he is a graduate of longwood college, now longwood university. you never explain how you got down from detroit. chris was a longtime employee of the national parks service. he was at petersburg as historian and chief of interpretation. he retired from the park service to take the job to get sailor's creek together for the 150th. the new museum is impressive. a lot of work has been done there. chris will be there to give you some personal tours of both the museum and the battlefield. chris is involved in battlefield preservation. he saved land at petersburg and appomattox. he has written many articles. he received an award of merit for his leadership in history. his talk this morning is entitled by thursday the battle of sailor's creek. please welcome chris. [applause] >> for the benefit of those who were not here last night we are not talking about the entire campaign did i mentioned when i talked at the park and appomattox in the early to mid 1970's, i would come to longwood on my days off. there was only one book published and that was in 1959.

bridge, a bridge which the americans never expected to find and announcer: american tv was live from longwood university on a seminar of the closing of the civil war. it was cohosted by the university and the a pot of mocks courthouse national historian -- appomattox courthouse. the union's closing campaign. tomorrow, we'll be live again for more about the end of the civil war started at 9:00 a.m. on c-span 3. [applause] >> for the benefit of those not here last night when i was talking about the campaign from petersburg i mentioned when i worked at the park in the early 1970's through the mid-1970's my days off i would close to longwood. only one book published in 1959. it was called "to appottamox," it is a popular book. i had a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how did the army's get from here to there. this book here set up my quest to learn more about these sites. at that time when i worked at a paramedics --, you probably know how order, hebron trading excavator wrist soldier estate in the village. i took the role as a union officer who was stationed on provost du

and tomorrow, we are back for the final day of longwood of war seminar, -- longwood's civil war seminar. the closing operations in north carolina should get started here shortly live on american history tv. >> we need to get rolling with her last speaker here. i think your sees been friends are going to have some deadlier -- dead air on their hands. grab your seats, this is the last program. the great day to be inside, the rain is coming down. you can go to sailor's creek into the visitor center. david, if you will come up and introduce our next speaker. >> thank you, patrick. our next speaker, we are going to change gears. we have been focusing on the campaigns in virginia and appomattox. mark bradley will be speaking about what were the final military operations in the surrender in north carolina. obviously, appomattox wasn't the very end, but things continued on for a month and a half after that. dr. bradley is a historian who works the u.s. army center for military history in washington currently. he is working on a book on the vietnam war. he has moved a little far field from civil

we are live at longwood university for day to of the closing of the civil war seminar . that is after schroeder of the park service introducing the panel. patrick: the price includes the meals, lunch and dinner and the hotel has breakfast. if you are interested, it is on the website, the foundation website, or there are paper forms outside where you can fill it in and mail it into the friends group. also on the tables is the event schedule for the 150th anniversary of appomattox courthouse, april 8 through 12th. many of these are real-time programs. there is a brochure out there that has all of the events in the area, not just the national park the magazine, most of you have already picked it up and i have seen a lot of you looking through it. the ranger was supposed to bring over more copies this morning it is a little -- what is the word i am looking for here? it is an illusion out there. the boxes on top and bottom are empty, i just raised those four people with back problems. i have my cell phone to keep the time but we need to turn the volume down and the ringers of

i mentioned when i talked at the park and appomattox in the early to mid 1970's, i would come to longwood on my days off. there was only one book published and that was in 1959. it was called "to appomattox." i remember after reading it and studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the army's got from here to there. this book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. when i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. his name was harold howard. he was the role of a former confederate soldier. i took the role of the union soldier. he and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. one of the areas that i was interested in was the battle of sailor's creek. sailor's creek became a state park in 1936. efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and have it become a national park. something happened, world war ii came along and the impetus was lost. after the war when things started looking up, there was a congressman who was from appomattox county and guess who got t

. -- to longwood. just off the press. you can find books and answer questions. mark bradley, yesterday, our last speaker sign some of his books. "this astounding close," "blue coats," "tar heels." if you buy $50 of books, they give you a nice bag. you get the bag otherwise for 2. 95. we're live with american history tv c-span3. this will reair april 7 and april 8. with that, we'll take our 10 minute break and come back with our next speaker, casey clabough . >> just one note further. coverage will reenter at 6:00 p.m. eastern tonight on american history tv. we will return to longwood university to continue our coverage of the closing of the civil war seminar in 10 minutes. they will hear from casey clabough, the author of "confederado: a novel of the americas." all our coverage is available online at c-span.org/history. we will be back live in a bit. c-span is touring cities across the country, exploring american history. part of our recent visit to chattanooga. >> chattanooga region is one of several parts of the area that could be said to be another south. thi

