so without further ado i'm going to give you a chris mackowski editor in chief of emerging civil war. thanks for joining us. i want to say thanks to chris for the introduction as well as for the work. he's doing behind the camera today. we'll see if i can do this. i promised folks. i would stay behind a podium today and folks who know me know that i tend to roam and use the room. so we'll see how this goes today. there will be no turning back ulysses. ask grant said in the spring of 1864 as he in the army of the potomac crossed the rapidan river to open the spring campaign. he'd recently recently been named commander of all union armies. and cited to tag along with the army of the potomac to give it a little inspiration. that had guided. when he went someplace if he missed the turn rather than double back, he would continue onward and come in the other direction because he did not believe in turning back and in the spring of 64 he held true to that philosophy engaging with robert e. lee's army of northern virginia first in the wilderness and then to spotsylvania courthouse and then to

chris mackowski is the author of france last bother that'll. the personal memories of ulysses s ground. he talked about his book which recount life post presidency including his financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous business partners. is diagnosis with terminal throat cancer, and his decision to write his memoirs as a way to support his family. mr. mackowski is the editor and chief of the emerging civil war bloc and this talk kicks off a night of programs for the groups spring symposium. watch american history tv, thursday, beginning at 8 pm eastern and every weekend on c-span 3. >> it, week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. up, next we visit the rise up exhibit at the museum here in washington d.c. to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots, and how they served as a catalyst for the modern lgbtq rights movement. >> welcome to the museum. and the vice president of exhibits and content here and we are here at the prologue of our newest exhibit, rise up, stonewall and the lgbtq righ

i'm chris mackowski editor in chief. thanks so much for joining us. it's my pleasure now to introduce my good friend steward henderson who i have known it seems like forever and ever we started out as volunteers with the national park service 16 years ago and since that time stuart has joined the staff at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as a historian. you can find him in summers giving guided tours on all

i'm editor in chief chris mackowski. thanks so much for joining us. it's my distinct pleasure now to introduce my right hand at the blog sarah kay barley managing editor of emerging civil war sarah is the author of call out the cadets the battle of new market. she's at work at a bio on the gallant pelham and she's gonna talk today a little bit about survival in the shenandoah valley in the fall of 1864 us spring summer and fall of 1864. she is a speaker for all seasons ladies and gentlemen, sarah k barley. thank you. good morning. good afternoon, or good evening. i'm not sure when you will be seeing this, but thank you for taking time to join us for these historical presentations. today, i'm going to be sharing a presentation entitled survival medical care during the 1864 shenandoah valley campaigns. a few years ago. i was helping with an event and it was themed around 1864 and i was trying to think of one word to describe the campaigns the events the political happenings of that year. and i decided on the word survival perhaps other words come to min

household named to most people at emerging civil war because that is our is our editor-in-chief chris mackowski. chris is a long time friend. we just figured out today that we've known each other now for 16 years and in that time we've almost written one book per year for knowing each other. so we're working our way towards

i don't know three to four hours because i'm going to try to top chris mackowski's hour and three minute talk that we just went through for grant's last battle and if you missed it, you've got to tune in at least for the peach part alone where we thought he broke his teeth. so it's very entertaining but as we said here and we look at the opening slide here. it's chancellors. those lee's greatest victory lee's greatest defeat and a lot of people would think you know, that is a crazy statement to make but it is not all that. landish to make that this is a fantastic battlefield victory for the confederates. it's a great tactical victory. it will give them the operational control of the eastern theater all the way through mid-july of 1863. but robert e. lee himself is upset with the victory at chancellorsville, and i'll have some quotes in here about from robert e lee saying that he was more depressed than after the battle of fredericksburg whenever he is going to be victorious december of 1862 and one of the most lopsided victories of the american civil war at the battle of first fredericks

chris mackowski is the author of grants last battle, the snow right behind the personal memories of ulysses s grand. he talks about his book which re-counts grants life post presidency, including his financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous business partners. his diagnosis with terminal throat cancer, and his decision to write his memoirs as a way to support his family. mackowski is the editor and chief of the emerging civil war block. and this talk kicks off a night of programs from the group's spring symposium. watch american history tv, thursday, beginning at 8 pm eastern and every weekend on c-span 3. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a portion of the 1968 film second largest minority by producer and director lilli vincenz, and joining us here in our studios in washington is charles francis. the president of the mattachine society of washington d.c., which is what? >> we are in lgbt history society. with a motto of archive, activism. and by that i mean we find all the materials that have been forgotten, sealed, or just basically deleted. and use those materials to talk about gay civil rights, and the o

or as chris mackowski book is called, close dark woods. as you go through here you start to see the battle of chancellorsville starts to turn. what lee has done is now wrestle away the initiative from joseph hooker. booker will fall back. he will fall back from the chancellorsville crouch roads. this is a great sketch of with the chancellorsville house look like. this is the army organizing around it. unfortunately we do not have a known picture of the 1863 chancellor home. this home will burn twice, once during the battle of chancellorsville and then once into the early 20th century. we do have pictures of the second chancellor home, we do not have the pictures of the first unfortunately. so what is lead going to do? he's going to go for broke. he's going to march 50 or so thousand men out towards chancellorsville. he will leave a force near fredericksburg to keep an eye on that distraction that booker had started, that feint if you will. and he will sit down with stonewall jackson, he will sit down with jeff stewart and the three officer

