interesting stories that has a current nature to it is the story of the tracy family here in macon, georgiahe is replicated on this sign here talks about his life and he was a brigadier general and buried here in rose hill. his father was the second mayor of macon in 1825 and actually hosted general lafayette when he came through macon at about that same time in 1825 red but the family was originally from new york and edward tracy junior had a brother and he was a major in the confederate army and fighting with generally and virginia and he was killed. and it hurts about how this worked. so francis tracy, the cousin came down and found the body and dress him up like a federal officer and there was a lot of hostility on both sides about the enemies. and all of a sudden there was a brouhaha about a confederate officer being buried there and some say that he is the only officer, confederate officer buried above the mason dixon line. but it's interesting that all of a sudden this thing that happened 150 years ago would engender such discussions and debate and research. it was a fascinating time

the interesting stories that has a current nature to it is the story of the tracy them here in macon, georgia junior talks about his life. he was killed at vicksburg. he was a brigadier general and is buried here in rose hill. his father was the second mayor of macon in 1825, and actually hosted general lafayette when he came through macon at about the same time, 1825. but the tracy, was originally from new york, and edward tracy junior had a brother by the name of -- and he was a major in the army, confederate army and fighting with the generally up in virginia. at the battle of sharpsburg he was killed. even though the confederate army won the day, they had to retreat across the river and the union army had the field. well, the tracy family from batavia new york heard about the battle and heard about him being killed. so francis tracy, the cousin, thing down, found the body, dressed him up like a -- as a federal officer and transported his body back to batavia, new york, and buried him very quietly because of course during the middle of this war there was a lot of hostility on both sides ab

this weekend in may macon, georgia.audible] .. >> those five weeks of demonstratis this 1963 were based on seven years of work that shuttlesworth had done in birmingham battling segregation and, of course, the commissioner of public safety who's an eye to con of southern resistance to integration, bull connor. and so there was a great deal of drama leading up to in those latter years of the '50s and first couple of years of the '60s, and it was shuttlesworth who invited, in fact, insisted that king come to birmingham. and it took a while for king to decide to do that, but he finally did in '63 coming to the same opinion about birmingham that shuttlesworth did, that as, as segregation went in birmingham, so it would go in the nation. because birmingham was well known as the most segregated city in the south and the one most committed to maintaining segregation. >> you can never whip these birds if you don't keep you and them separate. i found that out. you've got to keep the whites and the blacks separate. >> in 1958 con

1848. >> your talking about william and ellen graf to are a couple who were enslaved here in macon, georgia. they're road in narrative in 1860 and was published, running a thousand miles to freedom. standing in front of the home in which alan craft was slave. on the plantation, united because williams honor had taken out a loan. he did not have the money. so he mortgaged the slaves in order to get the money. when the bill came three could not pay it. so the slaves were sold by a bank. the same owner that had bought palin but william perry said they ended up on the plantation together. they were married, but they knew that, as allen said, she did not want have children while she was slave because she knew what would happen to those kids. she said they could not take it. we get this portrait of allen and william who was supportive they wanted a normal life. they wanted the same kind of life to you and i had. they were denied that because of the laws slavery. that generated an incessant desire, unquenchable thirst to leave and to get out of the state of georgia and to leave the south. in 1848

. >> next weekend a look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia, including a stop at the aviation museum at robins air force base on c-span2 and three. >> here's a look at the top 10 best selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. >> that's a look at the top 10 best selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. >> women's history for beginners is the booktv bookclub selection for the month of february. go to booktv.org, you'll see right at the top, a tab this is bookclub and you can participate in our discussion at booktv.org. we will be posting video and reviews and articles up there tomorrow. so the discussion will begin tomorrow. we will also be posting on a regular basis discussion questions. hope you can participate. bonnie morris is women history for beginners is our february 2014 book club selection on booktv. >> it begins with a begin an important sense but it begins with the question of the relationship with nature to politics. they would both claim that their political views are based in an idea that politics have an answer to nature

for more information on booktv's recent visit to macon, georgia, and many other cities we visited our local content vehicle, go to c-span.org/localcontent. .. as well as work on this book. i might as well mention that we started dating shortly to mess meeting here and now we work together. so hopefully this meaning does is cause that that one day. [laughter] though if it does say could be a little trouble later at home. [laughter] the book is "a curious madness: an american combat psychiatrist, , a japanese war crimes suspect, an unsolved mystery from world war ii. i'm going to work my way back from the psychiatrist in the war crimes suspect in an touch on the mystery just a little bit more at the hand and take any questions you may have. should you bother the nuremberg trials that followed world war ii, but you might not be aware there were several trials in japan after the war. because of the tokyo tribe. some people refer to them as japan's nÜrnberg. there were 28 classy defendants who are part of the tokyo tribe. these were former prime ministers, heads of state, military leaders.