and i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. cole and to patrick schroeder. i think you all ought to give them a round of applause. [applause] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mclean house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it is time for lunch, i believe. [laughter] one thing that is probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn't come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that had gathered before noon, april 7. and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army, that it might be best to suggest to generally that he open -- general lee that he open negotiations with general grant. the negotiations, a former that this could billion rector. he approached the general lee that day, but general lee would not hear of that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good man still in the ranks. general grant, most of the federal forces moved into farmville where we are now located by 1:30

it was held at longwood university in farmville, virginia, and cohosted by the university and at the mass -- appomattox historical park. topics include the surrenders of alabama and indian territory confederate immigration to brazil let the end of the war, and the war's legacy. this is about three hours. . i want to go ahead and introduce the first speaker for the morning. bert dunkerly is a historian, an award-winning author. he has a degree in history from st. vincent college and a masters in preservation. he has worked at nine different historic sites most recently am currently at the richmond national battlefield park. he has written two books and i think we have at least one of them in the for-sale bookstore his most recent one, "the most famous bridal" -- -- struggle" -- i grabbed the wrong one. what is the most recent one? "to the bitter end," which deals with the surrenders in north carolina. his talk today will be on the forgotten surrenders. since i did my dissertation on florida, i hope you might mention florida once or twice because it was one of the florida regiments tha

visit ncicap.org] [indistinct chatter] >> welcome back to longwood university. up next, we join our c-span cities tour on the road as they explore the history of cities around the country. >> alexandria contraband and treatment cemeteries served as the burial place for about 1800 african-americans who came here to escape bondage in the civil war. in january 1865, a group of black soldiers were disinterred from friedman cemetery and moved to a national cemetery nearby. the remains of those left behind were eventually forgotten and paved over. this is the story of the two cemeteries, and alexandria's efforts to reclaim the history of one of them. >> today, we are here at alexandria national cemetery, which is at the western edge of old town alexandria. many people have never heard of this national cemetery. in fact, alexandria national cemetery is one of the oldest in america. and older than arlington cemetery itself. one of the main reasons that we are here today is to be able to say that there is a u.s. color troops

announcer: american history tv recently visited longwood university. the program was cohosted by the university and appomattox court house national historic park. the part director talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments in 1864 in the final battle of 1865. he discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and disparity between the union and confederatefood and a munition. this talk is about an hour. >> i want to get started and introduce our first speaking -- first speaker of the evening. tracy chernault. we have programs out there, you can pick up the program. i

i mentioned when i talked at the park and appomattox in the early to mid 1970's, i would come to longwood on my days off. there was only one book published and that was in 1959. it was called "to appomattox." i remember after reading it and studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the army's got from here to there. this book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. when i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. his name was harold howard. he was the role of a former confederate soldier. i took the role of the union soldier. he and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. one of the areas that i was interested in was the battle of sailor's creek. sailor's creek became a state park in 1936. efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and have it become a national park. something happened, world war ii came along and the impetus was lost. after the war when things started looking up, there was a congressman who was from appomattox county and guess who got t

this is cosponsored by longwood university and appomattox court house national historic park. the battle for appomattox courthouse was the final engagement of the confederate armor of robert e lee and the army of northern virginia. live coverage here on c-span three. >> [inaudible] two books about the events here. you can have one of those books signed by william thompson. he can do that afterwards. i know casey will still be around if you have not had a chance to pick up one of their books and get it signed. i know john hennessy, we have a couple of his books as well, but afterwards everybody is usually in a rush to leave. i want to thank you for coming out and participating. i see many of you here today that were here friday evening. i think everything has run very smooth and well, and we hope you will come back next year. bring friends, as you can see we still have room in the auditorium for more people to come to our seminars. thank you very much. i look forward to seeing you at appomattox for the anniversary events or on the two are -- or on the tour in may. david, if you

and i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. cole and to patrick schroeder. i think you all ought to give them a round of applause. [applause] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mclean house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it is time for lunch, i believe. [laughter] one thing that is probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn't come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that had gathered before noon, april 7. and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army, that it might be best to suggest to generally that he open -- general lee that he open negotiations with general grant. the negotiations, a former that this could billion rector. he approached the general lee that day, but general lee would not hear of that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good man still in the ranks. general grant, most of the federal forces moved into farmville where we are now located by 1:30

