the assault on fort sumter in charleston bay in south carolina. tand the shelling of enemy coastal batteries. and ordered the recruitment of the army volunteers. the war lasted 4 years, the southerners had successes, but the federal center had much greater resources, and in the spring of 65 they won. an amazing coincidence. the northerners returned to fort sumter exactly 4 years after its surrender and... on the same day in washington, a southerner mortally wounded president lincoln, but the outcome of the war was a foregone conclusion. it is considered the bloodiest in us history. never before have americans had so many casualties, almost 900,000 killed, wounded and missing. 12th of april in 1927, massacres of communists began in shanghai. this event went down in history as the shanghai massacre of 1927. the order was given by chiang kai-shek, one of the leaders of the kuomintang, the party founded by the outstanding chinese revolutionary sunyetsen. the communists collaborated with her, and a united front was created to fight the rebel generals wh

the northerners returned to fort sumter exactly 4 years after his surrender.athizer mortally wounded president lincoln. however, the outcome. the war was a foregone conclusion; it is considered the bloodiest in us history. never before have americans had so many casualties, almost 900,000 killed, wounded and missing. on april 12 , 1927, massacres of communists began in shanghai. this event went down in history as the shanghai massacre of 1927. the order was given by chiang kai-shek, one of the leaders of the kuomintang, a party founded by a prominent chinese leader. the bbc calls it black thursday. then they suffered a catastrophic defeat in the skies of korea. there was a brutal war on the peninsula. on the one hand, the united states, its western allies and the south korean regime. on the other is north korea, which was supported by the ussr and china. the americans were at first masters of the air and carried out barbaric bombings of cities and villages. but they were rebuffed by soviet pilots in an instant. that day, 48 american b-29a superfortresses flew

and which of course, was hold down tattered after surrender of fort sumter in 1861. and i end with this slide to say that in in some sense, the war that northerners begun to wage in 1861 was literal as well as metaphorically to kind of restore flag and to restore that flag above fort sumter. the the choices made by what that newspaper called the silent majority of northerners. but these known then as for whom slavery is wrong. but the union was the ultimate moral objective. the choices these people made were, i think, are, i think, critical to understand in terms of the coming of of the civil. they were trying to make political judgments that would preserve their free in institutions. the political order in which they'd grown up and which they believed was the most perfect the world had ever seen. and they were trying and trying to preserve these things. they stumbled eventually into a situation where they felt compelled to use the immense force, immense force to preserve the union and to destroy the of slavery, not just for themselves, but to quote lincoln once agai

and i will we will fight for him because the firing on fort sumter is just as as if the british fleet had entered new york harbor. and that's a pretty statement for a for an irish leader in new york city in 1861. now, lincoln with the help of the aforementioned archbishop john hughes creates a wish list. of irish recruits. michael corcoran, who has had been under court martial for refusing to call up the 69 brigade to assemble to greet the prince of wales. he said, i'm not having my irish men greet the heir to the british throne. he was being court martialed as soon as lincoln needed him, the court martial mysteriously disappeared, and corcoran organized the second ninth into the fighting unit that came down here to arlington heights. thomas francis a remarkable irish leader who had been banished to australia, who had escaped to california, made his way all the way to new york, boston, then new york. he was recruited to be corcoran's second in command, which was good because corcoran was a captured bull run and ma took over the 69th. these were boys for irish recruitment for the whole

kelly also interviewed general abner doubleday, who fired the first gun at fort sumter. kelly made this illustrate and it was criticized by some saying, well, he put an old ship's cannon in the port there and, set of a proper gun, a fort. so after the drawing was published, you know, kelly went to doubleday and said, i'm receiving criticisms. the cannon and double said, no, you're right. it old ship cannon, the governor of south carolina had all the proper the good guns removed and replaced with old obsolete cannon. and so that's how kelly worked. everything had to be details. he wouldn't a button on a uniform unless he could document it. and again, save the notes to, protect the art. they were publishing a history united states, bryant's history of the u.s. and kelly was going to receive the commission to do art for that book. and it came to the point of the battle of gettysburg. and the publisher could not to have a page to general hancock and a page for general meade and a page general slocombe. so what did they do? kelly suggested there was only one time in the battle

assault on fort sumter in charleston harbor, south carolina. was considered well fortified, but couldl batteries, and the northern naval squadron was unable to approach due to the storm, and after 2 days the defenders surrendered. after this, president abraham lincoln declared the southern states in rebellion and ordered the recruitment of volunteers into the army. the war lasted 4 years, the southerners had successes, but the federal the center had much greater resources, and in the spring of sixty-five it won. an amazing coincidence. the northerners returned to port sumter exactly 4 years after his surrender, and on the same day in washington , a southerner mortally wounded president lincoln, but the outcome of the war was a foregone conclusion; it is considered the bloodiest in us history. never before have americans had so many casualties, almost 900 thousand killed, wounded and missing. on april 12 , 1927, massacres of communists began in shanghai. this event was called shanghai massacre of 1927. the order was given by chiang kai-shek, one of the leaders of the kuomintang, the pa

then april 1861, bombardment of fort sumter and south carolina, and the outbreak of the civil war. crown publishing rights. in its preview of the book, quote, drawingn diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation records, larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led america to the brink. also, this spring will see new books written by politicians, as well as those who have stood in the political spotlight. in may, south dakota governor kristi noem will release no going back. the truth on what's wrong with politics and how we move america forward. governor noem, of course, has been mentioned as a vice presidential running mate for donald trump. governor noem's newest book comes two years after the release of her autobiography, not my first rodeo lessons from the heartland. now, in june, presential candidate robert f kennedy jr will release is blueprint for imoving government. it's titled america's path back to moral leadership. mr. kennedy has published several books since announcing his presidential bid last year, including the wuhan cover

