not the digression here. jefferson vaccinated everyone on his estate including the people of property against smallpox. he was a great partisan even the message i wish it could be kept cool. not liz's foursome is transported. losing its purpose. he discovered keeping it cold, with water or ice it could be taken quite a long distance. so was taught how to administer smallpox junctions which was a small compensation for the what was done to smallpox to the new world by the colonists. timothy dwight, famous of the time was known as the founder of gail, took the view that fox nation get smallpox was an interference of god's design should not be practiced. i suppose he would have to be right because it would be guarded to smallpox in the first place. it was a creationist. so, in all of these other ways trained in all these matters, navigation, agriculture given seeds to take with them. on how to keep cuttings and bring back specimens of bottoming on return produced genuinely a scientific expedition. of course by the time it

it's where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. those of you who are antiquarians of the seat know this is carolyn road. this is a boarding house run by joe size king. this is the way that it is described. this is the first session out of the seventh congress. this is the first entire congress that is calling washington, d.c. home. color writes about life on carroll road. it is situated east of the capital on the highest round in the city. mr. read and myself have the most pleasant room in the house, and indeed the whole city. it is on the third story demanding a review of also -- houses on the city as well as the city of alexandria and the river. i must add that i am exceedingly happy with mr. read. where i have made to choose someone to live with me, i would've chosen mr. read. i'm not much pleased with the capital. it is a huge pile built with handsome stone. bright heavy in appearance but not very pleasant within. they were looking out their window toward the capital, this is what they would be seeing. the senate north chamber o

jefferson was part of it and i was able to turn around and go off to my program. that was the beginning. it has never ended and we know mr. jefferson never said anything about it, but what i just mentioned, a revelation, i will follow science wherever it should lead us, is what has brought us further into this conversation. where will science go from here and beyond? dna is one of the most remarkable elements of science that still continues in its further perfection. it is extraordinary and what does it show? something that jefferson and many others were discussing in his day. aren't we all interrelated? are we all, as the natives will want to suggest, a family of men across the globe? there are many who are cautious to allow their dna to be taken. i find it the most marvelous thing to help us understand better that we're all connected. i even question race. we're all one race. >> that's a great segue way actually for this next question because it is true, and this is something that we often see with visitors to monticello, this conversation about race and what does race mean

it's a revelation of the struggles that jefferson was going through. a further revelation is we know they see now. he did not write the notes to be published extensively. he wrote them collectively in answer to a questionnaire that was put out to the commonwealth the virginia so that france could become better aware of information, particularly to investing in the american revolution he had them published in french privately, and handed out to gentlemen of scientific curiosity. quite naturally it got out of their hands, it was published and there it was. there's a background. it's not a justification for them, but a revelation. in these notes, jefferson makes bold statements not only about race, but also religion. he makes bold statements about habits and customs. he maybe comments about particular names he's ascribed to flora and fauna. he answers much of the questions from marbeau. he answers them, too. here's the revelation of the scientist who writes very early on -- be so bold as to question everything. follow trust wherever it should lead us. agai

jefferson to reply what is juneteenth and this allows the visitor, the guest to explain it to him. is a wonderful opportunity for our present to speak to our past and to come to an understanding that mr. jefferson learns from the future and with the hope that the future will learn, well, if you are referring to a time in which we've finally ended slavery, what did it take then for that to come about? would mr. jefferson want to know what it took for that to come about? we know that and what i can talk about in persona are his predictions, what could happen. he did make statements in his letters and it's my job to interpret those letters and the conversations we know he had and the interactions with those of his period, but it becomes a struggle for him as it took for us to ponder what it took and for mr. jefferson to understand what it continues to take. >> you answered a little bit with that question. it makes me think about this, though, given the limitations of staying in character. there are strategies, of course, that you all implement to get more complete messages across and

it is a revelation of the struggles that mr. jefferson was going through, as we continue to go through when we read those notes. the further revelation is the fact that we know these now, we notes onerson's northern virginia. he did not write them to be published extensively. he wrote the notes collectively in answer to a questionnaire put someone to the colony of virginia and all the former colonies so that france could become better aware of the information, animal, vegetable, mineral, particularly to invest in the french revolution. -- in the american revolution. so jefferson had notes already and gathered them together when he went to and send in, he had them published in range privately and handed down to gentlemen of scientific curiosity. it got out of their hands, it got published, and there was. so there is a background. it is not a justification, it is a revelation of them. a further revelation within these notes, jefferson makes bold statements not only about race, but also religion. he makes bold statements about habits and cus

