sparks a national political debate, and the republicans, known as the antislavery party, nominate abraham lincoln country lawyer, to run for president on a promise to stop the spread of slavery. >> abraham? what is it? >> we are elected. >> it's true? >> yes, it's true. >> even though lincoln doesn't intend to eliminate slavery where it already exists, slaveholders still consider him an abolitionist. >> you get some sleep. tomorrow will be a busy day. >> after his election, southern states begin seceding from the union, and though the lost cause revisionists claim states's rights as the confederate cause for secession, there is no mistaking which specific right they are most concerned about. >> the southern states that secede -- they held their conventions. then they issued their ordinance of secession. and it is very clear that that issue that causes this political collision is slavery. [ all singing indistinctly ] >> the new confederate states of america choose former senator jefferson davis as their president and georgia congressman alexander stephens as vice president. [ cheers and applause ]

as a result, he want anti-abraham lincoln. ed to take matters into his own hands. >> lincoln's re-election becomes the tipping point for booth. faced with four more years of the anti-slavery republican in office, he devises a plan to derail the union. >> follow me, mr. booth. i'll get you a good seat for the speech. >> with firmness in the right, as god gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him... >> john wilkes booth saw the war ending, and southern honor was dying with the end of the war. he was going to kidnap president abraham lincoln and ransom him for the freedom of confederate soldiers, and that was his way of making sure that the war really wasn't going to end. >> booth taps into the underground network of confederate sympathizers in washington and maryland to assemble a team. >> why are you looking at that table? >> that's general grant's wife. >> the one in the white dress? >> that's the one. >> booth recruits a fairly motley crew of confeder

laura: from the civil war to the end of slavery abraham lincoln's story fills the history books. e white house, he was a lawyer in illino. his final courtroom appearance is the subject of a new book by dan abrams, "lincoln's last trial: the murder case that propelled him to the presidency." i spoke to dan short time ago. dan abrams, how did the discovery of a cardboard box in a garage lead you to write this book about lincoln's last trial? dan: when my co-author brought me the story, i didn't believe it. there's a transcript, the only transcript that existhe abraham lincoln trial. it was a really compelling muer trial. no one has written about it, no one has focused on it, and it has become a footnote to history. it was discovered in 1989. i said, "come on, you are exaggerati, something has got to be wrong here." it was all exactly right. we do have this amazing piece of history, this transcript of abraham lincoln's own words cross-examining witnesses, questioning witnesses.it s about 100 pages long. laura: you say that this trial actually propelled abraham lincoln to the presiden

abraham lincoln could be unsupportive and you just don't have to ask mary todd lincoln for evidence of that. we all know george mcclellan said unflattering things about it with him lincoln. but a things about george mcclellan, which we today celebrate as examples of presidential wit. how about how the army of the potomac, for example, was no more than george mcclellan's bodyguard. generally speaking, but unintended, if you are trashing your subordinates in other people, you inspire a lack of respect for them as well. we perceive george mcclellan's comments as outrageous and abraham lincoln's comments is funny. that says something more about us than it does about what is going on here. again, complaints about antietam. what have your horses done that makes them so tired they cannot pursue the enemy? mcclellan's spots is a patient explain -- explanation of the condition of the army of the potomac. you can see behind that he seething. lincoln does not understand anything. he just was to say something funny, and sometimes that funniness, that sarcasm does not hold a good relationship. the

what did abraham lincoln see you go a good and moral and virtuous society. the volunteers change over time. they are going to take shots at this book because let's say your sample wasn't broad enough. what i intended to do here is reconstruct that world and recognize the world is not singular. its dependent on place, on time, on personality. thank you so much, you all have a wonderful lunch. we are in pennsylvania for the annual civil war conference held by gettysburg college. it will continue at 1:45 eastern after this current lunch break. more civil war history from our series. teaching a class on the overland campaign. the campaign took place in virginia and pitted union forces under ulysses s grant against the confederate army of northern virginia under robert e. lee. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. prof. jordan: we're going to pick it up today where we left off on tuesday. and consider the civil war and its eastern campaigns. in 1864. i want to do that today by peering through eyes of this guy. john west haley. john west haley was an un

