it was just as crushing for jefferson davis as the loss of willie lincoln had been for abraham lincolnsonal aspect of this that unites lincoln and davis in loss. >> not mine, oh, lord, but thine. >> jefferson davis, celebrated war hero and influential politician, enters the civil war a stronger leader than abraham lincoln, but as the war takes its toll on both men, the way they respond to adversity defines them. lincoln, faced with the staggering cost of the war, looks to america's core principles to give the union fight a higher purpose, but davis' confederacy has no such ideals to appeal to. it is built on a hollow foundation, and as the confederacy starts to crumble, jefferson davis is powerless to hold it together. steve: the midterms are fewer than six months away, the economy is stronger, we're at virtually falling employment. why would anyone want to vote for change right now. >> great question, jake. perhaps you might want to ask your trump-hating colleagues at cnn, especially when you consider the week that president trump is having on the world stage. last week, standing up t

jefferson davis was not a texan. but texans in the 1920s were trying to make a political point by recognizing jefferson davis. but that does two things. one it tells us when it went up and gives us the mind-set of the people that put it up and absolves the present of the responsibility for these things that went up 100 years ago. sort of this is the justification for taking down all the stuff, for changing these names. we don't want this generation to be seen as honoring these people whose values we don't share. that's fair enough if you're putting up something new today. okay. yale or the university of texas wouldn't erect a statue to jefferson davis and name a college for john calhoun today. but to pretend that it never did, i think it does a disservice to my history students if only because. on the campus of the university of texas, there used to be these confederate statues. since the statues went up, there are statues to martin luther king. there's a statue to barbara jordan. to cesar chavez. if they were all st

jefferson davis travels to georgia to boost their moral. >> georgians it would have gradden my heartet you in process parity. friends are drawn together in adversity. sermon can't keep up his long line of communication. soon orer later he must. our calvary will destroy his army. with one arm and one effort to crush sermon. the end must be the defeat of our enemy. >> show serman has atlanta he hasn't destroyed the general spirit. they fight back. >> general, the rebels have seriously damaged the railroad north of acworth, >> general, the rebels have damaged the area. they are demanding the surrender. >> thatbe whole damn bunch of devils have been turned lose. we'll bemy fighting them for months if not years. >> for now his army has been w able to repair the damaged railways. sermanty must make a decision. chase hood into alabama or burn hood and return to sea. >> we must strike-out with our wagons. a march through georgia cutoff from any base. >> this country hasn't seen war their corn is full. our soldiers will be able to live off the bounty the regularlies have stocked. >> they will

>> war for jefferson davis! >> hey, what happened to the agreement? please, let him go!ess because on one hand, it sticks with the union, but it is a slave state, and you have those who are preaching secession, preaching rebellion, and it creates this civil war within missouri, neighbors against neighbors. it's chaos. >> unable to escape the horrific war that only he sees coming, sherman enters the fray prepared to do whatever it takes to end the rebellion and bring about peace. but in sherman's eyes, peace will only come by making the people of the south really feel the wrath of war. >> mayor? >> it is astonishing that a man whose prescient analysis of union unpreparedness was once dismissed by president lincoln, a man whose superiors deemed him unfit for duty and was called insane in the press, is now not only at the center of the war effort but in a position to bring the south to its knees. >> as a multitude of homeless citizens flee atlanta, confederate president jefferson davis travels to georgia to boost their morale. >> georgians, it would have gladdened my heart

i did see jefferson davis up close in the museum and he is ugly. the larger reason is you take the statue out of its neighbor -- native environment and it solves the problem but not really. they are created to say we are in favor of segregation of the race. but i want my students to know that there was a time that the university they attend was run by people that was in favor of segregation. because if you believe in progress you have to know where you are progressing from. there's no struggling memory from which to judge. statues on campuses are a big deal. that was why i had the suggestion of a time stamp . it was rejected. >>> yes or? -- yes sir? >> each one of my characters went into the executive branch. john cal kuhn -- john calhoun was the sneak used of all. there have been two people in american history who are three- time losers for their party as nominees. and one was henry clay who lost in 1822 put that along with william jennings bryan. are there any baseball fans in the audience? at one time there was a phenomenon of dacian this actual

both came toister the swearing of jefferson davis and ended up marrying them. -- she visited several times and washington, d.c., what the last time that she was up there, president lincoln to occur -- took her past and said that she could never come back because he found out that she was throwing money and medicine into her petticoat to bring it across to the confederacy. she died in selma. the memorial you see behind us was carved in marble in italy. her husband sent it back to have it redone because he said her hair was not as beautiful as it was in person. she was the one who was part of the women's memorial association that became -- she is the one that laid out the confederate symbol which we know today. we are now in confederate circles that was founded after the war. dawson isd nathaniel the one who planted the trees we see here, be live oaks and the magnolias. she was part of the ladies memorials association with became the daughters of the confederacy and she wanted to have an area to memorialize those who fought in the war. the city of selma gave her the plans to use to bui