floor of the house. jefferson's behavior, at least in the way he doled out dinner invitations, stifled freedom and debate. of food, some of you may have turned in to see what that meant, we are in the first few days of january my 1802. under your stay, we pick up with a journal. he writes, although the president has no levees, a number of federalists agreed to go to the president's house and wait upon him with the compliments of the team. we were received with politeness. that she is, having been presented this morning, was all the parade of democratic etiquette. the president invited us to go to the mammoth room and see the mammoth cheese. there, we viewed this monument of human folly as long as we pleased and then returned home. cheese, as it was called, was a gift to jefferson from the baptist community of cheshire, massachusetts. two thank jefferson for his work promoting religious freedom. this would have been important to baptists who are a minority by this point. the cheese itself was four feet wide, 15 inche

she spoke of the election of mr. jefferson, whom she considered one of the most detestable of mankind as the greatest misfortune our country had ever experienced. her unfriendly feelings toward him were to be expected after the abuse he offered to general washington while living. and to his memory since his decease. after breakfast, these federalist members from massachusetts rambled about until they arrived at the venerable tomb of washington himself. this tomb contains the remains of the great washington. this precious monument was the first object of our attention. i will not attempt to describe our feelings or the solemn gloom on every countenance as we approached the mound of earth. the tomb opens nearly toward the river in an upright door which was locked, and the stonework is covered with earth, overgrown with tall grass. between the tomb and the bank and narrow foot paths much trodden and shaded with trees, here mrs. washington in gloomy solitude takes her melancholy walks. here, every visitor in slow and solemn steps

davis, the man, is a contradiction. jefferson davis, in his early life, was a graduate of the united states military academy. he served in the frontier with the united states army. he was secretary of war under president pierce. he served in the united states congress, and he also served in the united states senate. and he and his wife were the hosts during james buchanan's administration in washington, d.c. when the south left and formed their own government, they invited jefferson davis to become its first and only president. jefferson davis would accept that invitation and become the president of the confederate states of america. we are standing in the cell where jefferson davis was held at the conclusion of the american civil war. in 1856, jefferson davis received word from general robert e. lee, commander of the army of northern virginia, that they could no longer hold the army back from richmond. with that news, jefferson davis adjourned his cabinet and sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis soon

she spoke of the election of mr. jefferson who she considered as one of the most detestable of man kind as the greatest misfortune. her unfriendly feelings towards him were naturally to be expected from the abuse he offered to general washington while living and to his memory since deceased. after breakfast, these federalist members from massachusetts rambled about until they arrived at the tomb of washington himself. cutler picks up the story, this tomb contains the remains of the great washington. this precious washington was the first object. i will not attempt to describe our feelings or the solemn gloom as we approach the mountain of birth. the tomb opens nearly toward the river in an upright door. overgrown with tall grass. between the tomb and the bank and a narrow foot path much trodden, the pass is rounded. here mrs. washington in gloomy solitude. here every visitor in slow and solemn steps approaches this mound. while all of us took the precious trees in the country's best friend, i shall enclose a twig of the cyprus

back in those days there were books on every subject so those were the books at the jefferson building now you can see some of the original books as well as we filled them in overtime. >> you had some amazing things that are being done. fast forward from thomas jefferson in the 18 hundreds to today. on average how many items does the library received each day? >> every working day, 20,000 items so the production of process and looking it is quite an operation. >> we are going to ask if you have a question we've all tried to get some of those in just a moment. when you look at those and what has been done because we were getting duplicates, tell us about the surplus the program. >> i'm glad you mentioned that because we were able to donate and you were instrumental of that. each congressperson is able to do that work with the library of congress to get donations of surplus books and when we say surplus we are not talking about used, we are talking about a brand-new books that are coming that can be part of recovery efforts for instance when you have the damage here in mississippi we wer

