and his nomination was thomas stonewall jackson, general thomas stonewall jackson. we're going to talk to robert krick momentarily and also take your phone calls, as well. here are the phone lines if you live in the eastern and central time zone, the number is 202-585-3885, mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. make sure you do mute your television when you call in so you don't feedback. you can participate online even if you don't want to call in at twitter.com/c-span. we will focus specifically on the #poty 1862, if you put that in your tweet, we'll try to read some of those. we already have some posts on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. you can join in with your nomination for the person of the year 1862, and just a couple of them want. want the take a look at that now. writing in for lincoln. justin says it should be lincoln in september of '62. with the emancipation proclamation. also paul martin says the abolitionist william lloyd garrison. we'll look at a couple of those and take your phone calls, as well. robert krick joins us from the library of virginia in ric

we also have a comment on facebook, a comment about the role of thomas stonewall jackson. matthew lowenstein says that richmond would fall in the spring of 1862 without him. what do you think of that? >> the parallel universe, the counterfactual world is wide open for all of us to speculate. but i'm with him. it is hard to imagine without jackson coming down from the valley onto the exposed federal wing even though that did not work nearly as well as it was hoped would, as it ought to have done, without jackson here, it's hard to imagine lee succeeding. skillful though he was, mcclellan had too many people. so i'm with him. i'm not opposed to that notion at all. >> let's go to joe in new york. joe, welcome to the conversation. >> hello. i have a question regarding jackson's valley campaign. prior to the battle of port republic at cross keys, richard euell thought that battle almost independently without the knowledge of jackson. >> that's right. >> can one assume that the two had a good relation, or did it just happen that that's the way the battle was fought? >> the two b

significant, perhaps more significant, than jackson's apotheosis was his impact on the mind-set of the enlisted men among his foes. federals who had never heard of thomas j. jackson in march or april, but who soon would be encouraged to buy soap because he liked it. they also feared him mightily by june. they really did. a new york lieutenant who had been up and down the valley, he wrote hope and said this jackson is a man of decided genius.e an is a man of decided genius.me an is a mande

was there even a remote chance in the april of 1862 the thomas j. jackson, already known then as stone well, 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 frenological 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 files okay soap and sends for more. advertisers always used popular figures. today if they were selling soap they would use some division star i suppose as their model. here are northeasterners using stonewall jackson to sell soap. what an explosion in jackson's public image, in just a period of a few weeks. that of course is my main thing today. an asid

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

year 1862 and robert krick 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 blight momentarily. the numbers are if you are on the eastern seaboard, if you're eastern and central time zones, 202-585-3885. 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, we 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 blight joins us from the library in virginia, and he's going to take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. g

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

thomas j. stone wall jackson style barrier of european woes that could not be overcome.going battle of the wilderness. bears came out of woodwork to explain that everything that looked boss po was negative and negatives were catastrophic. we get an amazing day like this one. you remember why we liked that market so much in the first place is the ral efor real? or the market simply become more volatile? tonight, off to the charts to cut thoort of the question, by looking at the cboe volatility index. it's known as the fear index, the perceived level of volatility and uncertainty. s & p 500, we like certainty. a fantastic technician and chief operating officer of optionpit.com. last time, everything was smooth sailing and the fear index much lower. but the vix, it's back. moved higher, spiked to 22.40, before closing at 19.45. uncertainty is back and on the rise. for the vix to go down and stay down, could that happen? a period of decreased volatility, a period when the market could steadily chug higher. and we are finally in one those glorious periods. sebastian says the

most of our southern presidents who held office before 1860, including thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, andrew jackson, john tyler, james polk, owned slaves and brought them to the white house from their plantations in the south. until 1862 when slavery was abolish abolished, slaved worked alongside paid black and european servants. for most of the 19th century, the structure of the white house staff remained generally the same. at the top was a stewart, a federal employee, who was bondeded. the congress created this position to safe guard the silver and furnishings in the white house. the stewart was on the government payroll. he functioned as a manager of the house. the job required patience, administrative ability, shrewdness as a purchasing agent and a deep sense of did discret. beneath him were the maids, foot didmen, cooks, laborers and about one third of the servants lived there in the basements. some in a dorm story style, some in private rooms. the stew arrested art dealt dir each employee and there was no specific hierarchy. mo most were southern blacks who had entered the president's servic

thomas who nominated robert e. lee. here are the nominations, stonewall jackson, nominated by robert cribbing 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 of choo 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

. >> join meg now our legal panel, thomas mesereau, best known for the successful acquittal of michael jackson. and gary kazmir, bronx county district attorney. i want to start with you, thomas. were you surprised by the severity of this george, being second-degree murder as opposed to manslaughter, particularly when manslaughter would be easier to prosecute? >> no, i'm not. you had an unarmed young man minding his own business, walking to his father's home, not bothering anyone, and suddenly he's shot to death by a would-be police officer who's not with the police department, who's armed, who disobeys a 911 call. i'm not surprised at all. >> so gary, as we talk about the charges sxheerks let's just read it out for everybody, because under florida law this is how they describe second-degree murder. defined as the unlawful killing of a human being and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life but not involving a willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. the word "depraved" really stands out. based on the evidence that you've seen, how difficult do you think it's going to be to prov

