might be , familiar with mcpherson square and mcpherson station. they were named after this gentleman. i have a picture -- i have authentic notes of most of these fellows. but the real banknotes i only have pictures of. the rare banknotes i will show these over run the table a little bit later today. here is winfield scott on an interest-bearing note. there were two or three types of notes that were issued during this period, really to help finance the war, and they were interest-bearing, 3% for five years, this sort of thing. they could also be used for legal tender. but you can see there is a coupon remaining there that can be torn off and you can get your annual interest on that note. but that is a very valuable note. a rather handsome portrait of sherman is on the $500 treasury note, which was, unfortunately never issued. , it is only available in proof. farragut is on the $100 note. this is called a watermelon note for obvious reasons. the decoration of the two zeros. these notes turned out to be relatively easy to counterfeit. because of the

houses in arkansas city, coolidge, dodge, emporia, florence, kinsley, lincoln, lyons, ottawa,er, mcpherson syracuse, topeka, wellington, wichita. >> are there any parts left? stephen: sure. what is happening now is those places where the depots were not knocked down people are reclaiming them. there is federal money to do that. in dodge city the old harvey house is a dinner theater funded by the federal government because they save the train station. there are buildings all over kansas, some in missouri, all through texas, in california, arizona, new mexico being reclaimed. there are three running as harvey restaurants and hotels we did have a similar experience, ,afond in santa fe, la pasata the last trackside hotel where you can walk up the train and sit down and have a meal, and all those hotels at the grand canyon on the south rim are the original fred harvey run hotels. bright angel, down at the bottom of the grant canyon. mary coulter designed them. fred harvey ran those. they run the same today as they did them. the company owns the fred harvey name and the fred harvey properties. a

i will turn to mcpherson for a cogent discussion. 95% of the country's black people lived in the slave states. the implications of this, for the economy and social institutions, are obvious. this is what montgomery is talking about sharpening hatreds. white supremacy in the south is so much greater as to constitute a different order of magnitude to contribute any more factor to differences between the north and south. the fear that slavery was being hemmed in and threatened with distruction added to an aggressive style of behavior before the civil war. that is not to venerate one side and demonize the other. that is not the point. the point is that the civil war, two different visions of what the united states is and can be have met on the battlefield. they are symbolized by grant and lee. what are these visions? i will put them succinctly for you. lee, harking back to the postcolonial period, patrician, agrarian, insular. don't get involved in a foreign alliances. washington's dictum to the new country. grant's and lincoln's? the manifesto for this was issued at lincoln's second inaug

of the mcpherson freed group. and the author of the war i always wanted welcome it is good to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> so we listen to the president say we will tip haren we start dodd you believe that? >> uh-huh. >> well, i don't know. we have an obligation, to make sure that afghanistan doesn't fall into the problem that iraq has had. but at the same time, a very septemberful we can solve in two years what we couldn't solve in 14. >> when you heard the news today that troops will stay in afghanistan, past the time when president obama is there, to the next president, what did you think. >> i find it kit effort haens that we are still doing this. look, the issue is that the afghan government wants us to stay there. two military wants us to stay there, and most of the people do. so it's an awful feeling when you pull out of a place and you see it overrun by isis, or by the taliban. but we have to ask yourselves ultimately, is this making us more safe, are our -- does this serve our interests and d