>> guest: jefferson davis -- there has been a lot written about lincoln, and right now i cannot recall if they had ever met, i doubt it. i doubt they had ever met. but, davis' lif vice president, alexander stephens of georgia was on fire either either had a friendship with abraham lincoln when lincoln served as a congressman. that was from 1846 - 1848, they were friends. lincoln wrote a letter to him. alexander stephens wrote a letter to abraham lincoln while lincoln was waiting to come to washington just after he was elected to be president wondering if there is anything they could do, if he had any suggestion. lincoln wrote back to him, i would really like to to be able to work this out he said but we don't seem to be able to agree on the extension of slavery. he said in his letter, that's the rub you want to extend slavery and make slavery national while we want to restrict it. >> host: is your book written for a general audience or scholarly audience? >> host: we wrote this book for students that we have been teaching for gary gallagher has been teaching for over 30 years and i hav

i doubt it but jefferson davis vice president had a friendship when he served as a congressman and. and they were friends and lincoln wrote a letter i mean stevens wrote a letter while he was waiting to come to washington just after he was elected to be president wondering if there is anything they could do and he wrote back, i would really like to be able to work this out but we don't seem to be able to agree on the extension of slavery. and he said that is the route to the one to extend to make it national and we want to restructure that. >> is a written for a scholarly audience?. >> we rode for our students gary gallagher has been teaching over 30 i have been teaching over 20. there was no short worse instinct for provocative textbook to combine in a the chronological of political economic to have those and the chapters on reconstruction and also in memory. and the progress of the of for reconstruction and memory and the 12 chapters than 20 pages and we were very pleased and we do know this the basis of which that students and readers who will not invest the time in a 500 or 800

the first ballot he cast was for jefferson davis. davis dropped out and he continued to support breckenridge all the way through. go, why retrospect, we did that reconciliation fail? answer is that southerners in praise the lost cause rather than equal rights. that's far too simple. it is true, but it is far too simple. slavery andaving anti-slavery people shaking hands. you thought if we can bring them together, we can have success. more is going on. one is the breakup of the anti-slavery coalition. many became republicans because of the issue of slavery. in the 1864 election, we often talk about reagan being republican. he did not run as a republican. johnson was not a republican. party.n on the union it was an anti-slavery coalition. after the war, many anti-slavery advocates ended up not supporting radical reconstruction. for instance, 1872, greeley, the abolitionist, was running against grant. how do we understand that and get back to bateman? one is to understand liberty. liberty is up there. liberty -- the most famous statement

tell me why this definitive history back to jefferson davis matters today.for the person watching who does not get the link, why does that matter now? >> i think right now in this moment, in which people are trying to understand how the president could get elected, the people are searching for answers. i think people are searching for answers as to why so many police officers are fearing people don't even have weapon, and even people who have weapons but are not sure of shooting. what it is that juries are exonerating these people. why black people are feeling progress. white did you receive the type of reception from a large segment of congress let alone america that he did. i think people are searching for those answers. oftentimes, answers can be found in history. i think one of the ways in which i hope the book makes a contribution is it says to people that our senses that racist ideas were a racist person is simply a person who says the and word, it is actually a lot more complex than that. many people, including well-meaning people, has articulated rac

jefferson davis is the president and he thinks he knows what he is doing. he was a graduate of west point, a veteran of the mexican war, so he is a hands-on commander in chief. lee does not have a lot to do but have conversations about what would be a good ideas. is to send thes jackson some reinforcements in the shenandoah valley and have him basically try to create chaos, to try to scare lincoln into holding more troops mcclellan away from in order to guard washington. while lincoln was not scared, he was not necessarily afraid they would capture washington, but what he did want to do with capture jackson. so he held mcdowell back and instead of sending troops to richmond, he sent the majority of them west into the shenandoah valley to try to capture jackson. we will not go through that campaign in great detail right now, we will talk about it next time. but for sick of argument, we will talk about what jackson does, he earns his legendary reputation as an aggressive and dynamic general in this campaign. jackson had earned his nickname at the battle bull

jefferson davis highway northbound side closed at mary's way.ause of high standing water they're working op clearing out of the way. aside from that 95 north and southbound through dale city literally a parking lot. earlier southbound crash taking out the center lane and northbound just dealing with that heavy volume as you try to cross through woodbridge. high standing water route 1 through stafford involving closures police directing traffic and the northbound side of 95 from fredericksburg all the way past the aquia harbor is a crawl. we're seeing delays well over an hour as you try to make your way it through the virginia into the district. for maryland the outer loop jams earlier crash by the green belt metro station cleared. bw parkway in both directions outside the beltway super jammed up 95 a better bet and that is because of the rain slowing things down. fauquier county high standing water closing several roads around lehigh way. use caution there getting that information from the fauquier county sheriff's only. metro rail lines are on

