. >> and sunday night john meacham and annette gordon reed talk about the process of writing a presidential biography. for our complete american history tv schedule go, to c-span.org. >>> wheaton college history professor tracy mckinsey teaches a class on the evolving between unionism and emancipation. he describes how public support for emancipation correlated with whether forces were perceived to be winning the war. and he argues as lincoln's reelection was seen as unlikely because of the state of the war in 1863. his class is about an hour.

it is my pleasure to introduce annette gordon reed and peter onuf. [applause] >> thank you, great to be here and great to be here with my good friend annette gordon reed. she didn't know we were going to be good friends when she first encountered me. maybe you want to tell that story because we want to tell you about ourselves because it is interesting. >> an interesting thing for historians to collaborate in the way we collaborated. people do it but often one person will be one chapter and another person will do another. we wanted to have one voice in this and it is interesting we should do this because when i first encountered peter i expected him to be an enemy. in 1995 i had written a manuscript, thomas jefferson and sally hemmings, an american controversy and i was looking for people who would be open opponents to what i was saying which was basically that historians had given short shrift to the story that sally hemmings and jefferson had had children together and over a period of 38 years, historians mislaid the evidence so i went through and w

it is my pleasure to introduce annette gordon reed and peter onuf. applause] >> thank you, great to be here and great to be here with my good friend annette gordon reed. she didn't know we were going to be good friends when she first encountered me. maybe you want to tell that story because we want to tell you about ourselves because it is interesting. >> an interesting thing for historians to collaborate in the way we collaborated. people do it but often one person will be one chapter and another person will do another. we wanted to have one voice in this and it is interesting we should do this because when i first encountered peter i expected him to be an enemy. in 1995 i had written a manuscript, thomas jefferson and sally hemmings, an american controversy and i was looking for people who would be open opponents to what i was saying which was basically that historians had given short shrift to the story that sally hemmings and jefferson had had children together and over a period of 38 years, historians mislaid the evidence so i went through and wr

. >> historians annette gordon reed and ron chernow talk about the process of writing a presidential biography. for the complete american history scheduled to c-span.org. >> npr talkshow host diane reams new book on my own as a memoir about the death of her husband of 54 years and her life since then. she spoke at the book festival. festival. this is 50 minutes. i want to get immediately to introducing the panelists. first i will just say my name is patrick here to speak with diane reams. reams. i'm a book reviewer and writer and i have a panel at 1:30 about the books that changed my life, my recent anthology. that's one of the reasons i get the privilege of being near today because i interview authors recently and i love it. i don't think that our panelists need much introduction. however, dianne is the host of a show on npr, and she has been so for many years. we are delighted to have her speak about "on my own," her new book. i have lots of questions but i will try to make time for yours. thank you for being here. >> it is my pleasure. [applause] >> diane is a national treasure, a

to focus on those actions of monticello as you so places can it is my pleasure to introduce annette gordon-reed and peter onuf. [applause] >> great to be here with my a good friend she didn't know we would be good be good friebe will tell the story? >> these are for historianss to collaborate one person would do one chapter then another person does anotherec but we wanted but voice which was interesting because when i first encountered him i expected should do him to be an enemy.et 1995 i wrote a manuscript of jefferson and having so i was looking for people who would be appointed to what i i was saying which basically was historians ted given short to that story and they had misplayed the evidence in those in opposition but to listen to people whoo would be a post and they're likely to be opposed to this i asked if he would read thet t. manuscript and to my surprise he liked it and weat have been friends ever since i didn't think we would write a book but it thereje was us sign that i said wewe should do the projecte no, no. together to keep it in mys life. >> i don't do people. for m i am the

will feature in annette gordon-reed and peter onuf who co-authored a book on thomas jefferson.watch book tv in prime time tomorrow night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span2. >> democrats are meeting in philadelphia this week for the national convention. you can watch every minute of the event live on c-span, or listen on c-span radio app and view video on video on demand at c-span.org. in addition to the convention, there are several other activities taken place in the city this week. here's a look at week. here's a look at one of the places open to the public. >> it there telling market section of philadelphia where gino stakes with professor bruce hardy of temple university. professor hardy, the food and photo op, what did it become a staple of of political campaign? >> it basically coincides with the campaign, the more personalized presidential campaign. they come into the community, they want to show the community that i understand you, understand your values, care about you and it gives them a personal lights their campaign. >> in terms of years this started, wh

historians annette gordon-reed and others talk about the process of writing a presidential biography. for complete to to be schedule go to c-span.org. >> the former daily intelligence briefer at the cia is the author of the president's book of secrets. about the president's daily intelligence briefing. he talked about the book in the history of u.s. intelligence agencies at this year's roosevelt reading festival. this is 45 minutes. >> hello everyone. for those of you hear this money, welcome back. for those who are new, welcome to the 2016 reading festival. we're so glad to have you here today thinking of the format. will talk for about half an hour and then have ten minutes of question and answer and then he will set up and he'll get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. we are very excited about the issue here at the library. this will be of 75th inverse at the end of june. we are celebrating in many ways in this reading festival's one of the things we think franklin eleanor roosevelt would be happy about. as the center for people to talk about the presidency of the

