and as we're so dedicated to this historic swath from g gettysburg to monticello, would like to open it to about your insight and thoughts about this landscape and how it inspires us. >> i thought you were going to ask something different, which is why i didn't write this book while i lived in waterford. as the crow flies, are we 15 miles from harper's ferry? i had to move to massachusetts before i got -- great book in my backyard, in my former backyard. yeah, i mean, well speaking to this subject at least, first of all, i wrote confederates in the attic because of what happened 15 yards from here when reenactors sum belled into my front yard in waterford because they were reenacting for a movie here because it's such a great historic landscape. but with this book i think part of what -- drew me to write about it is that harper's ferry is still so intact, really. it's this incredible mix of natural beauty and historical hauntedness, really, but even more specifically the sites associated with brown with still there. so you can go to the kennedy farm where brown and his gur ril la ban

the topic in general by her prior work at monticello as director of interpretation. her new book, enslaved in the white house, paul jennings and the madisons is receiving great acclaim. most impressively beth has stared down jon stewart on "the daily show" with an irony-free performance. please join me in welcoming l elizabeth dowelling taylor. [ applause ] >> paul jun dimension knew lafayette square like the back of his hand. he lived in the white house when it was the only structure facing the square, then known as president's square. born on james madison's virginia plantation, he served as a footman during the madison administration. during the war of 1812 helps dolly madison rescue the iconic portrait from british forces. after 20 years back on the plantation where he was body servant to the ex-president, jennings returned to the square with the widow dolly madison show had a square on the nooeft corner where she would live out her widow hood like a queen presiding over a secondary court to the white house. jennings, her butler and couch man would have a second

near southgate and monticello avenues.inveetigators say they set up the sting after residents complained about men parking on residdntial streets to ennage ii sexual activiiy. the suspects face misdeeeanor charges. some altimooe hooeowners are still being stung by skyrocketing water bills. this woman who lives in edmondson illage... received a water bill for nearly 700- three months. emma anthony... says she paid the bill ... fearing if she didn't... her water would be cut off. the city bllmes understaffinn... and in many cases... ttey had to "estimate" water bblls. but anthony... says she's still in a state of shock... after receiving her new bill... which is even higher. 680 dollars? now, 960 188 to - dollars...that don't make any s" sense." city officials say they're taking steps to correct inaccuratt water bills. going green one mega--att at a time. the city is unveiling a new solar powered system at thh "bacc river waste water treatment plant" this morning. joel d. smith is there now toosee how much green energy this will produce. good morning joel d. 3 3 3 proof today that animals

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but it is amazing, for example, to go to mount vernon or monticello and hear grown-up visitors saying they're surprised to find that neither jefferson nor george washington had indoor plumbing or electricity. so when you come to an indoor room like this, people might say why would they have two fireplaces, and that begins to open up the realities of that earlier time. we forget how much more difficult life was then, how much more inconvenient, un comfortable, closer to the vagaries of nature and the hardships of living in a rough climate such as maine because we're so insulated from the facts of life as they knew them. we're insulated from the cold, the heat. we're protected by wonderful drugs, medicines. we don't have to worry much about epidemic disease the way they did. we don't have to get up at 5:00 in the morning to start the fire to make the breakfast. we don't have to saddle our own horse or go out and take care of the stock. we don't have to leave the premises for the call of nature. we're softies compared to people of that time. when you realize all that they had to do just

shea is professor of history at the university of arkansas at monticello. a native of louisiana. he has a b.a. from louisiana state university. and a ph.d. from rice university. shea has been a fullbright scholar in china, consultant for the national park service and battlefield guide for the smithsonian institution. he is also author or co-author of numerous books and articles on american military history. specially the civil war west of the mississippi river. his most recent book is field of blood, the prairie grove campaign from the university of north carolina press. it received the fletcher-pratt award of the new york civil war roundtable for the best book published on the civil war in 2010. and the j.g. ragsdale award of the arkansas historical association for the best book published on arkansas history that year. among his other books are pea ridge, which we are here tonight to hear excerpts from, civil war campaign in the west, university of north carolina press, vicksburg is the key, the struggle for the mississippi river, university of nebraska press, and the virginia m