macon is located right in the middle of the state of georgia. one of our claims to fame is that we are about six miles from being geographically center so we are real easy to find. i would say that macon's location and participation in the civil war are significant. there are a lot of stores but one of my favorites is a house known as the cannonball house. believe it or not, during the war, when general wilson's army was trying to decide whether or and burn it oron to go around, there was an artillery fight that ensued. there are two different versions of the story as you might imagine. one version is we fought them off. the other version is they decided we were not worth their time and trouble. the essence of it is that while they were shelling the city, cannonball literally hit the sidewalk in front of the cannonball house and the cannonball did not explode. instead, it down stand landed on the front porch and rolled through the front door of the house which was standing open and accountable house is still there and is a museum today and attrac

>> this weekend, booktv and american history tv look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia, saturday at noon on c-span 2 and sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span 3. >> next, a discussion on what can be done to improve cyber security based on a framework released this week by the national institute of standards and technology. the framework stems from an executive order signed by president obama in february of last year. it aims to provide voluntary guidelines that companies can take in making themselves less susceptible to cyberattacks. the discussion is two and a half hours. >> good morning. i'm walter mccormick, the president and ceo of the united states telecome association and i want to thank you for braving the snow to attend our event. we have been glued to our television sets for the last couple of days watching weather reports, somewhat uncertain whether or not we would be able to be here this more than. so i'm grateful itself worked outside so we can have this important discussion before the release of the cybersecurity framework which the white house announced on wednesd

host: we hope you'll tune in this weekend as we had to macon, georgia.ou can catch all of our programming at c-span.org. our look at macon, georgia this weekend on book tv and american history tv. mining us from new york is perrez, who is the deputy director of the brennan center for justice. felons whoing about have served their time and whether they should have the ability to vote in elections. this is what eric was to last week. [video clip] state leaders and elected officials across the country to pass clear and consistent reforms to restore the voting rights of all who have served their terms in prison or jail and we did their parole or probation and paid their fines. [applause] i call upon experts and legislators to stand together in overturning an unfortunate and out dated status quo. people,pon the american who overwhelmingly oppose felony disenfranchisement to join us. bring about the end of misguided policies that unjustly restrict the most basic rights of american citizenship. those who have already shown leadership in raising awareness to hel

,. >> this weekend, booktv and american history tv looked behind history and literary life of macon, georgia, today at noon on c-span2 and sunday at 5 p.m. on c-span3. >> u.s. special envoy to sudan and salsa dance donald booth called a civil conflict in south sudan devastating with the roots of the problem run deep. is one of the panelists at the africa center for strategic studies discussion on the violence that erupted in south sudan in december. the vote was made possible by the copper is a peace agreement of 2005 which ended over two decades of civil war between the government of sudan and rebels in the south. this is just under two and a half hours. >> it's my pleasure to welcome you, national defense university and the africa center roundtable discussion on south sudan charting a path -- [inaudible] microphone. >> we've been doing this for 18 years. and i think we have become an honest broker and good friend of our african partners, and certainly within the office of secretary of defense. we have achieved a level of support and recognition for that level of support for the strategy an

had laid out ond the engineers simply wove the angled road into the the -- into the lieout be macon, georgia. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2014] >> three-time pulitzer prize winner thomas friedman was interviewed by marvin kalb. this is part of the series co-hosted by george washington university and harvard university. >> the kalb report is funded by a grant from the ethics and excellence in journalism oundation. >> from the national press club in washington, d.c., this is the kalb report with marvin kalb. [applause] >> hello and welcome to the national press club and to another edition of the kalb report. i'm marvin kalb and tonight a conversation with "new york times" columnist thomas riedman about freedom. over the past 20 years i've had the pleasure, indeed the privilege, of speaking with some of the best journalists in the country. some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in