he found a stark opposition from the other party. thomas jeffersonenounced the sedition act and frankly one of the reasons he prevailed in the next election was the bitter taste left by the sedition act. interestingly, jefferson did n't oppose the sedition act because he did not believe the federal government could overreach on anything legislatively. when he became president, libel actions continued, they were just bumped to the state level. susan: you write that john adams conducted 17 show trials during the election year, 12 against publishers and printers. why were they simply show trials? harold: i think that he was -- i think the purpose of the trial was not simply to silence, but to silence the accused, but to silence the broader group of anti-federalist newspaper editors who he hoped be chilled from further criticism that he deemed to be personal, by these trials. keep in mind, one of the big jeffersonian objections to the sedition act, beside that he felt it was federal overreach, the fact that all of the judges that were in place were feder

the first is, have you always left gardening? . thomas jefferson: you asked me if i have always loved gardening? i assure you that you cannot be born in the wilderness and the forest primeval without an early love of all of nature's wonders, the great abundance our creator has provided us, and to realize we merely have to cut out what pleases us and plant accordingly. i served 40 years in public service, and yet i have often thought, if heaven had given me a position, to my great delight, it would have been on a small spot of ground well watered and near a good market for the produce. gardening is one of my greatest delights. in the cultivation of the soil, i think the most noble vocation of man. your next question. >> we have been told you keep some detailed records about your gardening adventures. thomas jefferson: so you know about some of my jottings. yes, i do have a number of journals and diaries and a garden book, a farm book, and an account of rainfall. i was looking at them the other day. i realized i commenced these jottings when i was on

because and it is made to go along with the jefferson volume. id with that addition the writings. i should say that library is a wonderful nonprofit organizationon to put the writings and the letters into printpi forever. it is near and dear to my heart. so they created that volume as a grad student. it includes with reporters and manufacturers but a lot of personal letters that i selected because it shows hamilton as a person and exposing something about his politics or as a politician. and showing who he is as a person. he never intended anybody to see. a favorite one i like to teach with and within a week of the constitutional convention he sits down and says what do i think will happen next? let me think about this. and people trust washington. and that would be good. but however maybe he will be made president somehow. may be other countries will sweep and to take over so with this imageag of chaos and foreign nations creeping in it is fascinating. but this is a guy pushing for the constitutional convention forever. but at the end of the memo he said with thisis apocalyptic c

>> it has taught me that one person can make a huge difference if they make the first step. >> reporter: this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to brandon. >> he is working on designing more efficient fascias for different uses for example, special sizes for kids. you can nominates-year-old local hero online at kpix.com/- year-old. >>> coming up, serious cash for the gaming industry. the big boost for nintendo. >>> remember, kpix 5 has a new app. it gives you 24/7 ac >>> coming up at 5:00, workers hired back to be laid off again. the growing fears for the unemployed that they may neve get their jobs back. that story and more 5:00. >>> we have this one persistent patch of the marine layer hugging the golden gate bridge. ywhere eat iloin like that sunshine in the south bay and sunshine over the west of the city facing the bay. mid 70s inland. san francisco, 68. everyone will notice the warm up today. let me show you the seven-day forecast. thursday, upper 80s for daytime highs. it was mid 70s yesterday. mid-90s this weekend. >> all right. >>> nintendo earned $1.4 billion with more people staying home.

incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd getetetetetetetetetett

professor gordon-reed's most recent book is "most blessed of the patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination." professor blight's is "frederick douglass, prophet of freedom." both of these scholars are notable for the way we remember and honor those people as complicated. whether we are thinking about frederick douglass or thomas jefferson. we are going to have roughly 35 minutes of moderated discussion, after which there will be questions from the audience. and i apologize in advance that given the number of people, we will not be able to address probably even most of the questions that we will get. we will do our best. so, let's get started. let's start with the meaning and implications of removing confederate statues from our public landscape. which, i know both of you, david and annette, have discussed this frequently and in all sorts of venues. this is not a new issue, but something is clearly different this time around. so let's start with what is different and why. annette, you have referred to what is happening now as a quote "a great awakening." wakening up

he died in the late afternoon literally his last words is jefferson survives. ey began as close's while serving as diplomats abroad and then find themselves on the opposite sides of the emerging two-party system to become political rivals and political enemies and there was a period of twoo you years they refused to speak to each other. but then to rekindle the friendship to bring about a reconciliation and then commence one of the great correspondence in our history lasting three team 26 and they make it happen and they were to striking different men from massachusetts and to see how different different parts of the country where they. i would like to finish by reading you something written in the 14th century and that jefferson and adams both had read almost for certain. it was written by petrarch written by a friend who was a monk in the year 1346 and two of the greatest booklovers of their day each amassed large and valuable private library the adams books are on the public library and the jefferson books are here that have survived. it was a good 400 years

