to protect the confederacy so. you know as painful as it is to have to struggle this struggle against. i think it really does do the job of or do the job of. an activist or revolutionary in making clear. the power dynamics and having a real clear understanding of state power and the extra judicial arm of state power which is the clay and. i mean you and she has created a picture and drawn it so clearly you know so one of the things that that boggles me is that we have over five hundred close to seven hundred or more of these confederate statues around the country mostly in southern states but in the last couple of years not just from since charlottesville but before you've had from here in the here in washington d.c. the thomas jefferson memorial they added contacts to it saying he was a slave owner you had statues taken down and wisconsin as far as california missouri montana the thing is when i looked up you know the daughters of the confederacy which i didn't even know existed i couldn't fathom doing the thing b

just from start to finish, you had so many different symbols of the confederacy. the drill team was known as the rebelettes, and the band wore the stars and bars on their chest as part of their uniform. here is the drum major for the robert e. lee band. you can see the stars and bars , you know, very prominently displayed on his chest. and you also see the same in pictures of some lettermen wearing their letter jackets. what is most prominent on the letter jacket? it's the confederate flag. so, it couldn't be lost on anybody what they were trying to say here. and, you know, one of the first annuals, you can see the confederate soldier, the confederate flags, so it was very very powerful symbols and , symbols of resistance. thater telling detail is even the school newspaper was -- and still is known today -- as "the southern accent." is au can see, there confederate character who is their mascot. they are the rebs. another name for the sports team or the confederates. here's an article when they were naming the rebel guardsmen, the guys in the confederate uniforms

juliet hopkins was nicknamed the angel of the confederacy. she was wounded while nursing fallen soldiers. she spent the rest of her life with a limp. most women did not venture into whofield like the woman endeared herself to soldiers from illinois. majority of it nurses waited for the wounded to come to them and thousands upon thousands arrived. dead alabamaalf troops were deposited in the camp -- and the confederate capital, the alabama nature and rose to the occasion. within a manner of hours, she organized the hospital. four of the sick died that night. i never in my life witness a death. hard to keepight down the emotions, which would have greatly impaired my usefulness. she served as a hospital matron in four different hospitals. from mobile described a hospital scene in april 1862: the men are lying all over the house in their blankets, just as they were brought from the battlefield. they are crowded into small rooms, the foul air at first made me sick but i soon got over it. we have to walk and when we give the men anything, we kneel

juliet hopkins was nicknamed the angel of the confederacy. she was wounded in the leg while nursing fallen soldiers at seven pines. she spent the rest of her life with a limp due to this injury. most women did not venture out onto the field like union stalwart mother bickerdyke, who endeared herself to soldiers from her native illinois. the majority of nurses on both sides of the battle waited for the wounded to come to them, and thousands upon thousands arrived. when a gaggle of half dead alabama troops were deposited in the confederate capital of richmond, the alabama matron fannie beers rose to the occasion. within a manner of hours, she organized a hospital, enduring a baptism by fire. "four of our sick died that night. i had never in my life witnessed a death, and i had to fight hard to keep down the emotions, which would have greatly impaired my usefulness." she went on to serve as a hospital matron in four different hospitals. kate cumming of mobile described a southern hospital scene in april 1862 -- "the men are lying all over the ho

aaron: the confederacy. diane: i'm sorry, the confederacy. and that was a very -- role. other people were trying to do that as well from the south, trying to get support from england to help win the war. she didn't succeed in that. as she was coming home on a ship, the ship sank. and rose o'neal tripped and, as she was getting into one of the boats, and died. and it was said that she had a whole bunch of coins sewn into the bottom of her skirt. a great story. that pulled her down into the depths. we'll never know. we'll never find it, but it's a great story. aaron: eliza -- some of you may recognize this name, but for those of you who are new to this area or watching on c-span, the missouri-kansas border was populated with a unique form of guerilla soldier we have called the bushwhacker. the missouri bushwhacker comes out of the vacuum that is formed in 1862 when the confederate state army is chased out of the state of missouri. they are no longer going to have a military force in the state, but into that void come a couple of thousands guerilla fighters who are well tra

