we don't want you to defend gettysburg. he says this. don't defend gettysburg. i have asked you to move on gettysburg and post yourself up there with the idea of inviting the enemy to coalesce in front of me. if you are john reynolds, what exactly is being asked of you? these guys all were trained soldiers. they all went to west point. they all studied military tactic. there was a graduate of west point who taught on everyone of meade's corps commanders. , and johnisciple reynolds was an assistant theessor of tactic for outbreak of the war and was commandant of cadets. only in the 19th century to have titles of books like this " outpost and detachment service and troops in the matter of posting and handling them in the presence of the enemy." 1847.hed in right on the heels of another one. here is what he says in this book. he says, when an enemy's beauty to force him to show his hand by causing him to call out all of his detachmentn a large of all arms adequate to the task of pressing the enemy vigorously and also withdrawing with safety when pressed in turn mus

up next, michael berger of gettysburg college talks about dwight eisenhower and his connections to gettysburg. where he was stationed for training during world war i and later retired after his presidency. you are watching american history tv, live on c-span3. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute a gettysburg college and i'm also a member of the history department. it is my pleasure to introduce berger,ague, michael obviously, also part of the history department here. taught at gettysburg college since 1989, his scholarship focuses on many of 19th andpects 20th century american political and social history. he has written extensively on the presidency of dwight d. eisenhower and on the role of eisenhower's chief of staff, sherman adams. also is aberger specialist on the presidency of james buchanan, he has co-edited three volumes, the third will be coming out shortly, on james buchanan. it's hard to imagine you could even get a single volume on the canon, that was a cheap shot, i know you were expecting that. the professor is completing a

up next, michael berger of gettysburg college talks about dwight eisenhower and his connections to gettysburg. where he was stationed for training during world war i and later retired after his presidency. you are watching american history tv, live on c-span3. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute a gettysburg college and i'm also a member of the history department. it is my pleasure to introduce berger,ague, michael obviously, also part of the history department here. taught at gettysburg college since 1989, his scholarship focuses on many of 19th andpects 20th century american political and social history. he has written extensively on the presidency of dwight d. eisenhower and on the role of eisenhower's chief of staff, sherman adams. also is aberger specialist on the presidency of james buchanan, he has co-edited three volumes, the third will be coming out shortly, on james buchanan. it's hard to imagine you could even get a single volume on the canon, that was a cheap shot, i know you were expecting that. the professor is completing a

thank you so much. >> you're watching live coverage of the gettysburg civil war institute annual summer conference here on c-span 3's american history tv. we'll be back live in just over 10 minutes with author and historian kent masterson brown who will talk about union commander george gordon mead and the gettysburg campaign, until then more on the civil wars c-span city's tour that ooks at cities across america. >> today we are in casco bay, one mile off the mainland shore of portland, maine, and we're on hog island ledge where they built fort gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor and was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south there, fort prebble in the south and fort scammel on house island and designed to work in conjunction to defend the war. they think it was a civil war fort before it was funded long before civil war and approved by congress as a response to 1812, things that occurred much earlier. gorgeous is a handmade granite fort and if you looked at it from a top view looking down, you'd see a gigantic d. what most people don't reali

we're live from gettysburg, pennsylvania for the annual civil war summer conference hosted by gettysburg college. back this break we will be with the final speaker of the day, elizabeth barron from the university of virginia. she will talk about elizabeth van loo, the unions by who operated a ring out of the confederate capital of richmond, virginia. but now c-span takes you on the road. benny: name a bridge after edmund pettis, certain things happen. first, you stamp a modern marvel with the name of someone who supported white supremacy for decades. he's a confederate hero. there is the sense that the past in the present have come together. you have a modern bridge with a name who was possibly a kkk leader and a key voice of white supremacy here in the south. bridge waspettus completed in 1940. the bridge replaced a much older and somewhat dysfunctional wooden bridge people had to click by hand if a ship was coming through of any height. it was meant to update the link between montgomery, the state capital, and the black belt here. it was pretty much people leaving the black belt to go

slavery is his natural and normal condition. >> when a cemetery is dedicated at gettysburg to bury theericans who died there, abraham lincoln takes the opportunity to definitively link the union's fight to america's founding principles. >> mr. president. [ applause ] >> four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> contrary to the confederacy's radical insistence on racial superiority, lincoln says that our nation is built on the realization that all men are created equal. in his short address at gettysburg, lincoln drills down to the spirit of why brother is fighting against brother. it's over a simple question. if all men are created equal, then how can one man hold another man as property? >> now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived, so dedicated can long endure. we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. >> the core of the declaration of independence is that an idea is enou

