>> what thomas jackson thought of jefferson davis in 1862. jackson had a low opinion of davis. there are a number of episodes that make that abundantly clear. jackson's world view was that thing were supposed to run according to the manual. and davis not only had accepted way out of channels complaints about jackson during the romney campaign, that not only did not go through jackson which is the way the about book's supposed to be but he might have forgiven that, they went right straight to the secretary of war, the secular leader of the war effort. and snacks also is said to have been -- this is not quite so well documented -- disgusted with davis' unwilling to pur soof after first pa nasa. but there is a documented episode in the aftermath of the seven days when jefferson davis rode down past the battlefields to malverne hill hill on the morning of july 2 and came into the room where lee was for a conference with the leading commanders, jackson was present. he immediately stood up, stiffly at attention and then promptly left the room and there were evidences that he just did

your nomination was thomas stonewall jackson. outside of 9 south the south, h mon known was jackson? >> he was barely known in the south and probably pot at all in the north. the impact seems to be a consequence of the explosion as though on a catapult to fame. the impact went from nothing to a 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 this 1862. they had had none, not a hint of success until jackson. a little bit in march, but mostly then may and june of 1862 in virginia shenandoah valley. won victories that were of some consequence. they had some substance, but they were not as important as actual fact as they were in the minds on both sides about the new nation having a life, having some potential, having some capacity to succeed. >> toward the end of your comments, make you the poiyou yu thought jackson would have been a failure as the head of an army and certainly his legacy after his death cer

from four of the historians so far and here are the nominations, robert crick nominated, thomas stonewall jackson. robert crick was the former head of fredericksburg battlefield. we heard from david blithe who dominated frederick douglass. james mcpherson nominated a miller david farragut and you heard the nomination of george b. mcclellan. we're going to open up our phone lines for your thoughts and your comments and questions about the day and hear your comments for john mountcastle as well. a couple of ways you can participate by phone, the numbers are 202-3855. and also for the mountain and pacific it's 585-3856. we wanted to remind you in case you missed today's procedure at the library of virginia, we will reair all of this in its entirety including the phone segments this evening at 6:00 p.m. eastern and 1:00 a.m. eastern on sunday morning. that's ahead of us. also this afternoon if you don't get through on the phones if you want to make a comment at twitter.com you can do that and the handle we're using for twitter is totw1862. and also on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. before we speak to

robert krick, the chief historian and military historical park, his nominee earlier was thomas stonewall jackson. two out of five historians so far. we have opened the phone lines throughout the day, too. we will do that later as well. also online at twitter.com, we have tweets if you want to give us your thoughts. send us a tweet. it is #poty1862. we pose the question on facebook.com/c-span. while we continue to work on the signal from richmond, virginia, we are working on that. we hope to bring you the rest of the event. in the meantime, a look at the civil war on c-span tv. >> this week on american artifacts, we visit the center for education and leadership across the street from ford's theater where john wilkes booth shot lincoln. the center is the newest edition to the ford's theater campus on 10th street in washington where you can learn about the life, death and legacy of lincoln. paul tatro talks about the center's purpose and goals. >> we are in the center for education and leadership. directly across the street from historic ford theater on 10th street in washington d.c. behind me is t

robert krick chose thomas stonewall jackson. we will open up our phone lines here to take your calls so you get a chance to talk to david blight momentarily. if you are on east coast, the number is 202-585-3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. if you want to tweet us us, #poty1862. we have a tweet from someone who agree was professor blight. i think frederick douglass should be person of the year 1862. we are posting the question on our facebook page. if you want to look at facebook and post your comments, you are welcome to do that. a couple here. steven says, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 1862, you have to choose robert e. lee. david blight joins us from the library in virginia. he will take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, but in eastern shore of maryland, how did he become such an interesting part of the abolitionist movement? >> he did not become part of t

was there even a remote chance in the april of 1862 the thomas j. jackson might have served as a text in april of 1862 to sell soap to yankees in the northeast? utterly inconceivable. yet before the summer was over, just a few weeks later, jackson was the main subject of an advertisement by files okay soap. and the advertisers, knowing their audience, even in the northeast, this was published in philadelphia, they claimed in the american fran logical journal and life illustrated, that was the full name, i suppose with tongue in cheek that stonewall jackson loved their soap. in the field, this is a quote -- in the field they professed somehow to know stonewall jackson nabs okay for soap. advertisers always used popular figures. today if they were selling soap they would use some division star as their model. here are northeasterners using stonewall jackson to sell soap. what an explosion in jackson's public image. that of course is my main thing today. an aside from the phrenology. maybe some of you are young enough that have never been exposed to it. pseudo