if you're republican, it goes all the way back to jefferson. there are no straight lines in history. there are certainly no straight lines when it comes to political parties. so parties bounce back and forth in the name change all of the time. so with parties for a while you had the democratic party, which is going thing. and you had what was known more than anything else is the anti- jacksonians, it wasn't really a party but it was people who really aren't the. [laughter] we don't like jackson and we do like and what they represent. the becomes the whig party and become in the mid- 19th century with essentially for a while, two main parties in one of them is jackson and democratics supposedly popular supposedly the common man or the common white man on the one side and then on the other side you have the whigs which are more centralized and more sort of pig national government. represent in a way sort of two threads that we can see. really represented a different.of view. >> if you were governor of massachusetts or president of the united state

yes, "hamilton," the show that caused your aunt to say "look at the legs on thomas jefferson." now, "hamilton" did receive some criticism this week from critics who say the show ignores the fact that hamilton and thomas jefferson were slaveholders, which is fair. but if you want to talk about a lack of historical accuracy in streaming films, you should know there is not a single mention of the gay rights movement in "scoob." but i highly recommend watching "hamilton" on disney plus. i saw "hamilton" on broadway years ago and watching it on tv had all the magic of the broadway show with none of the discomfort i experienced realizing i somehow ended up in the same row but with really nothing to say to tobey maguire. and in some other big disney news, beyonce announced that on july 31st she's releasing the vaccine. oh, no i'm sorry, she's releasing a visual album on disney plus inspired by "the lion king." i played timon in "the lion king" with beyonce last year. and i'm excited to announce that disney is now doing a spinoff of "the lion king" about timon and, i'm telling you, if y

then i was able by good luck to get my family at the jefferson memorial in washington dc. on his birthday. which is also mine. and wrote a biography of that predict and also on religious freedom which is one of the four things that he wanted to be remembered for. that was a wonderful day really was. host: another name. christopher: thank you's coming up. he didn't write about this. to the occasion of enormous number of female authors. [inaudible]. i did just write a chapter about my mother's - reflections on her. but the mystery keeps coming up in that. and then in one of her most famous lines, he describes the family coming from democratic depressive times. the german polish border land. and it so happens is where my mother's family comes from. it was a secret kept in my family for a long time. i didn't find out until it was about 30. the my mother's family was of jewish descent what is now germany. so is very horrible the border moved, terrible things happen the border changes. and i have a chance will i think that it is that she kept it a secret from my father. she died

adams was the voice, and jefferson was the pen.re were two strikingly different and to every different worlds of massachusetts and virginia. anyone who understand those times, and who we are and why we are the way we are, it's important to seems to be extremely important to understand the different different parts of the country for thin. i would like to finish by bringing you something that was written in the 14th century read and jefferson and adams both knew. they both had written almost for certain. it was written by or to a friend was mark. in the year 1346. john adams and thomas jefferson were two of the greatest booklovers of their day. each had a large and very valuable library. adams looks the public library in boston. the boston public library jefferson books are here. those of them who have survived. but this was written a good 400 years before thomas jefferson and john adams and it's exactly the same spirit of what each of them felt and which i think so many of us feel today and one of the reasons we're here to celebrat

>> what jefferson did it he is he brought some of sally henning's family to the white house. but what jefferson did, was that he brought a portion of his own enslaved population, but often he used people who were already here. she wanted to keep people on the plantation. jefferson realized like so many, that the key to his success was going to not to be able to have to pay for all the labor but to use slave labor to save money. >> jefferson was succeeded by madison, madison also was a slave owner. did he bring slave to the white house? >> nine of the first 12 presidents brought enslaved people, used in slave labor at the white house. because you really are trying to figure out what do you need to get a building going, to get a white house going? what do you need for the entertainment? what they have realized is, slave labor is going to provide the foundation for them to craft and create what became the white house. >> one of his aides, assistance, was a slave named henning's who leader wrote a book about what it was like to work at the white house. did that because a lot of cr