first anniversary of breaking camp for the gettysburg campaign. we are far short of our goal he scribbled. coming face-to-face with the material realities of slavery, something that would have been mostly foreign, this might have also raised him up. grant attempted to flank,round lee's right the second core swung their spades and built a of federal fortifications. haley's outfit burrowed into the earth very near the abandoned home of a wealthy preacher. soldiers, other union haley entered the house and liberated some of the masters china. there's a keeping with our mission to destroy his kind of theology as quickly as possible. sanctionedthat slavery savors too strongly of satan to be tolerated. christ hasn of jesus nothing in common with the auction block or the lash. haley nor his comrades would occupy those new works. as ulysses s. grant refused to fall into the ingenious trap set for him by robert e. lee. instead he looked once more around lee's right flank and a movement that his troops have come to perfect by this point in the campaign. to a

the battle of gettysburg his 58,000 casualties 22 armies.he british lose that in one day at the battle of the psalm -- somme. haigmpare grant to douglas and some of the world war i generals, you see the reputation of grant ebb and flow in the 20th century when we look at worse at our wars of attrition and apply those characteristics in nearly two ulysses s. grant and the situation he is sent in the civil war. >> we have two remaining questions. realize we have two and i foundestions, not of ok'd. we can only allow one you echo they are quick. one? ife can only allow they are quick. sir? grant's memoirs -- memoirs come out rosecrans comes in for very serious criticism by grants. he comes in almost as a bumbling cloud

the exception to that is lee at gettysburg.re he made a boo-boo and another boo-boo and a third boo-boo. i wonder where the lever was. in any case, i don't think mcclellan would have been a good desk general. i think -- in fact, i think it would have deprived of the union of mcclellan's inspirational leadership. if nothing else, as even lincoln admitted, mcclellan had organizational skills. he could inspire a lot of men in the ranks. so, no, i don't think dutch and the other thing is, you say, who else could have been armed -- commander of the army of the potomac? that's a good question. if you put mcclellan at a desk. hallock is out west. indo not worry about hallock 1860 two. if he is out west, we give urban -- irwin mcdowell a second shot? that's probably not the guy you want. how many bull runs do you want to fight ec? who people do not know these guys are. so, i don't think so. -- lincolnually began to realize that mcclellan was having an awfully hard time supervising all military operations while supervising his own where

. ♪ and we are back live now with more from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summerar conference. up next, a round table discussion on the memoirs of ulysses s. grant. while we wait for that to start, let me remind you that you can watch all our coverage of the gettysburg civil war institute annual conference any time by visiting our website at c-span.org/history. you can find our full tv schedule and view any of our programs in their entirety. to keep up with the latest on the mac in history tv or share your thoughts on our programming , connect with us on twitter on c-span history and facebook at facebook.com/c-span history. again, a roundtable discussion of five scholars on the memoirs of ulysses s. grant about to start. this is american history tv on c-span3. >> ok, folks, we are going to go ahead and get started. good afternoon. is this sound ok? in the

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live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summer conference. starting saturday morning at 8:30 eastern with villanova university's geeseburg on union troops and pornography. followed by kent masterson brown on union commander george gordon immediate at the battle of gettysburg. and at 3:15, a historical park director on the battle of the crater during the siege of petersburg. our coverage continues sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern with new york historical society's jonathan landy ondy certification among african-american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university's brook sitchson on abraham lincoln. then at 2:45, elizabeth of the university of virginia on elizabeth van lew who operated a spy ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv. n c-span3. >> next, a book tv exclusive. our cities tour visits fort worth, texas. to learn more about its unique history and literary life. for seven years now, we've

singing] >> we take you live to pennsylvania for the gettysburg college city -- civil war annual conference. herethe first of two days on american history tv. among the topics, george gordon meade, the life of the common civil war soldier and president dwight eisenhower's connection to gettysburg. up first, judith he's berg talks about union -- union soldiers and pornography. she is also the director of the graduate program at villanova. she is the author of either books including civil war sisterhood, the united states cap -- sanitary commission and women's politics in transition. she is also the author it -- author of army at home, women and the civil war on the know are there and -- the northern home front. it is one of the few books that looks the experience of poor women on the northern home front, a topic that bill marvel spoke about yesterday when he gave his lecture on mercenary soldiers. army book is good, it is " at home." recently she is published a book published civil war, by the university of north carolina press. we have the copyright up here. it is worth your time. she is ex