. >> host: what did you learn abou abraham lincoln and ambition? >> guest: the really interesting thing is that his ambition was so fierce that even at the age of 23 when he runs for the state legislature for the first time -- which is where i start hi story. i start all of them when they run the first time, because some of them are going to lose. they'll be confused. i was at a college, and i was talking about presidents, and he said but i can never imagine being one of them. so i figured if i start when these guys start themselves, abraham lincoln that very first time said he had a peculiar ambition, that his ambition was to somehow win the esteem of his fellow man. he was thinking in those terms each then. then he said i may lose this election, but i think i'll try five or six times, and then maybe i'll be disgraced. he does lose the election, he tries again, he wins. he loses more elections, goes forward. it's an extraordinary story of resilience. >> host: can these guys, were they able to see around corners or think in patterns a little bit mo

abraham lincoln wasn't a governor, was never ase tor. there are some very impressive models that way. but business leaders have done well. michaebloomberg, of course, is mayor, which is the next toughest job after president is being mayor of new york city. d he certain very well and there are many business leaders who went into public service who were sucssful business leaders but even more renowned for their legacies in public service, like avrilan harr who ran the union pacific railroad and chester boelz, a great advertise r

the author of abraham lincoln redeemer president, lincoln's emancipation proclamation, the end of slavery in america, lincoln a short introduction, and a new history of the civil war and reconstruction and one of my personal favorite books on gettysburg, the last invasion, which won the guggenheim prize in military history. welcome scott and alan. >> reconstruction right from the very beginning of the book, you called reconstruction the ugly duckling of american history. why? >> because it is. the era in american history that we like least to talk about partly is because reconstruction is regarded so widely as a failure. and we don't want to talk about failures. it also has the misfortune, so to speak, of coming as a trough two very high ridges in american history. on the other side of reconstruction was a gilded age. gilded age is probably not something we are quite is dedicated to as the civil war. it has a very more modeling to it. nevertheless, it is identifiable. and we can talk about characters in a gilded age as though they really had some designed and some sparkle. as the they are

scott: in the book, you say abraham lincoln actually had been planning for reconstruction as far back as 1863, even though, as you also mentioned, lincoln, when he used the word reconstruction, which was rare, that, there were always some describing words. for some reason he didn't like the word reconstruction. maybe it had something to do with what you just explained. when lincoln was assassinated andrew jackson, vice president, becomes president. lincoln had in mind what reconstruction probably would have looked like. andrew johnson, not so much. how much of a key was it to this lost path to reconstruction that lincoln wasn't there to enact it, and it was andrew johnson? allen: >> well, scott, i don't think there is any question that's asked me more often than what would have happened if lincoln had lived? and, of course, there is no real way to know that because lincoln, as a person and as a politician, always tended to play his cards very close to the chest. he was a very reticent, shut mouthed man, as his friend david davis described him and he was like that on personal matters a

and however abraham lincoln and george washington. i think many esidents in fact have written poetry including grant i will not -- list them all but of course presidents have had poet. and famously robert frost, miya angelou, and the mellon foundation robert i don't thank you did? and i don't remember and did not think that at the poet at the inauguration although we know it was the biggest crowd ever. [laughter] but no poet. and when jfk was the center men that could be true. but what we do know is that many presidents have consciously used alliteration oradence to get people's attention. so each of our panelists will speak for less than ten minutes and then help them but i doubt they will need much help to have a conversation with each other and after they do that for a while we will have q&a from the audience so the order will be i will a robert pinsky who is a poet talk about civic matters and citizenship and then i will turn to david litt and t ted was a speechwriter for president bush the first and then of course senior speechwr