historical society, the national trust for historic press evaluation, the new york historical society, monticello, public libraries in general. i do as much as i can to support, help, make known the opportunities presented by public libraries but also the responsibility communities have to spurpt them. i'm an honor rather member for a big drive now for the pittsburgh carnnagey library, which was the first public library i ever went to. i owe so much to libraries. i owe so much to the library of congress that i will do what i can to help the library of congress for as long as i can. host: you've probably given henry knox more pub blissity than anybody, wouldn't you say? guest: i guess that's right. host: but i was told this house got 14,000 visitors in the last year. that's relatively small. but a lot of libraries, visitors are going down. the new lincoln library is way up. but what advice do you have for a place like this located on route 1 in maine, easy to see, mount pleer, to get people to come here and bring it to life? guest: to encourage everyone who does come here to tell other people that

she is getting married on june 2nd at her home in monticello, california. at the same time celebrating she is having a baby girl. >> that's nice. justin timberlake there's discussion about whether or not he will get married. >> jessica beil is on a direct hunt she went on a 7 hour shopping trip where she stopped at places like ellie saab and they checked out a restaurant for a potential wedding venue. >> they always get the prewe th wedding gowns. they don't have to pay for it like we do. >> we had a bunch of famous de sirens design dresses for the girl and sketches. for jessica beil they designed this lace. amazing. you have to see it in this week's issue. it is gorgeous. >>> it is time for your look at the starting lineup. we have a roundup of the sports stories making headlines at this hour. lakers forward world peace is suspended for 7 games for elbowing james hardin. >> it was a bad time for me and physically it was a bad time for mr. hardin. it's the worst time for me right now. i am happy that james is okay. >> hardin suffered a conclusion from that

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. >> i'm set up on monticello and hur.ot guys on the northwest corner and the southeast corner. >> as a first step,ç sheriff's police are sending an undercover officer with poncho to buy heroin. >> target we got today only serves select clientele. and our informant is one of them. >> he rides with one of four marked surveillance units while the deal goes down. >> where is he at now, jay? >> he's intro'ing to the guy right now. >> all right. it's a good deal. he got a whole jab. he got 12. they're heading back to the meet spot. >> it want great. i introduced my friend to him and he shook his hand. he gave him his number and told me call me whenever you need anything. you know you have to have a good friend when you're doing this. if you're nervous, paranoid, that's how things are going to come out. if you're relaxed -- you know, you're doing good. >> with one successful buy under their belts, investigators plan to do more with his help. they want to send out his partner, lefty, next on an undercover buy before he gets any

>> i went to monticello, thomas jefferson's home, and one of the historians down there remined me thatson once said that the presidency is a splinted misery. but at the end of his term, he also said, quote, that the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing grudgery and a daily loss of friends. i just wonder, have you lost any friends yet? >> what about the famous quote from another beleaguered president, abraham lincoln, who said he had been driven many times to his knees because his own wisdom and that around him was insufficient for the deism i do a lot of praying. >> it occurs to me, we are sitting 30 feet from harry truman's official white house portrait. members of your base are asking, when are you going to get your harry truman on? >> if you want to know where the president goes online, which web sites do you surf? >> vian ipad. steve jobs gave it to my, a little bit early -- >> that's pretty cool. >> i am hoping to find nua reflective mood on a cloudy day, you were the first to speak to you off your summer vacation. how does that recharge you? what do you think about?

berkeley to the mall of america and the food court section of the mall of america in minneapolis to monticello and virginia and where i graduated from and jefferson graduated from a couple years before me. and so for me one of the things i realize is i have not immersed myself in this document as i should. so i became curious about the constitution. what americans thought about it. are any of you familiar with my socrates' cafe project? a lot of you are familiar with that. i started that in 1996. a second term in the clinton administration when americans were polarized. any sort of public discourse quickly devolves into a lot of intellectual browbeating and interrupting outthrust. i felt democracy could not thrive if that was the only monologue we had so i tried to start socrates' cafe where we investigated pressing philosophical conundrums in public places where we didn't know where we were going to get together the means for developing dialogue virtues that many of our founders had where a celebrated difference of point of view. can you imagine? they listened to one another. they were passio

near souttgate and monticello avenues.investigators set up the sttng aftee residents engage innsexualbout the citiznes n that area, the people that activity going on, so e're happy to send tte message out to people looking for annapolis because you miiht get caught." caught."the suspects are facing misdemeanor charges. a surveilllnce camera captures shocking incident in chhna.this teenager is just walking along the street... when a hole suddenly appears and swallows her up. incrediblyy.. a cab driver sees the shockinn incident and pushhs to the hole to find he girl.the hole had oomed after years of erosion by underground water. 3 today... governor o'malley iss expected to meet with the house speeker and senate president in annnpolis... to diicuus holling a speccal sessi. session.lawmakers failed to a budget before this year's legislative session came to an end.by not having that reveeuu package... it coull force a half illion dollars in cuts. the governnr says he'll call a it will accomplish.ed n what - 11:18:01 "i believe that we need the revenue and the that before july 1st is to co

