about union general william rosecrans career and reputation and crashes with superiors such as ulysses s grant and secretary of war edwin stanton. this was part of a day long conference as part of school's center for civil war history. >> so it is my distinct pleasure to introduce our first speaker of the afternoon, dr. william is the kurtz now center managering director if you haven't been able to glean how important he is at the now center. i want to say how important he is to everything we do at the now collected. he is completing an collection. soldiers of the cross the authoritative text out sometimes later this spring. working a biography about some guy that he is talking about today. a rosecrans guy. but he is also again instrumental to everything that we do at the center, especially to our digital projects to black virginiasens and blue and the uva unionist. he is fundamental to our undergraduate internship program and public events like this. i would like you all to join me in welcoming will kurtz [ applause ] >> they don't let me usually talk at these things. and i'm afraid you're ab

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history, william kurtz talks about william rosen cranes' career and clashes with superiors like ulysses s. grant and edwin stanton. this was part of a day long conference hosted by the center for civil war history. >> it is my distinct pressure to produce the first speaker of this afternoon. if you haven't been able to glean how important he is, i want to say how important will is to everything we do here. he is completing an edited collection titled soldiers of the cross. the text will be out sometime later this spring. i think he's going to talk about rosecrans, but he is also instrumental to everything that we do at the center, especially to our digital projects and black virginians in blue. he is fundamental to our under graduate internship and public events like this. so i would like you all to join me in welcoming will kurtz. >> they don't usually let me talk at these things. i'm afraid you are about to find out why. ro rose cranes is kind of a downer and this is perhaps the first and last time we will talk about him in our day together. he may have mentioned him briefly and after he menti

and current president, ulysses s grant. nearly a decade after the war's end, the nation's eyes no longer saw this president exclusive through the lens of war victory. politics hundred heavy over thi of war victory. politics hung heavy over the meeting besieging grant's postwar leadership. dame pant white violence were sweeping away republican governments in the forms of southern states. had reunited in part over radical-led, constitution full amendments giving sitsship rights to former slaves, including the right to vote. all now threatened grant's legacy and with it, lincoln. tonal this week, in the wake of catastrophic elect, scandal- ridden republicans whose bloody shirt had advantage quiched democrats for decades were trounced nationwide, losing 96 congressional seats and costing republicans their 16-year house majority. it is still the national party's worst ever defeat n lincoln's and grant's illinois. republicans lost eight of 18 congressional seats. the results in neighboring indiana and ohio were even worse. more e

leadership surveys taken between 2000 and 2017 grover cleveland dropped from 17th to 23rd twice and ulysses s. grant makes the most amount rise, going from the 33rd to the 22nd spot. where does your favorite right -- rankt -- ? isc-span's the president's great vacation reading. president trump and vice president pence participated in the welcome ceremony at the pentagon for defense secretary mark esper, he was sworn in early this week after being approved by the senate with a 90-8 vote. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ [playing "hail to the chief."] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen please remain standing for the singing of the national anthem by the united states navy band. >> o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched streamingllantly and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night thereur flag was still o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free brave ♪ ome of the >

ulysses s. grant makes the most rheumatic rise of all the presidents. where does your favorite president rank? learned that and more in .-span's the presidents it is great vacation reading. available wherever books are sold. in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers make up their own minds. c-span open the doors to washington policymaking for all to see. bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. a lot has changed in 40 years but today that big idea is more relevant than ever. and online, c-span is your unfiltered view of make upnt, so you can your are mine. brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. on "newsmakers" this week, we welcome louisiana republican congressman garrett graves. he serves as a member of the house natural resources committee and the select committee on the climate crisis created earlier this year. helping in studio with our questions, brian schatz, energy and environment reporter. also ben hulac, staff writer at cq roll call. ben, you get the first

