. >> a startling weather phenomenon occurred in richmond, virginia. >> looks like a snowy day. >> its, in fact, a snowy day. this happened on february 11th. there's something a little bit different about this snowy day. listen to this. [ thunder ] >> what does that sound like? >> sounds like thunder. >> this is actually called thunder snow. it's an incredibly rare weather occurrence that basically like a thunder storm, but has snow instead of rain. >> weird. what about lightning? does it have lightning? >> scientists think that thunderstorms and thunder snow create thunder and lightning in a similar way. >> it would be cool if there was snow lightning, like a lightning bolt that comes down and then when it hits the ground like a snowman comes up. >>> now this rare occurrence is actually caused by an upward rush of air from the ground high up into the atmosphere that's accompanied by temperatures freezing below. >> i had no idea that was unusual. >> how cool was it for the people in richmond, virginia, that they got to experience this, it's been snowing all over the country but only i

this is an event happening at the university of virginia at richmond. it is put on not the university, but the library of virginia. it is put on by the library and the museum of the confederacy. we are working on getting you a better signal. we are working on that. we are taking your comments online as well. for the past year or so, american history tv has been looking at the 150th anniversary of the civil war. the civil war ran from 1861 to 1865. over the course of the next five years, you will see more historical programming here on american history tv. >> each week, american history tv's american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes at archives and museums and historic sites. 15 years ago, thom lilleanquist found a civil war bullet in the park near their virginia home. the find sparked an interest in the conflict. they soon began collecting photographs of union and confederate soldiers. in 2010, the family decided to donate more than 700 of these amber and tin types to the library of congress. the last full measure, civil war photographs from the

of you testifying. >> we are also interested in some developments were researchers live from richmond, virginia to new york city to brees on their work. can you walk us through some of those key events of started in richmond? >> we were notified we were going to be going to new york. we were taken to the airport on a company jet, flown to new york, and one of the limousines met us and took us over to the corporate headquarters. at that point, we gave a presentation to several members of the york corporate staff entertained questions, have lunch, and were flown back on a company jet. >> what kinds of questions were asked in your briefing? >> i was only asked one question. it was basically, why should i ways of billion dollar industry on rats pressing a lever to -- why should i waste of billion dollar industry on rats pressing a lever to get nicotine? >> can you tell us who was there? >> there was only one individual i can remember, and that was caroline levy of. >> for these top management people? >> yes, they were. >> would it be fair to say senior management was troubled or worried about the w

♪ >>> we are live from richmond, virginia.his is the library of virginia where all day today on "american history tv" on c-span3 we're going to bring you a forum that seeks to answer the question, if "time" magazine had been around in 1862, who would "time" select as the person of year? the library of virginia co-hosting an event that invited five historians including david blight to answer that question. by the end of the day, the audience here in richmond will vote on person of the year 1862. so lots ahead, all-day coverage here on c-span3 on american history tv. and during breaks in the event in richmond, we will take your phone calls, we'll talk to the historians about their selections and also give you a chance to weigh in with your vote as well. now, you can do that on the phone. you can also do that online. if you're on twitter, follow us @cspanhistory. specifically today if you want to tweet use #poty1862. on facebook we've posted the question -- who do you think was the most influential person of 1862? facebook.com/cs

my city, of richmond, virginia, would seem to be at the center of that. no matter what else may ever happen in that place, it will always be the former capital of the confederacy, one of the former centers of the domestic slave trade. it will always be at least a former shrine of the lost cause. just as the united states will always be a nation at whose foundation the constitution made a bargain over slavery and whose courts for a century after emancipation obligated segregation. if the nation is to be reconciled it would need places like richmond, new york, boston, charleston, montgomery, to take responsibility for their own legacies. now, richmond has already stepped up in some heartening ways. though the wrongs of centuries cannot be fixed in a few years, the beginning can come during this centennial when we're fortunate suddenly to have people paying attention. dave and i were commenting on a place such as this, a group such as this, used to dealing with ongoing conflicts in the world, suddenly to find ourselves in the spotlight because an anniversary