women would dress up on either side of the war, confederacy or union, as soldiers so they could fight along their brothers, husbands, families, and fight for the cause of the war. one woman in particular is sarah emma edmonds, she went by frank thomas. she was one of the soldiers who was open about being a woman soldier, especially after the war. after the war, she would dress in men and women's clothing. we know of 300 to 500 women who served during the war, but those were the ones that we know about, so there is a number that we might not ever know about historically, who fought during the war. our last stop is the baptist church, this church was established in 1863, this was the 1st african-american church built after union occupation in alexandria. in the 1860s, during the civil war, this would have been the edge of town, further down the street, would have been more countryside, this is where contraband camps were located. contraband camps are like refugee camps that we would recognize today, and there were encampments of 4 million people who found their refuge and freedom here i

here is this incredibly dramatic quotation, the end of the confederacy was in sight. i used to quote that not just on the battlefield. i would take people to that exhibit and show them that quote and emphasized that this was the opportunity, this was the time george mcclellan had to destroy the army northern virginia, to completely eliminate confederate defense. this is the moment in western maryland. .nd mcclellan failed he failed to exploit the opportunity. it makes those words all the more poignant and powerful because the union commander failed to drive through that hole in the confederate line once it broke at the sunken river. so that's the story. this was not through detective work. this was by complete surprise that i discovered something. many years later i was researching not antietam, but harpers ferry. the prelude to antietam is harpers ferry. the confederates are very successful with jackson's capture and part of jackson's capture includes 73 pieces of artillery. not a single one of those pieces of canon ended up at charlotte berg. where did it go? it all

. >> so some states that would go on to become part of the confederacy did celebrate thanksgiving evening that secession winter year. >> yes. thanksgiving celebrations were informal. it is hard to get a sense of how deeply celebrated it was. but there definitely were celebrations in the south in the lead up to the war and possibly even during the war. >> great, thanks. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history 3.ery weekend on c-span follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. >> in the early 1900's, california expressed his second gold rush with the growth of the citrus industry. we will hear how this fruit transformed riverside into one of the wealthiest cities in the country. we have almost 280 state parks in california, so we are lucky to have a state park in riverside that covers the citrus industry and the history of citrus. we have almost 100 varieties of citrus in the park. that ranges from oranges to grapefruit, lemons, limes, kumquats, mandarins. we do tastings every weeke

an destroying everything thatd could aid the confederacy. obviously risky. he would be cut off from his base. john bell hood still had about 40,000 men in northern alabama. i sort of going to the march, i actually use this image in part because this image is a total misrepresentation of sherman's march. because, as you can see, it is the big wide, it's pretrade is this big wide swath. it is not. this is one of the biggest misconceptions. swat 50s march cut a miles wide across georgiah. it's not, like, i describe it as not a lawnmower stripe. not a 50 mile wide swath. because the way the march work, it was actually in four columns. there was a left-wing and a right wing of two columns. i think it is better to think about it, as i a use a metaphor of a row of stitches. there are spaces in between so that there are areas of george's that are actually not touched by sherman's march. -- in areas of georgia. it is a massive army. it is 62,000 strong. there are 218 regiments. i like the factor there are 52 from ohio alone. they traveled only about 10 miles a day. t

party confederacy. and bringing the bitchiness to the surface over the course of europe now it's it's their problem but it does impact upon the nation it's an absolutely crucial time for. political survival can't stop the brig's of clock ticking it's less than four months until the u.k. is supposed to leave the e.u. . as we said will be headed to brussels in a few hours for a summit with e.u. leaders and that's where did this is a standing by he's covering that summit for us so georg what is it the theresa may will be looking for there in brussels. other key sticking point for the reason making here is that backstop the guarantee the european union seeks that there will be no hard border in northern ireland which is particularly interesting for the republic of ireland member state and so what she is seeking here in brussels is a legal guarantee that this backstop will only come into force if really the case of a of a hard border would be on the agenda if there is a real threat and so that the e.u. does

. >> when you allot $5 million to a shrine of the confederacy face of america in the cultural center. invest in resources and diversity programs. it is hard to believe that evere i swondn your heart. metimesh laws. >> the chancellor says the building would house other historical artifacts. this is how some students responded to the plan. there was one u nc trustee who spoke out against the change. >> we cannot or at least i cannot. >> the school spent more than $400,000 over security of silent sam last year before protesters tore it down in august. mark liverman cbs news new york. >> the building is expected to be finished in about 4 years and will cost more than $800,000 to operate. >> accusing the university of discriminating against campus speakers. after talks with ann colter and david horts were cancelled last year. right wing students alleged that the speakers were being discriminated against because of their views. >>> many parents will be happy to know it doesn't have an electric screen. animoodles a hot toy for 2018. the plush toys have magnetic interchangeable limbs. and the