year 1862 and robert crick who was the chief historian at fredericksburg for 30 years chose thomas stonewall jackson. we're going to open our phone lines here and take your calls. so you can get a chance to talk to david blythe momentarily. the numbers are if you are on the eastern seaboard, if you're eastern and central time zones, 202-585 i 3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. make sure you mute your television. if you want to tweet us, our hash tag is poty 1862. and we will have one tweet from kashia who agrees with professor light that she says i think douglass should be the person of the year 1862. also at facebook.com/c-span, wes are posting the question there, as well. if you want to take a look at facebook and post your comments, you're welcome to do that. a couple here stephen grill says in a sense, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 162, you would have to choose robert e. lee. david blythe joins us from the impt library in virginia, and he's going to take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very

professor thomas and take calls, archibald is in jackson, mississippi. archibald, go ahead with your comments or question? >> and southern virginia right where jeff stewart was born. by the grace of god i'm a virginian. he came back and married a southern bell from virginia and it was concerned by this last caller, jennifer to equate, with the example of the education system and i want to see what you think of this to where she either does not understand or does not know that the north and the south made a lot of money off of slavery and the west coast of africa. >> we'll let professor thomas respond. >> i think lee was as racist as most people were. they thought there were different races and white folks like himself, and he measured race in terms of white folks like himself who was an important factor. he was -- in terms of individuals, thoughtful and kind to everyone and that included african-americans. he thought slavery was upon it, but always in the abstract. he really thought that god and god's wisdom would resolve the issue, and it was enough to

one of the things you do in a transformation, like andrew jackson did or thomas jefferson, you move the whole center of politics. you change the whole conversation, as you'll see. people would commonly use that to describe ronald reagan. ronald reagan changed the whole conversation about politics. instead of the conversation being what can government do, reagan changed it to what problems has the government caused. franklin roosevelt changed the whole conversation about politics. it's very difficult to talk in terms of the conservative politics of the 1920s anymore, after the new deal and the political triumphs of fdr. what else? >> changing expectations regarding the president as >> absolutely. now we're beginning to talk about some changes of the presidency itself. it's not that other presidents didn't initiate legislation. woodrow wilson did. theodore roosevelt did. but none kind of led and directed the national agenda on policy as much as fdr. he really -- anyone even remember who the leaders of congress was? you know? maybe, you know, a political junkie like you do, zach. but most

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madison's study, he was present as madison received a queue of notables in that room from thomas jefferson to andrew jackson, henry clay, daniel webster and very many young men of learning. madison's niece wrote that jennings sighed for freedom, was enamored with freedom. well, you bet. those young men of learning, they would answertize about spending one evening listening to the father of the constitution hold forth. jennings, like part of the wallpaper, was present for hundreds of such discourses. and in the book i develop the thesis that jennings was able to absorb the theoretical underpinnings that would support his innate yearning for freedom and allow him l to identify it as a natural right of man. late february, 1837. jennings prepares the madison city house in washington for future use by the widow, dolly madison. paul jennings had returned to lafayette square for the first time in 20 years. james madison died the previous summer, and mistress dolly decided she would make use of her city house in washington and sent jennings ahead to ready the dwelling. it was still february, but in anticipation of

thomas who nominated robert e. lee. here are the nominations, stonewall jackson, nominated by robert krick who was the chief historian at fredericksburg. david blight for the yale center of the study of slavery resistance and abolition nominated frederick douglass. david fair gut, and the former chief of military history for the army john mount castle and robert e. lee nominated by professor thomas and we'll talk to him in a moment. in case you missed any of today's event we'll show the entire program beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon and at 1:00 a.m. on sunday morning. we'll open up the phone lines and we'll have them open for your calls while they count the votes. here are the numbers for the eastern and central time zones. the number is 202-585-3885 and 202585-3886. we'll take your calls until they announce the winner. >> been getting a lot of tweets as well at twitter.com/c-span. our handle is @c-spanhistory just in case you want to favor that. the hash tag today is person of the year 1862. #poty1862. just want to read one tweet before we go back to professor thomas. here's one from wilhelm ii. he's not

back in just a moment to hear from emery thomas, professor of history emeritus from the university of georgia. the nominees are frederick douglass, stonewall jackson, admiral david farragut and george mcclellan. you're watching live all-day coverage on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> ladies and gentlemen, if you could return to your seats and let us get restarted. is the mike not on yet? okay, good. the mike's on? okay. ladies and gentlemen, let's get restarted. gee whiz, jack mountcastle, george mcclellan, what an interesting choice. it's my great pleasure to introduce our fifth and final nominator, emery thomas. he drove up from athens, georgia, where he's a professor of history emeritus at the university of georgia, but he's really coming home. he and his wife fran are native richmo richmonders. as a matter of fact, emery starred on the thomas jefferson high school football team as the center and the quarterback was james henry benford p.iii who is now the superintendent at the virginia military institute. emery went from thomas jefferson to the university of virginia, where he was a two-sports star. one as the center on the football team,

