professor edna green medford, what was the reaction to what was going on after appomattox? was there anything positive about what was dreamed about or anticipated in the efforts to reconstruction or restoration/ ms. medford: i would like to -- i never remember to do that. i want to echo the sentiment of my fellow panelists. this is in the special audience you are. in the 21 years of this organization i have been here for 19. i always return because -- [applause] this is such a special place. at the end of the war african-american expected full-service and should. -- full citizenship. it also meant all the rights that other americans had shared for all the years of the nation had existed. they expected to be of the control their own destinies. they expected economic independence. they wanted an education. they simply wanted to be allowed to exercise their american birthright. we all agree that reconstruction was tragic. it was tragic not because that's not necessarily because no one had a plan for the free people. there was a plan developed eventually, but it was because the

then historians richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, and edna green medford discuss the results of c-span's survey on presidential leadership. at 8:00, our conversation with arbor feinman time -- barbara feinman todd on "q&a." >> we are four weeks into the trump administration. what have we learned about president trump, and what did you learn about what role democrats need to play in the trunk era? >> you mentioned four weeks. it feels like four years. one thing we are learning is we thought he was erratic. we are learning just how erratic he really is. if this last week's press conference is any indication of how he is going to conduct himself, i actually think it's not just about house democrats but also my house republican .olleagues when do they show any sign of resistance to this administration? there is some indication that the intel committee may take up the flynn issue. there has been tremendous resistance so far. we have to focus -- many of us never thought he could be elected in the first place. the exit polls indicated nothing. people actually thought he was unfit for o

. >>> this sunday aeb richard norton smith, edna green medford and brinkley will talk about the survey. this is the third survey that c-span has done on the subject. the first one in 2000, next in 20009, and then this year. watch the discussion live as part of washington journal this sunday at 8 ob:00 eastern time.. watch the discussion live as part of washington journal this sunday at 8:00 eastern time. >> this weekend c-span city tour will explore the literary life and history of richmond, virginia. saturday at the okay eastern on book tv we will talk with douglas wilder author of so of virginia, the life in the political arena now a professor at common wealth university he was the first african-american to be elected governor of the common wealth. >> and i keep an ear to the ground. people are always, politicians, always politicians hear what they want to hear. people hear what they have to hear. >> we will also visit the edgar allen poe museum. the museum houses the largest collection of mr. po's artifacts and memorabilia. >> if it wasn't for richmond po wouldn't have had a lot of

then historians richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, and edna green medford discuss the results of c-span's survey on presidential leadership. at 8:00, our conversation with arbor feinman time -- barbara

and this sunday, historians richard norton smith, edna green medford he and douglas brinkley will talk about the 2017 historian survey. this is the third survey we've done on the subject starting in 2000, again in 2009 and again this year. watch the discussion live this sunday morning at 8:00 eastern. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, saturday evening at 6:00 eastern, two days after president he lincoln's assassination, and a week after robert e. lee's surrender in april of 1865, generals will william sherman and joseph johnston met to talk about the naval future.april of william sherman and joseph johnston met to talk about the naval future. >> once they were inside, sherman took out the telegram he had been handed just as he was leaving for the meeting and showed it to joe johnston. so far he had shown it to no one else. it stated that two days before, abraham lincoln had been assassinated in washington, d.c. johnston looked up at sherman with horror and said it was the greatest possible calamity for the south. >> at 6 of:50, lynn daumy talked about the invent her o