and the engineer simply wove the angled road into the layout of macon, georgia. weekend, american history tv look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia. saturday at noon on c-span-2. and sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span3. house democrats are holding their annual retreat in cambridge, maryland. party leaders spoke to reporters about the policy areas they are discussing at the conference, including the economy, raising the minimum wage, and extending unemployment insurance. this is 35 minutes. >> we just had a great welcome from the governor of the great state of maryland, martin o'malley. we had a wonderful presentation by a couple of economists who talked to us about building an economy that works for all americans. that's what we're here to to do for the next two and a half days, talk about how we reward work, how we provide economic security to all americans, how we make sure that the economy of tomorrow works for everyone. not just some, but for everyone. how we return to those days when we really could say to our children, the american dream is

. >> this weekend, a look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia and the aviation museum, saturday at noon on c-span2. >> the context here is that lee enjoys a reputation in the modern day as someone who counseled acceptance and submission and resignation to the situation. and that has always struck me as -- it's a series that doesn't add up in the sense that we know lee was the most prestigious man in the south and we know the south didn't submit to the political will of the north. confederates began to contest the northern understanding of the meaning of the war and peace and plans for reconstruction and contested them through political means and violent means. and what i found is that in the eyes of confederates, lee was not a symbol of submission but unbowed pride and kind of measured defiance. >> rethinking grant and lee, saturday night at 10:00 eastern and sunday morning at 11:00, part of a three-day presidents' day weekend on american history tv. >> the senate voted to raise the federal debt ceiling without conditions. ae senate nearly approved motion to advance th

we focus on macon, georgia this weekend. for more information, go to our website.hefacebook page has a pull we are asking folks to participate in. 168 people saying you joe biden shouldn't run for president, 38 people saying yes. albert from long creek, south carolina, independent line. hello. let me push the button. caller: good morning. i think joe biden is probably the best vice president in my lifetime. he doesn't get credit for all the things he does. i voted for .iden hillaryprefer him to but i am not sure he could win. americans focus on emotions rather than qualifications. is not's problem washington, it is americans. host: when you are thinking about if he runs for president, what do you think he runs to the office? -- he brings to the office? caller: experience. he knows the players, he knows how things work, he knows how to beenhings done, he's around internationally. i don't think he gets the credit he would deserves -- he deserves. some viewers say it is a disadvantage being in washington all too long. caller: it is. and notote on emotion on the qualif

. >> this weekend to look beyond history and literary life of macon, georgia, including a stop at the aviation museum at robins air force base saturday at noon on c-span2 and sunday at 5 p.m. on c-span3. >> the new c-span.org website gives you access to an incredible library of political events with more added each day through c-span's nonstop coverage of national politics, history, and nonfiction books. find a c-span's daily coverage of official washington or access more than 200,000 hours of archived c-span video. everything sees been discovered since 1987, at our video is all searchable and viewable on your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone. just look for the prominent search bar at the top of each page. the new c-span.org makes it easy to watch what's happening today in washington, and find people and events from the past 25 years. it's the most comprehensive video library in politics. >> the heritage foundation monday hosted what they called the heritage conservative policy summit. congressman jeb hensarling, chairman of the house financial services committee looked at a gat

this weekend, both tv and american history tv look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgiaturday at noon on c-span2. and sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span3. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome to our table brigham mccown, the former acting administrator of the pipeline safety administration. keystone pipeline. where are we with it? it is still in process, and is pretty much the same place we have been for the last several years. the state department came out a few weeks ago with the fifth environmental study, project, and that way we keep moving. host: what are they saying on january 31 when they release this latest study? guest: they set a couple different things. number one, for the proponents of it what they heard was no significant adverse environmental impact and it was likely to create 42,000 jobs. and other ways of transporting the oil would be less safe. what opponents heard from it was there is still enough wiggle room for the president to deny the project and, unlike a lot of noironmental assessments, real clear answer was given as far as an en

