>> it's hard not to recommend harper lee who is from my district. many people know forrest gump. but also a lot of good history books. a lot of people know him for the one book, forrest gump but i wish they would read the other stuff he does. i know harper lee, the last book was somewhat controversial but i think people should read that, killers to be followers of to kill a mockingbird get disappointed because atticus finch is someone later in life than they thought earlier but that is kind of human nature that we are complex people and there were complexities in her herself. >> thanks for spending a few minutes with booktv. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send your summer reading list on twitter at booktv or insta graham at booktv or or post to the facebook page, facebook.com/ .tv. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. ..

army of the potomac with nowhere to go behind him because the union garrison at harper's ferry is still in existence so what lee will decide on the morning of september 15 is that temporarily he is going to make a stand behind antietam creek on the high ground overlooking the creek, at a place called sharpsburg. lee is only standing there temporarily, momentarily, to save lafayette mclaws, draw mcclellan and the union army away from mclaws and towards lee. that's the idea. but when lee arrives on the east bank of antietam creek on the morning of september 15th, he is greeted with something that you probablies could not expect, but certainly it is something that he likes very much. and it's this. it's a great view today. anyone wants to go up to the pry house and see this view, you can get it. robert lee wasn't exactly where the pry house was when he had this view on september 15th and the view would have been even better. far less trees. lee would have had a great view of the ground on the other side of the antietam. today of course you can see as i've labeled up there for you the new york monument, visitors ce

lee and davis have been talking about this for quite some time. and really the confederacy have been talking about it even since 1861. when he's still thomas jackson at harpers ferry, does have troops technically in the heights on maryland. this is constant confederate war. robert e. lee himself did not much stock that he was going to rise up and join the thousands of the army. but he knew it was to throw the yoke of the yankee oppression as he called it. so lee did have some leeway in that -- certainly, again, pardon the pun -- but jefferson davis was fully aware of what lee was wanting to do. ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. [ applause ] >> the theme of this year's emerging civil war blog symposium was great defenses of the civil war. coming up, the army of the cumberland's defense at stone's river. union general john buferred's defense, the vicksburg confederate defense and the battle of horseshoe shoe defense. american history tv is in prime

even stonewall jackson when he ferry,ommand at harpers in the first days of the war, technically has troops on maryland heights in maryland. robert e lee himself did not put marylanders were going to rise up by the thousands and join the confederacy. to bring maryland into the confederacy. he did have some leeway, pun, buthe jefferson davis was fully aware of what lee wanted to do. >> ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. [applause] just a couple quick announcements. if you need to order lunch for tomorrow's tour, we will be doing lunch orders in the lobby. this will be your last opportunity to order lunch. it looks like all of our authors are in the author's area. it looks like they are lonely. please go and see their books. i will ask my son jackson to stand up. he has been especially lonely. i guess because he is my stunt double. please stop and see jackson as well. if you have any questions, feel free to see me. in just a few minutes, we will go into 18632 and at stones river. we will be right back. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsibl

thomas jackson at harper's ferry very early on in the war, the first days of the war, does have troops on maryland heights in maryland. so this was a constant confederate warring. robert e. lee did not himself put much stock in the fact that marylanders were going to join up by the thousands and join the army, but he knew that the confederacy was going to throw the yolk. so lee, he did have some leeway in that certainly. again, pardon the pun, but jefferson davis was fully aware of what lee was wanting too. >> ladies and gentlemen, kevin paulik. [ applause ] >>> american history tv on c-span3 focuses on the civil war all week. at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight, a seminar on civil war leadership with talks about confederate general robert e. lee and u.s. army general ulysses s. grant. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >>> next on american history tv on c-span3, the battle of stones river in tennessee. the union army's repulsive two attacks in the battle and the confederate withdrawal secured nashville as a major union supp