it is time, he said, to remind ourselves and the country that we are the party of abraham lincoln. he expanded. republicans, he said, were the party that were true to lincoln's views on humanity, liberty, dignity, equality. histrive to emulate commonsense approach to the nation's political and economic problems. and his integrity in the reaction. we share lincoln space in the worth of every citizen and his trust in individuals and communities to solve their own problems whenever possible. but we recognize also with lincoln that when the problem is beyond their capacity to solve, they must be assured of federal , generously and intelligently given. and that you go. eisenhower connecting the past and the present. his comments are not in fact have affected the core beliefs of the republican party base as it was emerging in the wake of the goldwater campaign, because it was increasingly out of sync with eisenhower's middle way in politics. the republican party was also moving away from the notion of a commitment to the black freedom struggle and school integration in particular. but the

i recommend abraham lincoln's poem "my childhood home i see" ."lso, i never read at an inauguration but in january on the steps of the new york public library, former laureate rita dove and i were asked to read counter inaugural poems, which we did. [laughter] robert: i supplied quotations from poetry to a president and a vice president, and i am going to talk to you about poetry as plain speaking. i will tell a story on myself. i spoke to -- i cannot remember the name -- i got the phone number of someone i'd worked with with the gore campaign of someone who was running these things for john kerry, and said i would like to help speech right. adhesive rubber, we will save -- and he said, robert, we will save you for what we want something really lofty. we want passion and intensity and color and i realized, oh shit. this is not going to work. what i think poetry has to offer is artful plainness. making something feel direct. it does take art to do that. i'm going to read you a 16th century poem written in the plain style, and i will just change one

then you think about abraham lincoln. what did he do?ardoned soldiers who may have been afraid and ran away from battle or desserted to go home to their family. and he wanted them to be soldiers again so they could retrieve their lives. he said in the middle of the civil war, the only thing that made him happy when all these people were dying was to be able to pardon a soldier. andrew johnson pardons the confederate soldiers. and of course ford pardons nixon because he wants the country to move forward. what is this doing except exacerbating divisions in the country, making us more apart than bringing us together. >> let's also talk about words and language, your stock in trade, often not mine even though i get paid to speak. we have samantha bee in the news today for a word decidedly not allowed in any of our households. we have roseanne in the news this week. we have the president kind of always in the news for his use of language. and what have you seen? if words were a tradeable stock, what's happened to them? >> you think about what

on -- who walks abraham lincoln. checklike she did a quick on her testament. she ends up endorsing lincoln after giving a lecture on him. afterwards she meets with lincoln. not to quit being a thing to death, she is now 21. she will be allowed to vote in just under six decades. yet people invited her and they cared what she said. the press made a huge deal of all this. if you know your 1854 election details, there is serious conversation about whether republicans should dump lincoln or select one of a handful of possible figures left of lincoln including fremont. maybe simon chase. anna dickinson -- i find this fascinating -- her papers are full of big-time people. asking her if she's going to endorse lincoln. contemplate that. why would they care that is barely 20-year-old quaker from philadelphia is endorsing lincoln? she is holding them if they because she is not entirely happy with lincoln. he goes on to become the losing figure in a great sex scandal -- that's a story for another day. he writes to her and says, tell us what you're going to do. she writes a

protect that an assassin would shoot abraham lincoln and in the place of the great a man to pay her, make a lifelong slaveholder president. i should not criticize johnson. i do not criticize johnson in every way. he was patriotic, he was incorruptible. his idea of how to reconstruct the union was that presidents should do it by executive action and it was none of congress's business. a very good reconstruction could be made by ignoring the former slaves writes beyond a simple freedom. when congress try to put her a civil rights bill, johnson proposed and when it 14th amendment, johnson could not be to it that he did his best to keep it from being passed. it could be said that as a result of this, congress decided that it could make new deal with the president. veto, itover johnson's went through a series of acts to force the creation of elections by black and white men alike to create constitutions based on the equal protection of the law. if those constitutions were passed by a majority of all the registered voters and if the two governments then adopted the 14th amendment, they wou

