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While leading his troops on April 6, 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston was shot in the leg, and due to nerve damage from the wound he did not know the severity of his injury until it was too late. Johnston remains the highest ranking American officer to be killed in combat. General Parker Hills, Dr. Timothy B. Smith, Dr. Chris Mackowski and Garry Adelman detail the events surrounding Johnston's death, and talk about the history of the tour stop on the Shiloh battlefield. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/battlefields/support
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Timothy B. Smith chats about his fifth (and final) volume in his sweeping operational history of the Vicksburg Campaign: Grant's inland campaign from Port Gibson to Raymond to Jackson to Champion Hill to the Big Black River. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world's largest open-air museum, offering more than 1,500 sites across six states. Request a brochure at civilwartrails.org to start planning your trip today.
Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat to Vicksburg posed by U. S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, but Grierson's operation, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason. For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. The daily rides were long, the rest stops short, and the tension high. Ironically, the man who led the raid was a former music teacher who some say disliked horses. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson's Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Novelists have attempted to capture the large-than-life cavalry raid in the popular imagination, and Hollywood reproduced the daring cavalry action in The Horse Soldiers, a 1959 major motion picture starring John Wayne and William Holden. Although the film replicates the raid's drama and high-stakes gamble, cinematic license chipped away at its accuracy. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith's The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. This talk, based on the book, will bring you along for the ride. Timothy B. Smith (Ph.D. Mississippi State University, 2001) is a veteran of the National Park Service and currently teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than twenty books with several university and commercial presses. His books have won numerous book awards, his trilogy on the American Civil War's Tennessee River campaign (Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, and Corinth) winning a total of nine book awards. He is currently finishing a five-volume study of the Vicksburg Campaign for the University Press of Kansas and a new study of Albert Sidney Johnston for LSU Press. He lives with his wife Kelly and daughters Mary Kate and Leah Grace in Adamsville, Tennessee. In 1974, The Civil War Round Table of Chicago established the Nevins-Freeman Award, and bestows it annually on an individual whose advancement of American Civil War scholarship and support for the Round Table movement warrant special recognition. The award itself is designed as a generous financial donation to a historical preservation project chosen by the recipient. This award is named for two men whose legacies have come to be synonymous with the Civil War era: Historians Allan Nevins and Douglas Southall Freeman. A list of the awardees can be viewed on the Chicago CWRT website, at https://chicagocwrt.org/anfa.html. The Nevins-Freeman Award
How do friendships change as we get older? Should you join a bowling league? And also: how does a cook become a chef? RESOURCES:“Social Support From Weak Ties: Insight From the Literature on Minimal Social Interactions,” by Joshua Moreton, Caitlin S. Kelly, and Gillian Sandstrom (Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2023).Join or Die, documentary (2023).“I Tried Bumble BFF for 30 Days — Here's What Happened,” by Beth Gillette (The Everygirl, 2022).Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make — and Keep — Friends, by Marisa Franco (2022).“Grocery Store Opens ‘Chat Registers' for Lonely Customers,” by Gabriel Geiger (Vice, 2021).“The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss,” by Daniel A. Cox (Survey Center on American Life, 2021).“Number of Close Friends Had by Adults in the United States in 1990 and 2021,” by Michele Majidi (Survey Center on American Life, 2021).“You're Not Uncool. Making Friends as an Adult Is Just Hard,” by Peter O'Dowd and Kalyani Saxena (WBUR, 2021)."My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?" by Gabrielle Hamilton (The New York Times Magazine, 2020).“Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much,” by Gillian Sandstrom and Ashley Whillans (Harvard Business Review, 2020).“The Bros Who Met Their BFFs on Bumble,” by Rebecca Nelson (GQ, 2016).“Sex Differences in Social Focus Across the Life Cycle in Humans,” by Kunal Bhattacharya, Asim Ghosh, Daniel Monsivais, Robin I. M. Dunbar, and Kimmo Kaski (Royal Society Open Science, 2016).Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (2011).“Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review,” by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton (PLoS Medicine, 2010).Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam (2000).The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, by Ray Oldenburg (1999).Character Lab.EXTRAS:“How Much Are the Right Friends Worth?” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2022).“Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?” by No Stupid Questions (2022).“How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future?” by No Stupid Questions (2020).“Is There Really a ‘Loneliness Epidemic'?” by Freakonomics Radio (2020).Tell Me Something I Don't Know (2017).
