harriet beecher stowe also plans to be a pacifist, but she has this great passage in the -- she talks about the book of revelation, and she says, harriet beecher stowe police she was witnessing the unfolding of the book of revelation right at sumpter. the last struggle for liberty would proceed the coming of the war. caen's wrath shall be reached. her brother said pretty much the same thing. third good friend and said, the author would have the wrath of almighty god bury the south in the battle of the republic. >> to questions. what was the role of roman catholics in terms of fighting the civil war? for the active combatants? another was a draft. the second was, what was the role of religion in terms of its connection with death? and help people viewed death of their family and their fathers and sons and so on? >> abcaeight. a meticulous questions first. in terms of death many americans, evangelical or not believe that life was part of a continual. maybe this order is part. that the extended beyond that. they looked at life as something that began and ended but rather something bad wa

bombing beecher, whose daughter was harriet beecher stowe and his son was the greatest evangelist at his age, henry ward beecher and moved his family from cozy new england out of the wall frontier town of cincinnati because he wanted to save the west from roman catholics and wrecked in a seminary in cincinnati, but came back to boston periodically and he was the guy who preached the night before that this convent should be burned down. now, this occurred at a time when the westward movement had just begun and the westward movement had started the sacred element, particularly among evangelicals who believe that god had chosen america to be the new nation of israel, that america was god's chosen nation and part of being chosen ways to span a condiment for in the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean. this is not only responsibility for american citizens, but they were doing the work of god. you can see here on this painting that appeared in 1861, you can see the cross on the rock perhaps. make sure you don't point it at anybody, but you can see the cross on the rock. .. >> also revolution

one american swept away by it and wrote very passionately and eloquently about it was harriet beecher stowe. most people don't think of harriet beecher stowe in paris but she was there a great deal and loved it and had a very profound affect on her. >> what did she do in paris and why was she there? >> frankly to hide away from the publicity that surrounded her publication of uncle tom's cabin. she'd been on a tour in england where the book was not only in print but had become sensational bestseller and hadn't yet been published in french and when she got to paris, she could go anywhere without causing any stir. and she spent a lot of time at the louvre and spent a lot of time just walking the city, wrote wonderfully about the experience, started studying french, came back again another time. it's fascinating how paris, how it affected her. and what it did, she said it emphasized to her how much beauty had been denied her in her puritanical upbringing in new england. and the beauty isn't just something you see that someone else has created, the beauty is in you and the love of beauty is par

. >> harriet beecher stowe, john singer sargent, thomas jefferson, henry adams. tonight on "q&a", part one of two weeks with david mccullough. at 8:00 on c-span. >> we are pleased to welcome the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid. he is responsible for obese sitting and $800 billion federal budget. -- for overseeing and $800 billion federal budget picture >> thanks for being here. he has proposed to transform the program quite dramatically and in the process to save quite a bit of money. when you listen to budget debates in washington, one thing that becomes clear is the only way to really cut money is to cut money. that is something his plan does effectively on that score. what is wrong with that? >> we share the problems and are trying to tackle, which is that health care needs to become sustainable in this country. there are two ways to do that. anybody can do that. you cut a budget. this plan does so quite effectively. we will be in deeper and deeper trouble of that were true both free. there is an alternative to that, to make health care

. >> samuel more retires, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on "q&a" onricans who made the greater journey to 19th century to paris at 8:00 on c-span. >> next today's white house briefing with press secretary jay carney. the middle east was a major topic of discussion after a meeting at the white house between president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. yesterday the president called for a palestinian state based on the borders before the 1967 arab-israeli war. this is about 45 minutes. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thanks for waiting. we pushed the briefing back obviously to allow for the president's meeting with the prime minister of israel to wrap up. i don't have any announcements, but i will begin with questions. >> thank you. i guess coming out of this meeting, what a lot of us are wondering is what was accomplished between obama and netanyahu. there was a lot of talk and rhetoric, but in terms of actual substance it doesn't seem like they made progress. can you paint t point to any coe areas where they made progress to

