here's a preview from ohio state university's michael benedict.ted at the tidal wave of invectives that greeted his opinion. the conservative republican "the new york times" blasted the court for throwing its influence into the scale of those who impugned the constitutionality of everything that was done to uphold it. the editor of "independent" called it the most dangerous opinion ever produced by the supreme court. it -- not call called only they but legal commentators criticized davis and the majority for having gone beyond the fact in the case. eager to go beyond the record, to lay down principles on which they would decide other questions not now before them, including the highest powers. that is from the american law reviewreview, which at that timd just been established. davis did not understand that in the time between the announcement of the decision of and themilligan, delivery of the opinion on december 17, 1866, the context of the case had entirely changed . it was no longer a civil liberties case. case. become a federalism >> what's t

american history to be on c-span3, this evening, before 7:00 eastern, ohio state university's michael benedict talks about the 1866 supreme court case, or they rolled it unconstitutional to track military personnel in court. >> it was part of this debate. publicd to prove to the that the danger was real and that therefore, the military trials were justified. know, it worked. won the election. >> and the 8:00, the origins of the gay-rights movement. >> the gay liberation front is playing and building on all of the lessons that the whole other array of social and cultural movement from this period are developing, the antiwar movement , the civil rights and black power movement, women's liberation movement. they are taking the best aspects of those in building upon them. >> sunday evening at 6:00 on american artifacts, the tour of the woodrow wilson house and washington, d.c., with the executive director, where the 20th president retired in 1821 and died three years later. >> he respond to that crisis by sending aid to armenia. the people are grateful and a group of armenian women raising money f

to cut the short because i could talk for several minutes but i would prefer we listen to michael les benedict. [applause] michael: thank you for that lovely introduction, roger. as roger says, we go back a long time and i really cannot express the great affection which i developed for him as a young guy when we were both together. i want to thank the sponsors of this conference, of course stewart winger for organizing it. it has been a pleasure to be here. i want to thank those of you who participated, both as analysts and speakers and those in the audience, because one of the beauties of conferences like this is you learn things. one of the downsides, you have to insert what you learned in a paper a few weeks ago and disrupted and katie make it too long, and worry that you have not -- but it is a pleasure to be able to contribute some thoughts of my own to the case of ex parte milligan in american history. in the summer of 1866, bloomington's david davis, associate justice of the supreme court appointed by his longtime friend abraham lincoln, was hard at work in the study of his farmhouse at

free c-span radio app. >> this weekend, on c-span 3, saturday evening, ohio state university's michael benedictut the 1866 supreme court case where the court ruled it unconstitutional to try civilians and military courts. >> the milligan trial was part of this debate. publicd to prove to the and the danger was real military trials were justified. know, it worked. ofcoln won the election 1864. >> at 8:00, the origins of the gay rights movement. >> playing on and building on all of the lessons the whole other array of social and cultural minutes from this period are developing. the antiwar movement, the black power movement, women's liberation movement. 6:00,saturday evening at -- on sunday evening at 6:00, we take it to her of the woodrow wilson house -- a tour of woodrow wilson house in washington, d c >> he sent food aid to armenia. the armenian people were very grateful. a group of armenian women were here in 1917 just after we declared war and presented this painting to president wilson. --at 8:00 ♪ of the campaign group incorporated talks about the history of presidential campaign ads. comp

next, ohio state university benedict michael les delivers the history of ex parte milligan. this is part of a two day conference hosted by illinois state university. i am going to use the lectern for just a minute. thank you very much. pleasure to know our speaker tonight for more years than probably either of us would like to admit. when he was one of the brightest young graduate students at the university of illinois, where we both were heiman, under harold

american history tv on c-span3, saturday evening just before 7:00 eastern, ohio state university's michael benedictks about the 1866 supreme court case, ex-party milligan, where the court ruled unconstitutional to try civilians in military courts while civilian court are operating. >> the milligan trial was part of this debate, designed to prove to the public, that the danger was real and therefore the military trials were justified. , and as we know, it worked. lincoln won the election of 1864. >> @ite, george washington university professor chad heath on the origins of the gay rights movement. >> gay liberation frond is playing on and building on all the lessons the whole other array of social and cultural movements from this period are developing. antiwar movement, the civil rights and black power movement, women's liberation movement. they're taking the best aspects of those and building upon them. >> sunday evening at 6:00 on american artifacts we take a tour of the woodrow wilson house in washington, d.c., with the executive director, robert enholm where the 28th president retired and died ei

next, ohio state university professor michael les benedict delivers the history of ex parte milligan. this is part of a two day conference hosted by illinois state university.

on american history tv, saturday evening, just before 7:00 eastern, ohio state university's michael less benedict talks about the 1866 supreme court case, where the court ruled unconstitutional to try civilians. >> the milligan trial was part of this debate. designed to prove to the public that the danger was real. and that therefore, the military trials were justified. and as we know, it worked. lincoln won the election of 1864. >>> and at 8:00, george washington professor, on the origins of the gay rights movement. >> gay liberation front is playing on and building on all of the lessons that the whole other array of social and cultural movements from this period are developing. the anti-war movement, the civil rights and black power movement. women's liberation movement. they're taking the best as spegt speg -- aspects and building upon them. >>> and then 6:00, woodrow wilson house, executive director, robert enholm, where the president retired in 1921 and died three years later. >> the armenian people were very grateful and raising money for amin y armenian charities, and presented this painti

history tv on c-span3, saturday evening just before seven eastern ohio state university's michael les benedict talks about the 1866 supreme court case where the court ruled it unconstitutional to try civilians in military courts while civilian courts are operating. .. building on all of the lessons of social and cultural movement from this time period are developing the antiwar movement, the civil rights and black power movement, women's liberation movement, they are seeking best aspects of those in building on those. >> sunday evening at six on american artifacts we take a tour of the woodrow wilson house in washington d.c. with the executive director where the 28th president retired retired in 1921 and died three years later. >> he responded to that crisis by sending food aid to armenia. the armenian people were very grateful and a group of armenian women during the united states were here in 1917, just after we declared war, and presented this painting to president wilson. >> at 8:00 p.m. >> you like ike, i like ike, everybody likes ike. >> neil oxman, president of the campaign group inc. t

american history tv on c-span3, saturday evening just before 7:00 eastern ohio state university's michael les benedict talks about the 1866 supreme court case where the court ruled it unconstitutional to try civilians in military courts while civilian courts are operating. >> the milligan trial was part of this debate, designed to prove to the public that the danger was real, and that therefore, the military trials were justified. and as we know, it worked. lincoln won the election of 1864. >> and at 8:00, george washington university professor chad heath on the origins of the gay rights movement. >> the gay liberation front is playing on and building on all of the lessons that the whole other array of social and cultural movements from this period are developing, the anti-war movement, the civil rights and black power movement, women's liberation movement. they're taking the best aspects of those and building upon them. >> sunday evening at 6:00 on "american artifacts" we take a tour of the woodrow wilson house with its executive president robert enholm. >> he responded to the crisis sending food aid

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