fort sumter, appomattox. under a flag of 36 stars, the west won and the nation extended from coast to coast. 46 stars. the spanish american war, san juan hill hill. 48 stars. the flag, the doughboy took over their chateau carrie belo wood, sammy. again on the 48 stars the battle dress of world war two pearl harbor to manila, tunisia to the rhine, and later korea. today, under 50 stars. the american soldier carries forward his proud heritage of devotion. a heritage which through the years has ensured the security of the union, which those 50 stars symbolize. for every one of our 50 stars, there is a colorful state flag. each with a tradition, a meaning of its own. time. of diversity and a harmony which is in itself symbolic of the broad union they represent. and. all good as in review. right home. i pass and review a typically terse military whose meaning is this? let the soldiers pass by so that it may be seen what their quality is or are. they. if the military review will reveals what men are. it also recall

fort sumter, appomattox. under a flag of 36 stars, the west won and the nation extended from coast to coast. 46 stars. the spanish american war, san juan hill hill. 48 stars. the flag, the doughboy took over their chateau carrie belo wood, sammy. again on the 48 stars the battle dress of world war two pearl harbor to manila, tunisia to the rhine, and later korea. today, under 50 stars. the american soldier carries forward his proud heritage of devotion. a heritage which through the years has ensured the security of the union, which those 50 stars symbolize. for every one of our 50 stars, there is a colorful state flag. each with a tradition, a meaning of its own. time. of diversity and a harmony which is in itself symbolic of the broad union they represent. and. all good as in review. right home. i pass and review a typically terse military whose meaning is this? let the soldiers pass by so that it may be seen what their quality is or are. they. if the military review will reveals what men are. it also recall

not carrying the flag of fort sumter with him. well, guess what? he got. he got a parade. and the flag was draped over the equestrian statue of george washington that now that still sits in union square park. there was a parade past a jewelry building whose pediment stood until about five years ago around wall street and broadway as the seventh regiment goes off to defend the union and the city is adorned with american flags. so lincoln seizes victory from the jaws of defeat, what about roosevelt and the days after pearl does he how does he rally the nation and we were allergic to the speech. yeah. let me first say that admiral. kimmel did not get a parade. yeah, the fall guy after pearl harbor that was but franklin roosevelt. as i mentioned just a minute ago shocked as i believe he genuinely was he got a phone call from winston churchill who heard about this on the radio. oh my gosh. what what's this about pearl harbor? what have i heard? and he said yes, it's true. we're all in the same boat now roosevelt had been determined to save britain if he could lend lease whateve

carrying the flag of fort sumter within, guess what, he got a parade. and the flag was draped over the equestrian statue of george washington, that still sits in union square park. it was a parade passed a jewelry building, whose president stood until about five years ago around wall street and broadway, at least seven regiments goes off to defend the union. and the city is adorned with american flags. so lincoln sees this victory for from the jaws of defeat. what about worries about the days after pearl. does he rally the nation? >> let me first say that -- did not get a parade after pearl harbor. franklin roosevelt, as i mention just a minute ago, shot as i believe he genuinely was, phone call from winston churchill who heard about this on the radio. what is this about pearl harbor? what i heard? they say yes it is, true we are all in the same boat. now roosevelt had been determined to save britain if he could. glenn lease, whatever eight he could provide. he comes up with the whole idea of landing a garden house if your neighbor's house is on fire. n

the bombardment of fort sumter, which lincoln doesn't invite, but as it turned out, it was a bloodless loss. the only casualties occurred the day after the bombardment ended. and at the right, i guess that was the arizona blowing up. >> actually, puts the destroyer shot. >> talk can you tell? >> that's a famous photograph of that particular explosion. it was a terrible catastrophe, and it's interesting to compare the two. if we talk about lincoln, and how cleverly, i would argue, he maneuver jefferson davis, forced him, and to making that decision, he bore the opprobrium of firing the first shot. that had political value for abraham lincoln and for his union and his objective. but pearl harbor has led some to say, well, we have broken their diplomatic code, not their operational code, but their diplomatic coat. we should've known more than we did. not all the papers were shared with the operational commanders. did roosevelt no, or even guess, that the japanese would do this? i've looked hard into this, and i don't think you can make that case. i know when you got a phone call at 1:00 i

the ducks and the statue that you passed was a bow or guard order the first shots to be fired at fort sumter that thing exist all across my middle school was named after an avid confederate who supported the segregation of schools support if i happen for me would be the 16 -year-old version of me i remember being a kid implicits explicit, and not having the language to push back. not having the language or sociology to more effectively contextualize why new orleans looked at the weighted. why one part looked one way and another part looked another way. if nobody teaches you the history, you fall into the trap of thinking the reason one part looks one way and another looks another way is because the people, rather than what has been done to those communities generation after generation. part of the object of the book was to write the book that i felt like i needed when i was in american history. >> "how the wood has passed" is the name of clint's new book. if you would like to join in, eastern and central time zones and mountain and pacific numbers on your screen. you have a robust social med

he ordered the first shots to be fired at fort sumter. that exists all across the city. my middle school was named after someone who was an avid confederate in support of the segregation of schools. and so, part of what happened for me was i wanted to write a book that would have been helpful for the 16-year-old version of me. i wanted to write a book -- i remember being a kid and feeling a sense of intellectual and social and psychological paralysis being told the things that were wrong with black people. sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit, and not having the language to push back. not having the language or sociology to more effectively contextualize why new orleans looked at the weighted. why one part looked one way and another part looked another way. if nobody teaches you the history, you fall into the trap of thinking the reason one part looks one way and another looks another way is because the people, rather than what has been done to those communities generation after generation. part of the object of the book was to write the book that i felt like i needed