will also feature annette gordon-reed and peter or knauf who co-authored a book on thomas jefferson. then timothy egan's nonfiction nonfiction work about thomas francis, 19th century irishman who led a failed uprising against the british. watch book to be in prime time tomorrow night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern once he spent too. >> democrats are meeting at philadelphia this week for their national convention. you can watch every minute of the event live on c-span or listen on the c-span radio app and view video on demand at c-span.org. in addition to the convention there are several other activities taking place in the city this week. here's a look at one of the places open to the public. >> here we are in another one of our future expeditions at the center called habits of the white house. it will be up throughout the election year and it's really about celebrating the election in teaching about the presidential election process and all the different parts of the constitution that affects that process. sections, so you' so it's broken up into four sections. so first first year le

this weekend on "the presidency," historians jon meacham, annette gordon reed, and ron chernow on the process of writing a presidential biography. here is a preview. information or you feel you can do a fresh portrait of a person. i had this epiphany when i was working on hamilton. the moment during the hamiltonnary war went and washington's aide-de-camp had a few and hamilton realized he had to justify this decision, had to justify this decision to his father-in-law, who was a very close friend of washington. he wrote a letter to his father-in-law that said, "the great man and i have come to an open rupture. -- he will for once at least repent of his guilt humor." that line, "he will for once at humor,"pent of his ill kept reverberating in my mind. i had this image of the saintly george washington and hamilton gave me this volatile power take boss. -- powder take boss. hamilton tended to portray accurate portraits of people. washington, myself, seemingly the most familiar person in our history, could it be that he was the most unfamiliar in some way? that was my opening wedge, and it

. >> and sunday night john meacham and annette gordon reed talk about the process of writing a presidential biography. for our complete american history tv schedule go, to c-span.org. >>> wheaton college history professor tracy mckinsey teaches a class on the evolving between unionism and emancipation. he describes how public support for emancipation correlated with whether forces were perceived to be winning the war. and he argues as lincoln's reelection was seen as unlikely because of the state of the war in 1863. his class is about an hour. >>> roughly from lincoln's announcement of the emanslaughter product anticipation through the end of the war. that's our focus. i'll try to emphasize, but at the outset it's good always to go back and touch base with what we think are our primary areas of concern for this part of the course. so can i ask you guys to help us all review major themes that we're having in mind right now? someone? hannah, thank you. >> views on race and slavery. >> one of the things we're going to be coming back over and over again is think about what our visitation of the

sunday night at:00 on the presidency, historians jon meacham, annette gordon reed and ron chernow talk about the process of writing a presidential biography. go to c-span.org for our complete schedule. >>> wheaton college history professor tracy mckenzie teaches class on the evolving northern war aims during the civil war between unionism and emancipation. he dedescribes how public support for emancipation correlated with whether union forces were perceived to be winning the civil war. he also argues that lincoln's re-election and even his presidential nomination was seen as unlikely because of the state of the war in 1863. his class is about an hour. >>> now this morning we're really going to be more or less wrapping up the chronological overview of the war, moving at a very rapid pace. our focus today is going to be on the period roughly from lincoln's announcement of the emancipation proclamation through the end of the war. i'll try to emphasize some theme matt iemphasis. but just to go back to what we think our primary areas of concern for this part of the course. someone mention o

annette gordon reed as one of the great slayers of sacred cows. there others in the room. so, i'm wondering what are the next sacred cows that are going to be slaughtered? and or who are they? and when you slaughter a sacred cow it can be very provocative and very. unsettling to certain communities when i publish i got into a public spat with some people who didn't like the idea that i felt quite strongly that -- the return to sierra leone and was involved in slave trading. to be a slave trader was the norm at the time. i'm wondering who is going to be slaughtered next and what will be the consequence of that? prof. berlin: the volunteers for the slaughter can -- line up. [laughter] line up in the rear. i think our session has pretty well -- [laughter] pretty well come to an end. we will have a break. and we will reassemble at 10:35. at that point, we'll talk about slavery and freedom. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. vis

historical writing focuses on building up or breaking down myths, and, of course, you know, annette gordon reed is one of the great slayers of sacred cows when she published the hemmings of monticello and there are others in the room so i'm wondering what are the next sacred cows in african-american history that are going to be slaughtered, and -- or who are they? and when you slaughter a sacred cow, it can be very provocative and very unsettling to certain communities. when i published, i got in a public spat with some people who didn't like the idea that i felt quite strongly that returning to sierra leone and was very involved in slade trading because to be a slave trader was the norm at the time and i wonder who is going to be slaughtered next and when will be the consequence of that? >> the volunteers for the slaughter can line up -- line up in the rear. i think -- i think our session has pretty welcome to an end. we will reas ball. we'll have a break and we will reas ball here at 10:35, and -- and at that point we'll talk about slavery and freedom.

of good historical writing on building up or breaking down myths and, of course, you know, annette gordon reed is one of the great slayers of sacred cows when she published. and there are others in the room. so i'm wondering what are the next sacred cows that will be slaughtered? and when you slaughter a sacred cow, it can be very provocative and very unsettling to certain communities. i got into a public spat with some people who didn't like the idea that i felt quite strongly that sa nkay turned to sierra leone. to be a slave trader was a norm at the time. i'm wondering who is going to be slaughtered next and what will be the consequence of that. >> the volunteers for the slaughter can line up -- line up in the rear. i think our session has pretty well -- come to an en. we'll reassemble. have a break and reassemble at 10:35. and at that point, we'll talk about slavery and freedom. [ applause ] >>> day two of the republican convention begins this afternoon. house speaker paul ryan, majority leader mitch mcconnell, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, two of donald trump's children, and forme