the confederacy happened, and we awaited the future to leave history as it existed undisturbed.ontinue to debate it, have conversations about it, but why not allow future generations the opportunity to mark this history, process it, and come to their own conclusions? put up another statue can commemorating those who were abused and killed adjacent to "silent sam." but to destroy instead of two engage, to defy the law instead of respected, is no way to honor the pastor of the future or to highlight all the gains america has made. by committing acts of violence to get your own way, and defying laws to remove a figure you find offensive, you start to look a little bit like the thing you are protesting. should you succeed, by the way, in the future, some other mob might well tear down your statue because they themselves find what you did offensive. so where does it all and? and you would have taught them that it's fine to destroy all trace of whatever we find objectionable in the past? let's hope the board of unc north carolina's historical commission has less of destructive tendenc

they succeeded, the idea that maryland might be splitting washington dc in the confederacy. lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus eight times and in a written in 1862, the president said persons resisting dracula guilty of any disloyal practice shall be subject to martial law and triable by military commission this was more than just attention. it's moving ahead with trial and punishment andbetween 38,000 people were swept out as a result . in 1863 general burnside issued order 38 which said declaring the enemy will no longer be tolerated. this leads us to the case of this man, not a nobody, he was the speaker of the house of idaho ohio representatives, a congressman and he and edmund stanton and then that friends. left him $500 for his law studies and he was a delegate to the democratic convention and he spoke out against the war frequently and in ohio he spoke out against the war for two hours. there's a lot of things you could say about the president and the war effort into ours. at the end he concluded by saying he wanted people to exercise their right to vote in o

he liked the confederate cause so much, he could join the confederacy. so they sent him to the south. he didn't like it much there. he broke the union blockade and escaped to bring me to, to nova scotia, ontario. he won the democratic nomination for the ohio governorship, which he lost, but came back by 1864 and continued his practice speaking against the government in ohio. the press in the north was even upset, and they excoriated the government for doing this to this man. there were lots of prosecutions and we know that different things happened at different places and this was one of the problems with the war, that orders were happening in different places and it depended on the military situation, with the general did. there were ad hoc policies of speech enforcement. world war i, there are going to be a couple of things before i put in speech panel prison. world war i is a different war, it is not happening on our doorstep. hundreds of thousands of people have died, and people don't want to go. people here are debating this. and they are concerned

does anybody remember now what the confederacy is? that everybody remembered it? this turning point in history? the 1643 confederacy? what happened in 1643? we talked about two weeks ago. who united? who came together? >> was in it some of the new england colonies to fight against the native americans. >> four new england colonies come together, uniting for common defense. this becomes one of the key turning points because it is a moment of union between the colonies prefiguring a much broader union of colonies, coming in 1776. people are celebrating 1643 in the 19th century. today, we do not remember it at all. this is how we think about public memory changing. it does not remain static. some things are remembered in one generation and forgot in another. sure you see the table of contents. again, it draws out the stats not just of confederation but importance to emma willard of textual history. these are important texts that get written over time. why is it an important epo ch? found on the mayflower, the first written political compact of america. if you call so

. >> when you allot $5 million to a rosenstein to the confederacy states of america that are giving studentsultural center or invest in resources or investing resources in diversity programs, it is hard to believe that inclusivity is genuinely in your heart. >> reporter: the chancellor says state law requires them to keep the statue on campus. >> i have a preference to move it off campus, but like everyone here, i swore to obey the law. and sometimes you don't agree with laws.>>te chaellor says the new building would house other historical artifacts for educational purposes. on monday night, this is how some of those students responded to the plan. there was at leat one unc trustee who spoke out against the change. >> we cannot, at least i cannot ignore what the war was fought over -- slavery. >> reporter: the school spent more than $400,000 on security for "silent sam" last year. it had been standing on unc's campus more than a century before protesters tore it down in august. and the new building is expected to be finished in about four years and will cost more than $800,000 a year to oper

they reinstated slavery when they went into indian territory, and they fought with confederacy. one of the goals has avoid spent to show indians as human, as capable of all the good and evil and with any other kinds of people do. house. an image of the had hundredser who of enslaved persons, and his mansion was based on one by napoleon and france. this is something the museum is taking on to show the complexity of some of this history. successon kingdom's's of building it came at an extraordinarily high cost. the disposition of native americans. even that wealth, even accessibility on the country. that enslaved labor results in the civil war. , the worst war in american history. the end result of this is something that the country is still coming to terms with. there is an argument to say that indian removal was the most significant event between the american revolution and the civil war. so when american indians arrived a indian territory it's different landscape, a different environment, different situation. i think people from the 1830's would be really surprised if they unde

