatt.

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Harris-Perry: Remnants of Civil War era still inform U.S. politics today

August 26, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Author, professor and columnist Melissa Harris-Perry said there is much Americans can learn from history.

“History is, in many ways, the collective project of making meaning out of the events of the past,” Harris-Perry said. “But history is also much more than an academic exercise.”

Her lecture focused on what current generations can glean from history and how historical events, specifically attitudes in the decades surrounding the Civil War, still have relevance in today’s socio-political world.

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Harris-Perry to explore how post-Civil War choices affect politics today

August 25, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

The path to the Civil War diverged as a result of the war, creating an array of new challenges that continue to affect Americans to this day.

Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science, author, columnist for The Nation and MSNBC contributor, will discuss the choices the U.S government made after the Civil War and explore how they continue to impact the nation’s politics in her lecture at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.

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Daniel Walker Howe speaks in the Ampihtheater on Thursday, August 25, 2011.

Howe: Revolutions in communication, transportation deepen North-South division

August 25, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

There are many ways to look at and study the Civil War and the events leading up to it, but Daniel Walker Howe offered a new way of looking at the crisis of secession at his 10:45 a.m. lecture Thursday.

In his lecture, “The Secession Crisis,” Howe put the Civil War into the context of the dramatic revolution occurring a generation prior to the war in the way of communication and transportation.

In the years between the War of 1812 and secession, the world was reshaped, Howe said.

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Howe to address 19th-century advances leading up to Civil War

August 24, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

The Pony Express, the telegraph, steamboats and railroads — although most would call these things innovations that moved forward America’s history, today’s speaker will discuss how these advances served as a catalyst for the onset of the Civil War.

Daniel Walker Howe, author, historian and professor emeritus, will present “The Secession Crisis” at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater as the fourth speaker in the week exploring “The Path to the Civil War.”

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Ed Ayers speaks to the Chautauquan audience.

Ayers: Southern logic allowed for no choice but to secede from Union

August 24, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

“There might seem to be a non sequitur in the title of my lecture, ‘The Logic of Secession,’” Edward Ayers said to open his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater. “How could there actually be a logic of taking the United States apart?”

Ayers’ lecture focused on discerning the logic that led the Southern states to secede. As a historian, Ayers has focused on the history of the South.

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Ayers to speak on viewing Civil War with new eyes

August 23, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Chances are most Chautauquans learned about the Civil War in a traditional classroom setting, with textbooks and lectures and written homework. In 1993, as the Internet was beginning to take off, Ed Ayers began a digital history project, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, that offered a new vehicle for a continued education.

Projects like these utilize modern technology to engage in the Civil War with a fresh perspective, Ayers said.

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Clement Price speaking at the Chautauqua Amphitheater Tuesday morning lecture.

Price: Blacks active participants, not passive receivers, in Civil War

August 23, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

The country is recovering from a long bout of historical amnesia when it comes to the Civil War, Clement Price said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in the Amphitheater.

Price, professor of history and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, said the purpose of his lecture, “Break Every Yoke, Let the Oppressed Go Free!” was to impress upon his audience the importance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which takes place this year.

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Price reflects on higher meaning of Civil War

August 22, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

“Break Every Yoke, Let the Oppressed Go Free!” is the title for the 10:45 a.m. lecture today at the Amphitheater given by Clement Price during this week’s theme, “The Path to the Civil War.”

Price is a professor of history and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor.

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Wood: Go back to the Revolution to understand the Civil War

August 22, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily Comments Off

Answering the question of why the South seceded is not a major historical conundrum, historian Gordon S. Wood said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Monday in the Amphitheater. The more difficult question, he said, is why the North cared.

“Why was the North willing to go to war to preserve the Union?” Wood asked to begin his lecture.

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