What a wonderful man Bud Robertson was. A true southern gentleman.

Thank you for breaking my eardrums and scaring the bleep out of me.

RIP Mr Robertson.

@carolbell8008

3 жыл бұрын

MrWatchyourtoes Mr. Robertson is a wonderful communicator!

Professor Robertson seemed to be such a knowledgeable, wise, compassionate, and kind man. Thanks for posting this video on KZread.

I am reading history at University, Robertson is my all time favorite writer and speaker. I could listen to him for hours.

Awesome as always! Thank you Professor Robertson!

I soooo wish more authors would self do their audio books!! this man's a perfect example of ear candy in my opinion!!!

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

He would have been as good as Shelby Foote in narrating documentaries. Must say he would be sad at the binge of iconoclasm that aims at destroying the reputation of many great Confederates, especially Lee. The northern eulogies of Lee in 1870 were heartfelt because if he had uttered a public word against Republican polices in the South, Grant would have been unable to suppressed the original KKK as he did, so many veterans would again have taken up arms.

Touching speech, brought tears to my ears

I had the privilege of hearing Bud Robertson speak on 9/11/2001, at the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable. Great speaker ! Incredible knowledge ! I don't even recall the topic but, before he started his lecture, he spoke about the tragic events of that morning. I remember him saying "... we're Americans...we don't live this way."

@willoutlaw4971

5 жыл бұрын

This man is a reincarnation of Jubal Early. Both were/are determined to rewrite history so as to excuse confederate crimes against the United States. The Radical Republicans were right. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and all confederates who fought against the United States should have been hung or shot for treason.

A great, conversational lecture on the post civil war years and how it shaped those persons who became leaders of the US in industry and politics

Virginia Tech great scholar of history. He coached Robert Duvall for the film Gods and Generals to act as Genl. Robert E Lee. Roanoke 2002

@carolbell8008

3 жыл бұрын

catherine kelly He would have been great!!

@Davidadventures

Жыл бұрын

I wish I had taken some of his classes when I was at VT.

Mr. Foote mentioned my favorite author, Bruce Catton who has written some fantastic books on this subject!!RIP❤️

Your history lectures are awesome and I look forward to reading some of your work!

Very interesting lecture

Matthew Brady died homeless on the streets of N.Y. !! He was the man who gave us all of those beautiful pictures of the Civil War!!

Lecture starts at 2:56.

Don’t think he gives Grant as President enough credit. There were reasons why when he died in 1885 he was still the most popular of 19th century Presidents, excepting Jackson.

@oaa-ff8zj

3 жыл бұрын

Reconciliationists tend to be popular. McKinley was too

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. For one thing he actually tried to be just to the Indians and to the former slaves, His weakness was his deference to monied men and his desire to make up to his beloved wife for his failure as a man of business, for which he had no head at all.

@obiedog1

Жыл бұрын

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@jimplummer4879

Жыл бұрын

​@@JRobbySh exactly .

This wonderful professor has delivered a most powerful lecture!! I would love to read all of his publications and hear him speak, he has a distinguished southern accent and great knowledge. I never knew that the statues were erected and paid for by the union soldiers who fought for the people tearing them down.Wow!! People in general are very uneducated at this time in history. The boys / men who suffered and fought this terrible and great war should be honored and remembered always by all! 🌺🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Westinghouse and Edison.

I took classes taught by Dr. Robertson..... northern abolitionists lived off Slavery as much as southern planters. northern bankers made loans, northern insurance companies underwrote activities, northern textile mills bought slave cotton, northerners ate slave sugar and smoked slave Tabacco and before 1808, slave ships built and crewed by northerners transported slaves into the United States. Maybe the war happened because the guilty feeling of northern abolitionists and indignation of southern slavers at the hypocrisy of the abolitionists. And, what's crazy is that most people today are decedents of post-bellum immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery and just want to get on with life.

@avenaoat

2 жыл бұрын

New York City wanted to secceed from New York state and the USA in 1861!

@carolbell8008

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you were very lucky and blessed to have studied from Professor Robertson, I envy that!

@steftrando

Жыл бұрын

Bruh the south started the war

@robertferguson533

11 ай бұрын

I took his class in 1988. It was at 8 o’clock and I never missed a day. I’ve still got my notes

The North bullied The South!

@kaegan9698

3 жыл бұрын

The South bullied 4 million African Americans.

Interesting but biased

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

As if northern historians were not? Now their scholarship has been contaminated by marxism, which sees all history through the lens of dead German philosophers.

@wolverineeagle

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone is biased.

@williamstocker584

Жыл бұрын

Everyone has their own biases

@roberthamilton-om4pb

22 күн бұрын

The notion of being objective is an ideological commitment - therefore subjective ideal - in itself. He’s certainly easy to listen to and I like his self deprecating humour especially on the topics he addresses which are important. America is an amazing country with all of its flaws past and present. He adds another dimension to the national narrative.

Johnson must have been Bidens father.

@carywest9256

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, their kin somewhere down the line!