this happened just before 4:00 on nevada road near longwood road. pg&e is trying to figure out if anyone's in danger. it's not clear of the extent of their injuries. >>> 7-eleven in daily city will be closed after a 70-year-old man smashed his suv right through the front of the store. this happened just before 9:00 this morning witnesses say the driver appeared confused. he was the only one hurt he was taken to the hospital, the store as you can see is trashed. >> the man who killed a san jose police officer tuesday night died fwra a bullet fired by a fellow police officer the police officer returned fire after officer michael johnson went down and killed gunman scott dunham. the officer who shot dunham is a veteran of the department. and he stood his ground during the exchange of gunfire. shooting dunham in the eye. police are saying the officers heroic actions may have saved more lives. >> so many people are expressing so much emotion about what happened to officer michael johnson, the flowers and messages of support are everywhere. and tonight bl

when ron retired, patrick took over working with longwood on the seminar. patrick has history degrees from shepherd college and from virginia tech. he worked as a seasonal employee at appomattox for a number of years and also at redhill patrick henry memorial, and historian at appomattox since 2002 and probably many of you know patrick has written many books relating to the campaign and other aspect of the war. he has done 30 minutes about lisa render. confederate cemetery at appetite. i think you could say his most important work is we came to fight, history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. you have to reenactments. he also helped to finish ryan cohan the book. vortex of hell is the correct title i think. the importance of war preservation trust. his talk today is the bottles of automatic final. the last to die. [applause] i know you're probably tired of seeing lee, tired of telling me what to do it what books to read. now i will give you the history roost and have done over the years. it is a little daunting. -- now i will give you the little his

live next saturday and sunday, march 14 and 15, at longwood university in virginia on american history-span 3. announcer: each week american history's reel america brings you films that tell the story of the 20th century. on bloody sunday, march 7, 1955, 600 civil rights activists were attacked with clubs in selma alabama. images of the members of the voting rights movement gained attention around the world. 8 days later on march 15 president lyndon johnson spoke to a joint session of congress asking for the introduction and passage of a voting rights la appealing for equal rights for all americansw and. now here is president johnson's entire 48 minute speech. president johnson: -- man: mr. speaker the president of the united states. [applause] [applause continues] [gavel pounds] president johnson: members of the congress i have the great pleasure the highest privilege and the distinguished and i might also say personal honor of presenting to you the president of the united states. [applause] [gavel pounds] president johnson: mr. speaker mr. president, members of the congress, i speak

be outside and a good book in center city, the buds are starting to peek out underground here at longwood gardens, one of the busiest days it has seen in a while and the sunshine is getting the credit. >> sometimes you get down in the when ter you forget when are you in there you totally forget. everybody goes out smiling. >> carol and linda are friends since junior high, they decided to celebrate their birthday with a preview of spring. >> we would join hands and skip but we would probably hurt ourselves. >> its it's busiest time of the year for the horticulture team. >> we are cleaning up and getting ready and cleaning up beds where the bulbs will come in. >> the himalayan blue poppies, it looks and smells like spring, gardening experts encourage you not to get too excited about this nicer weather. >> i encourage people don't go and buy plants yet for the annuals wait until the first of april even the 15th is not a bad idea. meanwhile carol and linda are taking in the taste of the spring. >> after this winter it feels it. hoping it is with them until the season takes holds. >> it smells

university and far more to, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war -- tv visited longwood university in virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war. his talk is just under one hour. >> our next's speaker, is michael gordon. he did a great presentation. amazing photographs. you will see more of them today. he grew up in richmond. working for the national park service. he has been a permanent ranger and historian and richmond national battlefield park since 2003. one thing he is well known for his his website, civil war richmond. i tell my students there are so much junk and garbage online in terms of civil war sources, this is one of the best websites relating to the civil war i have ever seen. i got a lot of good stuff from mike ross website. deftly go see -- mike's website. definitely go see that. he served as a technical advisor on the set of "lincoln." and is serving as an advisor for "free state jones," which is coming out with matthew mcconaughey. i yesterday got the magazine of virginia history and they are graffiti. there -- biography. the new issue is on

and we are live from longwood university in virginia for the civil war seminar, with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the war. sunday morning at 9:00, we continue live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find the complete schedule at c-span.org. e-mail us. send us a tweet. join the conversation. like us on facebook. >> the top u.s. general in south america briefed