1864 was, for the nation bear those losses long enough to allow for a rim lincoln distill -- for abraham lincolno still when the election and make progress to win the war that lincoln would be reelected? that is a horrible calculus to have to make. it is very clear. there are memoirs of him at the wilderness at one point sitting on his cot and sobbing. i don't know if that is -- i'm curious what you would think of that, brooks. i have not looked at all the sources. i think his decision not to include that sort of thing has left him open and vulnerable to this continued perception of him as an uncaring, attached, clinical butcher. hed, clinical butcher. >> it makes a very smart decisions as a commander. i was hoping you and your fa fellow panelist might speak as to how political considerations shaped grant's strategic decision-making processes. >> is strategic decision-making processes -- 1864, robert e. lee 's report said it grant ever crosses the james river, in only be a matter of time. the fact is grant did not have all the time he needed to have. the had to produce victories that appealed to

unlike abraham lincoln he didn't have to deal with the secession of 7 states during appear go between his election it is inauguration. unlike richard nixon he did not inherit a war in which more than half 1 million american soldiers were bogged down. unlike franken roosevelt and barack obama he didn't take the oath of office in the midst of a massive financial crisis. although the world had its share of problems when the trump presidency began they were ongoing, not new or urgent. the domestic economy had been growing slowly but steadily for all but one quarter of the previous six years. the annual rate of inflation is below 2%, the annual rate dipped 5%. the percentage of americans regard themselves as middle or upper class to rch 62%, greater share than below the 2008 financial crisis, the stock market was already booming. and unlike recent republican predecessors donald trump took office with the republican congress. look at it that way, donald trump was dealt a very good hand and honestly, i am somebody who appreciates the significance of the tax cut bill that was enacted last mon

abraham lincoln made decisions, jefferson davis, lee, grant made decisions and those decisions made a difference and many other people at lower levels made decisions that had significant consequences that changed the course of history. and so people make significant decisions and another thing i think they goes into telling a story is that history is not evidence inevitable. don't like the word inevitable for history. nothing is inevitable if people make different decisions the decisions they make are important but nothing about that had to if people made different decisions. so that give as natural drama to it. not to overdramatize but adds a certain drama. that face decisions, they face problems and they had to make decisions and they had cope with those problems andover come, and then that determined the flow, the course, that events took. i think it's important for people to find the civil war accessible and interesting and enjoyable because i think the civil war is an important topic, and if you enjoy something and it's accessible and interesting, you're going to come to understa

story. >> fourscore and seven years ago. >> reporter: at m conceed in liberty. >> reporter: abraham lincoln's that all men are created equal. >> reporter: is alive. >> it's amazing. >> reporter: but some of lincoln's most prized possessions are in peril. they may go to auction because of a historic debt. >> may i go in? >> please, do. >> reporter: illinois state historian sam wheeler let us into their high security vault. >> this is where we keep the greatest treasures that we have. >> reporter: treasures that could be sold include -- >> wow. >> reporter: lincoln's iconic hat. >> as people called out, good evening, mr. lincoln, he donned that cap. >> reporter: that's how you think the two marks are on the brim? >> yeah. from well worn fingerprints. >> reporter: and the gloves that were in his pocket that ill-fated night. >> that's his blood right there? >> reporter: oh, my goodness. >> here and here. i've seen people stand in front of the bloody gloves, stand in front of the stovepipe hat and they will weep. >> reporter: the museu nmo tn $o the loand he artts s ivate donations pour in. what d

thursday, we are in washington dc at politics and prose or abc news ban abrams talks on abraham lincoln legal case, in murder defense of 22-year old peach when harrison in 1859 pick that's a look at some of the events we will cover this week. many events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> what would be the impact if the democrats wanted control of congress and they are-- they are indeed was that impeachment effort? what would that look and feel like and what with the impact of the on the people of america, 45% of whom in a recent poll feel that trump has done a pretty good job? susan, why don't we start with you and marched down this way. >> well, impeachment is a very serious thing and i think we have to be aware of the fact that there are many people who don't feel that last year has been a fair year, no one has concentrated on the nation's business particularly. we have heard nothing but stories and gossip and speculation on television every day and i really fear for our country if we start this cycle, the cycle of impeachment an