we are deep in blood at monticello, and if you read the book, you can find out about that.well, i guess my most interesting conclusion out of this sort of a thing that really made me feel as if this was a book that people would want to read is a question about how we deal with thomas jefferson's interracial family because there has been so much energy put into denying it. and i guess i want to say so thomas jefferson had a complicated family. why would we want the most complicated man in american history to have a simple family? does anybody in this room have a complicated family? [laughter] i think if we give up the story we get something that is a lot better and we get is a founding father for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> i'm sure there won't be any questions about that. our former author is floor of trombley. when she walked in i was going to carper. [laughter] dr. trombley attended pepperdine university at age 16 and after graduating received her ph.d. in english. while in her ph.d. program she discovered the largest known cache of mark twain's letters to date. s

we are deep in blood at monticello, and if you read the book, you can find out about that. well, i guess my most interesting conclusion out of this sort of a thing that really made me feel as if this was a book that people would want to read is a question about how we deal with thomas jefferson's interracial family because there has been so much energy put into denying it. and i guess i want to say so thomas jefferson had a complicated family. why would we want the most complicated man in american history to have a simple family? does anybody in this room have a complicated family? [laughter] i think if we give up the story we get something that is a lot better and we get is a founding father for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> i'm sure there won't be any questions about that. our former author is floor of trombley. when she walked in i was going to carper. [laughter] dr. trombley attended pepperdine university at age 16 and after graduating received her ph.d. in english. while in her ph.d. program she discovered the largest known cache of mark twain's letters to date.

it's the south vine yard of jefferson's estate in monticello. >> reporter: thank you very much.day celebration, we should all say happy birthday, right? let's go -- >> all: happy birthday! >> there it is. it's now 8:38 on a friday morning. up next, former nfl players suing the league, claiming not enough was done to protect them from the potentially devastating impact of concussions. >> another big name was joined that night. that's coming up next. 8:38. we'll be right back.  >>> here are some of the stories making headlines. a one time pro football star turned actor is the lead plaintiff in another lawsuit against the nfl. he is one of 119 people who filed suit thursday claiming the league did not do enough to protect players from damaging concussions. karras played 12 seasons with detroit before going on to monday night football, the movie, blazing saddles and the tv show webster. his wife says he has been dealing with dementia for years now. >>> tough loss for the caps in the opening game of their playoff showdown with boston. they fell to the bruins 1-0 in overtime. kel

we are deep in blood at monticello, and if you read the book, you can find out about that.ell, i guess my most interesting conclusion out of this sort of a thing that really made me feel as if this was a book that people would want to read is a question about how we deal with thomas jefferson's interracial family because there has been so much energy put into denying it. and i guess i want to say so thomas jefferson had a complicated family. why would we want the most complicated man in american history to have a simple family? does anybody in this room have a complicated family? [laughter] i think if we give up the story we get something that is a lot better and we get is a founding father for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> i'm sure there won't be any questions about that. our former author is floor of trombley. when she walked in i was going to carper. [laughter] dr. trombley attended pepperdine university at age 16 and after graduating received her ph.d. in english. while in her ph.d. program she discovered the largest known cache of mark twain's letters to date. sh

and put together at his estate at monticello, it's stripped of the divine, no miracles and no resurrectionon was very much a product of the thinking of his time, known as the enlig enlightenment, he's unwilling to accept anything that couldn't be be proved. >> miracles would upset the lawful orderly universe that jefferson believed in. if there was going to be enlightenment and popular self-government there had to be laws. but the mathematician is one of several scholars in the last two centuries since jeffers jefferson, the evidence is powerful, which is why, of course, that there is a long list of people who started by being skeptical of christianity. all that the resurrection was the center, and both think it ended up a couple christians. >> and the bible said that crucified jesus was laid in a tomb and a roman guard posted. two days later, the stone was rolled away and two women told that jesus had risen. >> although there are no eyewitnesses to the actual resurrection, scholars like tom wright point out a part of the story that the goss bell writers include, the testimony of women, an