wave of reform with richard nixon in the white house but lewis powell the corporate lawyer in richmond virginia looked at this and was appalled democracy was working he called it the attack on the free enterprise system and he wrote a memo to the chamber of commerce outlining a multi-year corporate funded organized corporations to fight back and to fight back really against democracy work and put in some kind of balance into our into our system of economic system and into the amazing thing about this memo. talk about in the book how explicit and detailed it was from using activist minded courts he called it to create corporate rights to change the political legal and economic structure of america that was his goal and the amazing thing is six months after writing this memo to the chamber of commerce president nixon appointed him to the supreme court and he got his chance to do just that did did nixon in your opinion no the paul was all about this kind of stuff you know let's because it causes so many things came out of this away from heritage and cato and all these think tanks and federalist. o

the veterans much the most recent city to add the name to the list of confirmed parades is richmond, virginia. the virginia parade set for may 19th, a saturday, also armed forces day. richmond's welcome home our military parade has own facebook paid. we linked to that on the blog. the white house is planning to go mark the end of the iraq war with a gala dinner later this month. a dinner that they have given the name "a nation's gratitude" held in the east room, attend's hand picked group of veterans of all ranks and allstates representing all service branchs. military families will be there, too. in total, 200 people will go to that white house dinner and that is a great honor for those 200 veterans and military families, nothing wrong with that at all. but what about the other 1.5 million americans who served in iraq? what about us af rage americans, the rest of us, civilians who want a chance to say thank you and welcome home since the war was fought in our name. whether or not we agreed with the reasons for fighting it. wishing the iraq war had never happened is one thing. pretending it d

richmond. the virginia historical society. the library of virginia, the history center, the national park service, the cultural museum, the slave trail commission, the campaign to reclaim the african burial ground, hope in the cities. and all those people had been doing great workday in and day out for years to tell this story. and yet the city was gun shy. we'd been burned by struggles over the public memory of slavery and of the civil war. dare we rip off the bandages off the healing. even though it had not healed the way we thought it should, we'd stop talking about it. people would stop talking about those kind of fights. dare we start this up again. and all the people who were the caretakers of the history of virginia said, we have no choice. that memory's there all along, it's not stirring it up, it's bringing it to life. so here was the message, though, that we told ourselves. this was not just the 100th anniversary of the civil war, it's the 150th anniversary of the most important thing that's ever happened in this cou

. >> yes, in richmond, virginia. there will be 60 of us for a national gathering. and we'll be coming from all over the country and having different breakout sessions and workshops. the list of titles of workshops is very juicy and there will be difficult to pick four from the group. >> tell us about chicago. we thought that was significant. >> as part of legacy project and also in regards to welcome to the table, holly actually came along with me and my students, there were about ten of us, in the port chicago memorial site. some don't know about it. port chicago was significant to world war ii and 200 servicemen during an explosion were killed there. >> where is it? >> bay point. and port chicago helped desegregate the u.s. armed forces. some of the survivors were present and able to provide their oral history and stories. we're hoping some of the work with welcome to the table will be able to partner with port chicago in regards to help push them to get the charges taken off the soldier. >> beginning to tell the story and heal the wounds and being able to connec

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abraham lincoln won an election in richmond, virginia? this tells us that perhaps richmond isn't what some people think it is. and it reminds us that the person of the year for 1861 or 1862 is not a popularity contest anymore more "time" magazine's person of the year is a measure of popularity. it is a measure of importance and a means of learning about the year. our panelists will try to convince you, the audience and the voters, that their nominees deserve to be recognized for their importance. without further ado, let's get on to our first nominee and first speaker. bob, for him and the others you will find a biographer in your programs so i will not give long introductions for the benefit of our live television audience. however, let me say a few things about robert k.crique. he's best known as the proud father. bob the elder was for more than 30 years chief historian at the fredericksburg and response veil yann national park and in that capacity was extremely active as a researcher, a writer, a speaker and especially as one of the co

