pickett of gettysburg fame. and i never knew exactly what that would bring to my family -- fame, fortune, or dishonor. >> george -- who goes by his middle name, ed -- has invited me to his home. hi, ed. >> hi. you must be jamie. >> i am jamie. how are you today? >> i'm good. >> when the 59-year-old isn't working as a surfing instructor, ed enjoys doing yoga and playing guitar. it's a far cry from his famous great-great-grandfather who fought at gettysburg. growing up, did your family ever discuss that you had a connection to that battle? >> well, i knew about it. it was discussed briefly. i was not really that interested as a little kid. >> it's easy to understand why. ed's ancestor is best known for being on the losing side of the most pivotal battle in the civil war. >> some people said, "oh, didn't he lose? wasn't he a loser?" because that was the way that a lot of the history books talked about pickett's charge. >> so you don't bury your head like, "oh, i can't believe i came to school today"? >> i remember

they hold one last grand reunion at gettysburg in 1938. about 2,000 veterans came to gettysburg. their average age was 94, which was extremely old then. the people who planned the dedication of this hot weekend were happy that only seven of the veterans died that weekend when they were coming to gettysburg to see the monument. they were happy it was only seven. here they are unveiling the memorial. if you look in the foreground you see a motion picture camera. these are civil war soldiers seeing a motion picture camera. there are planes flying overhead. remember, there was already a world war fought, another on the horizon. tanks were rolling around. civil war soldiers saw color movies. i have been to one fifth of gettysburg anniversaries, it wasn't that long ago, i bet people in this room, maybe one or two that might have met a civil war veteran. i only missed one by nine years or the possibility of doing so. i have bet at least 100 people and shaken their hands who shook the hands of civil war veterans. as a battle field guy here, drag the past forward so you all, we all unders

in gettysburg, we are portraying one that would have theoretically been organized near a camp. fields away,tball you would have another civilian that would sell supplies to the soldiers. we are assuming we would also have licensed a a house of assignation in a camp style. it would keep a low profile. you don't want the criticism of the local community for licensing this kind of activity. is aresult, what you have typical kind of brothel, which again would be run by a woman, hypothetical misses blackwood. -- miss blackwood. she comes out and hires a fancy man. we set it up like a bricks and mortar house. we are in the middle of the parlor. and betleman would come entertained by me. the other obligation i have is also as a security man. i would provide security for the ladies including ms. blackwood. i'm a former military man. would be aes, i go-between between the men of -- because i am a former army person i can help negotiate the establishment of the business near the camp and they are more likely to deal with me than ms. blackwood. course, the licensing process is very much l

every july for the last 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment reflecting camp life. we spoke to reenactors about the taurean era marriage expectations and brothels. wasn the civil war, which smack in the middle of a victorian period, there were very little choices for women. women were supposed to be the pillar of the household. -- without support, you had very few choices. you could be a domestic servant. you could be a laundress. or you could work in a factory. at the time of the civil war there was a spike in widowhood, meaning all the sudden, middle-class women did not have visible means of support. we saw this more in the south than in the north because the war was fought mainly in the south. these women would become prostitutes. it was not an attractive choice. it was certainly not their first choice, but between that and starvation, it's what they did. they had their place in society. it was considered ill bred and import taste for middle-class men to visit their carnal lest otherwise. so respectable women understood that is w

in gettysburg, we are portraying one that would have theoretically been organized near a camp.f you had a large camp of soldiers, about two football fields away, you would have another civilian business that would sell supplies to the soldiers. in our scenario, we are assuming we would also have licensed a brothel, a house of assignation in a camp style. it would keep a low profile. , you do noticensed want criticism of the local community of permitting this activity. as a result, what you have is a typical kind of brothel, which again would be run by a woman, hypothetical miss blackwood. she comes out and hires a fancy man. we set it up like a bricks and mortar house. we are in the middle of the parlor. this is where the gentleman would come and be entertained by me. the other obligation i have is also as a security man. i would provide security for the ladies including ms. blackwood. i'm a former military man. in many cases, i would be a front for her or a go-between between the men of society -- in this case the commander because i am a former army person i can help negotiat