years ago as you enter was a statue of beauregard a general fire doors come first shots before at fort sumter. that sort of thing exists all across the city. my middle schools named after somebody who was an avid confederate someone who supported the segregation of schools. and so part of what happened for me was i wanted to write a book that would've been helpful to the 16-year-old version of me. i wanted to write a book because remember being a kid and feeling a sense of intellectual and social and psychological paralysis, being told all the things that were wrong with black people. sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit, not having the language with which to push back, not having a history for the sociology with which to more effectively contextualize why new orleans look the way it did come why one part look one way and another part looked another way. if nobody teaches you this information, nobody teaches you this history then you fall into the trap of thinking the recent one part of the city puts one way or another part way a semi because the people in those communities rather than what

same with fort sumter.thers did not want him to bet the entire country on sumpter, but he said, no, in fact, there has to be a point in which we will not let things go. >> and this is our red line. >> for us, i think the red line has to be are these going to be democratically, lower case d, fair and free elections, and if so, we respect them. and if you don't respect them, then you are falling out of a democratic covenant and you're falling into a state of nature. >> you know, jon, we just want to end up with what you said, there's a time for all seasons. and for lincoln, reading your instant classic, reading eric phoner's, the fiery trial, you see lincoln, and, you know, some people, some historical figures are just a joy to read, with all of his failings and flaws, winston churchill, just it's a fascinating read. fdr, the tragedy of polio, but he was such a positive figure and seeing the joy of him just fighting over and over again his affliction to become president of the united states through depression

backwards, in april 1861, even after the secession of the southern states, even after the firing in fort sumterit was still by no means clear that the crisis would only result in a civil war. we could have simply resigned his army commission and stayed neutral or he could accept the invitation extended to him to take command of virginia and play the role of mediator between virginia and beginning. and thus achieve peacemaking, fame greater than his father ever enjoyed in war but of course it did not turn out that way. many others, we found the secession crisis galloping away from him and in the end, step-by-step incrementally, he found himself by 1862 as the commander of the army of northern virginia. he played that role quickly as he tried to play every other role in life that he failed elected not necessarily surprise him, on the way to the courthouse, he admitted he'd always expected the war would turn out the way they showed it with. at least his conduct would show how he could rise even above defeat. in the end, he would keep his perfection intact. today more questions revolve around statu

did that part of the united states in the behind during the civil war because not 100 days after fort sumterred on jefferson davis using the same arguments that the americans used heduring the american revolution issued, started issuing letters of mark wthere were almost 100 confederate privateers that operated during the civil war capturing union merchant vessels. now this created an interesting problem for abraham lincoln because once one of the first confederate privateers that were captured called the savanna, they brought the prisoners into new york, they paraded them down broadway. theywere manacled at the time and people were cheering at them . they were thrown into the tomb's prison in new york and abraham lincoln to hang the confederate privateers and because he viewed them as nothing more than pirates. so jefferson davis said hold on, he was a very formal letter, he said you start hanging confederate privateers and we are going to have hang 141 union soldiers we have in our prisons soabraham lincoln never went through with the hangings . and actually the congress of the north , the

looked like they were getting their butts kicked as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter and launched the civil war. we are in perilous times where the democracy is hanging by a thread. >> why do you say that? >> because we've got what i cali a land to sea and air attack that is happening right now on the democracy. it is the assault on voting rights. the sea attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history. and of the air attack is the loosening of gun law while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate and political discourse and while seeing that there was all of this violence and threat raining down on o election workers and officials. a so when you're looking at what's happening with voting and what's happening with our education system andem the way the narratives come to understand this nation. when you look at the tool of politics, we are under a full-blown of salt aided and abetted by the u.s. supreme court. aided and abetted by hyper extreme partisan gerrymandering legislation legislatures we are in trouble and where the hope

there is fort sumter. well, i think that's the image in the lower left-hand corner the way i the way i've arranged them is not how how families would have would have seen them. they're on like a strip and you're you're moving them sequentially scrolling them through but there's certainly are scenes of of killing and dying here, but i guess what if you'd like to comment on this any of the panelists it these these these images are very different than the ones like alexander gardner's stereographs. how how so i mean that looks like the winslow home or painting and the in the lower right hand corner of the the sharpshooter in the in the tree. oh, yeah, so there are there there taking imagery. from other places and using it to instruct and edify and also entertain children and families that you couldn't do with the alexander gardner stereographs of examples of them taking out. i don't know those harpers or leslie's but and this is actually isn't that a career in ives lithograph kind of ellsworth being shot look

looked like they were giving the butt kicked, as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter and launched the civil war. we are in perilous times where our democracy is hanging by a thread. >> host: why do you say that? >> guest: because we've got what i call a land, sea, and air attack happening in american democracy. the land attackers the assault on voting rights, the sea attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history. the air attack is the loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse and seeing all of this violence and threat raining down on election workers and election officials. when you are looking at what is happening with voting and our education system and the narrative we have come to understand this nation and when you look at deployment of violence as a tool of politics. aided by the us supreme court, aided and abetted by hyper extreme partisan gerrymandered state legislatures. we are in trouble. where the hope is, is that we have always fought back. we have always known that thi

the continental army getting their buts kicked as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter and launched the civil war. we are in perilous times for our democracy is hanging by a thread. >> host: why do you say that? >> guest: because we have got a land, sea and air attack happening right now in american democracy. the land attack is the assault on voting rights. the sea attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history and the air attack is a loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse and while saying there was all of this violence and threat raining down on election workers and election officials. when you are looking at what's happening with voting and if you're looking at what's happening with their education system and the way the narratives that we come tost understand this nation and then when you look at the deployment of violence as a tool of politics, we are under a full-blown assault. a enabled and embedded embedded by the u.s. supreme court, aided and abetted by hyperextreme partis