lee, jefferson davis, and stonewall jackson stand prominently in the medians. the inscriptions on the monuments are a testament to white supremacy. the mayor of richmond, levar stoney, thinks the towering monuments in virginia's capital city -- and the former capital of confederacy -- should not be taken down. instead, he says they need additional historical context. so he's appointed a commission of historians, authors and community leaders, who have to figure out how to set the historical record straight. some residents say the statues should stand as they are. >> richmond is full of history and it is another part of history in representing history. soledad: others want them removed. >> when i look at the statues i feel unwanted, i don't feel a part of this world. soledad: councilwoman kim gray' district includes monument avenue. as a member of the c she hopes to find the middle . >> i would like it to be the catalyst for a broader discussion on things that we need to accomplish to rectify some of the legacy of slavery and the confederate legacy to try to imp

woodbridge crash delays between jefferson davis highway and 95. it's on obitz boulevard. inner loop crash cleared at georgia. that's good news. 270 quiet by the spur. north of that point we have congestion building from 70 down to the truck scales and then three out in spotsylvania westbound lanes all shut down for a crash investigation at cherry road. eastbound side opened. as you can see route one and 95 into stafford looks good right now. but north of that point we have volume through dale city. 270 traffic flowing through montgomery county but again north of that point a little bit of congestion. if you have an early morning flight traffic on the way to bwi reagan national and dulles look good. all metro rail lines on time. we'll let you know if any of that changes. tweet me at erin fox5 d.c. d.c. on twitter with questions. an alexandria woman who shot and killed her husband. paula thompson marshall will face a judge today. officials say she shot and killed her husband at their home in 2016. marshall says the shooting was accidental. >> a hearing for cab driver accuse

woodbridge crash between jefferson davis highway and 95 on opitz boulevard.morning. that's your look at traffic. >> when it comes to flying if you would only bring one item with you when you fly what would that one item be? one man's choice going viral this morning. we'll share what it was next. >> later actor -- >> just a question to ponder. >> actor shia labeouf apologizing following his latest arrest. it's 6:38. we're back after this. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ you know, geico just saved me hundreds of dollars on my car insurance. huh. i should take a closer look at geico... (dog panting) geico has a 97% customer satisfaction rating! and fast and friendly claims service. oooo, just out. it was in. out. in! out. in! what about now? that was our only shuttlecock. take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more. z2cpsz zi0z y2cpsy yi0y >> it. >> let's get back to what's trending on the web this morning on this thursday morning. a first of its kind treatment for a childhood cancer cleared a major hurdle this week. an fda advisory commi

instrumental resource and i want to talk about a third through jefferson davis. let's label this mechanism walls paramedic effect and it involves the way law operates and paradigms. davis is aniseed after committing treason against the united states, but once again the compliance model is misleading. is prosecution of davis entailed by the logic of a legal regime. the social formation whose structure and logic are organized around a distinct structure. logic in perth meeting social action. in davis's case, the consequences are apparent after my -- affair and labor code presuppose the conflict was a war. treating the conflict as a war had paramedic entailment because the laws obligation of inerality still required these obligations raised the cost of reversing course is merely rebel treason prosecutions. it is no rebuttal to say that davis -- letting davis go was dictated by reintegrating the postwar south or argue that andrew johnson was predisposed because those imperatives is positioned for themselves conditioned by the expectations the laws of war had produced

last night in new orleans, they took down jefferson davis. a week ago, they took down the battle of liberty place monument. but i think that is only half the story. they should put up new ones, they should put up a statue of the first black senator or anybody. any of these leaders, jonathan j wright. onlyhan j wright, the black member of a state supreme court in south carolina. a portrait of jonathan j wright was not put up in the state supreme court holding until 1999. they had a portrait of every single other person who had served on the supreme court of south carolina from the revolution until the present, one after another of them, but no portrait of jonathan j wright, because he was black. this is the erasure. you're talking about taking down jefferson davis as the erasure of history, but reconstruction has been erased from the public in the south. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] join us on c-span3 sunday for american history tv live special, the 19th to seven detroit riots 50th anniversary. pulls her prize-winning histori

and as of may 9, jefferson davis remained on the run. if the united states hoped to end the war it was imperative that all confederate soldiers give up the fight, even those that had not been at ppomattox. if the union high command realized the importance of compelling the surrender of all those that had borne arms against the united states government, the confederate soldiers likewise continue to recognize well into june it was in their best interest to do so and he will forgive the kind of sophomoric map i have, but these are all locations in which individuals and small groups of men are coming in, into june, seeking parole. in charlottesville, louisa, king george county, columbia, fairfax county, and in other places in virginia, these men came and sought parole. among them were three men from paige county, my home county. of company h, they left their homes on june 1, 1865 going toward winchester, hoping to get parole. they were not unlike many throughout may and into june who had already returned to their families and finally had dec

to jefferson davis highway and south glee where a rider dropped cell phone. >> an officer saw it, kept it so we could identify who the suspect was. jeff: the rider was live streaming the ride. they were able to track it to 24-year-old williams of d.c. >> we want to highlight the individual's arrest to send a message here are charges you could face. >> the police in maryland, d.c. are trying to crash down and catch the riders. yesterday, m.p.d. released 50 new photos of suspected illegal a.t.v. riders bringing the total to 98. >> i wish people would think of people other than safe >> one of the reasons that authorities around the region are release something many photos and so much video of the suspected riders is they really need help from the public to identify the individuals that will hopefully lead to arrests. coming p at 6:00, we show you why it does not appear this is the first time that the suspect has had interactions with illegal a.t.v.'s. until then live in south arlington, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. larry: thanks for that. workers who clean terminals at the reagan normal airp

