{"id":2447,"date":"2017-05-05T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:50:00","slug":"emeritus-professor-james-l-roark-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2017\/05\/05\/emeritus-professor-james-l-roark-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeritus Professor James L. Roark in &#8216;The New York Times&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/roark-emeritus.html\">James L. Roark<\/a>, Samuel Candler Dobbs Emeritus Professor of History,\u00a0contributed to the May 1, 2017\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>article, &#8220;AP Explains: Could the Civil War Have Been &#8216;Worked Out?'&#8221; Roark\u00a0is a specialist on southern\u00a0and nineteenth-century american history and provided commentary in response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s conjecture that Andrew Jackson\u00a0&#8220;never would have let [the Civil War] happen.&#8221; Read Professor Roark&#8217;s analysis\u00a0below and check out the full Associated Press piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2017\/05\/01\/us\/ap-us-ap-explains-trump-civil-war.html?_r=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;COULD IT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Probably not, according to James Roark, an author and retired history professor at Emory University in Atlanta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;As it got tangled with American politics and regional interests, nobody could figure out a way to save both the Union and preserve slavery in the South,&#8217; he said. &#8216;It wasn&#8217;t for a lack of talking. There was plenty of talking.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James L. Roark, Samuel Candler Dobbs Emeritus Professor of History,\u00a0contributed to the May 1, 2017\u00a0New York Times\u00a0article, &#8220;AP Explains: Could the Civil War Have Been &#8216;Worked Out?&#8217;&#8221; Roark\u00a0is a specialist on southern\u00a0and nineteenth-century american history and provided commentary in response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s conjecture that Andrew Jackson\u00a0&#8220;never would have let [the Civil War] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}