conspiracy to violate civil rights or denial of civil rights under color of law by the officer. and they can chart other criminal statutes that the civil rights division with charge which carry pretty hefty penalties and the federal government will make a decision, they won't do that until after the state process is far down the line. the feds like to defer to the states where they can. the state charges might be easier to prove. for a federal civil rights charge, conduct of an officer can be bad, but have you to prove level of intent to deny someone of their federal civil rights and in this case it would be your right to due process, prior to punishment. because the poor guy was essentially killed on the street there. so the government can look into that. the doj can. they can look at federal practice and pattern investigation of the minneapolis pd if there's a history or a pattern of police misconduct and do a civil investigation to force reforms to that department.

so that's western civilization. in terms of how they're defending it, well, again, both men intensely patriotic, both men, i think, lost-- loved the values and traditions. back then, churchill was a supporter of traditions in england and donald trump is a big supporter of how america has always traditionally been. hence his famous complain slowing p, make america great again. i think that both men want to ensure that what has always kind of happened in their country stays that way. they're not progressive in that sense. they're kind of a throwback to earlier eras. which a lot of people find comfortable and of course, a lot of people find rather restrictive. so both men, i think, really believe in the west. they really believe in western civilization and they believe in the values and the belief system and the models that are contained within the west and western civilization. >> mr. adams, given your accent. how long have you been familiar with winston churchill? >> it's a really good question. my father is a massiv

some of our tactics were still rooted in the traditions of the civil rights movement. given that this is the next chapter, things evolve. we weren't going to sing "i shall not be moved" and "we shall overcome." we're going to play lil boosie. ♪ >> our streets. >> we're not carrying protest signs, we're wearing protest tees. to wear your sunday best, that was a strategic move in the civil rights movement, but i shouldn't have to dress my best for you to see me as a human being. >> reporter: when black lives matter activists objected to the coverage of their movement by mainstream media -- >> looks like we've got a stash here of some amsterdam, new amsterdam citron vodka. >> reporter: they took control of their story. >> we were not pleased with the media, because somebody would be at home watching a channel. they would text or tweet someone and say this is the story that's being told about you. >> this is just an excuse to just go out there to rob and loot. >> and i know that's not true because i was just out there myself. >> there's police marching behind us. >> that's

so there civil rights were severely restricted. reconstruction one of the key stories here is how this concept of different rights gets merged into a new idea of just the rights of americans. that all people ought to enjoy. that is part of the impulse that leads to the rewriting of the constitution. stu and if you wouldn't mind could you go through these three amendments? talk a little bit about them, how they were intended to be at the time they're put into the constitution? also how they have been reinterpreted and used through american history up to the present day. >> guest: that is a big question but of course that's really what my book is about. you know -- let me say before restart. when you say what they were intended to do, that's a totally legitimate historical question. i'm trying to figure out the people he wrote them and ratified them have in mind? or did they try to accomplish? how did they think this would change things? but when you get into legal feelings and the word intent is often use original intent let's go ba

of civil action that give you optimism about the future of our democracy? >> guest: i have. we are all seeing them. some of them involve these from a distance celebrations of the amazing work of medical care professionals and first responders being treated like the battling heroes that they are is when people come to the balcony or play music or sing or so on and the musical tributes including the amazing musical tribute cnn hosted a couple weeks ago and i have to say i think another reassuring thing is we haven't lost our sense of humor. some of the best humor i have seen, almost infantile humor has been generated during this pandemic and if i could share one example, we need a light moment amid this challenge, the new yorker had a cartoon. many of us are dog owners. they had a cartoon of a bunch of dogs seated around the border with the head dog in your role as director and a cat at the other end of the board room and the director is saying to the other dogs, our covid-19 plan is working, but humans are staying home and the cat pipes of why wasn't i consu

news of the civil war a still vivid. now the lebanese 2 are realizing how dangerous hezbollah as political course could be for the entire country even though up to now they have accepted the organization as a legitimate defender against israel. laurie high tyrion is a popular blogger and activist she criticizes hezbollah's policy of sending its militia into conflicts elsewhere in the middle east she believes it increases the chances of war breaking out. you have as well loads as the lebanese hezbollah woods defense lebannon. this is reality if our lives in. the same time there is as well our which is the regional player and this is where the division comes. the fact that hezbollah has become a state within a state is perhaps only part of a wider problem faced by lebannon that of politics being defined by religion. laurie hi tyin organizers meetings for women who want to bridge the gulf between the 2 nominations. here christians and muslims are sitting at the same table only in this way she says can the country progress i