. >> it was found in the 1950s in the path of union army at gettysburg.assic, must-have weapon in a civil war collection. >> so, rudy must have it, even if the 12 grand asking price is a stretch. >> he had to refinance the home, i think -- >> oh, my. >> -- to my mother's dismay. there was, you know, tension in the home, so i heard a fair amount of things that maybe i wish i wouldn't have heard. >> rudy just covers his ears, claims his prize, and painstakingly refurbishes the cannon using blueprints from the smithsonian. but will he listen to the warning shot fired by the missus? >> my wife told me, if i build one more cannon, she'd divorce me. >> here's a "strange inheritance" quiz question. the answer when we return. ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we need someone to lean on ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we needed somebody to lean on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ all we need is someone to lean on ♪ hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arriv

gettysburg is a union victory and thus i would argue that antietam is as well. there were opportunities for both armies to do things differently, as there always are, but george mcclellan had achieved his goal of keeping lee's army away from the federal capital, ending lee's invasion of maryland annalee was unable to achieve his objectives. despite mcclellan achieving his goals, it was not enough for him to earn himself long-term job security. after the battle, abraham lincoln met with george mcclellan, was here on this very farm. ultimately mcclellan was not long for command and was relieved quite simple he because he and abraham lincoln had divergent views of the war itself. they did not share the same principles, the same agreement on why the war was being fought, and a president and his commanding general need to be on the same page when it comes to that. lincoln favored a more aggressive war against the confederacy and mcclellan, a moderate, wanted things to say the way they had been before the war. the thing that made it impossible for these two men to con

people came here for hershey and the gettysburg battlefield. we were within a whiff of losing all of that. this was a place he wanted to go to. hershey, lancaster, gettysburg. after the accident we became a pariah. hershey is interesting because hershey was stopped buying milk. they froze it. the half-life is about eight days. they froze it for ninety and used it again. that was one of the push backs you got. tourism went down. people did not want to come to the area. so you still have hershey park, hershey chocolate. they did purchase milk, they froze it and use it later. it's a legitimate issue. being born and raised there, i love living here, so i feel fortunate to live so close to hershey and lancaster and gettysburg. i encourage people to come here. i know there's a certain amount of dark tourism. people like to come snap pictures of tmi. but if i can put a plug in i still think hershey chocolate is the superior product. >> we will go to bonnie and lancaster, pennsylvania. good morning. >> good morning. what do you want to know? i remember

you mentioned the gettysburg address. when you think about donald trump's letters, this letter and his other pronouncements going up against jefferson, going up against lincoln on the second inaugural or gettysburg, against franklin roosevelt and the fire side chats, jack kennedy and his inaugural, this is going to be in those annals as a representation of this president, for a man who apparently, as we were told by his close folks, that he cares mostly about his legacy these days? this is what he's contributing to his legacy? >> i mean it is extraordinary, jeff, when you think lincoln gives the gettysburg address and talks about the civil war, which would lead to the deaths of countless americans, and there's not language like that in that. >> you know, but this is -- it's perfect. i mean this is exactly who he is. i mean this is not -- you know, if you saw president trump give something that sounded like the gettysburg address, would you believe it at all? i mean we know this man by now, and this narcissism, this lying,

the gettysburg address was memorable. today the president was asked if he takes any responsibility for the impeachment. this is what he said. >> do you take any responsibility for the fact that you're about to be impeached? >> no. i don't take any. zero, to put it mildly. >> zero responsibility. he was also asked back in january if the buck stopped with him and he replied the buck stops with everybody. keeping them honest, there are a few things the president left out of his letter. namely his pursuit of a fictional election interference claim about a server in ukraine, his pursuit of a favor from ukraine's president, a favor that would target his main opponent and help him in the next election, his withholding from ukraine of aid and to this date still a white house meeting. the lack of evidence that president trump was concerned about corruption in ukraine involving anyone whose last name wasn't biden. comments to the press about wanting ukraine to investigate biden. comments about wanting china to investigate as well a

this was a place you wanted to go to, hershey, lancaster, gettysburg. after the accident, we became a pariah. this was a place you wanted to avoid. hershey is interesting, because hershey did buy milk from the farmers to make chocolate and they froze it. the half life is about eight days without getting two technical. they froze it for 90 and used it again. that was one of the pushbacks you got after the accident is tourism took down. we took an economic hit. people didn't want to come to the area. you still have hershey park here, hershey chocolate. they did purchase milk, they froze it, used it later. but it's a legitimate issue. being born and raised here, i love living here. so i feel fortunate to live so close to hershey and lancaster and gettysburg. i encourage people to come here. i know to a certain degree there's a certain amount of dark tourism. people like to come and snap up pictures of tmi. if i could put a plug in, i still think hershey chocolate is a superior product. >> we'll go to bonny who lives in lancaster, pennsylvania, good morning