what are we doing at gettysburg? this has been the place where we are testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived or dedicated can long endure. is that any allusion? is that something we dreamt in philadelphia in 1776? this civil war is the test of that. we came through that test. we emonstrated in blood, we demonstrated that in fact, this dedication to this proposition really does work. you can build a nation upon it in that nation can live. the 14th amendment and the 15th amendment and the life we have lived out of the constitution sense, every day that we live out that promise is a justification of what lincoln was saying. lincoln, yes. he was a very practical man but a man of great ideals. n flexible, on bendable -- nflexible, unbendable ideas. would we get that everyone of say the same thing today. >> we need to move on to the next question. >> i have a question. as a historian, you see around us people with their own versions of history. what do you think from a standpoint of reconstruction as a peop

imp carmichael, a member of the history department here at gettysburg college. i am the director of the civil war institute. it's like better this afternoon to introduce elizabeth bayern, who is the associate director of the center for civil war history and also a professor of american attory and of course, all the university of virginia. thankfully, she is not a hockey bob -- at least i don't believe she is. said go cats what has happened to the american sports scene? i don't know. i would not think that at a conference people would be ja .ing about hockey she has published a number of books. we need to be confident: white women and politics in antebellum virginia." one of my favorite processs of the published by the university of north girl oppressed, and "appomattox: the tree defeat, and freedom at the end of the ," published by oxford. it is an outstanding book. it's a way to look beyond appomattox, looks at the material culture, how appomattox resided in american history. it's outstanding. i cannot say enough good things about it. and she published "the tru

as far as they knew, it was omaha beach, waterloo, gettysburg rolled into one. i swear these guys were in a different battlefield then i was, because they remember it differently, how your army perceives it. these kids did what they were asked to do. we reached the sunny uplands of peace -- not so much. water will weigh about eight gallons at sea level. i don't care if tesla invents artificial intelligence tomorrow. once they can produce water and eight weighs less than eight pounds, it will take eight pounds of water. first infantry division ran out of two things in desert storm, food and water. when you run out of water in the desert, it is bad news. remember the c-130 airdrops of bottled water? how do you think it is dropped with a parachute? it is like dropping it from a second floor. little tiny birds from everywhere across the persian gulf showed up to lap the water, you could not drink it. we literally had no water the end of the war. do automated systems replace people in warfare? no, he will always need people. platoon leader second platoon company. i l

i'm peter carmichael director of the civil war institute europe gettysburg college and also a member of the history department. it is my pleasure this afternoon to welcome a. wilson green. wilson green is giving the robert l. bloom endowment speech. had a very distinguished career in the public history, more than 44 years starting in the national park service and then he was the first director of the association for preservation of civil war sites. the firste became director of pamplin park. with the sieged of petersburg and is truly a special place to visit. it has the museum of the civil war soldier. it has two door hall where you can learn about antebellum life as well as one of the very best exhibits i have seen on reconstruction. and all of that is because of a. wilson greene. abouts more remarkable his career is, you make a decision when you become a public historian that you don't have the time to do original research and scholarship. will did it all. he had a very active scholarly career and published a number of books on the petersburg campaign, a very good book on life publ

this weekend on american history tv, c-span3, live coverage from the gettysburg war institute summer conference, starting this morning at a: 30 eastern with villanova university on union troops and unionraphy, followed by commander at the battle of gettysburg. former historical park director, wilson green, on the siege of petersburg area in our coverage continues sunday, 9:00 eastern on desertion among african american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university on abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals. on the spy ring out of richmond area and watch this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. >> this week, the c-span bus traveled to juneau, alaska as part of our 50 capitals tour with the help of our cable partners. ahead of our stop in fairbanks. be sure to join us on july 21 and july 22 when we will feature our visit to alaska. watch alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> this week, the supreme court ruled that police should have gotten the warrant before obtaining records to show where cell pho

