officer, george custer. we will hear about the conflict from a park ranger at the little bighorn battlefields national monument in montana. >> folks, this is an incredible story. it's a story that attracts 400,000 people a year from all over the world. come through that gate. the vast majority of them, 90% of the time never been here in their lives. i like to see who you are this morning. if you've never been here in your life, please put your hand up. now hold it way up. now, just look around. it's always the same. 90% of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of george armstrong custer. there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. and i promise you this, there's nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. well, folks, it's a simple story. and yet it's a complex story. you are on the battlefield right now. on june 25, 1876, george

he needs an economic stimulus package, and george custer is going to provide it. gold in the black hills. the summer of 1874 custer leads an expedition. now it is a reality. there is gold in the black hills. newspaper reports say all you have to do is walk through the grass and pick up nuggets off the tops of your shoes. miners, prospectors pour into the hills. overnight, deadwood. 3,000, 4,000 people real quick. every one of them is an illegal alien because the black hills belong to the sioux, guaranteed by the treaty of 1868, a white man's promise. no white people allowed in the black hills. wild bill hickok shot in the back of the head. he's an illegal alien. so is his friend calamity jane, because the sioux call the hills paha sapa, sacred ground. president grant sees an opportunity there. he wants to get at that gold, rev up the economy, create jobs. put pun money in the treasury, so he's going to try to buy the black hills. $7 million, that is a of a lot of money. but sitting bull, crazy horse, no, not for sale. you don't sell the ground your ancestors walked

he needs an economic stimulus package, and george custer is going to provide it. gold in the black hills. alien because the black hills belong to the sioux, guaranteed by the treaty of 1868, a white man's promise. no white people allowed in the black hills. wild bill hickok shot in the back of the head. he's an illegal alien. so is his friend calamity jane, because the sioux call the hills paha sapa, sacred ground. president grant sees an opportunity there. he wants to get at that gold, rev up the economy, create jobs. put pun money in the treasury, so he's going to try to buy the black hills. $7 million, that is a of a lot of money. but sitting bull, crazy horse, no, not for sale. you don't sell the ground your ancestors walked on and now their remains lie beneath. not for sale. well, how about if we lease them? we'll give them back when we're done. no, thanks. in frustration, grant hands the problem over to the war department, the architects of a back. -- the architects of a military campaign, to sweep the sioux back. it's going to be designed by two old civil w

on wednesday, james robbins recounsels the military career of general george custer at the hudson library in hudson, ohio. and on thursday, at book court book store in brooklyn, new york, the chief national cooperate for "the new york times" magazine profiled several politics and members of the media. and that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to the web site, book toe.org and visit, upcoming programs. ... it employs a vast percentage of the nation's people. everybody eats every day. it couldn't be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. it's simple. one product is really bad for health [inaudible] they can't live with it if they don't eat and it's not just one product. it's thousands of products but the question dealing with nutrition issues [inaudible] [inaudible] calories available in the food supply every day and the people read about these figures so the food industry is competitive and it has to find lots of ways and in doing that as the number of calories increase it is to contain more and more ways t

he needs an economic stimulus package, and george custer is going to provide it. gold in the black hills. the summer of 1874 custer leads an expedition. now it is a reality. there is gold in the black hills. newspaper reports say all you have to do is walk through the grass and pick up nuggets off the tops of your shoes. miners, prospectors pour into the hills. overnight, deadwood. 3,000, 4,000 people real quick. every one of them is an illegal alien because the black hills belong to the sioux, guaranteed by the treaty of 1868, a white man's promise. no white people allowed in the black hills. wild bill hickok shot in the back of the head. he's an illegal alien. so is his friend calamity jane, because the sioux call the hills paha sapa, sacred ground. president grant sees an opportunity there. he wants to get at that gold, rev up the economy, create jobs. put money in the treasury, so he's going to try to buy the black hills. $7 million, that is a of a lot of money. but sitting bull, crazy horse, no, not for sale. you don't sell the ground your ancestors walked on

on wednesday, james robbins recounsels the military career of general george custer at the hudson library in hudson, ohio. and on thursday, at book court book store in brooklyn, new york, the chief national cooperate for "the new york times" magazine profiled several politics and members of the media. and that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to the web site, book toe.org and visit, upcoming programs. ...