when ron retired, patrick took over working with longwood on the seminar. patrick has history degrees from shepherd college and from virginia tech. he worked as a seasonal employee at appomattox for a number of years and also at redhill patrick henry memorial, and historian at appomattox since 2002 and probably many of you know patrick has written many books relating to the campaign and other aspect of the war. he has done 30 minutes about lisa render. confederate cemetery at appetite. i think you could say his most important work is we came to fight, history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. you have to reenactments. he also helped to finish ryan cohan the book. vortex of hell is the correct title i think. the importance of war preservation trust. his talk today is the bottles of automatic final. the last to die. [applause] i know you're probably tired of seeing lee, tired of telling me what to do it what books to read. now i will give you the history roost and have done over the years. it is a little daunting. -- now i will give you the little his

and saturday morning at 9:00 eastern, on american history tv on c-span3, we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. and sunday morning at 9:00 we continue our live coverage of the seminar with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> now it is a look at religion and politics from the american revolution through modern times. the danforth center on religion and politics at washington university in st. louis partnered with southern methodist universities center for presidential history to explore topics including religion and outsider candidates. the quote mormon moment, and energy politics. this is just over 90 minutes. >>> well my name is brian franklin.

announcer: american history tv recently visited longwood university. the program was cohosted by the university and appomattox court house national historic park. the part director talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments in 1864 in the final battle of 1865. he discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and disparity between the union and confederatefood and a munition. this talk is about an hour. >> i want to get started and introduce our first speaking -- first speaker of the evening. tracy chernault. we have programs out there, you can pick up the program. i will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. tracy is a native of appomattox. he has worked for the national park service. he has been at petersburg national battlefield since 1997. he is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. he is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. and the appomattox county historical society. his talk today will be on the fall of peter

university and far more to, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war -- tv visited longwood university in virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war. his talk is just under one hour. >> our next's speaker, is michael gordon. he did a great presentation. amazing photographs. you will see more of them today. he grew up in richmond. working for the national park service.

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bridge, a bridge which the americans never expected to find and announcer: american tv was live from longwoodniversity on a seminar of the closing of the civil war. it was cohosted by the university and the a pot of mocks courthouse national historian -- appomattox courthouse. the union's closing campaign. tomorrow, we'll be live again for more about the end of the civil war started at 9:00 a.m. on c-span 3. [applause]

and saturday morning at 9:00 eastern on american history tv on cspan3 we are live from longwood university in farmville virginia for the 16th annual civil war seminar talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. and sunday morning at 9:00 we continue our live coverage of the seminar with the remarks on the surrender confederacy. and find us on cspan.org and let us know about the programs you are watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or e-mail us at comments at c-span.org or join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> former maryland governor martin o'malley spoke about governing at the brooks institution. during that event he was asked about former secretary clinton's use of e-mail use. here is a look. >> i'm not an expert on federal requirements or state requirements and frankly i'm a little sick of the e-mail drama. but in our state, whether you used a personal e-mail or the public e-mail or a carrier pigeon, it was all a public record subject to disclosure and response. >> next, a look at emerging world markets with mexicanin vertor carlos elom who for

and saturday morning at 9:00 eastern when american history tv on c-span 3 we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. sunday morning at 9:00 we continue our live coverage of the seminar with the remarks of the surrender on the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete schedule at cspan.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us, e-mail us or send us a tweet at c-span #comments. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. this sunday on q&a dr. adrian burman director of the georgetown university center farmed out on how pharmaceutical companies influence doctors on what medications to describe. >> the promotion of a drug starts seven to ten years before a drug comes on the market and while it's illegal for a company to market a drug before it's been approved by the fda it's not illegal to market a disease. so drug companies have sometimes invented diseases or exaggerated the importance o

we come back to longwood university for more of today's seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. in just a few minutes on c-span3. in the meantime, we join our c-span cities to her -- tour on the road as they explore the history of cities across the country. books are welcome to the maine state archives. the crown jewel of the archive collection is housed in about this area. they represent as broad a holding of civil war records of any state, north or south. we have hundreds of thousands of documents here at the main state archives relating to the civil war. it's not the volume of the documents so much that is of importance to the nation, is the breath of what the information contained in those documents represents. it's across the spectrum of our society. their military documents, but the administration of the war rested with the northern governors in particular, and the union effort. and all of the information, all of the questions, all of the decisions they came in from maine at the time the civil war were made by the governor and in general, they kept the records pertaining

that is live next saturday and sunday, march 14 and 15th, at longwood university in bridget -- virginia. that is on american history tv on c-span3. >> all weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of galveston, texas. to learn more about the cities on our 2015 to or, visit sees ben.org/cities tour. we continue with our look at the history of galveston. this is american history tv on c-span3.