the engineers simply wove the angled road into the layout of macon georgia.to homeland security officials join the delaware secretary for environment and energy to discuss the need for states to have plans to deal with extreme weather events. this testimony came before the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee wednesday. it's an hour and 45 minutes. >> welcome one and all. it's great to see her witnesses and it's great to be here with senator johnson and i will call this hearing to order. i appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. i'm glad we are having the hearing today and tomorrow because of we were having it tomorrow we may not be having a hearing. today's hearing as you know is focused on the cost of not being prepared for extreme weather events and explain the ways that our federal government can increase efficiency in our communities and save money in the long-haul. we have deficits coming down. they are still too much but down from $1.4 trillion from four years ago and this year they are expected to be down only $55

this weekend become tv and american history tv look lined and literary life of macon, georgia. at tphraonoon on c-span 2 and on c-span 3. >> one of the things that we is physical dangers think is what ys keeps me up at night when i think about what can happen next. and i wonder what your greatest a physical attack here in our country. general? >> i just would answer it by two things. on the cyber side i think an ttack against our critical infrastructure that would have potential damaging fact in our ransportation healthcare clearly financial is an area we have to pay very close attention to. energy sector. on the kinetic side there is a things that keep me up at night. attacks what ike appened in the mall in nairobi and during the boston marathon, those are the things that we have to continue to work in the intelligence community to make sure we are working as seamlessly as to share everything we the national with side but federal, state, local and travel level. -- that is really an important aspect of what we are trying to do in the community.e >> this weekend on c-span the se

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. >> this weekend booktv and american history tv look beyond the history and literary life of macon georgia, on c-span2 end c-span3. [inaudible conversations] >> more from savannah in a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> which is to say colleges this year in particular are starting to see fire resistance. people are thinking very hard about what did they want to spend 50, $60,000 a year and up. when people find out what to wish in is i can't believe how expensive it is compared to last year or five years ago. they are not seeing that as good especially when financed by debt. a lot of colleges are dealing with some growth price discrimination, that is what financial aid really is, price discrimination, how much can you afford to pay, that is the price for you because i like you. that is what is going on. you are seeing some schools having their credit rating downgraded by moody's's because moody's look at high tuition and high expenses and doesn't think it is sustainable. you are seeing enrollment drop across the board, lots of schools and within colleges you are seeing humanities on

. >> this weekend, a look behind the history and litary life of macon, georgia, including a stop at the aviation museum at rob bins air force base, saturday at noon on c-span2, and sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span3. >> south carolina senator tim scott was one of the featured speakers monday at the heritage foundation's conservative policy summit. he addressed education policy and the importance of school choice programs after his opening remarks, the senator participated in a discussion with panelists on that topic. >> maybe one of the most destructive myths of liberalism that the government understands a child's needs better than his or her parents do. american citizens pay taxes to fund an education system that fails millions of students each year. no one disputes that a true education is the antidote to some of the most serious problems playinging the under privileged -- plaguing the underprivileged youth of this country. what we dispute with the support of evidence is the educational process can be squeezed into a one-size-fits-all national mold. different kids have different needs and

history tv look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia. saturday at noon on c-span2 and unday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span3. >> a discussion now on the potential benefits to constructing the keystone xl pipeline from today's "washington journal. , the former acting administrator of the pipeline safety administration. keystone pipeline. where are we with it? it is still in process, and is pretty much the same place we have been for the last several years. the state department came out a few weeks ago with the fifth environmental study, project, and that way we keep moving. host: what are they saying on january 31 when they release this latest study? guest: they set a couple different things. number one, for the proponents of it what they heard was no significant adverse environmental impact and it was likely to create 42,000 jobs. and other ways of transporting the oil would be less safe. what opponents heard from it was there is still enough wiggle room for the president to deny the project and, unlike a lot of noironmental assessments, real cle

this weekend, look behind the history and literary life of macon, georgia, including deviation museumturday at noon. -- aviation museum. "washington journal" continues. host: we are joined by steve king. we want to get right to a headline in several of the papers today on the delay that was announced for some businesses under the affordable care act. here's the headline from the washington giants. obama changes health-care rolls again. -- rules again. a one-hour speech on this topic last night. when the president takes an oath that ise, implicit in the requirement that he take care that the laws be faithfully executed. it is a violation of the constitution for the president to fail to enforce the laws unless you're within the category of prosecutorial discretion. when the president refuses to enforce the laws that were signed by previous president, that is a constitutional violation. i don't think we have ever had a president that refuses to abide by the law that he signed, let alone the law that has his name on it. this is a breathtaking overreach of the president and the congress is