next this gettysburg address. the next is the new colassal which is written for the pedestal of the statue of liberty. and the poem has to be seen with the statue but the poem is written in 1883. the next is the cross of goaled speech, 1896. -- the gold speech. the input little map with the fire saad chat and the last is the tear down this wall speech, berlin, 1987. >> well done. 13 out of 13. [applause] >> so we're not going to talk about 1619 and jamestown. but we are going to talk but something that i'll be honest with you, i had never even heart of before. you helped teach me, the flushing re mon strands. >> this is when new york is still new netherland. it's stale dutch colony and it is being governed by the man who turns out to be the last governor, peter stuyvesant. i live near stuyvesant spark they happen a cat to it and captures his personality, vigorous, energetic, he has a wooden leg which he lost in the holland wars against spain, and he looks like you wouldn't want to cross this guy. wants to be in ch

and several hours ago the 16th president of the united states made a few appropriate remarks at gettysburge world has long remembered what he said there. memorial,n in this which is his tabernacle. ago, so it00 years is now. we buried abraham lincoln and john kennedy, but we did not bear either dreams or their vision. dreams and our visions today. while president lincoln and john moved us toward larger larger visions, their fight for a better life or more people as their legacy to their grandchildren. it is the coin by which their worth shall be counted. gauge by which their memory shall be measured. in our land and around the suffer playedho for change. those -- plead for change. those who are hungry pray for sustenance. bluntedose dignity is and whose liberties are scarce cry out for equality, peace, and opportunity. on this eve of christmas, in , let there berief in need, thee light of an era of new hope, a time of new resolve. let the light shine. let this christmas be our thanksgiving and our dedication. may god less -- bless them. let us hear on this christmas night determine that jo

and several hours ago the 16th president of the united states made a few appropriate remarks at gettysburge world has long remembered what he said there. he lives on in this memorial, which is his tabernacle. as it was 100 years ago, so it is now. we have been bent in sorrow, but not in purpose. we buried abraham lincoln and john kennedy, but we did not their dreams or their vision. they are our dreams and our visions today. while president lincoln and john kennedy moved us toward larger dreams and nobler visions, their fight for a better life for more people is their legacy to their countrymen. it is the coin by which their worth shall be counted. it is the gauge by which their memory shall be measured. in our land and around the world, those who suffer plead for change. those whose children are hungry and illiterate pray for sustenance and knowledge. those whose dignity is blunted and whose liberties are scarce cry out for equality, peace, and opportunity. on this eve of christmas, in this time of grief and unity, of sadness and continuity, let there be for all people in need, the light

what role did women play in gettysburg? i did the women of vicksburg, great diaries of women caught in the circle of violence. and a granddaughter with jeff davis over here in the archives and published, a biography by her, diary or autobiography. so much needs to be done on this end and i wanted to treat it as a campaign, not a battle. i don't think battles win wars. we won world war ii because of the day. individual battles mattered. same for the civil war. with a relentless campaign, grant came up with this campaign. the mississippi river was open, really important things, not trying to dismiss them but a big outtake on the battle as he learned about salad and he fought at that time what was considered a total war. it was pretty rough stuff and it was relentless. sherman learns to fight from grant, not vice versa. i kept running into sherman. he said go after it. they fit the narrative, grant did not have the supply line. he had a helluva supply line. warren took me to the battlefield and took me to his home. minute deta

these army marching north this summer 1853 culminating in the battle of gettysburg that numbers around 75000 men there are as many as 10000 enslaved men without rv. so they are fighting for slavery slavery follows every confederate army and its success its ability to do what it needs to do depends on a large part of the presence of enslaved men so the idea whether they will never don't own them is irrelevant of course they all understood the importance of slavery to the war effort. this is the more common example of the photograph of master and slave he's worrying that confederate uniform. one thing that is interesting to research what happens when you pluck the master slave relationship that was very common to be defined and reinforced over time but when you remove that it's a very different situation within the military neither party has any experience. how is that contingency of known of military life impact that relationship? out of that stretch over time how are enslaved men going to push their privileges or what do they do with the need to push back? to reset that relationship on

gettysburg at the age of nine and riveted by the experience. to little bighorn in montana and places like that. i grew up with the sense that the present is meaningless unless you understand the path .t came out of when -- i came also to understand -- my mother did human rights work with american history, i'm talking primarily about the civil war, can't be divorced from the politics that produced it. i like walking across the gettysburg battlefield or manhattan today. you are seeing history, the war in a vacuum without understanding the politics behind it and that is primarily the politics of slavery going back to the beginning of the republic. and the book i am primarily here to talk to you about today, america's great debate, which is a book about the compromise of 1850 and the great ten-month long debate that led up to it is in a way the culmination of a group of three books which dan mentioned, one of them "bound for canaan, the underground railroad." the first history of the underground railroad since the 1890's. after that, a book titled