live now to gettysburg, pennsylvania for our second day of live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual conference. we will be here throughout the day with talks by scholars and authors. topics include the memoirs of s grant, edwin -- abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals. up first jonathan landing, a new york historical society postdoctoral fellow on desertion among u.s. colored troops. this is live coverage on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> the 2018 and 2019 postdoctoral fellow at the new york historical society and the new school and assistant professor at weber state university. he received his phd from brown university in may 2018 and spent the past year teaching at to the lou college as the 2017, 2018 exchange equity hello. dr. landing is the recipient of the william holmes award and the two boys wells award -- dubois wells award. his current project examines the desertion, mutiny and court-martial trials of former slaves serving in the union army . looking at african-american soldiers who found military service offensiv

visit ncicap.org] announcer 2: you are watching live coverage of the gettysburg summer conference on c-span3's "american history tv." after the break we are back with brooks simpson of arizona state university who will talk about president abraham lincoln and his relationship with two of his commanding generals. for the next -- for the next 10 minutes, our c-span cities tour takes you on the road to feature the history of an american city. >> i am standing and perhaps one of the most famous courthouses in the united states where really nothing of significance happened, appomattox courthouse. the name is confusing. courthouse is one building behind me and is situated at appomattox courthouse, which is a village. appomattox court house, the village is important because it is where the general surrendered to ulysses, bringing about an end, the end of the civil war. this town has a lot of history for its size. today we would like to talk a little bit about why appomattox courthouse is so famous. we would like to spend time about untold stories. the courthouse is a village complete with a

. >>> this weekend on "american history tv," c-span 3, live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summer conference. starting saturday morning at 8:30 eastern with villanova's judith eastburg on union troops and pornography follow by kent brown on union commander george immediate at the battle of gettysburg. and later, former park director wilson green on the battle of the crater during the siege of petersburg. our coverage continues sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern with new york historical society's jonathan land on desertion among african american troops during the civil war. at 12:15, brooks simpson on abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals, george mcclellan and ulysses grant. and then a discourse on elizabeth van lou. watch this weekend on c-span 3. >>> next, former governors and presidential candidates howard dean and chris christie preview the 2018 mid-term elections. rachel martin, host of npr's morning edition. this 50-minute discussion was part of the annual summit. >>> thank you, gary. thank you for having us. it was not lost on

this language of attack, announcer: this weekend on american history tv, live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summer conference. starting this morning at 8:30 eastern, at villanova university on union troops and pornography, followed by author kent masterson brown on union commander george gordon knead at the battle of gettysburg. later, former pamplin historical park director wilson green on the battle of the creator during the siege of petersburg. our coverage continues monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, with new york historical society's jonathan landy on desertion among african american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university's brooks simpson on president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals, george mcclellan and use screen. -- and ulysses s. grant. lou whoe elizabeth ann operated us by ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american three tv on c-span3. announcer: this week, the c-span bus travel to juneau, alaska as part of our 50 capitals toward, with the help of our cable partners. the bus continues

. >>> this weekend on american history tv, c-span3, live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summer conference. saturday morning at 8:30 eastern, villanova university's judith giesberg on union troops and pornography, followed by author kent masterson brown on union commander george gordon meade at the battle of gettysburg. and at 3:35, former pamplin historical park director wil greene on the battle of the crater during the siege of petering burgs. our coverage continues sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern with new york historical society's jonathan lande on desertion of african-american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university's brooks simpson on president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals, george mcclellan and ulysses s. grant. then, elizabeth varon of the university of virginia on elizabeth van lew, who operated a spy ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv. on c-span3. >>> the c-span bus is in alaska this week for the 38th stop of our 50 capitals tour. we're in juneau with the help of

after gettysburg. christy: we wanted to elicit a response.wanted people to see something that would strike them to their core. jessica: but there was a price for progress. nearly half of the museum of the confederacy's members went away. not before the angry calls and letters. christy: i have no wish to fully explore the so-called colored, black, or negro experience.ot approve of chrico. so that's where we are. jessica: but the mayor of richmond does approve of coleman, appointing her co-chair of the commission tasked with deciding what to do with the city's confederate monuments -- robert e lee, jeb stewart, jefferson davis, and others. in the former capitol of the confederacy, passions over the past flaring up once again. >> they're taking my statues down but putting their statues up? >> if this is your heritage, your heritage is hate. christy: what we find is less than 20% want them completely removed, less than 20% want them to stay exactly as they are. the majority have some really way. jessica: proposals include adding context, descript