the activists are ever in lincoln, harriet beecher stowe, frederick douglass, mark twain, walt whitman, the german immigrant carl schurz, and alexander stephens. alexander stephens was one of these guys in the middle. he was one of the moderates. in know, when you are a moderate your for the status quo in this particular case. people like action. new york times had at searing editorial against abraham lincoln and the sons of crisis. he wanted to see what happens. no, you have to go in there and shoot these guys into this and that. you know, we are very impatient. we are impatient to get in to work and patient to get out of it. that, of course, is a problem. in answer to your first point, why were they in such a hurry? the seven moderates. well, historians and the clinton administration over estimated the number. by this time there are very few. even he moved along. i think for the most part the southern fears of lincoln administration were well-founded. they had had four or five years of republican rhetoric on what they were going to do when they get into power. there were going to bui

. >> and morris, james and more cooper, harriet beecher stowe, off thomas edison, henry adams tonightn q&a, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans who made the greater journey to 19th century paris at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, from lectures in history, regina williams on the music of duke ellington. on american artifacts, a look at the smithsonian efforts to preserve the jefferson bible. and live sunday from jackson, mississippi, a 50th anniversary celebration of the freedom rides, when 15 men and women, black and white work to integrate seven bus stops. >> retired general james jones, president obama's former national security adviser, says pakistan needs to redefine its strategic relations with the u.s. within the next few weeks. he made his comments tuesday senate foreign relations committee hearing, chaired by john kerry, who just returned from a trip to afghanistan and pakistan. this is a few hours. >> this hearing will come to order. thank you very much for coming this morning. i apologize for being a little bit

harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, said tonight on q&a, on americans that may the journey to 19th century paris. tonight on c-span. >> general james jones said the u.s. strategic relationship with pakistan is changing, following the death of osama bin laden. general jones testified at the senate foreign relations committee. this hearing is two hours. >> this hearing will come to order. i apologize for being a little late. today we continue the series of hearings which we are engaged in, the fourth, actually, with respect to afghanistan and pakistan. and having just returned from the region, i would simply convey to everybody that at every stop and at every conversation, everybody has a sense that how -- has a sense of how critical this is for our strategies in the region and in each country and in afghanistan and in pakistan. as much as some people have reached a level of patience or serious evaluation about where we are and where we are going, it is very clear to me that we need to be really careful and thoughtful so as to get the policy right, so as to not lose the progr

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. >> james been more cooper, harriet beecher stowe -- sunday night, are one of two weeks with david mcculloughricans to may be greater journey to 19th century paris. >> on monday, former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel was sworn in as mayor of chicago. he talked about his plans for improving the chicago school system and job creation. this is just under 30 minutes. [applause] >> the hon. timothy c. evans will now administer the oath of office to rahm emanuel as mayor of the city of chicago. >> raise your hand and repeat after me. i, rahm emanuel, solemnly swear to support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of illinois and that i will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of mayor of the city of chicago according to the best of my ability. congratulations. [cheers and applause] [unintelligible] >> honored guests, mr. vice- president, dr. biden, mayor daley, members of the city council, other elected officials, citizens of chicago -- today in more than any other time in our history, the city of chicago is ready for change. [applause] for all t

samuel morris, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams -- sunday night on "q&a", part one of the americans who made the greater journey at 8:00 on c-span. >> at the pentagon today, defense secretary robert gates said there is no evidence that senior pakistani leader's new osama bin laden was in pakistan. secretary gates was joined by joint chiefs of staff's chairman admiral mike mullen. this is about 30 minutes. >> the president made clear that before making any specific budget decisions we must first conduct a fundamental review of america's military mission capabilities and security role around the world. today i am announcing the framework of the comprehensive review that the department of defense is launching to inform future decisions on spending on national security. for more than two years, the leadership of this department has worked on reforming the way the pentagon does business and responding to the difficult fiscal situation facing the nation and making sure our military has what it needs to protect our interests. this effort began two years ago with an overhaul t

