was afflicted with frederick douglass, i got to know him better while researching the black nationalist delaney. i never had a true sense of the many sides of the man until i read david blight's biography frederick douglass, prophet of freedom. david blight is a professor of ofrican history and director the study of slavery at yale university. he serves on boards of various museums and historical societies. in 2012, he was elected to the american academy of arts and scientists. theecame the recipient of 2019 lincoln prize. time is too short to recite dozens of awards is books have one and the various honors he has received. i cannot tell you how pleased we are to have him as a guest speaker at this year's symposium . join me in welcoming dr. david blight. [applause] you to the leadership of the lincoln institute. here, numerous friends particularly the previous speakers. it is hard to follow richard carwardine. whether it is about humor or the movies. i am going to speak about frederick douglass is relationship with abraham lincoln. less about the actual relationship than the meaning of the two wives for and against each other -- against the two lives for and against

nina silber on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, and david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglassnd michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect from of 1860 election until march 1861 inauguration. starting things off are sarah james, the director of ford's education and interpretation, and jonathan white, president of the ever him lincoln institute. this is live coverage, a full day of it, on american history tv on c-span3. >> good morning and welcome to ford's theatre and thank you to the abraham lincoln institute. the illinois state society

david blithe on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass. and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> researchers talked with congressional staff about efforts to counter russian soto mysia -- social media influence and a proposal for a new government organization that would focus on information sharing. this is about 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you all very much for coming. thank you for taking the time today to come to this briefing. i will spend 15 or so minutes talking about research and hopefully we should have plenty of time for questions and answers and discussion afterward. russian media and affluence. i'm sure you have all seen headlines in the united states over the past four years.

biographers david blight on frederick douglass and raymond arsenault discussing -- does marsh with, can i get a witness? and jason reynolds with his book long way down. watch coverage of the virginia festival of the book today at 1:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. allison klein talks about the trump administration budget cuts for 2020. carol jenkins with the e.r.a. coalition discusses efforts to ratify the legal rights amendment.

nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david blight, on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span three. earlier this month, historians gathered at the conference on the civil war, covering its causes and the roles of african- americans and southern unionists. pulitzer prize winning author john meacham and elizabeth baron of the university of virginia took part. the american civil war museum and the university of virginia center for civil war history hosted the event. you can watch it monday night, starting 8 pm eastern, on c- span three. next, a hearing on the cost of higher education, with former advisers to the bush and obama administration. university chancellor and a college student, testifying for the house education committee. sprint committee on education and labor will come to order, want to welcome everyone, note for the record that a quorum is present. meeting together, and a

david blight and michael burling game. on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass, and his actions as president-elect before his first inauguration. our live coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. announcer: each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. up next u.s. army medical department museum director takes us behind the scenes to see some of his favorite items. he shows us models of a civil war era ambulance train, a doll made by pow nurses and a dummy used to train army medical professionals. george: i would like to with welcome you to the united states medical museum here at fort sam houston, texas. you're probably looking around saying it doesn't look like a museum. in fact this is a part of every museum, the part that the public doesn't often get to see. i know that when i first came, i thought, museums, they are quiet. they are contemplative places. boy, was i wrong. i didn't know the inner workings until i started volunteering and later on working at museums to understand, first of all, they're a frenzy of activity al i didn't know the

i joke about long books, like david blight's pamphlet on frederick douglass. by my standard, it is a pamphlet. the green monster is 2000 pages. anyway, in 1941 there is a called lincoln on the eve of 61, a journalist story. it is one of the few dispatches that appeared in the new york herald from springfield. much valuable information about lincoln during crisis thatuccession appears in the herald that others published in the cincinnati herald and san francisco bulletin. the latter papers are virtually unknown to historians. recognizing their addition of excerpts from the herald were inadequate, those who had edited the pamphlet intended to issue a complete issue of the herald's run, but the plans fell through. large dispatches are not only informative, but highly readable. his workar opined that was marked by individuality and mental vigor. these dispatches constitute high grade ore for the historians' descriptions of different things. lincoln's appearance, descriptions of his daily routine. descriptions of his visitors, of his views, as well as information a