it was made to go along with the jefferson volume. er it occurred to me that i had already edited what could've been a library of america addition of hamilton's writing. at that point i went for the library of america's, i think i created a volume which i would like to do with you guys and the library of america full disclosure, i'm on their board, wonderful nonprofit organization that is just about putting american writings of letters in print and keeping it in print forever. it's near and dear to my heart because what i love is the us actual stuff of history. they created that volume based on this thing i pulled together as a grad student. it's a collection, not necessarily greatest hits, although it includes what you call greatest hits of hamilton. report on manufacturers, report on public credit but includes a lot of personal letters that i selected sometimes because they showed something about hamilton in the person, sometimes because they expose something about his politics. sometimes because they show something very negative abo

incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd getetetetetetetetetett >> clerk: president an lazarus will be the presiding officer tonight. she is joined by commissioner honda, commissioner swig, and commissioner tanner. commissioner santacana will be absent this morning. city county brad russey will providing legal guidance. scott sanchez, joseph duffy, chris buck, thomas

knows that not only can they come in and see one of the only three copies of the guttenberg bible, they can see thomas jefferson's original library that helped start the library of congress at a crucial time, to really reach out to the public to let them know. it's difficult to put it in one type of thing, so we'll be really working to say when you walk into the library, what can you do. we have a young readers' center. you can go into that and do things if you have young people. and you can go into the music of department and see sheet music from decades and hundreds of years ago. so that's a challenge, because i think we need to -- librarians talk about read more about it? i want the american public in particular to know more about it, to know more. this is congress' library, but it's also america's library. c-span: it's a symbol though that say somebody's watching this, i want them to be able to walk in somewhere in this library system and say dr. carr a la haden -- carr a la haden told me -- carr a la haden -- where would you send them? >> guest: the first thing a person should do is to go up to a wonderful i

i'm very aware of the movement to take down statues of thomas jefferson. a slave owner for example. hat emotion but i think that is a different set of circumstances than the ones i mentioned a moment ago. the world should make these decisions based on retired admiral james Ãwe have to have a collective conversation, my vote would be take down the statues, take down the monuments of confederate admirals and generals. for my money, washington, jefferson, grants, not perfect, slaveowners, but in the broad spectrum of their life and times, their contributions are striking. there statues and monuments need to remain on display, perhaps indicating that in addition to all that's known, making the point that jefferson held slaves, that's a valid historical point, to me it does not rise to the level of tearing down the jefferson memorial or tearing down monticello, his presidential home out side charlottesville where my daughter christina went to university. there is room for meaningful conversation there. i do not believe, ever the mosques should be tearing down Ãbmob should be tearing down

that is a valid historical point that it doesn't rise to the level of peering down the jefferson memorialmonticello his presidential home outside of charlottesville where my daughter went to the university. so i think that there is room for a meaningful conversation here. i do not believe ever that mobs should be tearing down statues are tearing down anything else. >> to watch the rest of this program, visit our website booktv.org and click on the "in depth" tab near the end of the page. >>> you know, when you read the things that were set up thomas jefferson, but he was an infidel and imitation of the french government, a little reminiscent of the things that were said about abraham lincoln, the things that were said about fdr that he wanted to be a dictator, so it does kind of come with the territory but in trump's case at least in the modern political era of post-world war ii, i've never seen anything like it. ♪ >>> hello and welcome to our newsday event with canadian judy gold with us tonight to talk about her book yes i can say that. we will give you a little picture of it. before we

this is the jefferson fund. was . i. was able to visit a very. young woman however gives a completely different story. i. think i was. present. when searching the prostitute police find several condoms in an inner bra. in the man's car they find bundles of dollar bills an empty alcohol bottle and boxes of pills which they also find the same brand of condom as the girl sergeant laurie oakes concludes that the evidence is overwhelming for these 2 guys. and what they have right now basically is a supervisor and this and them being the supervising the feel now that she is ok and taken a different locations that are managed by somebody else which will be. the 3 suspects are placed into the cars they will head to the police station where detectives will attempt to clarify the specific role of each person. sergeant continues his patrol. another young woman has just been arrested in a street adjacent to western avenue where your id. her supervisor or pimp has definitely just dropped a gun. further away from the scene surgeon laurie oakes thinks he spotted