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the lanes along 23rd will also be instead of two through lanes for jefferson davis highway the right lane will become a turn lane only. >> what can you do, though? if they get rid of them, they get rid of them. brianne: if project was expected to begin this week but arlington county saying with mother nature and the potential for rain they plan to start the restriping and the reconfiguring of this intersection next week. in arlington, brianne carter, abc7 news. larry: okay. thank you for that. coming up still at 5:00, caught on video. shoplifter caught red handed and then held at gunpoint. what happened next to allow him to get away? alison: plus five days, five deadly shootings in prince george's county. for one family it's the second time they have had their lives shattered by violence. larry: a big change to the price of parking in one popular downtown area. alison: first, though, a surge in complicated and expensive rescues on a local hiking trail. what they be behind this at 5:00". larry: a scene repeated dozens the air to rescue injured hikers on a billy goat trail. it's a prob

lincoln served with a jefferson davis, who was in the u.s. senate. and he became the president of the confederacy in america. lincoln's second vice president, the man who replaced him, andrew johnson. he was a member of the house with abraham lincoln. so many of these people that would later become critical in the civil war would become important to lincoln and his rise to the presidency, they were there in the 30th congress with him. it is fascinating to watch him interact with these people before any of them could imagine what role they would play later in history. so what are the major issues when he goes to congress? nothing is bigger than the mexican-american war. they were trying to figure out , what is the endgame in mexico? this is something we could never imagine being in a prolonged war without ideas of how we are going to wrap it up. [laughter] chris: that was something that lincoln and his colleagues had to confront. lincoln was very content to let the matter lay until a result. president james polk said he would treat silence as acquiesc

[laughter] >> okay, well, so you've talked about angela davis, thomas jefferson, so we might consider people who were probably, i don't know about thomas jefferson, we know that thomas jefferson had some issues beneficiaries ris. >> but the others were probably some of the most problack people we know yet they had racist ideals? >> in the case of debois in particular, had five major characters and each of the characters sort of served as tour guides or windows to this larger three-way debate that i was referencing earlier and jefferson was one of those and angela davis was n. the case of debois, there's a specific reason why i wanted to write a history of racist ideas as oppose to racist with an s, i wanted to sort of show the complexity of the human mind, right, that in certain vantage point you can see the racial groups as -- you could see a hierarchy, but in other advantage points you could see the racial groups as equal, in certain ways you could hold antiracist ideas and in other ways you can hard assimilationist ideas as deboise did and i actually show from the beginning that hi

and jefferson was one of those characters, du bois and angela davis was. in the case of du bois and even other people in the book, there is a specific reason why wanted to write history of racist ideas as opposed to racist with an aspect i want to sort of show the complexity of the human mind. that and certain vantage point you can see the racial groups as come you could see a hierarchy but in other vantage point you can see the racial groups as equal. in certain ways you good old antiracist ideas, in other ways you could hold assimilationist ideas as du bois did. i actually show in "stamped from the beginning" that his heralded double consciousness was, in fact, a double consciousness of assimilationist an antiracist ideas. but i also show over the course of his very long life that he was able to develop a single consciousness of antiracism, particularly by the 1930s, in which he was critiquing his own ideas of earlier decades. .. is this hope for regular people like us? it seems it is complicated. at the same time it is complicated. it is simple idea for

davis examines gender identity in an interview with sarah ellis, glad president and ceo. bennett 10, rice university history professor john bowles recalls the life of founding father thomas jefferson from his formative years in virginia to his work on the declaration of independence and his presidency and at 11, it's the robert caro prize for literary excellence in the writing of history. that will happen tonight on c-span2's book tv. >> director of the florida university of press in new york, what books do you have coming out this fall? >> to parts which is our regional imprint and one is a worldly affair: new york and the united nations, their unlikely relationship. it's talking about how the un founded a space in new york amongst some controversy and then joni deland cemented its place in its current location . there's a couple cool sidebars like a service to the public, you can make a reservation 42 hours in advance and the original poem of the general secretary flushing in queens now to the inner-city. >> we have this neat thing in the hudson that looks at jersey city and an artist community. people think of soho and greensburg as these enclaves that were gentrified by artist