by the time of the civil war, it is outdated. it is a lightweight locomotive really designed more for passenger service. and for relatively small, peacetime occupations. the railroad does not have a lot of heavy freight locomotives. they have a few, but typically they can handle no more than a four-car passenger train, and some maximum speeds. they added two more of these things and a few freight engines by the time the war begins. around the valley, they believe it is going to be a short war. like most of the united states, these people are thinking they will win the war in 90 days. so young men throughout the cumberland valley will show up at the recruiting stations in places like carlisle, shippensburg, chambersburg of course, and they congregate at the cvrr stations and will be brought by train to harrisburg. the first unit to leave the cumberland valley is the chamber's artillery. now, they don't have cannons, but they certainly have enthusiasm at the start of the war. they will take off and headed on these bright yellow, ve

much the irish civil war. with that we will conclude. i would like to thank everyone for coming. if you have questions, come on down, i'm happy to chat. again, thank you for coming out and i hope you enjoy your stay at gettysburg. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] learn more about the people and events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern only on american history tv here on c-span3. night, american history tv takes you to college classrooms around the country for lectures in history. >> why do you know who lizzie borden is? and raise your hand if you ever heard of the jean harris murder trial before this? >> we will find the true meaning revolution,- of the in the transformation that took place in the minds of the american people. >> we will talk about both sides of the story, tools and techniques o

rights and civil liberties.ad of multiple-choice, students will write two free response questions, one in argument essay, and second, a concept application. but frankly, students should prepare as they prepare for all test in the past. do your best. and in the end, answer the prompt. jesse: andrew, do you agree? and this is an open book test. how do you do this as an open book test? guest: i agree with what most of what dan said. but clearly, this is going to be different. and clearly, we have terrific those students out there, in the middle of this middle of this tumult, and those teachers who have helped those students in the last eight weeks, get ready to show the discipline, their resolve. obviously there is adversity here. especially for the class of 2020, and those seniors who have missed out on sports, senior problems, my own son is a member of the class of 2020 and we have great empathy, but man, do we admire those teachers and students going through this to show what they know. really, as dan said, this

targeted by the army during the civil war. two had their bridges burned near baltimore from 1861, 1864. 1863, there were attacks on the northern central bridges. 31 destroyed in york county, pennsylvania. but no railroad in pennsylvania perhaps saw as many confederate incursions or attacks as the cumberland valley railroad, hence the title of our book, "targeted tracks." this is the route of the cumberland valley railroad. the cumberland valley railroad ran during the civil war years from harrisburg, pennsylvania to thebersburg, whwere it met franklin railroad, a subsidiary later owned by the cumberland valley railroad. in essence, the the cvrr will be consisting of the entire line of the franklin railroad that ran from hagerstown north to the susquehanna river. cvrr's president during the civil war years is named frederick watts. he is very important in the history of pennsylvania state university, for those of you familiar with that college. he was one of the leading proponents of agricultural education in the united states,

is a civil rights investigation to see if mr. floyd's civil rights were violated. that's being held by the civil rights division, attorney general bill barr put out a statement he is very upset about what he saw in the video. in about an hour or so there will be a protest, supposed to be peaceful out here at the doj headquarters. arthel, i want to talk about what happened a few blocks from me last night. things escalated very quickly, six people were arrested, bricks were thrown at people. some secret service officers were injured, we're told that lafayette park is going to be closed today as a result of that. but back to this investigation that's going on here at doj and really across the street at the fbi headquarters. i want to read part of an internal memo obtained by fox news from fbi director christopher wray to all of the fbi employees around the country. part of it says, i quote, the events this past week in minneapolis clearly illustrate just how quickly that trust can be lost. as law enforcement, we're bound by an oath to serve all members of our communit

but that was after the civil war. and we don't have expost facto convictions in civil war. lee makes exactly this argument that under the laws and under the constitution as they existed in 1861, his citizenship as a virginian took priority over citizenship in the united states. and therefore, this is what he says in front of the joint committee on reconstruction in 1866. he's very very clear in saying i was doing constitutionally what i was supposed to do and that was to regard my state citizenship as having the priority. it would have been extremely difficult for a federal court to look at that either in the case of davis or lee and to say, oh, no no. we're going to hold you to account. you should have known better. i mean, all the jurisprudence had gone the other way. everything that had happened in terms of jurisprudence gave some color. on the face of it it's difficult, but still the technicalities were there. would a jury even in philadelphia have convicted lee or davis? i don't think that could have been predicted very clearly. in 1866 when lee -- '65, rather, when le