As we embody a spirit of love, we will find increased happiness and joy in our individual lives. Love can strengthen our families, friendships, and more. Click here to view the speech.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
En este episodio hablamos sobre la soledad, esta epidemia que avanza silenciosamente en nuestras sociedades individualistas y nos hace sentir desconectados y vacíos. Vamos a ver como hay sentimientos de soledad que son sanos o adecuados y también reflexionamos sobre lo que podemos hacer para que los sentimientos de soledad no se conviertan en algo crónico que afecte nuestra salud física y mental. Referencias bibliográficas: Valtorta, N.K., Kanaan, M., Gilbody, S., Ronzi, S. and Hanratty, B., 2016. Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B Smith, J Bradley Layton, 2010. Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review. Courtin, E., & Knapp, M., 2017. Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review. Health & social care in the community. Preece, D., Goldenberg, A., Becerra, R., Boyes, M., Hasking, P., & Gross, J. (2021). Loneliness and Emotion Regulation. Personality and Individual Differences.
Timothy B. Smith, a BYU associate professor of counseling psychology when this devotional address was given, will give his remarks.
In this week's episode, we get to hear all about a comprehensive study completed by BYU researchers. Dr. Timothy B. Smith and Dr. Tina M. Taylor have spent decades in their respective fields. Their latest research with Linda Cheng gives an optimistic look at the future for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families. This candid discussion touches on key points of the research along with some personal stories you don't want to miss. https://news.byu.edu/intellect/children-with-autism-benefit-when-parents-are-trained-to-provide-at-home-interventions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
My guest today is Julian Abel, MD, the Director of Compassionate Communities UK. Julian was on the show a couple of years ago to discuss his innovative model for combating social isolation in the town of Frome in Somerset, UK. The goal of his project was to improve health outcomes and quality of life, and a measurable difference was made, in both healthcare cost savings and reduced ER admissions. The work of Compassionate Communities has since spurred further initiatives and is now transforming perspectives on matters of healthcare and social wellbeing around the world. On this podcast Julian and I talk about the power of compassion, and how reason, emotion, and inspiration can help build connection and reduce loneliness. Julian shares how Compassionate Communities is growing as a social movement and talks about what each of us can do to make the world a kinder place. He also reveals plans for Compassionate Communities USA, set to launch in the next few months with a free and inclusive conference. Here’s the outline of this interview with Julian Abel: [00:00:16] Previous podcasts with Julian: 1. Building Compassionate Communities to Improve Public Health, and 2. Maintaining Social Connection in the Era of COVID-19. [00:03:21] Compassion. [00:05:28] Oxytocin is present throughout the animal kingdom. [00:06:00] Film: My Octopus Teacher (available on Netflix). [00:06:55] Book: Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity, by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Podcast with Brian Hare: Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity. [00:07:07] Book: Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman. [00:09:03] Julian's study: Abel, Julian, et al. "Reducing emergency hospital admissions: a population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities." British Journal of General Practice 68.676 (2018): e803-e810. [00:11:18] Julian’s Podcast: Survival of the Kindest. [00:11:25] Julian’s interview with Holly Prince: Dancing in the Field of End of Life Care. [00:13:46] Compassionate Communities UK. [00:15:50] Review on social relationships and mortality: Holt-Lunstad, Julianne, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton. "Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review." PLoS medicine 7.7 (2010): e1000316. [00:17:16] Book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. [00:17:48] Book: Propaganda by Edward Bernays. [00:21:01] Julian's interview with Waleed Nesyif: It's Never Too Late for Compassion. [00:22:28] Compassionate City Charter (and other tools). [00:23:41] How to get people to be more compassionate - reason, emotion, and inspiration. [00:23:52] James Maskell: podcast: The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together, and book. [00:26:46] Steps an individual can take. [00:33:36] Podcasts: The Neurophysiology of Safety and How to Feel Safe. with Stephen Porges, PhD., and Oxytocin: More Than Just a “Love Hormone”, with Sue Carter, PhD. [00:33:57] The people you spend time with affect your health outcomes; Book: Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by Nicholas A. Christakis and James Fowler. [00:34:03] Article: Threats to causal inference in an increasingly connected world. [00:35:51] People who are fiercely independent or resistant. [00:39:57] Enhancing naturally-occurring networks. [00:42:10] Town planning. [00:44:23] Subsidiarity (skin in the game). [00:45:25] Compassionate Communities USA / Elevate Compassion (Coming Soon). [00:48:10] Julian's book: The Compassion Project: A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness. [00:49:11] Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine article: Compassion is the best medicine, by Julian Abel and Lindsay Clarke. [00:49:15] Guardian Article: The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community, by George Monbiot.
Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. The daily rides were long, the rest stops short, and the tension high. Ironically, the man who led the raid was a former music teacher who some say disliked horses. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible.Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself.Novelists have attempted to capture the large-than-life cavalry raid in the popular imagination, and Hollywood reproduced the daring cavalry action in The Horse Soldiers, a 1959 major motion picture starring John Wayne and William Holden. Although the film replicates the raid’s drama and high-stakes gamble, cinematic license chipped away at its accuracy.Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.HOST: Rob MellonFEATURED BREW: Cavalry Scout Stout, El Paso Brewing Company, El Paso, TexasBOOK: The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi (Timothy B. Smith)https://www.amazon.com/Real-Horse-Soldiers-Griersons-Mississippi/dp/1611215307/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=MUSIC: Bones Forkhttps://bonesfork.com/CLIP: The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Timothy B. Smith, author of "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863"
As we embody a spirit of love, we will find increased happiness and joy in our individual lives. Love can strengthen our families, friendships, and more. Support the show: https://ldsp-pay.ldschurch.org/donations/byu/byu-speeches.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Timothy B. Smith teaches that as we embody a spirit of love, we will find increased happiness and joy in our individual lives. Love can strengthen our families, friendships, and more. Support the show.
Julian Abel, MD has been a consultant in palliative care since 2001, as well as the Vice President of Public Health Palliative Care International, and the Director of Compassionate Communities UK. Since 2016 Julian has been collaborating with Frome Medical Practice in the UK to roll out their innovative model of building social connection within the community to improve health outcomes and quality of life. The initial results have been remarkable, with dramatic decreases in local emergency admissions compared to surrounding areas. On this podcast with Tommy Wood, MD, PhD, Julian describes the compassionate community model of care, including the financial and social benefits that come with weaving social support into an existing health care system. He explains how creating stronger connections within the community is a public health imperative and a socially conscious alternative to rising health care costs. He’s also developed a replicable system for bringing the concept to other communities and businesses. Here’s the outline of this interview with Julian Abel: [00:02:19] Compassionate communities: Things that matter most to people who are dying and the supportive networks that surround them. [00:03:08] Palliative care. [00:05:18] The impact of kindness and compassion on how we function. [00:06:01] Death: how best to help people with terminal illness. [00:08:40] Frome Medical Practice in Somerset; Health Connections Mendip. [00:10:47] Impact of social connection: 14% reduction in emergency admissions in Frome, compared to 28.5% increase in admissions within Somerset; Study: Abel, Julian, et al. "Reducing emergency hospital admissions: a population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities." Br J Gen Pract 68.676 (2018): e803-e810. [00:11:53] Social relationships and mortality; Study: Holt-Lunstad, Julianne, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton. "Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review." PLoS medicine 7.7 (2010): e1000316. [00:12:37] Bringing compassionate communities into health services. [00:14:35] Benefits to health, medicine, and society. [00:16:23] Compassionate Communities UK. [00:18:32] Key functions of the model. [00:23:16] Reciprocity and altruism. [00:24:31] Systematic program implementation: How to bring these practices to new communities. [00:26:16] Public Health Palliative Care International; Compassionate City Charter. [00:29:00] Implementation within companies for staff retention and recruitment, employee morale, productivity. [00:30:25] Physicians: Emotional distance vs. compassion. [00:33:49] Placebo effect and therapeutic relationship. [00:37:14] Fitting the model into even very brief medical consultations. [00:37:31] Health Connections Mendip service directory. [00:38:48] A “malnourishment of compassion”, across all age groups. [00:41:34] Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine article: Compassion is the best medicine, by Julian Abel and Lindsay Clarke. [00:41:37] Guardian article: The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community, by George Monbiot. [00:42:13] Highlights email discussing compassionate communities paper and intervention.
Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"
Did you know that NOT having a healthy social life is as much of a health risk as smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, and even more deadly than physical inactivity and obesity? In this episode, Mary shares the research findings of POLS's Social Relationships and Mortality Risk by authors Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith and J. Bradley Layton. Consider that January is National Sunday Supper Month! Start hosting small groups for Sunday dinner either at your house (potluck!) or trying out restaurants with friends. Visit experience50.com/podcasts for more info and the full research report. For more of Mary, text the word FRIDAY to 42828 and you will receive Mary's Friday Five in your inbox each week.
Part 3 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 2 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 1 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 1 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 2 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 3 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 1 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 2 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 3 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 1 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 3 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 2 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.