. >> tough driving in richmond, virginia. a man skid ed across the road.black ice plagued drivers on 295, several vehicles slid off the road and police say officers responded to a thousand traffic accidents and that was yesterday. >>> look at the pictures, it's hard to believe. >> it's scary. we don't have to deal with ice and if we did have precipitation, we definitely would be dealing with that. check out the temperatures, 21 degrees now in to woodbine. we don't have the wind. what you are feeling is what you are getting for today. the temperature glen burnie, 27 degrees. more of the same in to stevensville, around 30 degrees and no windchill whatsoever. as we check out fact that we have the clouds trying to stream in here, mostly clear now. turning mostly cloudy in to the afternoon, we will have more clouds moving in. get out and enjoy it. that system, that rain, that snow, is going to stay away from us as it enter it is dry air across the area. >>> nearly two years, he went on a crime spree that included burglaries and murder. >> brian kuebler has been

elizabeth lattimore says the cases often appear in clusters and right now there's a big one in richmond, virginia not sure why, but know there's a lot more research that needs to be done. >>> well, what if you could burn lots of body fat by doing just 20 seconds of exercise? there's an interval workout that claims to have those results. advocates say it's one of the most efficient methods of exercise. we checked it out and asked them what's your workout? >> come on, you can do anything for 20 seconds, right? >> tabata is a high-intensity workout. how we work the tabata workout is 20 seconds on, ten seconds off. >> five, four, three. >> the idea is you go really hard during your 20 seconds, then you chill out, relax during the ten, then go super hard again and get your heart rate super high. you do this eight times, then move on to the next exercise. >> three, two, recover. >> one benefit is when your heart rate gets so high, it never comes down, so you couldn't work at that high intensity for two minutes, but when you break it up into you work out at a different level. a lot of people have muscle

robert crick joins us from the library of virginia in richmond. robert crick, your nomination was thomas stonewall jackson. outside of the south in 1862, how well-known was stonewall jackson? >>. >> '62 began, he was barely known in the south and probably not at all in the north and the impact that he made in 1862 seems to me to be in large part eight consequence of that explosion as though on a cat at that time put to fame. his impact on the year in the minds of southerners and of northerners both the soldiers in the field and the civilians at home on both sides of the river went from nothing to i an great deal and that is part of my case in making him the man of the year for 1862. he gave the south the opportunity to look for some success and find a good bit of it later in 1862. they had had non, not i an tincture of success until jackson a little bit in march but mostly may and june in 1862 in the virginia shenandoah valley won victories is of some consequence. they had some substance but they were not as important in actual fact as they were i

american history tv will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia as historians including james mcpherson ponder that question and present their candidates for person of the year, 1862. the museum of the confederacy and library of virginia host the all-day forum. during date we'll open phone lines and take tweets, so you can question historians about their nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 eastern on cspan 3. >>> in july, 1959, then vice president richard nixon and soviet premiere nikita khruschev engaged engaged in debate. over the next hour-and-a-half, timothy naftali talks with eyewitnesss in a conversation held at the national archives. >> pleasure to welcome you to the william g. mcgowan theater. we have a discussion of one of the most famous events. cold war, was on july 24th, 1959 an impromptu debate between richard nixon and nikita khruschev in moscow, has been known as the kitchen debate. the two leaders were debating the communism versus capitalism as they toured in moscow. they stopped in front of a model kit

. >> cars, spinning out of control in richmond virginia this morning. black ice hit drivers making thousands wish they stayed home. virginia state police officers say that officers responded to nearly a thousand traffic accidents since yesterday. >> well what do we get, wind and warmth. >> i was just looking at that federal express off the road. that's my son's winter jacket i sent to him. he said where is my jacket. we have snow l it is. right there. we had temperatures today right here in the bay area averaging six degrees below norm alabi this time tomorrow we will talk about highs ten to 13 degrees above average this is the scene in san francisco where the high was 61 degrees. looks like we will see a good five degrees warmer than that tomorrow. under mostly cloudy skies, into the 50s, san jose checked in at 60 degrees, average 65, about five degrees off the mark. this is the scene looking out toward mount diablo. we have the skies trying to scrub out. it'll are main mostly cloudy overnight with some areas of patchy fog developing overnight, tuesday