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to reason why it's conservative government is fit to cope this is the stage and the tory party confederacy and all viewing and bringing the picture this to the surface over the question of europe now it's it's their problem but it does impact upon the nation it's an absolutely crucial time for. political survival can't stop the brakes of clock ticking. it's less than four months until the u.k. is supposed to leave the e.u. . and for more i'm joined by our correspondents seana chance and pin in london and joe madison brussels yeah let me start with you to resemble a heads to an even summit today after a turbulent day for so what does she want to get that a marriage or she will want to seek extra guarantees that the backstop will only come into force as an insurance policy is really only as a guarantee in case there is no future relationship the backstop is now and that if the u.k. the idea of the backstop is basically if the u.k. and the e.u. do not find a future relationship that would avoid a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. in tha

robert anderson who was the commander of federal soldiers at fort sumter with the confederacy fired on them and they had to surrender, lincoln terms, a great politician but he had his anger in the wind because what americans plan anderson or would he be a hero? anderson goes to new york, there is a huge celebration of anderson i think any unit scale where, about 100,000 people, people think anderson is a hero. onlyly then does lincoln get in touch with anderson andll basically say i've been beating to write. why not come visit me at the white house? there's this wonderful story of lincoln meets with anderson and says major anderson, do you remember ever having seen me at work? anderson said no, i really don't remember, i'm sorry. lincoln said i was only involved in a war before one can the black hawk wark in illinois 183, and guess who mustered in the war service? it was you, major anderson. anderson was bowled over, completely charmed. he was a lincoln man for the rest of his life. >> host: next call comes from robert in temecula california here. >> caller: thank you for taking my cal

, they reenacted, reinstated slavery when they went to a new territory, they thought it was the confederacy. one of the goals has always been to show indians as fully human's, as capable of all the good and evil any other kind of people do. we have an image of the house, a native leader, who had enslaved persons, and his nation was based on one owned by napoleon and france. it's complicated, and it's something that is taking on to show that the complexity of some of this history, the cotton kingdom success of building it, comes at an extraordinarily high cost, the enslavement of millions of human beings, the dispossession of native americans, maybe even that wealth, the success of building the country on the cotton kingdom which couldn't exist without slave labor, result in a civil war. the worst one in american history. the end result of this is something that the country is still coming to terms with, and that we hope is, in this exhibition, to show that there's an argument to say that indian removal was the most significant event between the american revolution, the american civil war. w

they reinstated slavery when they went into indian territory, and they fought with the confederacy. one of the goals of the museum was to show indians as human, as capable of all the good and evil and with any other kinds of people do. we have an image of the house. greenwood leflore. a native leader who had hundreds of enslaved persons, and his mansion was based on one by napoleon in france. it is complicated and this is something the museum is taking on, to show the complexity of some of this history. the cotton kingdom's success of course, building it came at an extraordinarily high cost. first of all the enslavement of millions of human beings. the disposition of native americans. but even that wealth, even accessibility to the country in the cotton kingdom, resulted in the civil war. the worst war in american history. the end result of this is something that the country is still coming to terms with. what we hope is in this exhibition, to show there is an argument to say that indian removal was the most significant event between the american revolution and the civil war. so whe

robert anderson, who was the commander of federal soldiers at fort sumter when the confederacy fired on them and they had to surrender, lincoln was a great politician but had his finger in the wind because would americans blame anderson for this or would he be a hero? anderson goes to new york, there's a huge celebration of anderson, i think in union square, about 100,000 people. they think anderson's a hero although he surrendered. only then does lincoln get in touch with anderson and basically say i have been meaning to write, why not come and visit me at the white house. he wanted some of anderson's aura. there's this wonderful story, lincoln meets with anderson and says major anderson, do you remember ever having seen me before and anderson says no, mr. president, i really don't remember, i'm sorry, and lincoln says i was only involved in a war before once, it was the blackhawk war in illinois, 1832 and guess who mustered me into war service, it was you, major anderson. anderson was bowled over, completely charmed. he was a lincoln man for the rest of his life. >> next call for m