union troops and pornography followed by ken masterson brown on commander meade at the battle of gettysburg and former pamplin director wilson green on the battle of the crater during the siege of petersburg. coverage continues sunday with new york's historical society jonathan landy on desertion among african american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university brooks simpson on president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals. and then elizabeth warren of the university of virginia on legal van lou who operate add spy ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> now a discuss about diplomacy and the le of foreign military. join us for the u.s. global leadership summit in washington. >> good afternoon, everybody. and thank you for the introduction. it's wonderful to be here at usglc. always a highlight of the year. i'm delighted to be here with such illustrious panelists. dr.green and general silva, thank you for joining us. we are talking about some of the big crises that we are seeing globally. you know, i

lee with murder at gettysburg. you know what i mean? who is guilty of corruption? well, all of them are. so the level of his wife turned her husband off from what she thought were crimes against the state. him onveniently divorced the day he was executed. withrother led guys pistols who arrested him. there was even a rumor that was active in the chinese press that he was executed, that he and his two key subordinates were executed by maddened dogs. they were thrown naked into a cage and even to death -- eaten to death. i do not think that is what happened. another rumor is that he was executed by an aircraft machine gun. interesting stuff. . lot of rumors out there what is all this a sign of? --keep their open and sound to keep their opponents down. to maintain fear. you are probably saying to was perched. he -- purged. if not corruption why? factionalisms nation. whoad guys in the party were absolutely loyal to him and the security services. he also had generals who were loyal to him. what does that mean? a separate faction forming within the north korean ruling i

eastern on union troops and pornography followed by author kent brown on battle of gettysburg. and later 3:15 park director wils wilson greene during the siege of petersburg. our coverage continues with jonathan lande on decertification of african-american troops notice civil war. 10:15 brooks simpson on lincoln and his relationship with his commandsing generals, george mcclellan and grant. and then at 2:45 elizabeth varon. watch this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. >> the c-span bus is in alaska this week for the 38th stop for our capitals tour. we are in juno. >> we are thrilled at c-span, one of the long time programming has chosen to visit alaska in 22 years as part of the capitals tour. so big shout out to c-span. so for decades they have offered c-span to our customers because we believe in the network mission to open to unfiltered trusted media resource and proudly supports c-span ech forts to help inform and help the nation on policy, politics and current events. now gci and cable companies around the nation make c-span possible. no government mandate. no pub

lee with the murder at gettysburg. all of them are guilty. the level of intrigue continues.let's talk about some of this. reportedly, his wife turned to her husband" which he thought with crimes against the state and divorced him on the day that he was executed. his brother actually lea led to those with pistols which was interesting. there was even a rumor that was active in the chinese press that he and his key subordinates were executed by dogs and they were thrown into the cage and eaten to death. i don't think that is what happened. another rumor that is likely is that he was executed by anti-aircraft machine gun which is pretty grisly in itself. interesting stuff, a lot of rumors. that's what is going on right now in north korea. if it wasn't for corruption i will tell you he was likely purged because of the fact he was creating fictionalization and the government. they moved himself into the position where he had guys in the foreign ministry that were absolutely loyal to him and the security services and generals. what does that mean? a separate faction in the ruling

it was like gettysburg. as their division got slaughtered, half of it was this isuch reduced, and where macarthur sees the bold action. when the germans pulled back, they had not pressed them. they hadn't kept on to not let them build the sense of structure on the river. ,hen the division pushed them macarthur has just been made brigade commander of the 83rd brigade. he is like, we cannot let this group go set themselves up by the river because the division behind it is just going to get slaughtered. you have to press them. he walks the entire line of .ainbow division on august 2 you've got to press it. you've got to push it one more time. this is the way macarthur starts to see the war. americans walked over the german defenses. has a good view of the germans retreating. .hey are pulling back his people are moving. this is the opportunity. railway center to supply troops on the western front. if we take that, the war will be ov now. pershing did that, too, and that's what he wanted to do, but world war i wa