do this is us and no it was a civil war itself. actually it was us who believe that by violent we can change the situation. what we did we destroy our cancer. among the biggest losers of the civil war were catholic christians the maronites in $943.00 france had relinquished its mandate power over 11 on and the country became independent for years and decades afterwards the maronites held sway you never non muslims druse orthodox christians and other religious minorities had to accept the political and economic supremacy of the maronite christians defeated in the civil war had far reaching consequences from various groups as middle east analyst daniel gal explains live in order to form lebanon was created in order to guarantee a christian majority it's an absolute exception in the history of the middle east a state was created with the help of the west and also with the help of the league of nations in which christians were in the majority and the word thus able to determine the political developments in the country and before the l

this is a post-civil war document. and with that in mind, you can begin to recall some of the important pieces of information and the broad context of the time period in the generation after the civil war. and if you look at that word "contract," it may trigger in your mind the share cropping contracts that you recall from class and that i talk about very briefly at beginning of today, where former enslaved african-americans who are newly freed found it very difficult to acquire land, primarily because except for a very short period after the civil war, many of the governments in the former confederacy are controlled by those who want to prevent formerly enslaved african-americans from acquiring property and civil rights and many former african-american slaves found themselves in these share cropping contracts where they were effectively forced to rent land and pay for that rent with the portion of their crops, which sent them into a cycle of debt, which made it almost impossible for them to ever acquire land and often

during the civil war the has. militia force against israel offered all keep on the south of the country faced with a guerrilla war of attrition the israeli army eventually pulled out of lebanon in 2000 hezbollah claimed victory. nicholas blanford is a british journalist at the time he was writing for a lebanese daily newspaper is. with you go back to the lines in lines years back then israel was occupying a strip of south lebanon and hezbollah was engaged in a daily resistance campaign fighting israel is background there was a general consensus within lebanon to support hezbollah to support hezbollah as resistance like that it is including from those that view has followed with some distrust is obviously an islamist organization with links to iran. the resistance of credentials helps hezbollah game popularity across the country. many towns in southern lebanon on about 100 kilometers from beirut every year tens of thousands of people flocked to the open air museum here. is a kind of hezbollah pilgrimage site celebr

floyd east civil rights were violated and that's being head by the civil rights division here at the department of justice. they have several divisions. jon, something interesting that the attorney general just said, i didn't have a chance to watch it but i heard it in ear piece, it's federal crime to cross federal lines and incite violence, a lot of people have masks on, we are talking about covid-19, we are in the middle of a pandemic but the attorney general did make some news there saying, listen, we are not going to tolerate this no matter what state this happens in. again, reiterating that it's illegal to cross the state lines. i al want to bring in something from fbi director christopher wray, he just works across the street in fbi headquarters. it's internal memo obtained by fox news yesterday. it went all to all fbi staff across the country. i want to read part of it, it says the events this past week in minneapolis clearly illustrate how quickly the trust can be lost. as law enforcement we are bound by an oath to serve all members of our community with equal compassion, pro

if i look at the story of civil rights and post-civil war america it can be described as a story of two presidential assassinations beginning with abraham lincoln and ending with james garfield. when i set out to write the chapter about andrew johnson you think what can i write that great scholars haven't written about this sort of seminal moment in history and i decided to vindicate the one stanley can's record which is putting andrew johnson a heartbeat away from the president. back in the vice -- the president didn't choose the runway but this is an important moment in lincoln was a service he would lose the election in 1864 that he engaged in massive intrigue outside the circle to move hannibal hamlin off the ticket and replace him with andrew johnson. if you look at andrew johnson in 1864 versus later as president it is a remarkable contrast and you feel some degree of empathy for lincoln having made such a bad decision because andrew johnson at the time was one of the poorest men ever to rise to the presidency, he owed everything he had to the union and despite his racist sentimen

for us, the civil war is actually a comparatively short war in terms of the context of civil warfare. it is like a flashbulb going off and it touches so many people so quickly, so violently and in ways that are recorded in such depth and in such detail that i -- >> such great issues at stake. >> with such great issues. i don't see a bottom in the barrel here. i think that anyone who wants to write about the civil war, yes, even if you want to write about the battle of gettiesberg, you have plenty of untouched material ahead of you and you have plenty of opportunities and plenty of new things to say. i think that the ammunition in that drum has -- there is going to be a long time before it starts to click on empty. >> and i think i will let that be the last word. thank you all very much for coming this afternoon. [ applause ] [ concluded ] >> you're watching a special edition of american history tv, airing week days. tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern it is a look at african-americans and world war i. we visit the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture

>> western civilization, i kind of think of western civilization as having a set of values and they tend to be values that were developed in the english-speaking world. so the anglosphere for want of a better term. the united states of america. the united kingdom, canada, new zealand . they are western countries with a lot of influence on values and models and systems that are used all around the world. so western civilization i really think is most of europe. it's the united states. those kind of countries. not including obviously china or large parts of the middle east . so that's western civilization. in terms of how their defending, both men intensely patriotic. both men i think love the values, the traditions that exist in their nation and back then churchill was a big supporter of all the values that were in england. donald trump is a big supporter of how america has alwaystraditionally been . hence his famous campaign slogan make america great again. so i think both men want to ensure that what has always kind of have in their country stays that way. they're not progressive in tha

civil war is tough. it was a really hard job. >> as susan explained there are 10 leadership qualities that the survey is based on. i'm wondering as we sit here in the museum if there was a category of relations with the press, who would rank near the top and near the bottom. and i would love to get your thoughts because you have interviewed so many historians. >> i'll be very quick. there are stories about each president and how they related to the media. one of my favorites is calvin coolidge. during his time that radio came into being and he did 22 speeches into the radio microphone and for people that remember his imagine, it wasn't -- it would not have been terrific for television, but it was okay for radio. and it was during the time that he was on radio, the audience built, it grew. like c-span started out with 3 million homes and went up to 100 million. he started out with very few radio stations and went up to several hundred more. those stories exist in each -- with each president. >> kennedy wa

much the irish civil war. with that we will conclude. i would like to thank everyone for coming. if you have questions, come on down, i'm happy to chat. again, thank you for coming out and i hope you enjoy your stay at gettysburg. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] @cspanhistory. vice pres. pence: -- my admiration for eisenhower grew every year. very capable world leader. he was an extremely capable general and that his primary job was to hold together this ofctious allied coalition , whathan 50 countries franklin roosevelt called the united nations fighting with the united states. began holding together that coalition against all of these centripetal forces that held together that coalition. , he showeds morals himself to be a capable allied commander and that big smile of least of his was worth at and army corps in morale terms. >> this memo

that's western civilization. in terms of how they are defending it, while again both men intensely patriotic, both men i think of the values, their traditions that exist in their nation. back in turkey was a big supporter of all the values that were in england, and donald trump is a big supporter of america has always traditionally been, and scum is famous campaign slogan, make america great again. so i think both men want to ensure that what is always kind of happened in their country stays that way. they are not progressive in that sense. they are kind of a throwback to earlier years which a lot of people find comfortable and, of course, a lot of people find rather restrictive. both men really believe in the west, they really believe in western civilization and believe in the value and the belief system and the models that are contained within the west and western civilization. >> host: given your accent, how long have you been familiar with winston churchill? >> guest: that's a really good question. my father

every democracy depends on a vibrant civil society.y engage in voting and discourse to solve social problems. the predicate of civil society is freedom to assemble, and this pandemic is limited in many significant ways. how do you see the pandemic, civil society vibrant for democracy. >> guest: in several ways, there is the danger of legal action by elected and nonelected leaders who want to heighten their power and diminish freedom so that they don't have to suffer criticism and oversight. i am really worried about damage to the resource base of civil society, nonprofit institutions, think tanks, universities, oversight organizations as a result of the economic pain we are going to be going through and the third thing is a lot of civil society organizations prosper from face-to-face, and not just to defend democracy, to hand out food to hungry people. one of the crazies food banks are facing right now is not only a shortage of the money, to distribute it. there is a shortage of volunteers who hand out the food because people are afrai