crafted by ulysses s grant. george h thomas. of the commander from fort donelson. however important. however said what was going on with the confederates. in my mind operations simply seemed less decisive. more than 50 years of additional research is very painful to speak those words has brought me to a more considered but not a different conclusion. on this much disputed topic. this leads many people to look at me as a kind of around. from the past. they read something when he was 11 and never really understood anything else. i think it is fine that they think that. what do we live for? provide support for our friends. here is my conclusion. in terms of political impact. the effect on morale behind the lines in the united states and the confederacy. perception in london and paris. my assessment goes against much historical writing. a good deal of which criticizes. the battle of gettysburg. other elements of the war in the east. they have shaped popular american understanding of the world. i'm the first to say. many people know this. i have no patience with people

history, william kurtz talks about william rosen cranes' career and clashes with superiors like ulysses s. grant and edwin stanton. this was part of a day long conference hosted by the center for civil war history. >> it is my distinct pressure to produce the first speaker of this afternoon. if you haven't been able to glean how important he is, i want to say how important will is to

about union general william rosecrans career and reputation and crashes with superiors such as ulysses s grant and secretary of war edwin stanton. this was part of a day long conference as part of school's center for civil war history. >> so it is my distinct pleasure to introduce our first speaker of the afternoon, dr. william is the kurtz now center managering director if you haven't been able to glean how important he is at the now center. i want to say how important he is to everything we do at the now collected. he isom

ulysses s grant makes the most dramatic rise of all the presidents.ng from the 33rd to the 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learn that and more about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief executives in c-span's presidents. it's great vacation reading. available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org/the presidents. washington journal continues. schwartz joinss us now. he has written for the new yorker and new york times magazine. last year you worked on a profile of robert mueller for gq. when he breaks his silence again tomorrow and testifies before the house judiciary committee and then the house intel committee what are you expecting from him? >> from what we've seen it sounds like it's going to be a lot of reiterating of what we have already written the report. one thing that's very interesting to me is there is so much ambiguity and legal hairsplitting in the language of the report he may inadvertently have to deviate from it a little bit just to put it in plain english and a way that people can understand particularly

it's ulysses s. grant. first professional team, were grant's guests in june 1869. >> spring 2015, great barrington, massachusetts, and life's thrown florence sasso a curveball. she's in a feud with steve strommer, the genealogy instructor at her local senior center. >> and i went to the doctor. they doubled my blood-pressure medication 'cause i was so upset about him. >> she's taken a family heirloom, this 1860 baseball card of the brooklyn atlantics, which includes her great-great-uncle archibald mcmahon, and given it to steve. it may be the oldest baseball card in existence. and he's researching its value. but it appears to florence that he doesn't want to give it back. >> you went yourself to the gentleman's house to get it? >> yes. he really wanted to hold on to it. but i didn't trust him with it. >> so essentially, he was trying to help you. he just wanted to be paid. >> yes. >> i may have half tongue-in-cheek, half joking, said, "well, i'm your agent. 10%." but i wasn't really gonna charge her with th

ulysses s. grant grant makes the most dramatic rise from all the president's going from the 33rd of the 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learned that and more about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief executives in c-span's the president's. it's great vacation reading, available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org/the president's. >> earlier today arkansas republican senator tom cotton discussed immigration and national security issues. he appeared at an event hosted by the center for immigration studies here in washington, d.c. this is about 40 minutes. >> good morning. my name is mark krikorian, executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we have done a series of interviews with important players in the immigration issue, whether in congress or in the administration. and this morning suggests is senator cotton, the junior senator from arkansas. senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an army infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. he's on s

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ulysses s. grant grant makes the most dramatic rise from all the president's going from the 33rd of the 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learned that and more about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief executives in c-span's the president's. it's great vacation reading, available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org/the president's. >> earlier today arkansas republican senator tom cotton discussed immigration and national security issues. he appeared at an event hosted by the center for immigration studies here in washington, d.c. this is about 40

ulysses s. grant made the most amount of cries of all of the presidents, going from the 33rd to 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learn that and more about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief executives in a c-span's "the presidents," great vacation reading. available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org. productsan history tv are now available at the new c-span online store. .org to seenstore what is new and check out all of the c-span products. >> monday night on "the communicators," ohio representative bob latta, the ranking member on the energy and commerce subcommittee talks about recent actions by the government regarding the tech industry. >> when you think about the almost 50 billion robo calls made every year into this country, it will hopefully -- hopefully provide relief to american citizens. it is important because a lot of people say in the district, the top issues people contact me about, and it is the top issue that the fcc and ftc receive every year, is ab