. >> this weekend on american history tv live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute summer conference starting saturday morning at 8:30 eastern with villanova university on union troops and pornography followed author kent masterson brown on union commander george meade at the battle of gettysburg. later at 15former historical park director wilson green on the battle of the crater on the siege of petersburg. we will continue with jonathan landy on desertion of african- american troops on the civil war. at 10:15 arizona state university brooke simpson of president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding general. then at 2:45 elizabeth from the university of virginia on elizabeth van lou who operated aspiring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> this weekend on afterward maryland congressman john delaney the first democrat to declare run for the presidency in 2020 offers his vision for america. it is how we can unify our divided nation. he is interviewed by donna brazil the former chair of the democratic national

live coverage from the gettysburg college civil war institute annual summit conference starting saturday morning at 8:30 eastern with villanova university's judith geesburg on union troops and pornography followed by ken masterson brown on commander meade at the battle of gettysburg and former pamplin director wilson green on the battle of the crater during the siege of petersburg. coverage continues sunday with new york's historical society jonathan landy on desertion among african american troops during the civil war. at 10:15, arizona state university brooks simpson on president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals. and then elizabeth warren of the university of virginia on legal van lou who operate add spy ring out of richmond. watch this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3.

a new birth of freedom is what lincoln called for in his gettysburg address of 1863. i always like to show this. you can see the toll the war took on lincoln from 1860 to 1865. lincoln could see the american government might have to become a protector of liberty. but what was liberty after all? in 1864, lincoln told a group in baltimore that the world has never had a good definition of the word liberty and the american people are much in want of one. he told a simple story. the shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep. the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf announces him -- denounces him, especially if the sheep was a black one. clearly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed on a definition of the word liberty. lincoln was grateful the wolf's dictionary had been repudiated. in reality, that repudiation is a never ending story still being told. the 14th amendment is still at the forefront of that story. in march of 1865, lincoln alluded to citizenip issues in his second inaugural. the inaugural began suspiciously before a set lincoln helped to desi

and last, lewis powell is a violent thug who fought and was wounded at gettysburg and also fought withere is something peculiar about those men. that pale one seems quite intent on listening to us. i fear there will be an uprising soon. >> doesn't he look familiar? >> i should hope not. he seems crazy. >> i believe he's an actor. >> [ chuckles ] and that only confirms his insanity. >> so, you're telling me that you plan to abduct the president? >> let me worry about that. i just need you to guide us out of the city. >> well, if we don't act soon, i'm out. >> one way or another, the south will have its retribution. when we have finished, this city will plunge into chaos. everything is falling into place, gentlemen. falling into place. >> booth has his team and a plan to kidnap abraham lincoln, but when lee surrenders at appomattox, booth's hatred of the union intensifies more than anyone can know. picking the right style takes time. one picky customer shouldn't take all your time. need something printed? the business advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what your business ne

from historic battlefields like gettysburg to the very home of gifford pinshow, gray towers national historic site in milford, pennsylvania, lwcf is providing critical funding to protect our most important lands. it has wide ranging bipartisan support and it is past time that we permanently re-authorize lwcf and give it the robust funding that it so richly deserves. i yield back. mr. lowenthal: thank you, mr. speaker. now i'm pleased to be joined on the floor by my friend from the state of -- from the commonwealth of virginia, representative mceachin. i yield him three minutes. mr. mceachin: i thank you, mr. lowenthal. and i would like to associate myself with the comments of my colleagues about the importance of our nation's premier outdoor recreation and conservation program, the land and water conservation fund. over the past five decades, lwcf has helped protect our nation's most treasured places, including many in my congressional district. like the great national wild refuge in the richmond national battlefields. as we know, authorization of lwcf is set to expire in 100 short d

he spent more time with nehru of india at gettysburg and he did with nixon. he just didn't feel comfortable with the man. >> right behind, the woman right there in the third row. >> just trying to see. i'm clotting, university of maryland, university college. given the time which is the post-world war ii, is there anything in there about nixon's views for expansion of immigration opportunities? >> do you mean -- >> are talking about the postwar period, talking that people in europe wanting particularly in western europe wanting to come to the u.s. how did his experience it at all in the war influence or connect with american immigration policies in the '50s? >> well, i don't talk much about immigration policy in the eisenhower presidency. it's one of the many subjects that i was unable to include in-depth and i regret it, but he has a pretty mixed record i'm afraid. and, of course, american policy is changing dramatically in the postwar decades with respect immigration. one immigration problem did confront eisenhower, which was migrant workers in the southwes

they come up with a list of their artifacts and archives so they know they will save lincoln's gettysburg address before they save george washington's military. probably my favorite detail in the entire book is that through the cold war there were trained team of park rangers in philadelphia whose job it was to evacuate the liberty bell. and i love the idea of the park rangers driving off into this with the liberty bell swinging in the back on be no, i swear this was there before we left philadelphia. >> on the national differences, it's a popular tourist thing to do in beijing, to go around gentleman square on their big doors and steps to go down. hundreds of thousands of people could dive down under the farm if there is going to be a nuclear war with russia with whoever. but there it was really meant that everybody got coverage. we've never had more than like a few thousand sheltered? >> that becomes part of the ark of the cold war. and the joke in the books title that the government's secret plan is that we did start out in the 1950s with these incredibly ambitious plans to save most o