andrew jackson was much less apologetic, much more openly pro-slavery than the apologetic slave holders we've heard about, george washington, thomas jefferson. our constitution deep structure, despite maybe the best instreakses of the framers, more slave-ocratic, it's in the dna than we've been taught. and our constitution is much more about national security, about being able to beat the british, for example. vic at the age of 6 understood. he isn't up there on mt. rush more because they burned the capitol on his watch and that's not such a good thing. our constitution, general jackson, like general washington, knows how to beat the british and so manifest destiny, the monroe doctrine, isolationist america, these are all captured by andrew jackson. they're epitomized by him, exemplified by him and that's the deep structure of the original constitution. more democratic, more slave-ocratic, more about national security and hemisphere isolationism. it unsurprisingly gives us it shall the constitution -- the dominant figure and peter onuf said this and i think several others have and i want you to hear it clearly, and that constituti

jackson as well. this goes all the way back to thomas jefferson. >> yes. john adams.e have great wars over the judiciary, the role of the supreme court is at a time when we're settling huge issues in the national -- in national life. john adams wanted to create a federalist enclave because he felt that thomas jefferson was bringing this french revolutionary wave into office. that was a midnight appointment. that's how we got judicial review. was by john marshall, a very politically astute, much like a lot of these justices, a politically astute justice. jackson had it, lincoln had it, fdr tried to pack the court. and overreached and was pulled back. >> what's the historical impact for barack obama, though, if the signature piece of legislation that he spent his first two years -- after a huge election, a change election, is overturned 5-4, what's the historical impact not just for the president but for the court? >> i think it's -- i think it will be a permanent black eye. this is the great achievement. >> for the president or the court. >> for the president. >> for t

jackson with more on the story. >> reporter: baltimore police say they have suspended detective daniel thomas nicholson iv, regarding a case involving his daughter. police say nicholson is the subject of a criminal investigation by the city state attorney's office. >> a citizen did contact in terg affairs with some pretty concerns an given those concerns, we decided to suspend the officer. >> his teenaged daughter mariah was reported missing friday april 20. according to our media partners at the baltimore sun, baltimore county police officers were investigating the case and city officers say nicholson will on his own search for his daughter and that's the reason for the investigation. nicholson's daughter eventually returned home. >> we have a history here of holding individuals accountable and investigating all allegations and that's what we're committed to doing in this case. >> ironically, nicholson was the lead detective in the nationally publicized felicia barnes case, the missing teen later found missing is not related to nicholson. and she called them and indicated she returned home, says the daughter. i'm k

thomas jefferson took his shoes off and would edge teddy at the finish line barefooted. too bad for teddy. maybe later in the season. one other redskins note, they have signed safety denard jacksonpent the previous five nfl seasons with the tampa bay bucs. >>> thanks. and now you have the news edge. of course the news is always on. myfoxdc.com. friday night, go out and enjoy it. and be back at 10:00 for the news edge. we will be too. 

caller: i would say it is several presidents from thomas jefferson to garfield but most importantly and notably, i would say andrew jacksonor being the only president to pay off our national debt. i want to include john f. kennedy and it is interesting that he's president who was against a national bank has been assassinated or has had an assassination attempt on their life such as jackson. the gun man has had both of his guns misfire. both of those presidents and no one has done a sense kennedy. he tried to issue and was backed -- there was $4 billion in silver nodes and i think that is the number one crisis facing this country. i think that took extreme courage from those presidents who were against the national bank. host: extra the call. news from the weekend as the present wraps up this summit of the americas the headline from "the washington post"-- in come, inequality has dominated the themes and the signing ceremonies vivian has this comment -- our guest on "newsmakers, go ahead of the congressional campaign committee and what we can expect in the general election. we have the republican and democratic senate camp

jackson from the far west was the candidate of the fronti frontier. henry clay from kentucky was the candidate of the middle states and thomas from georgia was also involvedhe suffered a stroke. essentially what it came down to, since you vote for the three candidates was an election between adams and jackson and clay and adams won the vote in the house of representatives despite the fact that jackson won more popular and electoral votes. he then -- adams then appointed henry clay his secretary of state and a corrupt bargain was alleged by the jacksonians and although it wasn't proved, it put some fire in their belly and the jacksonian democrats came back four years later and defeated adams handily and thus began the two terms of old hickory. host: back to the phones. linda waiting on the republican line from south dakota. good morning, linda. caller: good morning. my question is regarding the national initiative for the popular vote. host: the national popular vote interstate act. caller: yes. since the northeast has what i assume is 1/3 of the population or the west coast, another third. why would then there be any -- why should north dakota and south d

thomas jefferson had daughters. james madison has a stepson. james monroe has daughters. and number seven, andrew jackson, is childless. the second president, john adams, has a son. and his eldest son, john quincy adams, becomes the sixth president. so the first seven presidents only -- one had sons, the second one had sons, and one of those becomes the sixth president. so, in a way we were lucky. american politics might have been very crowded if there had been younger washingtons and jeffersons and month rows, not just daughters but sons able to contend for those offices. but so the adamses saw in their own family that having a name, having an experience, having a history, gives you a leg up in democratic politics. >> from america's first dynasty, all men have flaws and ticks. the flaws of the adamses limited their public effectiveness. although two of them became president they were failures in office. if the two adams administrations were the family's only legacy we would not be interested in them. for the last 50 years there has been an effort to reevaluate john residentsed administration upwards. >>