nina silver on how lincoln was remembered on new deal america, david blank on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass and michael burlingame on lincoln as president the left. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> former vice president joe biden speaks for a fundraiser for the democratic party on saturday. it speech is scheduled to begin at 7 pm eastern. you can see that live on c-span . >>> now a house hearing on vehicle technologies designed to prevent drunk driving, including a detection system that provides requires a breathalyzer test. this is about 90 minutes. the session will now come to order. i thank everyone for coming on this going away day. my plan is that we will get as many opening statements as we can before votes and then hopefully all of you will come back to talk to our witnesses. i recognize myself, for five minutes. as the consumer protection subcommittee, we are committed to ensuring the safety of the american people. we have addressed a number of auto safety issues over the years, holding hearings on the airbag defects and general motors ignition switch defect. w

akers include nina silver, david blight on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass and michael burlingame on lincoln has president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. here on c-span we will show you a recent campaign stop in new hampshire for vermont senator bernie sanders. that is followed by senate intelligence committee vice chair mark warner and former members of congress discussing oversight of the intelligence committee. then at 7:00 eastern, washington journal is live with your phone calls and a look at today's headlines. vermont senator bernie sanders was in new hampshire this past weekend for his first visit to the state since announcing his 2020 candidacy for president. at this rally in concord, senator sanders spoke about universal health care, tax policy, and climate change, among other topics. ♪

include nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david blake on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. c-span cities tour is on the road exploring the american story and this weekend with the help of our cable partners we visit cedar rapids in east central iowa. gothic inted american this studio. if the piece that everybody knows. a lot of times people will not know the artist or title, but it's on iconic piece, probably the most iconic piece of american art today. >> the iowa caucuses have not been great at selecting the next president. it seems their eyes function is winnowing the field. we talk about three tickets out of iowa, the top three finishers in the caucuses and move on. >> join us on book tv as we speak with local cedar rapids authors and a sunday at 2:00 p.m. on c-span3 is american history tv, working with our cable partners as we explored american story. next, testimony on the high rates of missing and murdered indigenous women, domestic violence, and mistrust of law e

sense of humor, nina on how lincoln was remember in new deal america, david life on naked relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass and michael -- on lincoln as president elect. watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >>> coming up on cspan3, the senate armed services committee, considering the fiscal year 2020 defense budget requests. and a review of the latest actions in the astronomy and parliament. and later, freedom of information, discussing technology and congress. >> up next, acting defense secretary, patrick shanahan and joint chief of staff chair, general joseph dunford testified before the senate armed services committee on the presidents 2020 defense budget request. the pentagon $718 billion judge it budget, a 5% increase includes $9.2 billion for emergency construction and $164 billion for overseas contingency operations. this hearing is 2.5 hours. >>

biographers david blight on frederick douglass and discussing arthur ashe. author melanie hatter with her book, malawi sisters. freedom fighters and hell raisers, charles marsh with can i get a witness and authors laurie anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book, "long way down." watch coverage of the virginia festival of the book saturday at 1 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> this weekend on american history tv, world war ii navajo code talkers and a look back at the 1979 three-mile island nuclear power accident. saturday at 2 p.m. eastern on oral histories, the first of six interviews with former world war ii navajo code talkers who served in the marine corps and used their native language to secretly communicate operational plans. >> it took us, the navajo code talkers compelled to use their language, and they devised it, and they schemed it in such a way that it played a role of a very unique role of confusing the enmany i. >> and -- enemy. >> and live sunday morning on american history tv and c-span's "washington journal," the 40th anniv

david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and another speaker on lincoln as president-elect. be sure to watch this weekend on c-span3. coming up next from washington journal, a look at the week ahead from washington followed by vermont senator bernie sanders visiting new hampshire for the first time since announcing his 2020 candidacy for president. later, a look at president trump's 2020 budget request with acting white house budget director and the debris secretary of state, john sullivan. " continues. host:

richard carla dean, nina silver on how lincoln was remembered, david light on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span three. >> earlier this month historians gathered on the conference of civil war covering its causes and the roles of african-americans and southern unionist. pulitzer prize-winning author john meacham took part. the civil war museum and center for civil war history hosted this event. you can watch it monday night starting at 8 pm eastern on c- span 3. next house intelligence committee chair adam shift on the molar investigation. weller investigation >> good morning, our guest today is democratic representative adam shift from california, this is his sixth appearance at a request, so welcome. first a little bit of akron, chairman shift worked in the u.s. attorney's office in los angeles before his election to the california state senate in 1996. in 2000 mr. shift was elected to congress from california's 28th district and has won reelection ever since. he was named reeking member of