saturday morning at 9:00 eastern on american history tv, we're live from longwood university in form farmville, virginia. sunday morning at 9:00, we continue our live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 e-mail us or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> the democratic national committee released a report looking at why the party lost seats in the last midterm elections. the report says democrats do not have a single election strategy and should focus more on state and local races. florida congresswoman debby wasserman schultz is the chair of the dnc. she opened the meeting. >> i hearby call the 2015 winter meeting of the democratic national committee back into session from recess. the colors this morning will be presented by the call lawrence dun dunbar senior color guard. please rise for the colors. >> please join me in the pled

saturday morning at 9:00 eastern, on american history tv on c-span 3 we are live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for this extent annuals divorce seminar -- annual civil war seminar. sunday morning at 9:00, we continue our live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the integration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org. and let us know you think about the programs you are watching. call us at -- email us at -- or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us facebook, follow us on twitter. announcer: defense secretary ashton carter addressed servicemen and women at the u.s. cyber command in fort meade thanking them for their service and talking about assimilating what he called a new breed of warrior into the military kid answered questions about his priorities as rick perry of defense. the commander of u.s. cyber com and nsa director mike rogers introduced secretary carter. his remarks are 25 minutes. director rogers: ladies and gentlemen, the secretary of defense. thank you all very much for taking

we are live from longwood university and farmville virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. we continue our coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederate to brazil. find our complete schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you are watching. collis, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. -- call us, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. >> next, state environmental officials testified on the challenges and successes of the greenhouse gas emissions rules for power plants. this is close to two hours. >> we are going to be using it. whoever is here we will go by seniority. those who come in after the gavel we will get to them after everyone was already taken care of. with that i will make note of who is here. we will bring this meeting to order. it is great to have the panel. i think the most important thing is the state perspective because they are the ones who have to pay for all this stuff. we are here today with state officials. on the co2 regula

eastern, on american history tv on c-span3, we are live from longwood university and farmville, virginia waste 60 annual civil war seminar with authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. sunday morning at 9 a.m., we continue our live can -- live coverage with the immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule that c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. e-mail us at comments at c-span.org. send us a tweet. join the conversation, like us on facebook, like us on twitter -- follow us on twitter. >> keep track of the republican led congress and follow its new members through its first session. new congress, best access on c-span c-span2, c-span radio and c-span.org. hillary clinton spoke with reporters about her use of a private e-mail account while serving a secretary of state. she said her decision to use the account on one mobile device was out of "convenience" and that her 30,000 work-related e-mails will be made public she made the remarks after giving a speak on women's issues at the united nati

saturday morning at 9:00, on american history tv, we are live from longwood university in farmville, virginia for the 16th annual civil war seminar where authors talk about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1855. sunday morning we continue our live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the can that a receipt and the integration of confederates to brazil. find our complete schedule at c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> according to federal investigators, state ars agents have targeted more than 66,000 people with phone calls demanding payments and have cheated filers out of about $15.5 million stop on thursday they examine some of the latest scams and fraudulent activities being used against taxpayers. this hearing is an hour and a half. >> welcome. the committee will come to order. the committee meets to talk about growing criminal activity that is threatening taxpayers across the country. these criminal acts are perpetra

morning at my caught eastern on c-span3, we are on long road -- one would university in virginia -- longwood university. talking about the closing of the civil war in agency five. -- in 1865. we'll talk about the integration of confederates to brazil. cd: schedule on www.c-span.org and it let us know about the programs you are watching. e-mail us at comments at cspan.org. works and is a tweet. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. now the senate foreign relations committee here's the state defense, and treasury department officials on ordering ukraine in its conflict with russia. the ranking terminus at a letter to the president asking for an update on arming ukraine. the administration is nearly a month late with their reports to congress. from capitol hill, this is about two and a half hours. >> we will come to order. we will begin this hearing by expressing my condolences to the family and friends of boris nemtsov. the murder outside the kremlin fears -- seems to be an attempt to silence the critics of russia. nemtsov salt a better vision for his people,