on wednesday, james robins recounts the military career of general george custer in hudson, ohio. and on thursday in brooklyn, new york, mark leibovich, chief national correspondent for "the new york times" magazine, profiles several politicians and members of the media. that's a look of some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more, go to our web site, booktv.org, and visit "upcoming programs." ..ly. >> host: michael korda, who

george custer is going to provide the economic increase. custer leads an expedition into the black hills. rumors of gold had persisted for years but now it is a reality. there's gold in the black hills. newspaper reports say all you've got to do is walk through the grass and pick up nuggets off the tops of your shoes. miners, prospectors, entrepreneurs, pour into the hills. overnight deadwood, 3,000 people real quick. every one of them is an illegal alien. because the black hills belong the sioux guarantee bid the treaty, a white man's promise. no white people allowed in the black hills. wild bill hick cock shot in the back of the head in the is a loan he is an illegal alien. o is calamity jane because the land.all hem, their he sees gold. so he is going to try to buy the black hills. $7 million. that's a lot of money. but sitting bull, crazy horse, ice, lame white man, others, no. not for sale. you don't sell the ground that your ancestors walked on and now their bones lie beneath. not for sale. >> happy early thanksgiving, everybody. it i

he introduces a stimulus packet, and george custer is going to provide it.ansionads and ask into the black hills of south dakota. it is arally -- reality. there are gold supplies in the black hills. people say that all you have to do is go through the grass and pick up gold nuggets that get stuck on the bottom of your shoes. deadwood.r into every one of these people are in an illegal alien, because the black hills belong to the sioux. people were allowed in the black hills. wild bill hickox was shot in the back of the head playing cards at the number two saloon in deadwood. he is there illegally and so is his friend calamity jane. they were on sacred ground, the hills were black with timber. president grant sees an opportunity there and he wants to get at that gold and ramp up the economy and create jobs and put money in the treasury, so he is going to try to buy the black hills. $7 million. that is a lot of money. sitting bull and crazy horse and others say no. not for sale. ground thatll the your ancestors walked on and now their bones like the beneath you

interestingly, george armstrong custer was there as part of the seventh calvary for a brief time until he moved out west. and we know what happened to him out there. so the klan effectively went away, which was okay at that point, because once reconstruction and the army left, the south reverted to the way it was before the civil war. jim crow laws were passed, extremely unfair laws, in a system of share cropping, which is essentially like slavery. so we move ahead now to the second klan, the modern ku klux klan, which is the one i've written about. and that was 1915. not in indianapolis but in atlanta, georgia. and on thanksgiving night of 1915, a man named william joseph simmons initiated the new klan atop stone mountain, georgia, with a fiery cross and all of that. he coincided this with the debut in atlanta of birth of a nation, if you're familiar with the tremendous film by d.w. griffith. i say tremendous. i'm a film major, because he was a brilliant filmmaker who did things no one had ever done. he chose a pretty bad story to do it with, based on a play called the klansmen and it

two of the critical players, we see sheridan and george armstrong custer and we'll talk more about that in a few moments. right now, i want to move up to cedar creek by look at things going on. where was the field elsewhere at this time? by early 1864, the endgame of the civil war was in progress. in the deep south, william tecumseh sherman would be placed in charge of the army that will sweep through georgia and into the carolinas and we'll talk about sherman. sherman's record was marginal. he was a colonel at board run in 1861 -- bull run in 1861. he had rallied his men. it was noted by his superiors although ultimately his brigade left the field in much the same way as the rest of the union troops that day, which was fleeing. his first large command was a colossal failure and many journalists consider him as having lost his mind. he was at shiloh in 1862. it is plagued with logistical problems. however, he was one the most trusted men that were continued through the war. sherman's march georgia as subsequent action of total war as he moved up the east coast earned him his final legen