he held the extreme right flank at the battle of gettysburg. the joshua chamberlain of the other side, from that northern state in new england. the new yorker sprinted 600 yards from the railroad depot to the buildings, losing several men along the way. once behind the building, build,'s men began to having learned the value at cobbs hill. ireland started moving sharpshooters ahead and forced the cannons to back into the gap. from that point, the new yorkers stayed undercover, shooting only occasionally. for the next hour, the battlefield remained in stalemate. and rudy much the lines that were the final lines -- pretty much the lines that were the final lines, how it pretty much ended up. the men heard a rumbling to the rear. the missouri horse artillery was finally coming. four 12 pound howitzers were charging down the road. the flying dutchman, as he had been known since vicksburg, was mad as a wet hen. the road was blocked with cannons. marked byance was prolonged cheering by the union troops, and in short time union projectiles began falli

for a look at the 1863 battle of chancellorsville, and in 2013, when we studied the prelude to gettysburg, the armies moved north. scott has written numerous articles and books. the forgotten fury, the battle in 1996,nt, published shenandoah summer, the 1864 valley campaign, published by the university of north carolina press in 2009, second manassas, long street attack, published by the potomac press in 2011, and also that year, the battle of piedmont and hunter's raid on staten, published by the history press, and in 2013, the last battle of winchester. and sheraton, jubal early, the 1864 shenandoah valley campaign, published by bd. in addition to his articles and books, he served for 10 years on the board for the battle association and served twice as the president of the soul ar -- civil war roundtable. scott has worked with the shenandoah valley foundation on updating, and frankly, correcting the battlefield interpretation of the third winchester battlefield. for now, over 600 battles, acres of battlefield have been saved thanks to the good work of the shenandoah valley battlefield f

. >> than the gettysburg event is learning what it's all about. it's got everybody. >> almost the words of the gettysburg address in the debates, he says this country is based in a way, he says of the white man, for the white man, by the white man. [laughter] he says it just like that. so lincoln is refuting him. >> i want to ask you to set the stage for what happened in the 1860 presidential election by talking about the on likeliness of this candidate. reminding me of another unlikely candidate, barack obama but lincoln was an extremely unlikely candidate. he only served one term in the u.s. representatives and got beat up for his views there over the mexican-american war. he had been out of office for a long time and he was not as but in the minutes from the east. tell the story how, without much actors campaigning in public view, he ended up becoming the nominee of his new party. >> the front runner is william henry, the senator and former governor of new york and he's the most prominent republican in the nation. lincoln is not very well known

if you were to travel east of gettysburg for maybe one hour and a half or so on route 30 to the town of lancaster, pennsylvania, i'm sure some of you are familiar with lancaster. in 1744, lancaster was just this tiny little frontier community that was really on the edge of settlement in pennsylvania. but in june of 1744, a group of 250 iroquois arrived in lancaster and were carrying arms, bows, and arrows arrows, and tomahawks. this would cause panic among the folks that would live in this tiny frontier town. this was the quaker colony of pennsylvania. there was not even a militia to call out in fear of an attack of from the iroquois. they were not there to make war, . they were there for a treaty conference. they were called by the governor of pennsylvania. they marched through town, their leader singing a song of greeting to the people of lancaster. when they got to the edge of town, it did not take long to walk down main street, they encamped. they built a camp of wigwams and cabins and stayed in lancaster for about the next 2.5 weeks negotiating not only with the colony of pennsy

but here at gettysburg, we are per train one that would have been, theoretically, organized and near, within about two football fields you would have, for example, another civilian business, which was licensed by the army, to sell civilian and other supplies to the soldiers. in our scenario, we are hypothetically assuming that we would also, like the army in the west, would have licensed a , a house of assignation, in a camp style. so we have a front, if you will, of the sewing service, to keep a low profile. licensedf it would be like the army experiment did with licensing prostitutes in some other the western towns during the war, you do not want the criticism of the local community of permitting or licensing this kind of activity. >> trouble with us to historic sites, museums and archives, each sunday at six clock p.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern, on our weekly series, american artifacts. this is american history tv, all weekend, on c-span3. monday night, on the communicators. >> intellectual property theft is an enormously important issue for the technology industry, but china has oth