saturday morning at 9:00 eastern, on american history tv on c-span3, we are live from longwood university for the civil would -- civil war seminar, talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. we continue our live coverage on the seminar on sunday at 9 a.m. find our complete schedule on cspan.org analytics know what you think about the programs you are watching us. call us, email us, or send us a tweet. joined the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> taking you live outside the home where jeb bush was making remarks tonight in dover, new hampshire. former governor expected to speak to the news media outside of the home of the former state gop. >> stay right where we are. [laughter] >> and if anybody needs to hold the microphone, do so from a distance so it is not blocking his face. >> no, he has been elected president of the gaggle. [laughter] >> okay, here he comes. jeb bush: i'm in the process of considering these things. point was, you can repeal obamacare and take elements of it that are appropriate with bipartisan support for the new one. fo

and we are live from longwood university in virginia for the civil war seminar, with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the war. sunday morning at 9:00, we continue live coverage with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find the complete schedule at c-span.org. e-mail us. send us a tweet. join the conversation. like us on facebook. >> the top u.s. general in south america briefed about the caribbean citizens who have joined the islamic extremist requests you made a comment people have gone from the caribbean. to syria. can you give us a little bit more where they are coming from what you think they are doing, and whether you have seen any indication they are trying to come back? >> like in our own country there is a small number reportedly that have gone -- radicalized one way or another in the west. larger numbers in western europe. i would suspect they will get good at, while they are in syria, killing. pick up job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings. everyone is concerned if they come home. one would e

and saturday morning at 9:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span 3 we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia for the 16th annual civil war seminar with historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. and sunday morning at 9:00 we continue our live coverage of the seminar with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. or send us a tweet tweet @c-span #comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >>> a discussion now on the nature of armed conflict. you'll hear from lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster who directs the army capabilities integration center and is involved in the recruitment and training of soldiers. he spoke last month at the international institute for strategic studies in washington, d.c. this runs an hour. >> i did. how's my hair, bob? >> can we begin? great. welco

and on saturday on cspan3 live from longwood university in farmville, virginia for the 16th annual civil war seminar and on sunday we continue the live coverage with the remarks on the sur render of the confederacy. find the schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or send us an e-mail at comments at c-span.org or follow us on facebook or twitter. >>> jack lew speaks to the house ways and means committee. this is just under three hours. >> the committee will come to order. welcome to the committee of ways and means hearing. this is not the agricultural hearing. welcome to the president aez's budget committee. our hearing room is under construction so this is temporary quarters for us so we're not used to the room. before we get started please be advised members may submit questions to be made part of the formal writing. and secretary lew has a hard stop at 1:00 and we'll run this tight but wherever we cut off we'll start with that member in the cue next time we pick up with the next hearing just to make sure to pla

saturday morning at 9:00 eastern on c-span3, we are live from longwood university in farmville, virginia. talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1855. sunday morning, we continue our live coverage of the seminar with remarks on thise surrender of the confederacy. find our complete television schedule at www.c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us, e-mail us or send us a tweet. joined the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> the supreme court hear oral argument of whether police can conduct a warrantless search of hotel guest registries. the case involves the city law that allows police to inspect guest logs and anytime without the need of a warrant. city officials say it is needed to allow police to invest the crimes like sex trafficking. the lower court sided with hotels and motels ruling there is an dictation of privacy under the fourth amendment. this is about one hour. >> argument first this morning in case 131175, the city of los angeles vs. patel. mr. rosenkranz. >> thank you, mr. chief justice .

and saturday morning at 9 eastern on american history tv on c-span3 we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar where historians and authors talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. and sunday morning at 9:00 we continue our live coverage of the seminar with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and the immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. or send us a tweet at c-span #comments. "like" us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> yesterday the senate armed services committee heard from navy sector ray mabus chief admiral jonathan greenert and dunford about the navy budget. john mccain of arizona chairs the armed services committee and rhode island democrat jack reed is ranking member. this is about two hours, 25 minutes. >> good morning. i want to welcome the witnesses. i thank you all for being here this morning. the committee meets to

eastern on american history tv on c-span3 we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar where historians and author ares talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. sunday morning at 9 a.m. we continue our live coverage of the seminar with remarks on the surrender of the confederacy and immigration of confederates to brazil. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 e-mail us at comments@c-span.org or send us a tweet at cc-span #comments. "like" us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> politico hosted states annual in washington, d.c., a series of interviews with various governors. you'll hear from bill has lamb and rick scott. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> thank you. >> thank you marty. thank you, second or third time bearing the elements to be here again. it's a really exciting lineup. we're lucky to start with governor haslam who -- >> how did i get that? record lows and you come in early. you won re-elec