. >> so some states that would go on to become part of the confederacy did celebrate thanksgiving evening that secession winter year. >> yes. thanksgiving celebrations were informal. it is hard to get a sense of how deeply celebrated it was. but there definitely were celebrations in the south in the lead up to the war and possibly even during the war. >> great, thanks. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history 3.ery weekend on c-span follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. >> in the ea19

. >> when you allot $5 million to a shrine to the confederacy face of americans it is hard to believe that inclusivity is truly in your heart. >> i have a preference to move it off campus but like everyone here i swore to obey the law and sometimes you don't agree with laws. >> the school spent more than $400,000 on security for silent sam last year. it has d august. >> happening today the san francisco board of supervisors is expected to vote on a new proposal aimed at boosting san francisco's recycling rate. if passed the proposal would require about 400 businesses and apartment buildings to hire trash sorters and would undergo trash audits once every 3 years. >>> right now santa's helpers are making sure your gifts arrive on time. >> katie neilson is at the fedex facility in san francisco with more. any packages there addressed to me, katie? >> so i haven't seen any yet. they really don't want us to get that close to the shipping labels but if you look down here you can see everything is going. business as usual this morning. tons of boxes and packages going out of the containers a

at the very beginning of the civil war for sumter fell, confederacy fired on beleaguered federal soldiers and they got into a boat and went to new york and i tried to write about these other things, a guy named major robert anderson. lincoln was worried there were rumors anderson had surrendered because he was a secret confederate, lincoln was urged to thank anderson for his service and lincoln didn't do it, thought it might be bad for political for him. anderson in new york, those two, 100,000 people, and his face was on every lamppost and rights to anderson saying i have been meaning to get in touch and anderson comes to the white house, a lovely story and lincoln says do you remember ever seeing me before? anderson said i'm quite sure i never met you before, mister president and lincoln said first time i was ever at war was 1832, the black hawk war, and guess who mustered the end of war service? it was you. anderson had not known that. he was a lincoln man from that moment on. unless you are looking for ways we americans are distinctive and not like the other countries on earth, if a p

not just people in the former confederacy, and this is ripe stuff.as we approach 2045 and the white population then is scheduled to become a statistical minority, even though we retain the bulk of the economic and political power, we can fully expect demagogues, this is little ground for demagoguery. trump is just the first. in the end he was right, but getting there will be hard. and the struggle. and like cancer, will keep getting better but we will never cure it. >> this leads to my next. you know it's can be something -- that starts with the last line from a great gatsby. it's populated by great thinkers, great minds between then and now. the one i i was most fasten it with you citing, it's james baldwin. how do you see him as the most important, i want to say, i was trying to phrase this as a counterforce but that doesn't sound quite correct, but how do you the in conclusion of -- >> baldwin is a weird choice. he's been dead for generation and in his time he was dismissed as an uncle tom and at from whites as a radical. as as a gay guy also dism

when i think of president obama throwing his pastor under the s, reverend wright, honoring the confederacy, which is something other presidents before him did, a president who went into black churches, black tomunities, talked down black people, patronized african-americans, and really that white the myth supremacy and in a long time ago toi would not go so far as say obama embraced post-racialism, but he did not at any point and still does not come even as an ex-president, he still has not overly challenge or even acknowledge the ongoing existence of white supremacy in this country. i think being an uncle tom, being internally suppressed is something that spans the political spectrum. excerpts of the of your book "no one is going to be able to explain to you in a should bewhat you .ble to do to confront racism we are dealing with collective problems and institutionalize inequality is. when he to become more comfortable telling unflattering truths about our society." host: mary. caller: if we are still racist -- and if we are so racist, how many people leave it, seeking asylum elsewhere? g

his father fought for the confederacy and who was the person who presided over this crackdown on the media. there were a lot of unsavory people there but what strikes me most when i read about this time, try to imagine my self in a, an actual some things you can see some film footage of these raids. policemen and federal agents charging into houses and throwing people down staircases and doing stuff like that. what strikes me is that there was and i fear that they are always is, there was a lot of visible, there is a kind of, a lot of bottled up nastiness of, in all of this. when there's an excuse for it to come out, and there's no excuse like the country going to work, it comes out in these very nasty ways. you read the accounts of wilson going to congress to ask for a declaration of war in the spring of 1917, there were some brave dissenters, six senators who voted against the declaration of war, one of them was the great progressive robert, who stood there on the senate floor chewing gum with his arms crossed. like this, when wilson was giving his speech. he began receiving nooses