jefferson davis, the former president of the confederacy. sumner was charles sumner, loathed by confederates and had been for many years. this letter would get more provocative still. longstreet offered the self-evident proposition that the highest of human laws is the law that is established by appeal to arms. he then deduced since the sword decided in the favor of north, northern principles had become law. it was the duty of the defeated south to "abandon ideas that are obsolete." among the things that longstreet classed as obsolete was the democratic party itself. [laughter] which was nothing more than a vehicle for old prejudice. his words. sounding a lot like a republican, longstreet described congress' reconstruction act as peace offerings which would give the south a fresh start. he directly addressed the issue of race relations, casting black suffrage in the south and arguing that the spirit of black voting should be extended to the north and fully tested, as he put it. a few days later, longstreet offered a fourth letter, a coda to

has been pointed out the many differences between abraham lincoln and jefferson david was -- jefferson davis was that davis preferred to win a debate while lincoln would rather win the war. that is the question. do you want to win an argument, or do you want to change the world? [applause] with malice towards none, and charity toward all, let those words of this country's greatest president guide your ambitions, your hope for yourselves, your families, your country, your planet. there is no shortage of cynicism and selfishness in the world. be there answer, their antidote -- be their answer, their antidote. i am optimistic about the future because of you. it is your future to make and mold, and shape the world. it eagerly awaits and requires your ideas, your initiative, your enterprise, your energy, your passion and compassion, your idealism and your ambition, but remember, that true courage is the essential ingredient and -- in all of your efforts. congratulations class of 2018. now, go change the world. [applause] commencement speeches all this week in prime time. tonight at 8:00 eastern,

. >> not as long as jefferson davis'. thank the like to three panelists and our three speakers. [applause] city tour c-span's takes you to alabama where cable partners will cross a bridge arriving at a town known for its role in the civil war and the civil rights movement. it is 5:30 p.m. eastern on book tv. this is the home martin luther king jr. used that he planned to sell. , the featured in the book house by the side of the road. whohere was a photographer was embedded in the house and he wanted to capture dr. king's emotions as he watched on television president johnson colluding to signing. king washe chair dr. sitting in that night watching the television. president johnson addressed the nation. >> we will meet the first african-american fire chief in the city talking about his book marching through the flame. on american history tv, we will look at the voting rights movement that started in the 1930's. announcer: university of exploresn historian slavery and reconstruction in the west focusing on kansas and missouri before and after the civil war. here is a preview. volu

. >> bowser has access to almost of all jefferson davis' secrets, and she passes on her information tohmond socialite elizabeth van lew. >> sarah! >> ms. van lew! >> here you are. >> thank you. >> mm-hmm. >> the intel from van lew's spies gives general grant a leg up on the rebels. >> latest news from richmond, general. >> news keeps getting better every day. >> should get worderal sheridan, tell him that early's corps is reduced and that he's not going to be receiving reinforcements and, if he wants to go after confederates in the valley, to go in. >> yes, sir. >> the new intelligence helps general philip sheridan clear out the shenandoah valley. after the brutal overland campaign, the union army now has important victories in virginia and georgia, and troops like frank wilkeson rally behind lincoln. >> [ chuckles ] thanks, wilkeson. i mean, lieutenant. >> they put me in the 4th united states artillery, my brother's old regiment. you look like you're recovering. >> well, i suppose so. i'm joining the veteran reserve corps. i'm not much use on the fronte, but i can still help out. >> r

them, in addition to donaldson's missouri mounted volunteers, worthy mississippi rifles led by jefferson davis, future president of the confederate states of america, and the texas rangers were superb horsemen and ruthless guerrilla fighters. the american and mexican people vastly underrated the u.s. regulars who were arguably the best troops in the world at that time. it was true the enlisted ranks contained a large number of recent immigrants and men who had failed in civilian life, and they did serve long enlistments at low pay. but the regulars were also well drilled and disciplined, hardened to living outdoors and well equipped. their confidence in victory never flagged, in a matter how outnumbered they were. -- never flagged, no matter how outnumbered they were. late in life ulysses grant, a lieutenant during the mexican war, rated zachary taylor's little army the best in which he had ever served. there were more than 30 battles and skirmishes. from start to finish, it was polk's war, though. from the white house, president james polk oversaw every detail. commanding generals in the fiel

lee or jefferson davis and hang them. we did not indulge in that kind of public vindictiveness and it is well that we did not to because what that may have generated would have been an thatng sea of insurgencies would have made the civil war look like a prelude. what might have happened if for instance, after lee had notif been given the terms he had been -- if lee hade been offered anything but that, he could've easily with one word and said, boys, head to the hills. fight it out from there and that could have dragged out reconstruction for decades. we might still be fighting insurgencies. insurgencies in the russian caucasus. term insurgencies could have destroyed this country. the price. we pay the price with the ku klux klan, but at least we did not pay a worse price. we could have. , we could bet war at each other's throats even today. said there are some civil wars which never end. i remember reading a few years , a a book by david reef journalist and bosnia -- in bosnia during the 1990's. he was interviewing a bosn