when we should remember lincoln's words -- not only those words, but also other words from the gettysburg address where he said, it is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far to nobly advanced. that was said by abraham lincoln all those years ago. we must strive every day, whether we're citizens or public officials, whatever our station in life, we must strive every day to complete that unfinished work that lincoln talked about. so that as we discuss major security issues like u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan or combating the resurgeance of isis in the middle east or exercising oversight over u.s. military engagingments overseas -- engagingments overseas and look increasingly to try to resolve complicated global crises, we must not forget that those who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country, particularly in the most recent wars, are those we should remember. just consider these numbers. americans who have lost their lives in the wars in afghanistan and iraq within an additional seven killed in africa comm

gettysburg is not that far away. >> i'm out often doing shopping, buy gas and so forth. i hear from both sides. it seems to be more in suspeppo of the president than it's want but maybe people that wouldn't support the president won't approach me. >> let me ask you about a piece you had on fox news with your colleague from kentucky, andy biggs. the headline, representatives biggs and perry, impeachment inquiry show continues to -- it's the reality of the deep state, or swamp, democrats have been relentlessly attacking trump since the election, joined by much of washington, the media and the executive branch itself. take cadre of career diplomats have come to testify against president trump in the impeachment inquiry the house is conducting. tell us a little more of what you mean by this deep state. >> well, what i really saw firsthand, especially in the scif in the testimony of the inner agency members, and that was a -- that was terminology that heretofore wasn't used that often, the inner agency. these folks, among other things, where they might have disagreed with the

would not become a constitutional amendment for another three quarters of a century. 1863, the gettysburg address. lincoln's great summation of america's struggles for liberty so far. he specifically links the end of slavery,the war to end to the declaration of independence and the preamble of the constitution. 1883, the new colossus. a poem written to raise money for the statue of liberty, which goes up in new york harder -- new york harbor. 1896, the crossings gold speech. important principle about the equality of men and women in the workplace and in the economy. 1940 franklin roosevelt's ofeside chat, the arsenal democracy. he is saying america's commitment to liberty involves preserving liberty in britain. it will help britain defend itself. year before we enter world war ii. one, ronald reagan's tear down this wall speech in berlin. 1987. he says our commitment to liberty requires us to tell the soviet union at the berlin wall cannot be a permanent landmark. a permanent scar on the face of central europe. of central and all and eastern europe will ultimately have to be free. those a

he has been looking for a job since gettysburg. what happens to him? he goes over to the eastern branch, he reports back, the men were calling back to eadquarters, he is told to organize union loyalists. he will be commanding volunteer companies. there is another general looking for another assignment, quincy gilmore, recently released of duty from the army with regiment utler. he is on his way to d.c.. they give him command of the 19th army corps. then you have horatio right. he is set up to reinforce the city. literally, reaching for the stars. so what is in this point? one of these men is an invalid, he can defend washington, and carcely baltimore. you have elements of the u.s. treasury department guard. you can see the washington monument in the background, which is a pretty cool image. you have elements of the general reserve corps. they will see some pretty heavy ction during the battle. here is another image of them. you can say the officer there is missing his arm. there are going to be elements, as well, unattached. there will be a couple of r

every july for the last 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war battlectment reflecting camp life. we spoke to reenactors about the taurean era marriage expectations and brothels. wasn the civil war, which smack in the middle of a victorian period, there were very little choices for women.

bute wasn't any fighting, there was a crossroads of troops thehe -- on both sides on way to gettysburg, antietam. lee's famous lost order during the battle of antietam is right across the river from the center at democracy battlefield. grant is there at city point. saying that if the confederates are there, there is going to be trouble. rickets and 5000 troops up away from the barricades of richmond. they wake him up at 5:00 in the morning, they got on ships at the james river, they go down the james, they go up the chesapeake bay they go over to camden station, where the baseball stadium is, and they get on trains and arrive at the nocacynously -- mo junction at dawn on the eighth. lou wallace has 6500 troops facing about 2000 confederate troops. lou wallace who wrote in that can't 19th-century style just say these guys got off the train and made their campfires" their coffee. -- campfires and cooked their coffee. here is the map, which i just described. you see where the battlefield was. sure enough, they were coming. they fired up a black pot, etc., etc.. it is fun to read. wallace'