. >> samuel morris, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams -- sunday night, part one of twoeeks with david mccullough on americans to maybe "greater journey" to 19th century paris. >> "washington journal" continues. host: at the table, ralph benko , a senior economic adviser to a group called america principles in action. the topic is something we have not talked much about, the gold standard. specifically, a conservative push to return this country to a gold standard. before we get to your actual opinion, educate us on what the gold standard is and where has the country been on an issue. guest: when america had its original regulation, the founding ponders -- fathers issued continental money which issued continental money which dropped to value le less. they strip that right out of the constitution. with the exception of a short period during the civil war, because war always destroy is the gold standard, we had that creating jobs and economic growth until 40 years ago when richard nixon finally took a softer gold standard, promising us some more jobs. host: why ever turn n

. >> the samuel morse, james valdemoro cooper, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison on sunday q&a, one of two parts with david mccullough, americans who made the greater journey to 19th century paris. >> earlier today at the white house, president obama and king of dela of jordan met with reporters following -- king of dela of jordan met with .eporters sa the president will release a statement thursday at the u.s. state department. >> it is a great pleasure to welcome once again my good friend king abdallah. the united states and jordan have had a longstanding friendship, an extraordinary relationship with cooperation on a wide range of fronts i have valued his majesty's advice on numerous occasions, and obviously, this meeting was an opportunity for us to share our views on the extraordinary changes that are taking place throughout the middle east, throughout the region. we discussed the situation in libya and are grateful for the support of a wide range of arab countries in our efforts to make sure that humanitarian assistance and humanitarian protection occurs inside of libya. we di

. >> sammy morris, jameson worker, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on qa day. part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the american to make the greater journey to 19th century paris, at 8 p.m. on c-span. >> with the nasa space shuttle program ending in july, former international space station commander frank culbertson testified before the senate summers subcommittee this week on the future of the human spaceflight program. captain culbertson's last space mission was in 2001 aboard shuttle endeavour which is at the space station right now on its last mission. this is about two hours. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. just a couple weeks ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of human spaceflig spaceflight, and the first flight into suborbital by alan shepard. and then the precedents bold statement to go to the moon within the decade, and that was within nine years. that was announced just three weeks later.

. >> samuel morris, james and a more cooper, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison -- sunday night, partone of two weeks with david mccullough on american to make the greatest journey to 197 -- 19th century paris. 8:00 on c-span. >> no one succeed in life by themselves. you must be willing to lean on others, to listen to others, and, yes, love others. >> watch 2011 commencement speeches on c-span memorial weekend and search all over 800 past addresses from politicians from activists, authors, president, other world leaders, and more. at the peabody award winning c- span video library where you can search, watch, click and share every event recovered from 1987 through today. it is washington your way. [applause] >> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said this week that government funding and research and development and help those the economy and that the investment should be more consistent. the fed chair also said u.s. immigration and education policies should be revisited to increase the number of high skilled workers. he was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by the organiz

. >> samuel morse, james been more cooper, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on a "q&a," part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans amid the greater journeyed to 19th century -- who made the greatest journey to 19th century paris. >> this weekend, cleveland state prof. regina williams on the music of duke ellington. on "american artifacts, clothes for a look at the smithsonian efforts to preserve an exhibit of the jefferson bible. the 50th anniversary celebration of the freedom rides and 13 men and women, black and white, boarded two buses bound for new orleans -- their goal -- to integrate southern bus stops. get the complete we can schedule at c-span.org/history, or press the c-span alert button to get our schedules e-mailed directly to you >> -- directly to you. >> this weekend, authors on the gulf oil spill, wall street, the universe, america's largest slave revolt, india, and the middle east, plus a panel discussion on the book industry. also, the former ambassador to yemen on the u.s. but the counter-terrorism efforts in that coun