then april 1861, bombardment of fort sumter and south carolina, and the outbreak of the civil war. crown publishing rights. in its preview of the book, quote, drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation records, larsonives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led america to the brink. also, this spring will see new books written by politicians, as well as those who have stood in the political spotlight. in may, south dakota governor kristi noem will release no going back. the truth on what's wrong with politics and how we move america forward. governor noem, of course, has been mentioned as a vice presidential running mate for donald trump. governor noem's newest book comes two years after the release of her autobiography, not my first rodeo lessons from the heartland. now, in june, presidential candidate robert f kennedy jr will release is blueprint for improving governme. it's titled america's path back to moral leadership. mr. kennedy has published several books since announcing his presidential bid last year, including the wuhan cov

lincoln calls for troops for volunteers after fort sumter is fired upon. grant his services. he quickly rises in the western theater of the war, largely because of the strategic inertia in the western theater that there was no one who really knew how to wage a war and grant knew how to take advantage of opportunities, tactical and strategic, that were there. and as there was this meteoric rise, those who were in command, i think wanted dredge up whatever dirt they could find on him. and that is where i think the reputation of grant drinking too much came from and it started to baby and on a large scale after shiloh where historians pretty much agree there's no evidence that grant drank too much while the heavy casualties have been because of that. i think the reason being very though not not doing justice to the issue. i know but very concisely one of the things that one observation that precludes the conclusion. i think that was an alcoholic was the last 20 years of his life including the period when he was most intensely in the public eye between 1865 and his death in 1885.

weeks after the second inaugural, when he was at the the dedication, the re raising of the flag at fort sumter and is comments are just extraordinary. he says beecher place the whole guilt of the war upon. the ambitious, educated, plodding political leaders of the south. they have shed an ocean of blood. their day of trial and punishment would come the southern rebels, he said, be world aloft and plunged down forever and forever. in an retribution. now compare that to the tone of the the second inauguration and even on the afternoon of lincoln's death, congressman george washington julian met with fellow radical and he wrote in diary their hostility lincoln's policy of conciliation and contempt for his weakness were undisguised and the universal feeling among radical men here that his death is a godsend. hmm. yeah. so this the. the kind of emotion and he was dealing with. he was trying to really thread needle between the anger of the north and the bitterness the south and yeah, it makes you think, wow, what would have happened if booth had not taken him out? thank you for that. and picking up

well, a month later we get the battle for fort sumter and the civil war is underway. and lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to suppress rebellion. and he immediately runs into some trouble because the to get the people from the north, you know, down to the south to try to suppress the rebellion, getting on trains and they're getting stuck part because there are there are some riots and there's objections from confed great sympathizers in this travel kind of philadelphia, the baltimore to washington, d.c. it's highly in fact, there's a couple of riots. four union soldiers are killed and 130 are wounded. lincoln, i can't have that. i've got to do something about it. and so he actually an order to the commanding general. scott was still the commanding general at, the time at the beginning of the war. and he says, i'm suspending the writ of habeas corpus. you can now arrest anyone in that travel corridor. and if you decide the military decides that they are disrupting the war unfairly or unnecessarily, the government supporting the confederate ac any of those things you

before a shell was shot it fort sumter, the church had split over the issue of slavery.is the substance of the false white gospel? >> and two, how do we respond to this. in the book, you give wonderful passages from the bible and you take us to the word as a way to respond. give us a sense of what we can do in the face of all you describe. >> as we no, our demons are racial demons. this is the time to bring the story back. to bring the story back. there are six iconic biblical texts. no the truth, says jesus, and the truth will set you free. the opposite of truth is not just lying, it is captivity. >> don't go anywhere, morning joe weekend returns after this break . k . when you put in the effort, but it starts to frizz... you skipped a step. tresemmé silk serum. use before styling for three days of weightlessly smooth hair that frizz can't beat. new tresemmé keratin smooth collection. (vo) dan made progress with his mental health... ...but his medication caused unintentional movements in his face, hands, and feet called tardive dyskinesia, or td. so his doctor prescribe

which is a first attempt to disrupt the peaceful transition of power since the cannons fired at fort sumter and not that an indictment was brought. from the first moments the conservatives adopted the notion that what is new and extraordinary needs justification is the prosecution itself. in so doing, what they did, as you said quite well, adopted the most cynical sort of authoritarian and relativistic view of all of this that trump himself adopts which is, any prosecutor can prosecute for anything. we saw this in the -- case as well. this assumption that everyone below this court is austere with their impeccable vision. everyone below them, political hacks. colorado, they just don't want trump on the ballot. any prosecutor can prosecute anyone. what happens next? these political hacks everywhere, we are the only ones who see clearly. we do not trust this other process beneath us. the district court and the appellate court and greentree and prosecutor and department of justice and attorney general and duly elected president in the colorado supreme court, all of that, no. we get to say. neve

obviously the first attempt on the union since the cannons fired at fort sumter should knock a person'sncredibly popular and provides healthcare to millions of people. getting rid of the estate tax for the 1500 wealthiest estates in america, that is not popular and it has been a little lost i think to memory that if he is in power and there is republican majority and republican senate, he will try to do that. they will cut more taxes. he just did a fundraiser the other day with paulson where he said, i'm getting another tax cut. don't you worry. they will make another run on healthcare. kennedy was just talking about medicare and particularly medicaid. there is a lot the government could do and did do under donald trump the first time to pare back enrollment. all that stuff which is the brass tax stuff of what it would mean for your healthcare and your tax bill, that stuff i think can sometimes get a little occluded, understandably amid the madness. and i'm in the same boat. we are doing this on the podcast because it gives us time and depth to drill down into this stuff because of the