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thomas jefferson was elected. you would, think of the fun you could have had in a campaign with andrew jackson's whose mom was accused of being a britiefr whore, you could -- so the point is, all of this talk about the most negative ever, negative advertising, it's absolutely, is absolutely not new. so we can say from those quick examples, from the examples that you gave, from the examples that launched our time here, that campaigns are not negatively -- not necessarily worse, it's not going into the whole discussion of yellow journalism around the turn of the century and the sorts of messages that were put out in american politics. when you look at the evidence, there's strong theoretical reasons and actually pretty strong evidence to show negative advertising doesn't always mobilize, doesn't always inform. but not only the work that i have done, the work that i have done with my colleague, paul freedman at the university of virginia, and with mike franz at boden and others have done like darrol west who used to be at brown and now is at brookings, really there's been one major article that has found that negative a

jackson was one of the first guys to do this. >> and emac, what do you think? >> i opened the history books, too. and our founding fathers including thomas jefferson. said no way, no how should it go on. it is not for the white house to do this. and wasn't the stimulus one big grant. and a lot of that money by the way didn't go where unemployment is the biggest. a remote town got the airport and they got no money to create a better airport and create jobs. >> a lot of those jobs counted creative by the stimulus have gone away. steve, you are founding fathers of fosh bes on fox. >> they should do away with the grant and mike is right. reduce the size of government. the good things, voters are acting before congress does. ben nelson looked for new opportunitis and a lot of congress persons got defeated in 2010. >> guys, what about the idea that a president who wants to get things done ought to use the leverage. >> not with our money. >> no, no, no, no, no. that is thinking that the model t would be on the road. cash for clunkers and general motors and lousy bailouts and the white house gets to pick? >> the fact is, we are not supposed to u

jackson in the white house." it earned him a pulitzer prize. he's currently writing on george h.w. bush and thomas jefferson. finally, robert caro, he is a two-time pulitzer prize winning author and has dedicated decades to writing about lyndon johnson. his fourth volume "the passage of power," is set to come out this may. i am pleased to have them here to have this discussion about men and power, the power of the office and how those two things come together. i begin with barack obama. what did you go in search of? >> trying to find out to the extent anyone could what makes obama tick. we know if you support obama or oppose him there's something different about the way he seems as he prepares for his reelection before anybody expected four years ago when he was making his debut on the national scene. so trying to parse out whether the disappointment in him was the i evidentable because the mismatch between what he symbolized in his election and the kind of problems he had to deal with or whether it was something intentional he had done right or wrong and trying to answer the question has he been laying a lo

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election of 1800 were john adams saying if you voted for thomas jefferson, there would be homeless children on this bike. it people criticize andrew jacksonecause his mom was a british prostitute. that would be a nasty advertisement. so in negative campaigning is not new. when the calller before talked about everything the same in american politics, in some ways it is. you are either voting for change or voting to stay the same. if someone is trying to convince you to change, what is different about the amount of advertising and the tone of advertising we are seeing in the primary so far is you tend to not seem negative advertising so much in primaries. it is not necessarily because it is in a family, so we should be happy in the primary and only say positive things. the reason why you tend to not see negative advertisement in primaries is they are multi person. one of the reasons why it rick santorum has been able to have such a lead is no one paid much attention to him. it enabled someone on the side to come up. if so the big change has been the amount of negative advertisements with scene and a multi-person race. host: let's look at tw

thomas jefferson was elected. think of the fun you could have had in the campaign with andrew jackson whose mom was accused of being a british or. you can just imagine, i once gave my students an assignment where they had to do an ad from that selection. british soldier slinking out of room with andrew jackson's mom standing there. so the point is all of this talk about the most negative ever, negative advertising is absolutely not new. so i think we can say both from those very quick examples from the examples that you gave from the examples that launched our time here, that campaigns are not negatively worse. that's not even going into the whole discussion, yellow journalism around the turn-of-the-century in the messages that were put out in american politics. and when you actually look at a scholarly evidence, there is a strong theoretical reason and actually pretty strong empirical evidence to show that negative advertising doesn't always mobilize, doesn't always inform, but not only the work that i've done, the work that i've done with my colleague at the university of virginia, with my friends, with travis at