did he actually ever bring sally hemmings to the white house? >> what jefferson did is that he brought some of sally hemmings' family to the white house, but what jefferson did was that he brought a portion of his own enslaved population, but often he used people that were already here. because you wanted to keep people on the plantation, but jefferson realized, like so many, that the key to his success was to not to have to pay for all the labor, but use enslaved labor to save money. >> so jefferson was seceded by madison. madison also was a slave owner. did he bring slaves to the white house? >> nine of the first twelve presidents brought enslaved people, used enslaved labor at the white house. because you're really trying to figure out what do you need to get a building going to get a white house going? what do you need for the entertainment? so what they realized is that it's slave labor that was going to provide the foundation for them to craft and create what became the white house. >> so one of his aides or assistants was a slave named paul hemmings, who l

the jefferson was removed because they re-model the fountain area in front of the white house where he stood. the washington was a racial greater i think was a sculpture. it showed washington in a toga bare-chested and although it was visible. >> it's huge. >> it's gigantic. it's visible and nearly photographs of president potential inaugurations. like in move to the back of it when he was inaugurated in 1861. an 1865. he was being called georgie porridge-y in his bat. eventually it was taking away at one of the capitol plaza renovations and i think it sits today in the national museum of not american history where it's at eye level and you can't really tell much from it. it's banished to a corner. there it was, it was warns once one of the most prominent sculptures in the country. the >> let's see. we have another question. where is the stephen douglas statue? now >> with the stephen douglas statue which is teeny like stephen douglas is on the top of the stairway at the old state capital in springfield, illinois. it was purchased for the state. it sits just outside ironically other ro

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they are part of the roughly 5% of jefferson school families who have chosen to learn remotely. she says her father passed away from covid two months ago and her son, josh, has asthma. >> i can't take the risk of sending him back to school and getting covid. >> reporter: a worrisome school year now beginning. gary tuchman, cnn, jefferson, georgia. >> every parent wants a great school for their kids, but w. kamau bell uncovers why that's not possible for some. go inside the public school system on all new united shades of america tomorrow night at 10:00 here on cnn. >>> coming up, the president is making claims about mail-in voting that just aren't true. they are so false, his own intelligence officials are contradicting him. what they're saying behind closed doors, next. >> this is going to be the greatest election zas ner history. got it. it's slippery. nooooo... noooo... nooooo... yeeeesss... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and each sheet is 2x more absorbent, so you can use less. hey look, i got it. bounty, the quicker picker upper. you say the

they are part of the roughly 5% of jefferson school families who have chosen to learn remotely. says her father passed away from covid two months ago, and her son josh has asthma. >> i can't take the risk of sending him back to school and getting covid. >> gary tuchman joins us now. gary, the experience with the family you spoke with at the very beginning of the story, you know, struck a cord because i hear those disagreements all the time. how are they doing now? >> that's right, jim. and we talked to christopher and cherelli a short time ago. christopher is the sixth grader. when he went to school today, he was very worried some of his friends were not there also. he said, all in all, it was cool. it went as expected. but the eighth grader, she is still scared and she doesn't want to go back. so her mother tells us that, starting monday, they will petition the board of education for her to have remote learning. jim. >> good for them. we wish them luck. gary tuchman, thanks very much. >> still to come, president trump's scare tactics on mail-in balloting upended but will an unde

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you most often today find, in accounts of the bread riot, it was jefferson davis who gave the order. it's primarily because they are relying on verena davis's memoir. she left an account in her memoir of jefferson davis, and she talked about how he received word in his office that there was a serious disturbance, that the mayor was there, that the governor was there. that state forces had been called out. so, he hurried down to main street. and she paints this wonderful picture of jefferson davis hopping up on an overturned gray and addressing the crowd. and he says to them, you say you are hungry and have no money. here is all i have. it is not much, but take it. and with that, he emptied his pockets of the change, threw them into the crowd, took out his watch, and said, we have no desire to injure anyone, but this lawlessness must stop. you five minutes to disperse. otherwise you will be fired , upon. that is the account in history, but there is debate about that. most of the accounts mentioned it was the public guard that was called out. this was a guard formed by james monroe afte

