war institute conference with discussions about president james buchanan, political cartoonist thomas nashal robert e. lee. president james buchanan has been blamed for failing to avert southern secession and avoid the civil war. historians discussed his legacy at the annual conference of the civil war institute at gettysburg college in pennsylvania. th

[applause] cartoonist thomas nash and general robert e. lee. president james buchanan has been blamed for failing to avert southern secession and avoid the civil war. historians discussed his legacy at the annual conference of the civil war institute at gettysburg college in pennsylvania. this is an hour. >>> good morning, you all. y'all. sorry. i spend a lot of time in north carolina and virginia. we need to go ahead and get started with our first session

war institute conference with discussions about president james buchanan, political cartoonist thomas nash and general robert e. lee. president james buchanan has been blamed for failing to avert southern secession and avoid the civil war. historians discussed his legacy at the annual conference of the civil war institute at gettysburg college in pennsylvania. this is an hour. >>> good morning, you all. y'all. sorry. i spend a lot of time in north carolina and virginia. we need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. it's wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8:30 in the morning for a panel on james buchanan, which is -- no, we all know that james buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. i want to quickly introduce our two speakers. first is john quist. john is actually standing. he is the tall one standing behind michael birkner. he is a professor of history at shippensburg university. he studied at the university of michigan under j. mills thornton. if you recall, michael neiberg, who you heard last night was also a student of

followed by political cartoonist thomas nash and his illustrations during the civil war and later, thepact of general braxton bragg the commander of the army of tennessee and called the most hated man of the confederacy. >> american history tv continues in prime time with recent civil war conferences. tonight, programs from day three of the gettysburg civil war conference including discussions on general george g. meade and the experiences of escaped union prisoners of war. american history tv prime time begins at 8:00 eastern. >>> coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on "reel america," why we fight, the battle of china. >> three facts must never be forgotten. china is history. china is land. china is people. >> on sunday at 11:30 a.m. eastern, political economy professor and author robert wright on alexander hamilton's views of the national debt. >> hamilton advised the creation of an energetic, efficient government, one that did one thing well for as little money as possible and that one thing was to protect americans' lives, libert

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