{"182751":{"#nid":"182751","#data":{"type":"event","title":"\u0022The Civil War as the First American Revolution\u0022 by Jamil Zainaldin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe are accustomed to talking about the events of 1776 as \u201crevolutionary\u201d and the conflict of 1861-65 as a \u201ccivil war\u201d involving a legalistic disagreement (whether the Union is dissolvable). Both were very violent.\u0026nbsp; It is possible however that neither description fits the subject. In fact, we may have the terminology exactly backwards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis lecture will look briefly at the American Revolution as a legalistic event (a deadly one, to be sure) and then turn to the Civil War as an international revolutionary movement that the U.S. public, until Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cLincoln,\u201d has been slow to grasp. Just why this is so also will be discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Jamil Zainaldin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is President of the Georgia Humanities Council. He received his PhD in 1976 from \u0026nbsp;the University of Chicago, and has taught at Northwestern University and Case Western Reserve University, focusing on U.S. History and Law. Zainaldin has also worked in Washington in a variety of roles, including Deputy Director of the American Historical Association. He is author and co-author of two books \u0026nbsp;on American History, and has written many articles on humanities, history, and the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0022Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War\u0022 Lecture Series is jointly sponsored by the Georgia Tech Library and the School of History, Technology, and Society. For more information on the lecture series or the exhibit itself, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/weblog.library.gatech.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/lincoln-the-constitution-and-the-civil-war-exhibit\/\u0022\u003ELibrary\u0027s blog\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Civil War as the First American Revolution\u0022 is presented by Dr. Jamil Zainaldin, President of the Georgia Humanities Council.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This is the final talk in a three-part lecture series held in conjunction with the traveling exhibit \u0022Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War\u0022"}],"uid":"27508","created_gmt":"2013-01-11 13:22:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:55","author":"Tearanny Street","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-01-31T15:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-01-31T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-01-31T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-01-31 20:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-01-31 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-01-31 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"176641":{"id":"176641","type":"image","title":"Lincoln","body":null,"created":"1449179031","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:51","changed":"1475894787","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:27","alt":"Lincoln","file":{"fid":"195885","name":"lincoln.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lincoln_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lincoln_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":140727,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lincoln_0.png?itok=lEmoQJde"}},"182671":{"id":"182671","type":"image","title":"Jamil Zainaldin","body":null,"created":"1449179062","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:44:22","changed":"1475894828","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:08","alt":"Jamil Zainaldin","file":{"fid":"196071","name":"zainaldin2.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zainaldin2_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zainaldin2_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9408,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/zainaldin2_0.jpeg?itok=MQ3uDlsX"}}},"media_ids":["176641","182671"],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"23441","name":"clough_events"},{"id":"11532","name":"library_events"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Upton, Marketing \u0026amp; Events Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Jennifer.Upton@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJennifer.Upton@library.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}