he wrote it probably in november, right around the time lincoln gave the gettysburg address. it is very tempting to compare the two speeches, i do it, but not so much. he called it "the mission of the war." a remarkable collection of all the arguments he had been making as a propagandist, but also arguments he had been making against slavery in all of his public career since the 1840's. he believed now, that when america was dying of violent and necessary death. and out of its ashes, at least came the possibility of a second, redefined america amidst all this death and destruction. and it was unnecessary destruction, and unnecessary re-creation -- it was a necessary destruction and a necessary re-creation. that very language, the destruction and replanting, directly out of jeremiah. if you have ever read the old testament at all, it is full of this idea that destruction leads to at least the possibility of reimagining and the creation. that is what exile and return is about. it is what every culture has exile and returned stories often at the heart of their national mythologi

we are used to this in the united states through national park service sites like gettysburg and antietam. can you talk a bit about why the battlefield is marked and why it is important for people to walk through it? >> we always try to find a way we can walk in history, essentially, going back literally in the same footsteps for the belleau wood battlefield, the marines were they came through the field on 6 june 1918, to take a small sector here, but at heavy cost. i always found, when i go back stateside, getting in touch with something that is physical, walking in the footsteps of history, that is why i was pleased, in the very early 1920's, american visitors actually found value in preserving that site. if not for those american visitors that came over on these war tourism tours, the battlefield would perhaps not be as preserved as it is today. that's another sidebar history that actually had nothing at all to do with the american battle monuments commission at the beginning, but ultimately, it is up to them to maintain as it is today. that wasn't done until the 1930's. the belleau wo

. >> this weekend on american history tv, c-span three, live coverage from the gettysburg college civil wars institute, and starting saturday morning at 8:30 pm eastern, be followed by this author, and talk about the battle of gettysburg. later, this former director wilson green on the battle of the crater during the siege of petersburg. our coverage will continue sunday at 9:00 in eastern with the new york societal -- with this report on the desertion of african americans during the civil war. and, rick simpson will talk about president abraham lincoln and his relationship with his commanding generals. then at 2:45 pm, elizabeth baron of the university of virginia, about this woman who operated a spy ring. coming up this weekend on american history tv. >> this language of attack, of harm, of damage, by expressing an opinion that people don't like, you have inflicted an entry. i found that very striking, and frankly, rather frightening if the truth be told. it is quite problematic of the way that the left is responding to any sort of dissent, especially one that trenches on identity or

lincoln, gettysburg, he rewrites the understanding of our country to be living up to those ideals. martin luther king said the founders wrote this country a promissory note that all men, including white men in black men are created equal. what he was doing there was he was appealing to that ideal. he was appealing to the best self of white america. civilization, all rhetoric is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. the best version of ourselves yet he was appealing to the best version of ourselves and that was incredibly compelling. today, double vision is in tatters because the identity politics of this is people are basically saying you can never get past your whiteness. what a privilege, white supremacy, demonizing the way people are celebrating all these other difference is insane assimilation is evil, melting pot is evil. the essence of identity politics as i can reduce a vast diverse population of people to a single historical grievance based on their skin color. one of the things i found fascinating while working on the book is trying to find all the things that you w

he was crushed to learn that he woultake the 301st and to combat but would report to gettysburg, pennsylvania, camp colt. charge of theake newly established tank corps training center. to read real fighting, he said, had been denied. he expressed this frustration writing -- i seem embedded in the monotony and unsought safety of the zone of the interior. other members of the class were already deployed. whoooked to me as if anyone was denied the opportunity to fight might as well get out of the army after the war. as a footnote, the combat record of the 300 worst is interest -- 301st is interesting and reflexive happened to most american units on the western front. three1st battalion fought separate offenses between september and november 1918. it began with 40 tanks and emerged from the last battle with 12 tanks and suffered 50% casualties. promoted to major, eisenhower was the only regular army officer at camp called and had -- camp colt and had total responsibility for preparing for the onward movement of tank troops to the european theater. 10,000lt soon had over soldiers and 600 officers.