david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and another speaker on lincoln as president-elect. be sure to watch this weekend on c-span3. coming up next from washington journal, a look at the week ahead from washington followed by vermont senator bernie sanders visiting new hampshire for the first time since announcing his 2020 candidacy for president. later, a look at president trump's 2020 budget request with acting white house budget director and the debris secretary of state, john sullivan. " continues. host: each monday when congress is in session, we like to take a look at the week ahead in washington and to do that, we are joined by steven dennis, bloomberg senate reporter. kathryn watson is the white house reporter with cbsnews.com. some images from capitol hill. the budget has been delivered to capitol hill and there is a shot of the budget on the desk. take us through what we should know about this budget. kathryn: first off, this budget is going to be requesting $8.6 billion for border security, specifically for a border wall. that is something tha

speakers include richard carwakine on lincoln's sense of humor, david blight on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> the undersecretary of state for arms control spoke yesterday at the carnegie endowment for international peace about the withdrawal from the nuclear forces treaty. this is an hour and 15 minutes. [ applause ] >>> thanks very much, james. it's an honor to be here and a great honor for me to introduce this conference as the introductory keynote speaker, the honorable andrea thompson, the undersecretary for arms control and international security, a position she's held since last april. she's been on the job for a little under a year. she's been on the team a little longer than that. she was at the white house as deputy assistant to the president and has national security adviser to the vice president. these positions of heavy responsibility have capped andrea's long service to the public in the field of military intelligence, where she served in a lot of difficult positions, not

david blight and michael burling game. on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass, and his actions as president-elect before his first inauguration. our live coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. announcer: each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. up next u.s. army medical department museum director takes us behind the scenes to see some of his favorite items. he shows us models of a civil war era ambulance train, a doll made by pow nurses and a dummy used to train army medical professionals. george: i would like to with welcome you to the united states medical museum here at fort sam houston, texas. you're probably looking around saying it doesn't look like a museum. in fact this is a part of every museum, the pa t

coming up soon, david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass. further ahead, michael burlingame on lincoln as 1861dent-elect until his inauguration. further ahead, we will close out the day with a panel of all the authors and experts. while we are waiting, let's take a look at the winners of the 2019 c-span student camp competition. announce thepy to winners of this year's c-span video documentary competition, answering the question, -- what does it mean to be american? we received almost 3000 entries from 48 states and almost 6000 students. congratulations to all our winners. our first prize middle school winners from eastern school in silver spring, maryland. america runs on fast food. like burger king, wendy's and cap c. .- kfc fast food reflects our society in many ways. it is part of what makes us america. >> our first price high school fromgoes to students winter park high school in winter park, florida, for comfortably numb. they are error fan favorite winners and one an extra $500. anuntil we realize being american is about more than nat

, nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david light, lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass -- frederick douglass and on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. >> james carol, officer testified for the first time before the house oversight committee on the president's drug control policy released earlier this year. several democrats on the committee criticized the trump administration for failing to release a strategy in 2017 and 18. at the hearing last

nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david blight, on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span three. earlier this month, historians gathered at the conference on the civil war, covering its causes and the roles of african- americans and southern unionists. pulitzer prize winning author john meacham and elizabeth baron of the university of virginia took part. the american civil war museum and the university of virginia center for civil war history hosted

nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david blight, on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span three. earlier this month, historians gathered at the conference on the civil war, covering its causes and the roles of african- americans and southern unionists. pulitzer prize winning author john meacham and elizabeth baron of the university of virginia took part. the american civil war museum and the university of virginia center for civil war history hosted the event. you can watch it monday night, starting 8 pm eastern, on c- span three. next, a hearing on the cost of higher education, with former advisers to the bush and obama administration. university chancellor and a college student, testifying for the house education committee. sprint committee on education and labor will come to order, want to welcome everyone, note for the record that a quorum is present. meeting together, and a legislative hearing, to hear testimony on the cost of college , students and reforms to brin

nina on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglassichael on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. "> "washington journal continues. host: joining us now is mary schiavo. she served as the former inspector general for the transportation department from 1990-1996, here to talk about airline safety and recent things considering a couple of boeing aircraft. good morning. guest: good morning. host: the front page of "the wall street journal" highlights the decision by the faa to ground the max 8 and max 9 from boeing. guest: it was long overdue and very necessary. the united that states could take a position that they cannot find anything wrong with the plane -- it was really a word game -- they took the position that there was nothing wrong with the plane, it was safe to fly, when two were -- the 250 people dead second, they don't know the cause for it. we had statements that looked completely insane to the rest of the world. for them to finally come into line, i'm afraid it was too late. host: can

