i was in newport virginia last sunday for two hours service and solidarity in the community as the mountain valley pipeline is coming through. my question in the last couple of years going on around eminent domain and i think that you have given me the seeds for that but the question is how can the corporation come in and i feel like we are perpetuating the story that happened in the coal industry so there is a small community for four generations, people lived in this wonderful little town and now two weeks ago i think the lawsuits around the eminent domain, but the companies with the money just keeps allowing this to happen and i don't know if it is the citizens it doesn't seem like they have the power to be effective enough but my question is around eminent domain and how the corporations can keep that going. >> i don't know the exact story. i cannot comment on what is happening in that town. eminent domain is the notion that the government can essentially pay you market value because there is a greater social value to that land than you are giving it. it is a series of walls and relatio

i was in newport, virginia last sunday for two hours service and solidarity as the mountain valley pipeline is coming through. and my question the last couple of years the fight has been going on surrounding eminent domain and i think you've given me the seeds for that, but the question is, how can a corporation come in and again, i feel like perpetuating the story that's happened with the coal industry, to the small community, four generations, people lived in this wonderful little town and now the cutting started two weeks ago, i think, and there are lawsuits around eminent domain, but the companies with the money keeps allowing this to happen and i don't know if as a citizen, it doesn't em zoo -- doesn't seem we have the power to be around enough. my question is eminent domain and how the corporations can keep that going. >> i don't know the exact story when i can't comment on what's happening in that town. eminent domain is the notion that the government can essentially condemn a piece of land, pay you market value because there's a greater social value to that land than you're giving i

and because he lives in newport news, virginia and had a few extra minutes on his hands, he and anna holloway wrote "our little monitor: the greatest invention of the civil war." i have asked him to speak in a topic that is not even on the printed program, a topic that draws from two other manuscripts he is currently working on today. ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] >> prof. white: thank you for that kind introduction. i missed ballet practice to be here today. not my own ballet, i should say. my three-year-old. but i am thrilled to be here at the library of virginia. it's the middle of the civil war, early 1863. elizabeth shorter, a black teenager is living in the nation's capitol and working as a servant for a shoemaker named frank prewitt. one night lizzie went to bed and it was dark and she laid down on the couch and all of a sudden she heard someone come in next to her. she asked, who was there and he said, liz, it is me, frank. i want to get into bed with you. i don't want you to tell lib. live was his wife. liz said she was tired and told him to get away. he p

doug in newport news, virginia. caller: good morning.o agree with him that you are the best thing on the news because msnbc is too biased. what you just read is right, it is the government, not just this president's fault. he is at fault somewhat, he has been in office for three years, but there were people before him. if the country would stop this hating trump, running him down, making up news, and pull together like we did in rough times during world war ii and everything else we would come together better and stop criticizing and hating president trump. he is doing the best he can, if somebody can do it better run for office. who would want to be president right now? host: this is donnie out of north carolina, good morning. caller: good morning. the caller before me just pretty much said everything i was going to say. we have got to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. every american needs to be accountable for themselves and how they take care of themselves because of the unknown. we need to stop the hate and work toget

virginia in richmond. >> our next speaker is john white. he is an associate professor of american studies at christopher newport university. when i look at john's academic -- i'mi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. he would find someone to volunteer for a project. busy people get things done and it.new we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. he is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. i don't know where john finds the time. generousn very with our education programs to which we are grateful. as you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on abraham lincoln and legal and constitutional history. he is the co-author of a book thetled "civil education in future of american citizenship." because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. i asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. a topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about abraham lincoln and african-americans. ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [ap

virginia in richmond. >> our next speaker is john white. he is an associate professor of american studies at christopher newport university.