. >> everybody who read the lett letter, it's a gettysburg address of smeared job false accusation, whatesponse at the historical document. schumer saying we have to have witnesses, his admission that they did not make the case in those two weeks with the 17 witnesses. lou: don't you love mitch mcconnell's response which we did shared with the audience. mcconnell standing up, uniting his conference against chuck schumer and the mob that he calls the conference. >> i think mitch mcconnell has done a good job through the term presidency and with the judge in particular, confirmation fighting against the democrats who invoke every possible roadblock. and now this, he has a difficult group with three or four who may stray but is trying to pick up some democrats and from alabama he is hopeful, and he has said the right things and doing the right things. >> i think holding his conference will be a mark of great leadership, great good judgment and it'll be an extraordinary achievement to your point about the trump judges, the president has confirmed 50 court judges and two supreme court judges.

on bunker hill and gettysburg and wherever. i didn't hear that. i read about it. say, andt to incidentally, i think it was chairman hyde who alluded to this and said, those men fought and died for the rule of law. cold november 3 morning in my hometown of charleston, arkansas. i was 18 years old. just gotten one semester in at the university when i went into the marine corps. to report to little rock to be inducted. it was cold. stop.ug store was the bus i had to be there by 8:00 to be sworn in. and i had to catch the bus at the drugstore at 3 a.m. so my mother and father and i got up at 2:00 and got dressed and went down there. i'm not sure i can tell you this story. the bus came over the hill, i was -- frightened about going. i was sure i was going to be killed. slightly less frightened that betty would find somebody else when i was gone. the the bus came over schoolhouse hill, and my parents started crying. i had never seen my father cry. i knew i was in some difficulty. knowparent, at my age, i he thought he was giving his but can youn son, imagine? it was rep

by 1913, thedan: 50th anniversary of gettysburg, 1938, you get reunions at gettysburg, veterans ready to simmering beneath the surface were lingering sectional animosities, and many of the most grievously wounded and injured veterans had already passed away many would die within a decade of appomattox. veterans of the union believed they were to be the custodians of their history. they felt a greater urgency to about to record, to talk their experiences. example,ve you one 24-year-old daniel eldridge, who fought with a new hampshire regiment, brought home a souvenir from a battle, a piece of lead wedged in his arm. the first thing he does when he gets home in 1865 is to begin what hea memoir, believes at first will consume no more than a dozen pages, but he urgently begins to write, to understand and conceptualize his experience, his injury. memoir,y work on that by 1867, brought it to more than 600 pages, including hundreds of battle maps. he is writing through his pain with every new word sending uprents of pain traveling that limb as that rebel lead is pressing his tenure in -- his

[applause] and as lincoln said at gettysburg, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. perhaps no justice in the history of the supreme court has been more associated with the word liberty and justice kennedy. a book about justice kennedy's jurisprudence is called a properly that tie goes to freedom, justice kennedy on liberty. in his 554 supreme court opinions, and in countless speeches, justice kennedy tirelessly returns to three things. the importance of civic education for the preservation of equal liberty for all, the importance of individual liberty of speech and conscience in preserving civil dialogue in debate, and the importance of equal dignity in ensuring the freedom on which human flourishing depends. justice kennedy's first theme is civic education for all, for he has always and everywhere a teacher. he's created a reading list of 69 books for people of all ages to educate themselves about liberty. it's called understanding freedom heritage, how to keep and defend the right. the list begins with and includes susan b anthony's women's rights women's suffrag

minnesota filled with immigrants that saved the union in the critical moments of the battle of gettysburgry that connects us as a nation flawed, each generation's obligation to make a more perfect union, amend the rescission of our democratic norms in this tragic era is just astonishing to watch play out, that the great threat wasn't fascism or communism in the end. it's indifference. it's the indifference of our highest elected officials in the land, and how appalling is that? >>> that's what we're watching day after dade. steve shall myth, great to have you here. >> thanks, chris. >>> who is paying rudy giuliani? can someone answer that? >>> first, thing 1, thing 2, next. >>> somebody told seema's luggage. she's the administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. she was nominated and confirmed. the luggage was out of her rented chevy tahoe while she was inside giving a speed how medicare for all would be medicare for none. she has a policy where employees can be reimbursed by the government, meaning public money, and so as political reporter of the weekend, she filed

comrades took this incredibly seriously multiple men died defending the flag where lincoln gave the gettysburgaddress the battle of fredericksburg and then handed the flag over to another sergeant who was wounded who took it to another officer so he could wrap it around himself as he died so these go very deep so to be truthful about our history yes we have national sins but we should not be teaching history of repression and woe but the glorious story of the three people living in a blessed land. i will leave you with one last quote that captures how deep these cultural attacks are and even if we don't realize it we all feel this of john thorton kirkland that said we have learned to love our country because it is our country to have the opportunity to be useful to it because the sweat of our fathers brow and the dust is in the bosom because of our brothers and sisters because patriotism and the social affection that sacrilege upon his nature. thank you very much. >> thank you very much we appreciate that and this book which steps into one alive controversy trying to organize a little bit to l

