Welcome to Witnessing History!
Here
you will find DVD documentaries and books on the Civil War and other historical
topics as well as information on our upcoming productions and guided battlefield
tours.We hope you enjoy these products and visit often….we
look forward to being your guide through history!
-Kent Masterson Brown
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The New York Times reports that Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing was awarded the Medal of Honor in February 2010 in large part due to Kent Masterson Brown’s biography of him, Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander.
Cushing died commanding Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery at "The Angle" at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, 147 years ago.
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> Click Here for UK News release..
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Witnessing History begins the production of "Henry Clay and the Struggle for the Union,"
a sixty-minute documentary for public television on the Compromises of 1820 (admitting Missouri and Maine), 1833 (reducing the Tariff of 1828) and 1850 (admitting California).
Each compromise narrowly averted Civil War between the slave and free states. Thomas Jefferson referred to the Compromise of 1820 as a "fire bell in the night."
South Carolina actually armed Charleston Harbor and called out its State Militia as President Andrew Jackson sought the approval of Congress to use military force to enforce the Tariff of 1828. The Nation never came so close to Civil War before 1860 than it did during the months leading up to the Compromise of 1850. The documentary will be filmed in the Old Senate Chamber in the Nation’s Capitol.
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Kent Masterson Brown’s newest book, One of Morgan’s Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry,
will be released by the University Press of Kentucky in February 2011 and it will be offered for sale here when released.
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Audio - Lee Memorial Address
Witnessing History invites you to listen to the Lee Memorial Address
delivered by Kent Masterson Brown in the Lee Chapel at Washington & Lee
University on October 13, 2008, the 138th Anniversary of the death of
General Robert E. Lee. The speech was the 138th given in that chapel for
that occasion. We hope you enjoy it.
Thank you,
KENT MASTERSON BROWN
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Guided Battlefield Tour and Seminar Series
Tour Number 6 in Witnessing History’s Tour Series on
John Hunt Morgan and His Great Kentucky Raids, PART II , Saturday, October 30, 2010
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Based upon the critically-acclaimed and award-winning
book, Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics & the Pennsylvania
Campaign, written by Kent Masterson Brown,
the DVD documentary is written and hosted by Mr. Brown.
It takes the viewer on the very roads
used by Lee's Army and immense wagon trains, as well as the key sites along
those roads where Lee established defenses that delayed or defeated advances
by General Meade's Union forces.
Magnificent aerial footage of the roads,
mountain passes and Potomac River crossings make this documentary unforgettable.
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Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled
explores how distilling originated in Kentucky with it's first settlers in 1775,
and takes the viewer to the sites of Central Kentucky's earliest distilling operations. Magnificent portraits and landscapes adorn the production.
Original documents relating to Kentucky's earliest distillers, and pages from Kentucky's earliest newspapers, such as the Lexington Kentucky Gazette and the Paris Western Citizen document on the screen the progression of whiskey-making to the stage where the best of it was old, smooth, amber in color and known as "Bourbon".
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