two of the critical players, we see sheridan and george armstrong custer and we'll talk more about that in a few moments. right now, i want to move up to cedar creek by look at things -- by looking at things that were going on. where was the field elsewhere at this time? by early 1864, the endgame of the civil war was in progress. in the deep south, william tecumseh sherman would be placed in charge of the army that will sweep through georgia and into the carolinas, and we talked for a moment about sherman. sherman's record was marginal. he was a colonel at bull run in july of 1861. against strong forces, he had rallied his men. ultimately, his brigade left the field in much the same way as the rest of the union troops that day, fleeing from the rebel onslaught. his first large command was a colossal failure and many journalists consider him as having lost his mind. he performed well at shiloh in the spring of 1862 but managed a disastrous attack a few months prior to the 1863 seats to vicksburg. his march was plagued with problems. thehis performance at battle of chattanooga was also q

on wednesday, james robins recounts the military career of general george custer in hudson, ohio. and on thursday in brooklyn, new york, mark leibovich, chief national correspondent for "the new york times" magazine, profiles several politicians and members of the media. that's a look of some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more, go to our web site, booktv.org, and visit "upcoming programs." ..ly. >> host: michael korda, who is alex kellner? >> guest: alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a university st as a university student, because it sounded jewish. at first he spelled the new name crda, then changed it to korda because it looks hungarian that way. >> host: who was sir alex korda? >> guest: he was the prototypical film producer, also film director. he directed his first film at a teenage age in 1914 and directed at least 100 or twice that many movies during the course of his life and produced i don't know how many. europe, the united kingdom, hollywood

in one of these oddities of american history, custard, custerer, general george , his second to last stand is actually in central kentucky when the 7th cavalry is to put down moonshiners but it is nowhere near the moonshine belt. their move is to kentucky to put down the ku klux klan in elizabethtown, kentucky. there is an enormous, a testing ground of racial violence and what powers the government can use in peace time. >> hi. i wonder how much the element of just pure fear of the south plays into this removing soldiers. i mean, the war was devastating. the south fought really hard. maybe on some level they were just afraid of removing the grip for fear of who knows what? >> yes. well, i think there is no question that there is a belief, you know, as jason phillips has written in "die hard rebels" and confederates who came home from fighting still fighting. and the sense that the southern countryside is in a royaling state of insurgency from very early on in 1865 and this desperate effort among northern policy makers to figure out how to put that down which turns out to be an extrao

defeating general george custer .nd his army regiment after that, a visit to alabama, where native americans known as the red sticks massacred militiamen and settlers in 1813. later, i looked at pictographs in montana by native americans as long as 9000 years ago. in the battle of little big horn, also known as custer's last stand, worriers defeated the seventh calvary regiment in the united states army and killed lieutenant colonel george custer. you will hear about the conflict from a park ranger at the little big horn battlefield at the national monument in montana.

officer, lieutenant colonel george custer. we will hear about the conflict from a park ranger at the little bighorn battlefield national monument in montana. >> folks, this is an incredible story. it's a story that attracts 400,000 people a year from all over the world. come through that gate. the vast majority of them, 90% of the time never been here in their lives. i like to see who you are this morning. if you've never been here in your life, please put your hand up. now hold it way up. now, just look around. it's always the same. 90% of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of george armstrong custer. there's nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. and i promise you this, there's nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. well, folks, it's a simple story. and yet it's a complex story. you are on the battlefield right now. and it stretches five miles to the south of us

george custer is going to provide it. in the black hills, the summer of 1774, he leads an expedition into the black hills of south dakota. rumor of gold has existed for years but now it is a reality. there is black gold in the black hills. walkou have to do is through the fields and pick up nuggets off of the tops of your shoes. prospectors and miners poured into the hills overnight. deadwood, 3000 to 4000 people real quick. everyone of them is an illegal alien because the black hills belong to the sioux, guaranteed by the treaty of 1868, a white man's promise. no white people allowed in the black hills. while bill hickok shot in the back of the head playing cards in the number 10 saloon in deadwood, he is an illegal alien, so is his friend calamity jane because the sioux called the hills sacred ground. literalransition, -- translation, though hills are black with woods. thee is going to try to buy black hills, $7 million. that is a lot of money. but sitting bull, crazy horse, others -- no, not for sale. you