the jefferson davis officially can see. ? >> jefferson davis was caught a few weeks later in georgia wearing either is weiss raincoat or hoopskirts depending on what cartoonist vilified the scene. what really ended the war in his finality if you don't count juneteenth and the entrance of the union army into galveston to officially end the war. what probably ended it was the following month in may after appomattox when the forces led by general joe johnson surrendered not once, but twice to william t-shirt mint. interestingly, sherman's terms were too generous and the department of war counter mattered them a little bit of a glitch, sherman never talked to the secretary of war again after that. so it and a little sloppily and that's probably why we wear remember this gentlemanly kind of magnanimous stacking of arms at appomattox as a final act. in fact, it would be an epilogue. >> just one more question. it's a good one to end on to think and when stanton belongs to the ages belong to the angels or if either? >> if either is p

but here they are and by the way we jefferson davis heard about this, he was furious. why would block people leave the comforts of that wonderful plantation and life that i provided for them but they could labour seven days a week for no pay? i was i was a status moment in history of the civil war. >> see that of what you say you let you not see that scrap? with that right? >> with that hat. he was an informal fellow. there is jefferson davis who was not an informal fellow but had a ban in his plantation for quote unquote public service to function as the president of the confederate sea. again he believes the slaves had no legal right to us their freedom and expect that the south would win independence even petition for ownership. as we know that's not what happened. a few days after that incident, maybe we can look next at the newspaper versions. >> yes. so we have essentially the adaptation of of the drawing into would cut driving august and i 1863. >> not a big stories he said. >> the significant difference between the sketch and it would cut version. >> not the nor

the report. >>> let's go to jefferson city, georgia. schools there first to welcome students back across the state. and parents are going to tell us how they feel about reopening the schools. >> our administration has done an excellent job in getting us prepared and ready to go back to school. i have full confidence they have put in the right protocols and things to take care of our kids and staff. >>> there was no last minute deal in washington last night to extend the $600 a week unemployment benefit. democrats and republicans appear to be pretty far apart on the next relief bill and it's the out of work americans caught in the middle. we'll tell you more. y for anytime, anywhere migraine strikes without worrying if it's too late or where you happen to be. one dose of ubrelvy can quickly stop a migraine in its tracks within two hours. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks cgrp protein believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. few people had side effects, most common were nau

so when the school bus arrived here in the small georgia town of jefferson, he boarded with his booksis mask on his face. and prepared to start his middle school career in the most unusual of times. >> are you sad? >> reporter: christopher's mother said i'm sad and worried about my son going to school. the bus pulls away, there's at least one state of the uniudent christoph christopher's sister. she was going to start eighth grade but at the last minute was too frightened to go. >> i don't want to go because i'm scared of getting it. and -- >> it's okay. lots of children are scared. it's okay. i think you'll be okay tomorrow or next week maybe. it's okay. and your mom is nice to let you stay home. do you agree? >> uh-huh. >> you brother went to school today. he'll tell you how it is, right? we wish you the best. >> uh-huh. okay. >> reporter: just up the road, at the high school, students gathering and hugging like they would any year on the first day. many of them wearing masks. but just as many, if not more, not wearing any face coverings. at the elementary school, parents dropping o

perhaps indicating that in addition to all that is known, making the point that jefferson held slaves. that is a valid historical points. to me that does not rise to the level of tearing down the jefferson memorial or tearing down monticello as a presidential home outside of charlottesville. my daughter christina went to university. i think there is room for meaningful conversations. i do not believe ever mobs that should be tearing down statues or tearing down anything else. >> to watch the rest of this program visit our website, booktv.org. and click on the in-depth tab near the top of the page. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome to the commonwealth club for it i am george hammond chair of the humanities form which organize today's event. i am happy to welcome back a.j. baime. we had a year end a half ago. for his las

the jefferson city board of education has many guidelines in place designed to keep the students safer masks are handed out. but actually wearing them is not required. only strongly recommended. we talked to high school seniors before they returned to school. >> i'm ready to be back, like in-person learning but it is kind of scary like not knowing what it's going to be like. >> i think i would feel better about it if we had stronger mandates in the school system to keep us safe. >> me, too. >> reporter: they started an online petition asking the board of education to mandate masks. >> i'm scared not just for myself but for other teachers that are at our school, elderly and pregnant and then the people that you could be bringing it home to. some people live with their grandparents or people at high risk if they got the virus. >> our country was built on freedom. >> reporter: in response to that petiti petition, sophomore bret kelly started his own with the support of his older high school sister and his father. it declared mask wearing should be a choice. >> i think it's a freedom issue

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