mark do we believe that the united states of america is stillthe last , best hope on earth as abraham lincoln once proclaimed? we are not perfect. we have faltered in our leadership times and at others we have struggled to determine how best to project our national values. but it is our leadership as the designated driver of a vehicle of world order, the so-called pax americana back for more than 70 years has maintained ndunprecedented peace and prosperity throughout the world. >> yes, the world we live in is far from perfect. but i believe it is a far better place as a result of americanleadership . it has been said that the universe of abhors a vacuum and if we do not lead, someone else will. those who are most likely to do so do not share our democratic values. we should not wish for future generations of americans to come of age and world led by someone else. >> freedom as john f. kennedy once proclaimed is not merely a word or an abstract eerie. but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.we go to those generations who have come before us and those who come after u

on politics & prose bookstore for abc news dan abrams' talk on abraham lincoln's last legal case, a murder defense in 1859. that's a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> you can differ with people politically are, we all do that. democrats -- i'll accept the view we're sort of a little left of center party at least, they're right of certain moving right rapidly. maybe we're moving left. but politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome some of those differences through principled -- through extended discussion and a real legislatives process, through principled compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. the times, as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on your own were very few. maybe 1933 and '36, fdr dealing with the depression. lbj, '64, '65. but even lbj reach tout republicans, and -- reached out to republicans, and fdr had republican support the first two years. when mitch

this is names you know. >> abraham lincoln. >> you may have heard of him.. >> keep us posted. >> we will. >> a snuff box, i'm sure, is a historical piece of arca nachlt thank you. >> we'll go back for one last word on the mexico border and you can hear more on our i teens and apple's ipod apps. today our dr. narula talks on emotional intelligence and marc brackett and whether schools should teach social and emotional learning to chuildren >> yes. >> yes. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ ♪ legendary jockey vÍctor espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. ♪ ♪ so is his horse. ♪ ♪ when it comes to snacking. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that's why he uses the chase mobile app, to pay practically anyone, at any bank. life, lived victor's way. chase. make more of what's yours. wlet's do it. ? ♪ come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. at the mercedes-benz summer event. lease the glc300 for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >>> let's go back to gayle who spent all morning outside a border patrol facility in

there, abraham lincoln was assassinated. they decided california was not the place for them. back and tried wants to come back after the war to fayetteville. changed.st too the people were changed. living was hard. this had been like a cultural center almost on the edge of the events it's of america just before you go into indian and wild west territory. it wasn't that anymore. they didn't feel good feelings to stay in fayetteville. so they went and settled in kentucky and they never lived here. jonas did help some confederates to receive their pardon after the war. he had some communication with the people, but not living here. >> you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. onlyis american history tv on c-span3. this week on real america, on the case, a rarely seen 20 minute documentary about the 1968 poor people's campaign. here's a preview. [video clip] >> 50 years ago in the spring of 1968, an estimated 3000 protesters came to washington dc and set up camp along the national mall. they were seeking econ

don trump was fortunate to take office when he did unlike abraham lincoln, he did not have to deal withe secession of the seven states between his election and his inauguration and unlike richard nixon he did not inherit a war in which more than half a million american soldiers were bogged down and unlike franklin roosevelt and barack obama he did not take the old of office in the midst of a massive financial crisis and although the world had its share of problems when it began they were ongoing, not new or urgent. the domestic economy had been growing slowly but steadily for all but one quarter of the previous six years. the annual rate of inflation was below 2% in the implement rate had dipped below 5% and the percentage of americans to regard themselves as middle or upper class have reached 62% and a greater share than before the 2008 financial crisis, the stock market was already booming and unlike all his recent republican predecessors donald trump took office with a republican congress. you look at it that way and donald trump was dealt a very good hand and honestly i am somebody