i like very much that richmond, virginia now has its museum, which tries to visualize in its exhibits the african-american presence in the civil war and throughout the conflicts that led up to the civil war. but when it comes to having both pride and shame for one's past, we who are americans have a great deal of difficulty combining the two. i like very much what psalm 15 says, that the righteous are those who are capable of swearing to their own hurt. that is is a difficult maneuver i must say and our politicians are not very good at leading us into something like swearing to our own hurt. one of the hurts that we need to swear off of is our convenient superficial memory of what followed the civil war immediately in the era of reconstruction and the jim crowe era. it's already been mentioned. i think we american white people, south and north, have a great deal of repentance to undergo in our memory of what happened to african-americans in the years following the civil war. frank smith has been eloquent about that and also president ayers. i think david blight's summary of that era i

. >> reporter: protests today in richmond, virginia. >> our bodies! our lives! >> reporter: a flashpoint in the political fight over government's place in women's health and reproduction. so provocative, the mere mention of birth control prompted boos. >> i don't support that. >> reporter: at the republican debate. >> just because i'm talking about it doesn't mean i want a government program to fix it. >> reporter: and rare applause at a democrats-only staged hearing today. set off by the outraged democrats vented when republicans called only men to testify last week on religious institutions and birth control. >> we've heard from over 300,000 people saying we want women's voices to be heard. >> reporter: democrats invited one woman, a georgetown law student to talk about hardships for some women who don't have insurance that covers birth control. >> without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. >> reporter: nearly 11 million women use birth control pills, the most common method of contraception, and some

american history tv will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james mcverson and david blithe present their candidates. the museum of the confederacy hosts the all-day forum and we'll open our phone lines and take your tweets so you can question historians about their nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 pm eastern on c-span 3. >>> hosted by our time warner cable partner, american history tv recently visited beaumont, texas. to explore the history and literary culture where the oil industry in texas got its start. for more information on our tour of six south central cities this year, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> gladdy city, as we refer to it here locally, was built in 1976 for the bicentennial. and it is a recreation of the boom town that was built when spindle top came in on january 10th, 1901. by 1976, there was nothing left of what was the original gladys city which was just across the highway from us about 1/2 mile. so as a project for the bicentennial, you know, this group of people

american history tv will be oochz live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james mcpherson and david blake ponder that question and present their candidates for person of the year 1862. the museum of the confederacy and the library of virginia hosts the all-day forum and during the day we'll open our phone lines and take your tweets so you can question the historians about their nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> join american history tv on monday for 24 hours of america's first ladies including an interview with eleanor roosevelt at 4:45 p.m. eastern. >> i think like everything else that we started out expecting that the united nations would united nations. >>> tour the white house private quarters with laura bush at 5:00 and ladybird johnson at 8:00. nancy reagan reminisces about her husband at 8:30. and at 11:30, the only first lady to run for president, now secretary of state, hillary clinton, at her final campaign rally in 2008. american histo

american history tv will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james mcfehrson and david blight ponder that question and present their candidates for person of the year, 1862. the museum of the confederacy and the library of virginia host the all-day forum. during the day we'll open our phone lines and take your tweets so you can question the historians about their nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> in july 1959, then vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev engaged in a debate. over the next hour-and-a-half, timothy naftali talks with eyewitnesses to the debate in a conversation held at the national archives. >> pleasure to welcome you to the william g. mcgowan theater. and the national archives. tonight we have a discussion of one of the most famous events of the cold war. it was on june 24th, 1959, that an impromptu debate took place between then vice president richard nixon and then soviet premi premier nikita kh