i'm chris mackowski editor in chief. thanks so much for joining us. it's my pleasure now to introduce my good friend steward henderson who i have known it seems like forever and ever we started out as volunteers with the national park service 16 years ago and since that time stuart has joined the staff at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as a historian. you can find him in summers giving guided tours on all of the areas for battlefields, but his real passion. is telling the story of the united states colored troops, he's really made this a passion project has helped co-found a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united states color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. lee's army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and he's also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the movie glory who are those folks right stuart is is tireless in telling the story of the united states color troops men who found the inspiration to fi

eastern on the civil war, a discussion with chris mackowski. and saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history johns hopkins university professor jonathan conley on the promise of sue sue bush ya. >>> and sunday a conversation on first ladies. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >> cspan's landmark cases explores the drama behind significant key court decisions. sunday at 9:45 p.m. eastern, "the new york times" v. united states, the nixon papers. the court's ruling protected the times first amendment rights of freedom of the press. watch landmark cases sunday night at 9:45 eastern online, on cspan or listen on the cspan radio act. >>> u.s. secretary of state antony blinken testified earlier about the 2022 budget. he took questions from the foreign relations committee chaired by senator bob menendez.

every saturday at 4pm eastern here on american history tv on c-span 3 today on the civil war chris mackowski discusses his book grants last battle the story behind the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant here's a preview. and so he'll begin writing and he sends off within just a couple weeks the first account of the battle of shiloh and johnson gets it and it is so terrible that he calls it the second disaster of shiloh. and he's not sure what he's going to do because it's boring it is just absolutely boring. it is dry. it reads like an official report. he tries to figure out how to salvage the situation. he decides he's gonna ride down to long branch and talk to grant personally about this so when he gets there rather than take the letter out and kind of go through it. he sits down with grant on the verand and he says before we talk about the story. just tell me about the battle of shiloh. and johnson later writes that grant who was normally known for being reserved quite loquacious. as he told about his own accounts and his own perspectives of shiloh. and johnson is there that is what i w

chris mackowski is the author of france last bother that'll. the personal memories of ulysses s ground. he talked about his book which recount life post presidency including his financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous business partners. is diagnosis with terminal throat cancer, and his decision to write his meir

household named to most people at emerging civil war because that is our is our editor in chief chris mackowski. chris is a long time friend. we just figured out today that we've known each other now for 16 years and in that time we've almost written one book per year for knowing each other. so we're working our way towards having a book per year for it. chris is a prolific author. he's written a number of books with me without me and with other people as well and he's also the editor in chief of emerging civil war

book free speech and why you should give a -- at 6pm eastern on the civil war a discussion with chris mackowski author of grant's last battle the story behind the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant and saturday at 8pm eastern on lectures and history jones hopkins university professor nathan connolly on the promise of suburbia after the civil rights movement and how local governments impeded desegregation of neighborhoods and sunday at 8pm eastern on the presidency a symposium on first ladies with scholars discussing. why first lady of such powerful voices and how they wield power exploring the american story watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3 up next on lectures and history university of central florida professor yannick mitchkowski teaches a class on the us auto industry from the post world war ii era to present day. he discusses the successes and failures of people like harley earl john delorean and elon musk. supporting all right. so today we're studying the post world war ii domestic scene and the last class we looked at the surging economy of the post world war ii era and

i'm editor in chief chris mackowski. thanks so much for joining us.it's my distinct pleasure now to introduce my right hand at the blog sarah

eastern, a discussion with chris mackowski, the story behind the memoirs of grant. and saturday at 8:00 p.m., johns hopkins professor nathan conley. how local governments impeded desegregation of neighborhoods. and sunday at 8:00 p.m., a symposium on first ladies, why they have such powerful voices and wield power. watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >> federal reserve vice chair testified about economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of inflation. the senate banking committee hearing is chaired by senator brown. >> a year ago today we watched for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as police murdered george floyd. over the past year the pandemic has taken half a million american lives, wreaked havoc on small businesses, pushed families into foreclosures or evictions and forced many workers out of the workforce. for most americans it's been a long, difficult year. a year that revealed what many of us knew, that even before the pandemic our economy wasn't working for most people. i've heard people including my conservative colleagues s

eastern, a discussion with chris mackowski, the story behind the memoirs of grant. saturday at 8:00 p.m., johns hopkins professor nathan conley. how local governments impeded desegregation of neighborhoods. and sunday at 8:00 p.m., a symposium on first ladies, why they have such powerful voices and wield power. watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >> federal reserve vice chair testified about economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of inflation. the senate banking committee hearing is

chris mackowski is the author of "grant's last battle." he talks about his book which recounts grant's life post-presidency including his financial ruin at the hands of inscrupulous business partners, his throat cancer, and his decision to write his memoirs to support his family. this talk kicks off a night of programs from the group's spring program. watch american history tv tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and every weekend on c-span3. >>> and a very good thursday morning to you. you can go ahead and start calling in now with your view of the u.s. supreme court. a poll on this topic from last fall, before the death of justice ruth bader ginsburg, finding 56% of americans viewed the supreme court as middle of the road back in the fall rather than too liberal or conservative. republicans were more likely than democrats to say the court is middle of the

i'm editor in chief chris mackowski. thanks so much for joining us. it's my distinct pleasure now to introduce my right hand at the blog sarah kay barley managing editor