and the slave states which come to represent in this way with different colors, let's call the confederacy gray. you can see it here the coloring of the united states dividing the political persuasions. as if what you had is a uniformity of belief. we think now about the country or the red and blue states. this is as artificial representation as any other that we look at. it's conventional is so familiar that we take it and it speaks a deeper truth rather than being another form of message. this is my favorite slide. this is sojourner truth, the great abolitionists. can you see what she is knitting? zero my gosh. here's man, here's florida, taxes. this is cooler than the american hotel. this is my country. i made this country. of course i belong here. this is a path to a claim of ancestry. this is a really deep and subversive visual argument that you can really feel like it has this it explodes before your eyes and this really important way that to our great detriment we have lost sight of. in other ways in which cartoonists and others represent the united states that began in the 1880s on

and he proved how much he hated the vice presidency by becoming the vice president of the confederacy and spending four years fighting with jefferson davis. so stevens might have been fun fighting with the union, too, whatever it was he was going to fight about. the idea is, douglas is the normal popular sovereignty guy. johnson is willing to separate -- settle with it. and balances the ticket. today we don't think much about that, in terms of geographic balance. in the 19 century in particular, it mattered a lot. so the seven democrats say ok, we are not nominating douglas. they go with the sitting vice president of the united states, john breckenridge. trivia break. john breckenridge was elected vice president when he was 35, youngest man ever elected to the presidency or vice presidency, in this case the vice presidency. so if he had been elected, he would have been by far the youngest president ever. he was buchanan's vice president, so he was split with douglas, and had at once been a quasi-ally or if not an ally. and breckenridge runs on the platform of dred scott is fine. we wa

when i think of president obama throwing his pastor under the s, reverend wright, honoring the confederacy, which is something other presidents before him did, a president who went into black churches, black tomunities, talked down black people, patronized african-americans, and really that white the myth supremacy and in a long time ago toi would not go so far as say obama embraced post-racialism, but he did not at any point and still does not come even as an ex-president, he still has not overly challenge or even acknowledge the ongoing existence of white supremacy in this country. i think being an uncle tom, being internally suppressed is something that spans the political spectrum. excerpts of the of your book "no one is going to be able to explain to you in a should bewhat you .ble to do to confront racism we are dealing with collective problems and institutionalize inequality is. when he to become more comfortable telling unflattering truths about our society." host: mary. caller: if we are still racist -- and if we are so racist, how many people leave it, seeking asylum elsewhere? g

this is like a confederacy of liars. trump being the primo of them all given the volume of lies that he's told since he's been president. when i woke up this morning, feeling so relieved about was that bob mueller is like the -- he's butting the flaing in the ground for truth. when you think about the next generation of kids and looking at that. bob mueller had none of that. he is bringing truth and honesty and know built and integrity back. just by virtue of the documents. i'm really happy about that. >> the problem is that if you look at the other two major impeachable events that we've had in modern times, richard nixon and bill clinton, there was a crime. there was a crime under richard nixon. there was a break in at the pentagon -- i mean the pentagon papers, a break in at watergate. and then there was a crime. white water. the governor of arkansas. >> built that's not why he was impeached. >> i'm getting to that. but there was a real crime that the special prosecutor really investigate the. we don't have a crime he

they say the name dixie has ties to slavery and racism and the confederacy era south. they plan to submit the commissions to the school board next month. >>> the wait is finally over as "time" magazine unveils its person of the year. >> this year goes to a group of journalists the magazine calls guardians for truth. on the "today" show, the magazine showed off its four covers. one shows journalist jamal khashoggi who is believed to have been murdered often the orders of the saudi crown prince. also selected journalists at the capital gazette in maryland for their work following the deadly shooting at their offices. also journalists in myanmar and the philippines were cited. >>> coming up, they're on the naughty list. the growing outrage over videos like these that show people trashing a san francisco restaurant with a santa hat in hand. the vandalism didn't stop there. the damage left behind after the annual santa con b.a.r.t. crawl. sfx: tinny headphone music sfx: feet shuffling life can change in an instant. be covered when it does... ...with a health plan through co