break we are back with brooks simpson of arizona state university who will talk about president abraham lincoln and his relationship with two of his commanding generals. for the next -- for the next 10 minutes, our c-span cities tour takes you on the road to feature the history of an american city. >> i am standing and perhaps one of the most famous courthouses in the united states where really nothing of significance happened, appomattox courthouse. the name is confusing. courthouse is one building behind me and is situated at appomattox courthouse, which is a village. appomattox court house, the village is important because it is where the general surrendered to ulysses, bringing about an end, the end of the civil war. this town has a lot of history for its size. today we would like to talk a little bit about why appomattox courthouse is so famous. we would like to spend time about untold stories. the courthouse is a village complete with a tavern, stores, lawyers offices and homes. it was not more than 130, 140 people in 1865. it is an unlikely place for the two large military forces to --t

or our friend abraham lincoln, who when he left springfield to come here as president and took the train to philadelphia to independence hall and he said that the political sentiments i entertain have been drawn from the sentiments, which were given to the world from this hall and he said that the goal of his presidency was to save the country invented there and he added ominously, i would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. obviously, the person who did assassinate him is another misfit who left home from baltimore. [laughter] >> and then i have written about new england missionaries who come to hawaii, like so many church folk of the early 19th century who saw the new map from expeditions like that up captain cook and resolved to spread the gospel to all of the places where cook sailors had spread the clap. [laughter] or to their forebears, the new england puritans such as the massachusetts bay colonists who unlike those hippies from tolymouth, were trying convince the english government that they were not separating from the english and that they were going to ameri

while growing up in brooklyn, one of my early childhood readers was a book about abraham lincoln. learned that i lincoln had come down this long to this exotic city at the other end. they were referring to the mississippi and new orleans. that piqued my little boy imagination. that pointed the seed for a lifelong fascination with new orleans and the mississippi river that eventually became my life dedication. >> so you are going to drive us all around the city. we are starting off in a place that you don't think of when you think of new orleans. this doesn't look like the stereotypical picture you see in the city. professor campanella: the iconic image of new orleans is the narrow streets of the french quarter, the cast-iron balconies, the old buildings. this too i new orleans. this is city park. this is volume st. john. -- bayou st. john. this byaoayou -- you almost ca't overstate its importance in the geography and history of the city. ourirectly influenced why founder established new orleans i. nd,hought we would loop arou follow the bayou into the city, and how that led to the

while growing up, one of my early childhood readers was a book about abraham lincoln. i was five years old. this was 1971. in that book, i learned that lincoln had come down this long river to this exotic city of the other end. they were reforming -- referring to the mississippi and new orleans. that planted the seed for a lifelong fascination for new orleans and louisiana in the mississippi river, that eventually became my life dedication. >> you're going to drive us all around the city. we're starting out in a place that maybe you typically don't think of when you think of new orleans. this doesn't look like the stereotypical picture you see of the city. where are we? is at thenic imagery narrow streets of the french quarter, the cast-iron balconies, the old buildings. this is city park over here. this is beautiful by you say john -- bayou st. john. you almost can't overstate its importance in the history and geography of the city, because it directly influenced why our founder established new orleans here exactly 300 years ago. the year 2018 is a tie centennial of n

>> andre the giant and abraham lincoln. >> my question was did you enjoy imp proe vising in the movie i loved it. we got play around. >> what should ski the next person in your cast? >> what was it like working with the most talented member of the cast, ice la fisher. >> i learned everything from the most talented actress on the planet, isla fisher. was it very hard to not fall in love with the epic dance moves that i had on set? >> that's my question? >> yes. >> it's always hard to concentrate when she's in a room. >> for jeremy's question, we came back to leslie. >> how many times day do you shower? >> once. no, sometimes twice. >> she's soaked. >> i took a bath. >>> coming up,et of the new "halloween." >> i'm going to be 60 years old and i'm playing the same character. >> how jamie lee occur the tis is finally getting revenge. >>> then -- >> one of "agt's" most inspiring contestants ever. we're at home with his family including his five foster boys. >>> plus -- >> oh. >> how did this all happen? >> our kardashian family feud special. >> i'm here to win, bro. i'm here to win. >>> bu