>> guest: western civilization i think it was a civilization that came to be values that were developed in the english-speaking world in the anglo sphere for lack of a better term, the united states of america and the united kingdom canada and new zealand. they are western countries with a lot of influence on values and morals that they used all around the world. western civilization i really think is most of europe and the united states and those kinds of countries not including obviously china or the middle east. in terms of defending it, again both men and tensely patriotic, both men i think love the values, the traditions. back then churchill was a big supporter of all the values that warning went and donald trump is a big supporter on what america has traditionally been. his famous campaign slogan make america great again. i think those men want to ensure what has always kind of happened in their country stays that way. they are not progressive. they are kind of a throwback to earlier eras which a lot of people find comfortable and a lot of people find rather restrict it. both men

it he was the one who signed the civil service reform act. and he ran one of the, notably less corrupt presidencies of that era. so good shout out for him. >> i recommend the biography, of him. >> i heard that there was a plaque to garfield, and the when it was shut down the train station in the plot came down it was offered but nobody wanted it. >> there is that category of moral authority, what is in that category and how does that handle thing that david was concerned about. >> it's again, an opportunity for these people, that were asked to do the survey, to put a face on it, that they believe in. on what moral authority is. again to not try to make this a perfect survey. and if i can jump in very quickly, i want to ask a question. mr. stewart, when it gets to the impeachment of andrew johnson, should he have been convicted. you said of course, but should he have been convicted after he was impeached? >> i thought he deserved to be impeached and removed from office. yes. he was a catastrophic president, and i think it would've been excelle

it was a fascinating story about getting the 1957 civil acts -- civil rights act through. lyndon johnson was a southerner and a democrat and had to deal with a lot of southerners who were hostile towards civil rights and the brown decision. here comes eisenhower saying i want to strengthen the powers of the justice department. so the attorney general can't investigate voting irregularities and go down south and say things like the emmett till murder cannot happen anymore. >> johnson said we'll see how it goes. we'll see what we can work up. . after a long period of time of negotiation, johnson watered down the bill. i have to take this one other piece out of the bill. by the end of it, eisenhower wanted to veto his own piece of legislation because he did not recognize it. johnson eviscerated it. there were a few things left in it creating the civil rights division of the justice department. eisenhower signed the bill and it became an important steppingstone to johnson's later ability to deliver a civil rights legislation in the senate. he said i showed in that bill that i

this is just after the civil war.a lot of people had gotten shot wounds and lived to tell the story. by garfield in fact died of infection and blood pizenning caused by his doctors examining his wound without washing their hands and cleaning their instruments. the germ theory existed but it was still a new idea from france. it hadn't been totally adopted. but most doctors on the western frontier from the civil war, doctors who dealt with gunshot wounds knew you don't examine a wound with your unwashed hands. there is direct testimony of that at the time so even by the standards of the time it should not have happened. the other thing i'll mention briefly the garfield assassination was different from the others in the purpose of the assassination. john wilkes booth -- what charles was trying to do, he had nothing personal against james garfield. he liked the man, he had met his wife. what he was trying to do was reverse the election of 1880. he was not so much trying to get garfield out of office as to put someone else

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two months after the outbreak of the civil war, he is a colonel. four months after, he's a brigadier general. 12 months after the outbreak of the civil war, he is a major general. by the end of the civil war, this man who was working as a clerk and his father's store back in 1860, the man who seemed like a certifiable failure in life is general chief of the union army with one million soldiers under his command. far and away the largest military establish in the country until that time. >> he had some early victories that catches the eye of lincoln, right? mr. chernow: absolutely. there is a disproportionate focus on virginia. it seems like the confederacy is winning battle after battle. if you look at what is happening in the western theater, grant was winning one victory after another. in early 1862, he has twin battles although in the northwest corner of tennessee. fort henry and donaldson. they were significant -- fort henry was on the tennessee river, for donaldson on another. those two rivers penetrated deep into the confederacy, particularly

up next, american civil war museum interpretation specialist karissa marken talks about civil latererrilla fighters who became outlaws in the west, including jesse james, his brother frank and their gang. the american civil war museum in richmond recorded the event. at 8:00 eastern, it is lectures in history. university of north carolina professor teaches a class on the 1898 spanish-american war. at