we have a state holiday of jefferson davis's birthday.e don't have martin luther king day in alabama. mid 19thccupation with century history as one of the characteristics that are presses and burdens people's color. we talk about the mid-19th century, but not about slavery. for me, talking about slavery and talking about lynching and segregation, talking about our history of racial inequality is critical to creating a consciousness that will allow us to move forward toward a just -- justice and equality. i don't think we've done a very good job of that in our country. amy: i want to go to a clip at the equal justice produced last year highlighting the ststory of one family whose ancestor was lynched. >> my great-great-grandfather anthony crawford had an altercatation at a store with a white storekeeper about the prprice his cotton seed. granather resed to do busine wi them anwas rested. spectacle,nched in a rituistic killi at the wn squauare in soututh carolina 100 yes ago. a lot of peoe e don'tt talk abot thlylynchis anand their family,

lee has to this point in the war been a sort of glorified military sidekick to president jefferson davis. that will soon change of course. it was lee's partnership with jackson that changed the civil war more than any other single factor. for now he is a just another general with a sketchy record. jackson had won his battles just when hopes were at their lowest, when the confederacy needed in a war that was losing a myth of invincibility. southernthe courageous character, not just romantic dreams. proof that with inferior resources it could still win the war. jackson with his brilliant underdog valley campaign had given that to them. that train he was riding on june 19 i mentioned a few minutes ago was headed to richmond where 120,000 union soldiers faced a mere 65,000 confederates. one of the biggest mismatches in the war. it was thought on both sides that richmond would fall. jackson was coming on that train to save the city and by extension to save the confederacy. that is what people in the south -- in the south thought anyway. and those were absurd, unrealistic expectations to load

lee, jefferson davis and twoers o.ve despite legal challenges and arguments that confederacy is an important part of new orleans heritage. a mother turning her 14-year-old son in from stealing from a bland man. the boy posed as a cop and pretended to help the man before snatching his wallet inside a new york city subway. the victim's credit card was quickly charged 500 bucks at nearby store. the teen arrested but has since been turned over to his family. pop star kelly clarkson calling for gun control at the billboard music awards. the host says she was instructed to hold a moment of silence for the victims of the santa fe school shooting but she refused. >> i'm so sick of moment of silence. it's not working. why don't we do moment of action? why don't we do moment of change? why don't we change what's happening? because it's horrible. we need to do better. people are failing our children. we are failing our communities. we are failing their families. jillian: later in the show parkland shooting survivors joining menen

jefferson davis and those closest to him got out of richmond and headed south and they ended up in danville, virginia. that's where my sister and i grew up. we saw prejudice and discrimination as little kids, up close and personal. i will never forget it. but there are some people in danville, virginia, who are still fighting the civil war, 150 years afterwards, over. at least in their minds. but during that civil war, 800,000 men were killed, both sides. 800,000. hundreds of thousands or more men, women, and children were wounded, crippled. when war is over, what happens? when war is over, our president was assassinated -- lincoln. his successor, andrew johnson, senator from tennessee, who also served here, he was impeached. and somehow we got through that civil war, the assassination of a president, the impeachment of a president, and we made it to the 20th century just in time to fight not one, but two world wars, won them, led the world, our allies to victory in the cold war. led the world out of the great depression. and when the sun came up on the 21st century, on january 1, 2001, her

davis and because there's never been a case exactly like this. doing a quick history lesson this week, over the course of our history, thomas jefferson, richard nixon and your client, bill clinton have all been forced to submit to court orders. can president trump be subpoenaed to testify? >> first of all, mr. joseph digenova. who i've known for a great deal of years and have tremendous respect for. we don't know what the supreme court will do and it will ultimately be a supreme court question. presidentclinton decided to accept voluntary voluntarily and nixon did dismiss but it was about documents and not testimony. in my opinion, president trump as the president, as a political elected official represented all of the american people, should not resist a subpoena but said voluntarily do exactly what president clinton did. >>chris: in the paula jones case, didn't the court ruled that the president wasn't above the law and he had to get involved in the civil suit? >> the answer is yes. he was forced to testify in the civil suit. we don't have a test as to whether he can be subpoenaed, but in the language in the nixon versus the united states, there

our history, thomas jefferson, richard nixon and your client bill clinton have all been forced to submit to court orders. can president trump be subpoenaed to testify? >> mr. davisfirst of all, i've known him for many years and have a great deal of respect for, i don't want to hurt his career is just simply we don't know what the supreme court will do and it will ultimately be their question. number two, president clinton decided to accept voluntarily so there was never a test of that and president nixon did resist the subpoena but it was about documents, not testimony. this has been, in my opinion, president trump as the president has a political elected official representing all the american people should not resist a subpoena, but should voluntarily do what president clinton did. >> chris: in the paula jones case, didn't the court ruled that the president wasn't above the law and that he had to get involved in the paula jones civil suit? >> mr. davis: the answer is yes, he was forced to testify in a civil suit. you don't have a test of whether he can be subpoenaed, but in the language of nixon versus united states, there is language that goes beyond documenta