and most of this is about the confederacy of the south. one might think union soldiers and their supporters slept through the war and forgot what they did, who did it, and why they did it. we have heard a great deal about the lost cause, confederate memory, the monuments white southerners built, the flags they carried. but what did union soldiers and their supporters remember? what i called in my book the won cause, or the union cause. there is the mural from which i took the cover. it is the 54th massachusetts attack on fort wagner. it is not exactly how it happened. this is robert gould shaw being attended by his men. he never had the chance to be attended by anyone. but this was very much what this book was about, shared suffering and sacrifice under the same union flag of free men. this is also made very popular by the movie "glory," about a single african-american regiment, the first raised by a northern state in the civil war. while this is a great cover, if black soldiers had fought in a single regiment and battle that ended in glor

britain backs the confederacy during the american civil war.and we really had a feeling -- and then during world war i, when the u.s. is a neutral power, the british blockade acts against all u.s. trained, netherlands, stopping, turning them back, seizing the mail bags, that sort of thing. the american opinion is affronted by this. you have the big irish-american groups, half a million irish-americans in new york, alf a million in new york, vital stage who hate the british. he thinks the french are using the blockade, not using any real information about what is happening on the western front or any front out to try to tamp down, but that leaves americans with no idea what the war is really like. he thinks the british are manipulating this whole situation so that they can then gather in german colonies, they can expand or empire, the global position after the war. there is a great deal of rivalry right after the war, and i think the british are alarmed. troops can supply over to the western front. remember, in 1918, we are entirely dependent on

. >>> and so, yes, everyone who joined the confederacy and fought against the united states in the civil war, committed treason according to the constitution. from robert e. leon down to the lowest-ranking soldier. but as part of trying to put the country back together, none of them were charged with treason. the other way to commit treason is to give aid and comfort to our enemies, and the courts have defined enemy to mean a country named in a declaration of war by the united states of america. and because we have not had a declaration of war since world war ii, we have not had a treason conviction since the cases that arose out of world war ii. the last person prosecuted for treason was an american who helped the japanese during world war ii. in the famous rosenberg case where they were found guilty and put to death for spying for the soviet union, they were never charged with treason. they were charged with espionage. what is so shocking about what we heard today in court is, first of all, that it has come to this, a discussion of treason in a federal court in washington, d.c., over t

they believe it has ties to the confederacy area racism and the congressman jared huffman, has now sent a letter to trustees reading in part "whatever revisitist nostalgia some may attach to these symbols, they are rooted in racism and deeply offensive to some people." those who support the current name are asking the district not to cave to outside political pressure. >>> maybe a new weekend activity for you and your family. palo alto leaders reportedly signed off on a new bike bridge that will cross highway 101 along the popular adobe creek trail. "the palo alto weekly" reports leaders yesterday signed off on that plan expected to go out next month and the bridge is expected to be completed b year 2020. >>> this afternoon, the oakland raiders will be giving back. the team is hosting a holiday luncheon for veterans to show gratitude for their service. defense tackle jonathan hankins will help serve over 100 meals there. the raiders are teaming up with a group for today's event. >>> the san jose earthquake star needs two more goals to become the goal scoring leader but he did something

they knew the design pattern for the confederacy.he congress began considering the extensions of design patterns early in this century. congresst and give by authorizations by extension of design patterns has been the most common form of proud pattern ask in recent history. brian: died in two dozen three and he had -- 2003 and he had a famous 100 birthday party. but unfortunately, somebody lost their job because of it. mark: trent lott, who showed up at the birthday party and what he had told folks, sort of an offhanded joke about i would have voted for strong. he lost his leadership position. i will to you one thing about strom thurmond is that there is a sort of new way of looking at him from the senate historians over there in terms of, not so much his civil rights stances, but some of the other things that senator thurmond began to be known for over there. senator packwood lost his job because of some improprieties towards women. have every 52 women served in the u.s. senate. it's been a men's club for all these years. it's been

ultimate historic irony is the base of the titular party of lincoln is in the states states of the confederacy but more than that. it's about conservative populism as a constant force throughout american history that the republican tradition, i think the bush represent were a check on. about civility as a virtue, about service, it's about humility, about being part of something larger than yourself. it's not about -- it's about appealing to the better angels, not our worst instincts, and the politics we have seen from donald trump are the opposite of that tradition of the lincolns, teddy roosevelt, eisenhower and bushes. it is all but me, not about we. it is about attacking the people you disagree with north trying unite the nation. so, civility and freedom are words you rarely, if ever, hear from this president. let alone embody them. the freedom part in particular. people miss this. this is not a freedom administration. this is not a virtue -- for w., who so consciously tries to make that word the cornerstone of his second inaugural and his foreign policy this, word freedom is absent from th