"american history tv" will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james mcpherson and david blight ponder that question and present their person of the year for 1862. the museum of confederacy and the library of virginia host the all-day forum. and during the day we'll open

foundation, but we approach it from a decentralized approach, even though we are headquartered in richmond, virginia and have those operations in many states, we give the ability to donate and get involved in each state through employee-led groups which we call community investment boards. they decide where the dollars are spent. they have a better purview of where it is spent and we give them as much spectrum to say what is important. they come back and make presentations and say these are the things we want to get involved with. at the end of the day, the decision is for them and we think it's a model that has worked very good. it is their job to improve the social, physical and economic well-being of the communities they are involved with. in 2011, dominion resources donated $21 million across the system, taking in about 1300 organizations across our footprint. these were centered in the areas of funding environmental organizations, cultural and community development groups, and health and human service providers. i am also proud of our matching gift programs. we have a matching gift programs for

and the welch are very musical, doesn't matter whether, i have a friend who lives in richmond, virginiadescendant has the characteristics of the welch in being very musical. i wonder if this facility of words may not be particularly an english thing. >> yes, but then again, our roots, originally were english here. one of the big things is people came here to do something, and the whole you tilltarian approach to education has cost us a lot in conversation. people here who go to university tend to specialize early and i don't think you really see that many people with what would have been in the old days considered a liberal education that is well lettered conversationally. making a toast, the first thing realized when she got over there and was mixing with lawyers from various countries, the best toasts came from the english attorneys and the worst toasts came from the american attorneys. and it was because they couldn't draw on the classics. they didn't have that same sort of liberal education to begin with. >> i'll throw out a few american thinkers who are very articulate. the senator

this is one if you have ever driven through richmond, virginia, you probably passed close to. it is bell isle. this started off as a temporary prison camp, much like camp douglas, but it became a permanent place for union prisoners of war. usually enlisted men. it housed about 10,000 prisoners. but it was simply an island in the james river. and that -- and it was -- it had a large ridge on it where the confederate guards would be placed and they're pointing into the tents of these union inmates and a terrible place to be. an estimated 15 to 25 men died there per day at 1863. it was lice infested. the prisoners were allowed to bathe in the james river which is a terrible prospect because the is speedy current could sweep them away and the guards were allowed to shoot any they believed were making an escape attempt. their bodies would be flushed down the river. this is yet another prison camp you would have found in richmond. this is libby prison. designed for officers. a former tobacco warehouse. the second and third floor of this building was used to house prisoners. mostly o

american history tv will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james macpherson and david blight ponder that question and present their candidates for person of the year 1862. the museum of the confederacy and the library of museum host the all-day forum and during the day we'll open the phone lines and take your tweets so you can question historians about their nominations and propose their nominations. live coverage from 4:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> each week american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's clefshlg professors. you can watch the classes here every is the at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. old dominion university professor timothy or teaches a course on the civil war and reconstruction. in this lecture he discusses how confederate forces handled prisoners of war and he takes a look at conditions inside some prison camps. old dominion university is located in norfolk, virginia. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. good morning, everyone, and welcome. to those who are jo

american history tv will be live, this saturday, from richmond, virginia, as the historians including james mcpherson and david blight ponder that question and present their candidates for person of the year 1862. the library of virginia host the all-day forum. during date we'll open phone lines and take tweets so you can question historians about nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> each week american history tv american's artifacts takes views are to historic sites around the country. a look at black history month. the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture will open a new building on the national mall in 2015. and the ground breaking ceremony will take place tomorrow. we'll get a preview next on c-span3. then the relationship between mart martin luther king jr. and his mentors, heys and thurmon. and later a tour of the national civil rights museum in memphis, tennessee. >>> each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and hi

joining me now from richmond, virginia, virginia delegate kay corey, democrat from fairfax who has beenighting back against the bill. and in san francisco, joan walsh, editor at large of salon.com. great to have both of you with us. >> thanks, reverend al. >> great to be here. >> delegate corey, let me start with you. this news today that things might be changing is good news. what can you tell us? what are you hearing? >> truthfully, i'm not hearing anything except that it will probably go by for the day in hopes that the media will focus on something else and i'm here to ask you not to stop focusing on this. >> well, you don't have to worry about that. joan, how, in your judgment, in 2012, are we talking about this kind of intrusive, and in my opinion, biased, anti-womankind -- woman kind of legislation passing in virginia? >>thy think he counted on us not paying attention, us in the media and frankly, us as women a lot of these ultrasound bills have passed in other states. most of them are not quite as intrusive, but a couple of them r and they are frankly, i'm ashamed to admit it ha