a table and desk in which there is a copy of the gettysburg address. written in lincoln's hand.ow. the president knew my wife was british. she's american now. he gave her use of the queen's bedroom for the day across the hall. where churchill state, the queens day. stayed, therchill queen state. stayed. they had no problem her calling her parents back in england. they will never tell anybody. [laughter] louise calls her father. she says dad, you're never going to believe it. it is going to be neil. my father-in-law had stayed up to watch the news. he said, darling, i am watching your american news. there is another fellow. he is driving and at a gas station. he is on his way to washington. i am pretty sure it will be him. [laughter] in-laws. [laughter] louise says, dad, i am pretty sure it is neil. i'm sitting in the lincoln bedroom. [laughter] honey,kly replied, yes but president trump -- the other guy might be down the hall. [laughter] everything changed. >> even your milk delivery. >> yeah. that is a story in the book. marshals who were guarding our home and family i/o a huge

naval historian, but turned to lincoln and wrote a great book that won the lincoln prize here at gettysburg on lincoln and his admirals. i have to say this book that just came out, "world war ii at sea: a global history," absolutely superb. published by oxford. please get a copy. ine of us are interested world war ii history as much as we are the civil war. please welcome john marszalek and craig symonds. [applause] >> thank you for that warm welcome. it is appreciated. know, my wife and i recently moved back to newport, rhode island. anybody in rhode island is neighbors of anyone else in rhode island. i want to acknowledge frank's help in being my translator as i learned the rhode island dialect and translated it into common american english. i recently learned what the lore of law was, the lore of war. that was an insight to me. we are going to talk about the book frank mentioned, the fully annotated edition that has come out recently. john was the executive editor and principal creator of this document. all of you know that john and i have been close friends for a long time. my task howe

i sat running my remarks for that evening and a desk with gettysburg address admin made. the president who gave my who is an immigrant from england, the use of queens bedroom across the hall. she was allowed one phone call. [laughter]. and had to be someone back in england. it could be anyone from america. , he said that you won't believe it, it's neil. it's about to happen. and he said, honey i stayed up very late in england. it was evening announcement. in the east room. a seven watching your television programs over here. notice another fellow, dear friend of mine for the commentate driving for washington. his son neil. [laughter]. in-laws right. [laughter]. and louis said, will dad, i think the bedroom, i think is going to be me. [laughter]. and she said, open honey, the other guy could be down the hall. [laughter]. so that's a bit of the feel of what it is all i can. >> leaving her home in colorado was also a little bit of a covert operation. >> it was in attendance during the book but what really followed fred, the big change from shock, which is the loss of feminin

the gettysburg heritage center in pennsylvania hosted this talk. >> our next speaker is garry adelman, he's a graduate of michigan state university as well as shippensburg university of pennsylvania. he's an award winning author, co-author or editor of 20 civil war books and more than 40 related articles. most o

my remarks for the evening, the announcement, at a table, a desk on which there is a copy of the gettysburg address written in lincoln's hand. wow. is britishuise, originally. a proud american now. he gave her use of the queens bedroom for the day, right across the hall, where churchill stayed, where the queen stays. they asked us not to make any phone calls. they did not want folks to know. they had no problem with louise calling her parents in england. they figure five hours ahead, middle of the night, they will never tell anyone anyway. luis calls her father and she says, dad, you will never believe it. it is going to be neil. my father-in-law had stayed up to watch the news. he said, darling, i am watching your american news and there was another fellow and he is driving and he is at a gas station and he is driving on his way to washington. i am pretty sure it is going to be him. [laughter] in-laws. [laughter] the other fellow was a dear friend of mine. dad, i am pretty sure it is neil. i am sitting in the lincoln bedroom. honey,kly replied, yes, but president trump, the other guy might

i sat writing my remarks for that evening at a desk aware the gettysburg address sits. the president gave my wife who is an immigrant, from england, the use of the queen's bedroom across the hall. and she was allowed one phone call. [laughter] and it had to be to somebody back in england. it couldn't be to anyone america's osha called her dad. she said dad you won't believe it, it's gonna be neil. and it's about to happen. and he said oh honey i've stayed up late very late in england it was an evening announcement. in the east room. and he said i've been watching your television programs over here, and there's another fellow a dear friend of mine who they caught on tape driving towards washington. so it's not going to be neil. [laughter] and laws right? [laughter] and she said will dad i'm in the queen's bedroom. i think it's going to be neil. [laughter] and she said, and he said zero but honey, the other guy could be down the hall. [laughter] so that's a bit of what the feel of what it was all like. >> and leaving your home in colorado was also a little bit of a covert