david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass. and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next, testimony from nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. he spoke with nasa's ongoing projects and goals, returning astronauts to the moon. this is two hours. >>> this hearing will come to order. thank you all for being here. this morning we deal with the new space race. in his famous 1962 speech announcing that the united states would land on the moon by decades in, president john f. kennedy said, no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space. those words hold true today. we are delighted to have two witnesses who are helping to ensure that the united states maintains global leadership in space. the honorable jim bridenstine, administrator of the national aeronautics and kevin o'connell of the department of space commerce at the department of commerce. we are grateful to have you here and thank you for your presence.

nina silver on how lincoln was remembered on new deal america, david blank on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass and michael burlingame on lincoln as president the left. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> former vice president joe biden speaks for a fundraiser for the democratic party on saturday. it speech is scheduled to begin at 7 pm eastern. you can see that live on c-span . >>> now a house hearing on vehicle technologies designed to prevent drunk driving, including a detection system that provides requires a breathalyzer test. this is about 90 minutes.

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sense of humor, nina on how lincoln was remember in new deal america, david life on naked relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass and michael -- on lincoln as president elect. watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >>> coming up on cspan3, the senate armed services committee, considering the fiscal year 2020 defense budget requests. and a review of the latest actions in the astronomy and parliament. and later, freedom of information, discussing technology and congress. >> up next, acting defense secretary, patrick shanahan and joint chief of staff chair, general joseph dunford testified before the senate armed services committee on the presidents 2020 defense budget request. the pentagon $718 billion judge it budget, a 5% increase includes $9.2 billion for emergency construction and $164 billion for overseas contingency operations. this hearing is 2.5 hours. >> we will come to order. it is nice to have steve turner, northeastern state in the audience today to advise us along our lines and we are very pleased to have patrick shanahan , acting secretary of defense, general joseph dunford, the chairman o

, nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david light, lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass -- frederick douglass and on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. >> james carol, officer testified for the first time before the house oversight committee on the president's drug control policy released earlier this year. several democrats on the committee criticized the trump administration for failing to release a strategy in 2017 and 18. at the hearing last week, the committee chair elijah cummings said director carol had 60 days to return to the committee with more concrete measures for tackling the drug trade -- drug crisis in the country. >> the committee will come to order with authorization to declare a recess of the committee at any time. the full committee hearing is convening to review the trump administration's response to the drug crisis. i now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. good morning and thank you for being here at this very important hearing. i believe that today's hearing is one of the

blight ons david frederick douglass and raymond arsenault discussing arthur ashe. ,uthor melanie with her book crawford with freedom fighters and helzer's use. charles marsh with can i get a witness, and laurie anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book long way down. watch coverage of the virginia festival of the book on saturday at one in eastern. >> this weekend, on american ii navajo, world war code talkers have a look back at the 1970 93-mile island their power accident. saturday at 2 p.m. eastern on oral histories, the first of six interviews with former coach corpss work in the marine and use their native language to secretly communicate operational plans. >> it took us to the navajo code talkers, compelled to use their language and they devised it and scheme does such a way that it played a role, a very unique role of confusing the enemy. live, sunday morning, on american history tv and c-span's washington journal, the 40th anniversary of a nuclear island power plant accident near harrisburg pennsylvania, considered the most serious accident in the united states join

david blight on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass. and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next, testimony from nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. he spoke with nasa's ongoing projects and goals, returning astronauts to the moon. this is two hours.

biographers david on frederick douglass and raymond discussing arthur ashe. author melanie and her book, sisters. freedom fighters and hell raisers. charles with can i get a witness? authors lori anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book long way down. what coverage of the book saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. booktv on c-span2. we are covering a form with the number of trump administration officials including kevin, the chair white house counsel economic advisers education secretary betsy devos and fcc chair. hosted by the national institute c-span2. the committee met to consider amendments to a 2020 budget resolution proposed by committee chair mike. you just tax issues, order security, housing portability, disaster relief, agriculture programs and prescription drug pricing. this is the second they committee met on the legislation. markup is three hours and 15 minutes. on your screen, chairman and ranking chairman bernie sanders. >> good morning. welcome to the second day committee markup the budget resolution. i called my back to order. the commit