so the western civilization i think is most of europe. it's the united states and those kind of countries. including china and all large parts of the middle east. so, in terms of how they are defending it, both men are intensely patriotic and i think of the values and tradition that exists. back then churchill was a big supporter and donald trump is a big supporter of how america has always traditionally been in this famous campaign slogan of make america great again. so i think that both men want to ensure. they really believe in western civilization and they believe in the values and belief system and the morals that it contains within. >> guest: my father is a massive winston churchill fan and when i was 8-years-old she gave me a book of winston churchill's speeches and instructed me to not only read but read read as many times as i possibly could because there wasn't one better to learn from them the speech writing and speech giving. when i was in the eighth grade one of my best friends to this day gave me a copy of the deal and that

western civilization i kind of think of western civilization as having a set of values and they tend to be values that were developed in the english-speaking world for one of the better terms. the united states of united states of america. the united kingdom. they are western countries with a lot of influence on values. the western civilization i really think is most of europe. with large parts of the middle east. in terms of defending it again both men intensely patriotic. back then churchill was a big supporter. all of the values that were in england. and donald trump is a big supporter of how america has traditionally been. i think both men want to ensure that what has always kind of happened in the country stays that way and they are not progressive in that sense. it's kind of a throwback to earlier eras. both men i think really believe in the west. and they believe in the values in the belief system into the model that are contained within mister adams given your accent how long had you been familiar with winston churchill. my father is a massive winston churchill fan. instructe

in the civil war? guest: how much time do we have left? [laughter] host: about five minutes. guest: it is important for a lot of reasons. first, it is at the end of a process, since the u.s.-mexico or from 1846-1848, that reopened the debate about the extension of slavery. that kansas-nebraska act opened up a territory from the missouri compromise of 1820 that was closed to slavery, and made possible the extension of the less edition of slavery into the west -- extension of the institution of slavery into the west. it effectively started the violence in the kansas territory in 1856, where you remember john brown, of course, and the border missouri, fighting it out in the kansas territory over whether kansas will become a slave state or not. this ultimately leads to violence on the senate floor, when senator charles sumner is caned on the floor of the senate in may of 1856. past that, it just accelerates toward the first secession of a state in december of 1860, south carolina. so the kansas-nebraska ac

abraham lincoln led the nation but congress actually directed the civil war. this fine history written by an amazing storyteller offers a riveting history in the book argues that convincingly that congress in the end got it right. fergus bordewich is the author of seven nonfiction books, is also published and illustrated a children's book "peach blossom spring" and wrote the script for pbs documentary about thomas jefferson. is also edited and illustrated book of eyewitness accounts of the 1989 tiananmen massacre. he is a frequent book reviewer for the wall street journal and other publications. he was born in new york city and will growing up he often traveled to indian reservations around united states with his mother who served as the executive director of the association of american indian affairs. then the only independent advocacy organization for native americans this early experience help to shape his lifelong preoccupation with american history. the settlement of the continents and issues of race and political power. today he lives in san francisco wi

war between 1861 and 1865, you know this is a post-civil war document. with that in mind, you can begin to recall some of the important pieces of information and the broad context of the time period in the generation after the civil war. if you look at that word "contract," it may trigger in your mind there sharecropping contracts that you recalled from class and that i talked about briefly at the beginning of enslavedere former african americans, who are newly freed, found it very difficult to acquire land, primarily because except for a short period after the civil war, many of the governments in the former confederacy are controlled by those who want to prevent formerly enslaved african americans from acquiring property and civil rights. many former african-american slaves found themselves in these sharecropping contracts, where they were effectively forced to rent land and pay for that rent with a portion of their crops, which send them into a cycle of debt, which made it a most impossible for them to ever acquire land, and often even leave the place

security and civil liberties. this is the balance that we have to strike. in my years on intelligence, i was focused a lot on the civil liberties part of it, establishing a board, etc., to ensure that whatever we did, that balance with our civil liberties was central and important to it. as benjamin franklin said, security and liberty, you can't have one without the other. they go together. security and liberty. and so now today, this rules committee is presenting that bill, the u.s. freedom re-authorization act, coming back from the senate. again, our bill in the house originally was 278-136. it was strongly bipartisan. 126 republicans voting for it. this bill coming back from the senate, as i said, has 80 votes over there. with an intelligence bill, with a fisa bill, nobody is ever really that happy i never was. i never -- you always want more or less, as the case may be. but the fact is, and i say this in all humility, because i don't pretend to know more than my colleague, but in all humility, we have to have a bill. if we don't have a bill, then our li