which is good. >>> more than 150 year after his death, the nation's fascination with president abraham lincolnvery year hundreds of thousands are drawn to the lincoln presidential library and museum in bring field, illinois. but now the museum may be forced to give up some of the lincoln artifacts make up its worrell-class collection. >>> four score and seven years ago. >> reporter: at the lincoln presidential library and museum in springfielding illinois, abraham lincoln's legacy is alive. but some of lincoln's prized possessions are in peril. they may go to auction because of a historic debt. illinois state historian sam wheeler led us in to the high security museum vault. treasures that can be sold include lincoln's iconic hat. >> as people called out, "good evening, mr. lincoln," he donned that cap. >> you think that's what those two marks are on that brim? >> yeah. from well worn fingerprints. >> reporter: and the gloves that were in his pocket that ill-fated night. >> that's his blind right there? >> yes. >> oh, my goodness. >> here and here. i've seen people stand in front of the bloody

at 10:15, arizona state university's brook sitchson on abraham lincoln. then at 2:45, elizabeth of the university of virginia on elizabeth van lew who operated a spy ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv. n c-span3. >> next, a book tv exclusive. our cities tour visits fort worth, texas. to learn more about its unique history and literary life. for seven years now, we've

he said everything i read about abraham lincoln says to me that he was one of the great compromiser's in presidential history. he came right down the middle and got pressure from both sides. warren, that was eisenhower. i juxtapose that with warren, from his memoirs. according to warren he had a conversation with eisenhower after he retired as president and eisenhower by then was known to be quite critical of warren and the warren decisions and warren said i don't understand. you are a politician, you have been compromised. but when you are a justice of the supreme court or chief justice of the supreme court you are obligated to on principle. you can't do a little at a time. you can't do a little of the principal at a time, you have to do it all at once and that was earl warren. >> they never explicitly overruled plessy versus ferguson. do supreme court justices only give a little principle? >> my reading of brown versus board basically we can have our constitutional law discussion on this but my reading is it rendered plessy versus ferguson. >> what about your mention of lincoln? eve

ar union inside of man who was indifferent to politics, this very same man who it isfor abraham lincoln. also true that what happened in the campaign hushed the critics at home. no one can out charge him without being a man. no one could say he lacked a reputation. he had that and he earned it through the experience of war. his example is very us thatt. it shows soldiering was never a state of being, but a process of becoming. to insist that he was the common soldier is risky. the stereotyping that revolves around the following binaries: was the man loyal or disloyal? brave or cowardly? political or ankle a political? idyllic or disillusioned? the story of him and his powerful letters reveals that a man could be all of those things at different times during why has ity career. been so difficult for historians to identify or recover the multiple personalities of soldiers? in part is because the letters that the soldiers sent home were letters that depicted honorable, and cannotoldier boys. you read soldier letters as transparent windows into the past. we have to think about audience. who

abc news day and abrams recalls abraham lincoln's last legal, a murder defense in 1859 all this weekend on c-span2 book tv. for a complete schedule visit book tv.org. now, we kick off the weekend with actor blondy baruti on his journey from the conga to america.

even though abraham lincoln passed the emancipation d proclamation tlare the end of african enslavement, it took two years for wor to finally reach texas. the remaining slaves were freed on june 19, 1865, a.k.a. june teenth. now the holiday is officially recognized in over 43 states and also washington, d.c. any object. any surface. if you've got a life you gotta swiffer you'll make my morning, buty the price ruin my day.ou? complicated relationship with milk? pour on the lactaid, 100% real milk, just without that annoying lactose. mmm, that's good. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. (crunching) ♪ dude, your crunching's scaring the fish. dude, they're just jealous. kellogg's raisin bran crunch... ...with crunchy clusters and the taste of... ...apples and strawberries. i got one! i guess we're having cereal for dinner. deliciously heart-healthy