. >> this weekend booktv and american history tv look beyond the history and literary life of macon georgia, on c-span2 end c-span3. [inaudible conversations] >> more from savannah in a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> which is to say colleges this year in particular are starting to see fire resistance. people are thinking very hard about what did they want to spend 50, $60,000 a year and up. when people find out what to wish in is i can't believe how expensive it is compared to last year or five years ago. they are not seeing that as good especially when financed by debt. a lot of colleges are dealing with some growth price discrimination, that is what financial aid really is, price discrimination, how much can you afford to pay, that is the price for you because i like you. that is what is going on. you are seeing some schools having their credit rating downgraded by moody's's because moody's look at high tuition and high expenses and doesn't think it is sustainable. you are seeing enrollment drop across the board, lots of schools and within colleges you are seeing humanities on

macon, up to 2 inches of ice. it extends all the way down through central georgia on into the carolinas. continues up into south carolina. this is going to cause power outages, major airport delays. we're telling people stay off the roads. as the system continues up the coast, if you look at this blue line in the futurecast, that's the rain/snow line, the freezing rain/snow line. and depending on where this is going to set up, we could be looking at massive amounts of snow. and, in fact, we're going to be continuing to tweak these amounts as we go on during the day, over the next 24 hours. an inch in atlanta, 8 inches in charlotte. as we get to the north, washington, d.c., possibly seven inches to a foot, brian. and some areas even to the north and west of that, up to a foot and a half of snow. >> this is going to be a tough one. we'll stay on it. we'll see you in the morning. >> yes, sir. >> al roker, thanks for being here with us tonight. >>> now to these games. and while you will see some of this in prime time coverage tonight, this next result was blasted around the world as urgent n

macon. it's white on the ground already. georgia's governor is declaring this time it will be different. and 40 counties in the state. something he did not do last time, declaring a state of emergency. >> we are make every effort to be repaired for these events and i -- to be prepared for these events. i will say we should use extreme caution. we are trying to make sure our resources for treating our roadways have been restocked and they are located in places where we think they will be. bill: that's governor nathan deal. he will talk to us in 2 minutes about getting another shot at this. the snow is on the ground as we just mentioned deep into southern georgia. martha: this news this morning. iconic child actress shirley temple black. she died in her san francisco home. she was surround bid her family. -- she was surrounded by her family. she started her career at 7 years old. she became a top box office draw. ♪ i'm the good ship lollipop ♪ it's a sweet trip to a candy shop ♪ ♪ where bon-bons play on the sunny beach of peppermint bay. martha: i don't think any child star has come close

. >> up next, for which both tvs recent trip to macon, georgia. >> when i was in graduate school, a couple of things. southern history and a minor in women's studies. i was interested in the way in which none can add cream about order. and the late 80s, early 90s about women as passive phase. i was curious about something women he supported the war effort and talked about war. it was a meeting to this talk. one of my authors, alan pascale who was again a popular southern writer from virginia said what the southern literature needs is blood to near ash irony to be owed to write about its most recent past. the ones who participated in the shared effort to create a version of the confederate war experience, even in the postwar brand names, as in a 22nd third generations, right with support for the confederacy. most on the war is just. there were a few women who sold what i would claim as distinctly separate stories that the war are passive phase. late 1890s turn-of-the-century kamal and glasco wrote three books. she did them in the reverse order so she wrote one on the populist movement of th

. >> next week in a look behind history and literary life of macon, georgia, including a stop at the aviation museum at robins air force base on c-span2 and three. >> by which a trust iran? this is not a question of trust. this is a question of finding a way to stop them from doing that. one way to stop that is to get rid of all the enrichment facilities, so-called tier option. that would be ideal. you raise it to the ground, salted and make sure they can never do it again. we could've had to give back in 2003 when iran first came to us when they weren't operating anything. we could've had that deal in 2005 when you have a few hundred spinning, attest authority. they actually proposed talks with attorney. we were not interested at that point. under the bush administration and vice president dick cheney said we don't negotiate with people. but he was you were going to topple these are oppressive regimes in they would like one after another. that strategy didn't work out so well. we didn't talk with the rain. iran build centrifuges by the end of the push of administration, and they're