duck and cover. >> this is an official civil defense film produced in cooperation with the civil defense administration and in consultation with the safety commission of the national education association. >> we a couple of museum visitors. thank you for coming by today. a little bit more about civil defense, this film is talking about how to build a bomb shelter in your basement with cinderblocks, and this is a manual used for that. and then inside this is more civil defense items. what do you need in a civil defense fallout shelter? if you're going to be cooped up for weeks, you're going to need food, water, battery, matches, toiletries, you need to have a way to listen, a radio in case a broadcast was coming out. you need to have light for lanterns. you need to have a way to get fresh oxygen into the facility. this was a hand crank pump that would suck the area in through filters. as a result of my father being who he was, we do have a small exhibit on what my father went through. over here, we have a silhouette of the u-two. we have a couple of books about the u-two incident. my dad'

one of these civil war stories you could not make up. an article published in the richmond evening leader of the 1900, first details, as the story started to come to life. according to this article, the van lew's had sent her to lie burial only to welcome her back and welcome her back to richmond on the eve of the war. this same mysterious slave that the richmond papers did not name was planted so that, by van loo in the confederate how white house wearing her guys as a domestic servant spied for the federal union. the story took on a new life when then lose executor, a man named jon reportedly ascertain the identity of this mysterious white house spy who remembered the name of this agent as mary elizabeth browser. reynolds past the name browser onto a journalist named william who made this information -- as the white house spy, he made it public. as i researched than lew's life i would imagine everything i could about mary bows or. what i learned trying to follow this tenuous trail of evidence, is that the women all these years that we

there were 27 million citizens of the soviet union died in the civil war. so that was in east germany. it is interesting is that because of the political education there, the germans i know don't resent the reparations. they seem to feel they were there. the second wave of recreations was or beginning 1952 and that was the result of the negotiations between the first west german prime minister and david the first israel the prime minister. they were very controversial. the majority of people in both nations were actually against them. and they went through very hard negotiations to see what they should be in exactly how they should be calculated. i know that were going to be told how they will be the recreations to be calculated today. it's a really and interesting question and it was back then. in paying reparations to jews who had been victims of the holocaust or the state of his zero as a body, the germans made a fairly awful bargain which is that they would actually engage in what i call this attempt to actually look at the history and look at the past

those of you who are civil war buffs, i caliber before you, i'm ready.those of you who know about the war know that in the early weeks the craze for the rich style of uniform was a thing and that as they seek to the north they had shorts jackets with friends and red pantaloons and other distinctive options but they proved in military context to be kind of a liability. [laughter] and within some weeks, no white soldier is willing to step these depositions to notify. we can get the black troops to wear them. grateful to the opportunity to have some nice pants were to put them in these uniforms, this is his idea. not just to say that it's has a very un-planning element as well but it points finger at stanton when he's Ãbi wanted to say there are two places that come early into the fear of union control. in most places the united states would lose in the first year of the civil war. but the two places that are within axis of our making easy for the union can to control because the confederate navy can't resist the bulk of the union naval power. and it's easy

i'm the director of the civil war institute. it's my pleasure this afternoon to introduce elizabeth varon, the associate director of tcivi war history. all at the university of virginia. thankfully, she's not a hockey buff. i don't believe she is. she said, go caps. what has happened to the american sports scene? i don't know. i never thought in a civil war conference people would be jawing about hockey. such is life. a very accomplished scholar. she's published a number of books, including "we mean to be counted," "white women and the politics in antebellum virginia." "this union," one of my favorite overviews of the 1850s. published by university of north carolina press. "victory, defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war," published by oxford. it's an outstanding book. it's a way to look beyond the surrender proceedings and material culture, visual culture. how it resided in american memory. it's outstanding. i can't say enough good things about it. today, subject of her talk, she published "true story of elizabeth van l

even the civil war. you know, one of the major objectives was to get behind the lines and get to your enemy's rail structure. they would heat up the rail and bend it around trees in the civil war. just to make sure that they cannot resupply or get resources to the front lines easily. you know, i just look at those things in the united states and the development even every town west of the mississippi river, every major city you see primarily used to be a rail hub. and then it built up around that rail hub. but the development of a lot of our history revolves around the railroads. and what you're going to hear about today is something you don't usually hear about. the role of the rails in world war i. it really had a dramatic impact. but you just don't see a lot about it out there. and really looking forward to dr. samuels talk today. let me give you a little bio on daniels, i'm sorry. he received his phd in russian and soviet studies from the pennsylvania state university. and since then taught a college