called "pickett's charge," and it's a re-imagining of a pivotal union victory at the battle of gettysburgommissioned by the smithsonian's hirschhorn museum in washington, d.c. bradford used as his starting point blown-up photos of a 19th- century panoramic painting of pickett's charge, a painting which offers a romanticized view of the confederacy. he then added layers of paper and cords over it, then carefully gouged, shredded and ripped it apart. >> bradford: they almost feel like lacerations. >> cooper: uh-huh. >> bradford: almost scarring. >> cooper: uh-huh. >> bradford: that's what those feel like. and a little bit like bullet wounds. like you're really... >> cooper: uh-huh. yeah. >> bradford: ...punctured. >> cooper: it's a 360-degree painting that raises many questions in bradford's mind, particularly about how we look at history. it's looking at it through a different lens. >> bradford: yes. that's the feeling that i wanted you to have, that history was laying on top of it, that... that... gouging into it, erasing it, bits of it showing. it's kind of me kind of revising it, in a w

raised here, i love living here so i feel fortunate to live so close to hershey and lancaster and gettysburg and encourage people to come here. i know there's a certain a. dark tourism, people love to snap pictures of tmi. but think hershey chocolate say superior product. >> and we'll go to bonnie dmo who lives in the area in lancaster, pennsylvania. good morning. >> good morning. what do you want to know? all i can remember is that my brother brought my parents down through the door they lived in elizabethtown and my father was clutching his coin collection. i thought he was going to pass out. number two, i lost two classmates. and they said that they believed that they downwind, they lived in bane bridge and they died from cancer and they think it was due to tmi. thirdly, my father remembers when they used to farm the three mile island. i guess they took a barge across. i would imagine my father was born in 1916, so i don't know if they took a track or whatever, but he said it was a cornfield. number four, tmi is called three mile island because it is three miles from the center of middlet

we launched it with the anniversary of the gettysburg address, and we had high schoolers come in. we found that the aspect of reading cursive writing gave us opportunity for intergenerational -- [laughter] programs where you have more mature people reading the cursive and the young people doing the computer. we were able to -- 27,000 letters to abraham lincoln that had not been reviewed in decades or seen by people -- >> were they written to him as president? >> they were written to abraham lincoln. >> how exciting. >> and the hook for young people was the fact that they were making something by transcribing. they were taking manager that hadn't been -- something that hadn't been read since 1864 available for everyone to see. so of those 27,000, all were transcribed. >> so really without the digital access, a project like that -- >> it couldn't have happened. and so the fact that we were able to be and congress has supported the i.t. modernization at the library has had so many benefits in terms of making the library more useful, ips separational for so many people. and then with

remarks for the evening in the announcement at the table, a desk on which there is a copy of the gettysburg address with him -- written in lincoln's hand. wow. the president knew that my wife, louise, is british originally. a proud american now. and he gave her the usage of the queen's bedroom for the day, right across the hall. where churchill stayed, the queen stays. before the announcement, they asked us not to make any phone calls. he did not want folks to know. but they had no problem with louise calling her parents back in england. they figured five hours ahead, it's the middle of the night. they will never tell anybody anyway. [laughter] justice gorsuch: so louise calls her father and says dad, you are never going to believe it. it's going to be neil. and my father-in-law stayed up to watch the news and he said darling, i'm watching your american news and there is another fellow and he's driving and he's at a gas station. he's driving on his way to washington, and i'm pretty sure it's going to be him. [laughter] justice gorsuch: in-laws. [laughter] the otherrsuch: fellow was a dear f

the gettysburg address and the constitution to be in anyone's list of 13 american liberty documents,ut you can have other ones also. cu could be a b team or a team -- i am not saying they are junior varsity, less important. these are the 13 i picked to tell the story of liberty in american history for 400 years. those 400 years, when you look at those documents and as we enter the year 2020, what do those documents say to this country right now -- it's citizens, elected officials, about how to conduct ourselves, our business? guest: two it says two things. it says look at our past, the men and women over 400 years -- some of them famous, some of them quite ordinary. some of them, all we know is they were there at the time when we signed or ignore step -- endorsed those documents. americans have stood up for the principle of liberty and have made it real in our national life. thisecond thing it says is is great but we have to keep doing it. it is not something that automatically replicates itself. it is not a perpetual motion machine. it is in our natural character. it is good that it