. >> reporter: this vault is home to some of the most precious items that belonged to abraham lincolncluding this iconic hat that historians say he wore in the 1850s. but this hat and other items may have to be auctioned off. we'll tell you why coming up on "cbs this morning." >> that's the "cbs morning news" for the monday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and i'm michelle griego. time is 4-- here's neda iranpour with a check of weather. the trump administration's zero-tolerance policy on illegal straily -- slightlythan average today. co er a ridge of high pressure is very close to california which means warm weather and rising temperatures a lot in the next few days. i will explain coming up. >>> that sounds good. coming up we are looking at brate lights for monday morning. the supemm

abraham lincoln wasn't a governor, was never ase tor.here are some very impressive models that way. but business leaders have done well. michaebloomberg, of course, is mayor, which is the next toughest job after president is being mayor of new york city. d he certain very well and there are many business leaders who went into public service who were sucssful business leaders but even more renowned for their legacies in public service, like avrilan harr who ran the union pacific railroad and chester boelz, a great advertise r check. >> lots of chafrms indeedu jeff, thank ry much. bill? >>> elsewhere, we've got g-3 apparel post aing a surprise profit and that's where we begin tonight's profit. the owner of guess and dkny said there was demand for many of eir brands. the clothing company also raised its earnings guidance for the full year. shares rose more than 10% today. n navistar warned its profits would be pressured tear and an expected rise in sales for its less profitable trucks. its auto parts business, its more profitable division,

abraham lincoln playing outside the white house and bringing the game inside. he actually played baseball in the corridors. he u paths.corridor as base but i think william howard taft was the first, and since then -- i have a chapter on ev president since then, up to and including donald trump. we have a chapter showing the prtoidents' relationshihe game and the culture. and the culture and the presidencies relationship to it. laura: it is completely fascinating. you reveal in your book that teddy roosevelt did not like baseball but fdraved the game during world war ii. what did he do? curt: franklin roosevelt saved it after pearl harbo the japaneseac ang pearl harbor in december 7, 1941, and baseball was clueless, not arnecey an exception. the commissioner wrote a letter to franklin roosevelt saying, "what should we do? should we fold our tent? should we go home? should we operate during the duration of the war?", the next dosevelt held a press conference and he read the contents of his letter aloud, which i think exemplifies the noportance of baseball to the

but to threaten to lock kids up, i just thank god abraham lincoln was shot to death before he read thatwe're clear, this is the same side that cheered encoree lewandowski when he mocked a girl with down syndrome being taken away from her parents. >> did you even have jokes in africa, trevor. lewandowski want mocking the girl, he was mocking people who think a girl with down syndrome being separated from her family is sad. >> trevor: but it is sad. if you don't think, that are you heartless. >> oh really, trevor, are you calling trump voters heartless. guess what, they just got ten mr trump votes right there. >> trevor: wait, wait, i just got him ten more votes thark is the stupidest thing i ever heard. >> thousand they are stupid too now those ten people are definitely voting for trump. >> trevor: didn't you say they were already voting for trump. >> they might have forgotten. those people are kind of stupid. >> trevor: let me get this straight. if liberals criticize trump, he will get more votes but if they don't do anything, then he wins anything. so how can they win the situation? >>

. >> the law that abraham lincoln signed back in june of 1864 established yosemite valley and the mariposa grove of giant sequoias. so even back in the midst of our country's civil war, we realized america and maybe even the world would be a better place if yosemite valley and the mariposa grove was protected. >> thank goodness they did that then. the $40 million restoration project was paid for through donations and matching funds through the national park service. it opens tomorrow morning at 10:00. we'll have more on this at 6:00. >>> an update on the rodent species that's invading california, wildlife officials tell us nearly 150 nutria have been trapped. california fish and wildlife found them in the san joaquin valley today. back in april the state of california declared an emergency over the 2-foot long species after it was spotted in the delta near stockton. nutria can dig burrows that can weaken levees, roads and flood control projects. >>> if it felt different today, that's because it certainly was. the it. s have started to -- the temperatures have started to drop. the sea breez