but ever since ulysses s. grantresident it's been nine justices. >> we don't have the sound here but i want to ask you this and give you credit for it because in your work with justice ginsberg you really bring this to light. she was asked what her greatest achievement was in her life. and you would think someone who sits on the supreme court would say my time on the court or this decision or that dissent, but no, she referred back to her time as a lawyer, as an advocate in the '70s and '80s. i'm sure you were not surprised by that. >> i'm sure even if she had not become a supreme court justice, she always said it's not just womens liberation but mans liberation. and i think that work of recognizing the constitution recognizes we're all human beings regardless of gender is going to endure. >> i was just going to say as thurgood marshal was to the civil rights movement as a litigator ruth bader ginsberg was to feminism. and even if she had never been appointed a judge of any kind she would have been a major figure in

ulysses s. grant makes the rise from the presidents from the 33rd to the 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learn that and more about the lines and leadership skills of 44 chief executives. in c-span's the presidents. it's great vacation reading. available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org/the presidents. >> president trump met in the oval office with a pakistani prime minister to talk about u.s. pakistan relations. president and the p.m. answered reporters questions on the geo politics of afghanistan, india and pakistan. >> thank you very much, it's my great honor to have the very popular and by the way, great athlete, one of the greatest, very popular prime minister of pakistan. we have many things to discussion. military, terrorism, trade and we do little trade with pakistan that we could be doing and should be doing when our countries get along perfectly and i think we'll have that start. we're going to have that start, but there's tremendous upside with respect to trade. one of the things we are going to be discussing

ulysses s. grant makes the most dramatic rise going from the 33rd to the 22nd.re does your favorite president rank? learn about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief the presidents. it is great vacation reading. available wherever books are sold. c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning we will discuss tensions between the -- and weran with will talk about flood preparation with lara lightbody. stephen wertheim on u.s. foreign-policy and diplomatic efforts. live washington journal, monday morning. join the discussion. monday on c-span, the youth nicotine epidemic. investigating the issues. we start with the prince of vaping. >> it is likely next or band-aids. there have been articles about this and studies about this. i know because my son and i have commented on those stories. kids don't think they are vaping. they know they are juuling. that is the truth. >> and the ceo of juul labs. underagedt want consumers using this product. we need to make sure no underaged consumers use this pr

andrew johnson and ulysses s grant had small eggrolls at the white house but it was just the first family. the grounds were open up to the public during his administration. 2 years prior to that, children were rolling eggs over at the capital and after congress had appropriated a lot of money to re-landscape the grounds, what they decided was they had had enough and they passed legislation inhibiting the public's use of the grounds. in 1877, there is a lot of rain so they didn't have to worry about the problem but in 1878 there is a question of whether or not people are going to be allowed on the grounds and president hayes decides that we have plenty of room on the south side of the white house and he opens the gates to the public. ever since then it is the longest running annual event in white house history. there have been different periods where the egg roll has been canceled. food rationing post-world war ii but for the most part, very consistent since 1878. >> who brought the commemorative wooden egg? >> that started with president at reagan. it was him and first lady nancy reagan o

leadership surveys taken between 2000 and 2017 grover cleveland dropped from 17th to 23rd twice and ulysses s. grant makes the most amount rise, going from the 33rd to the 22nd spot. where does your favorite right -- rankt -- ? isc-span's the president's great vacation reading. >>

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ulysses s grant makes the most dramatic rise of all the presidents, going from the 33rd to the 22nd slot. where does your favorite president right -mark learned that and more about the lives and leadership skills of 44 chief executive in c-span's the president. it's great vacation reading available wherever books are sold at c-span.org /the president. >> now hearing on schools and gun violence to parents who lost their children of parkland florida shooting by on the issue. other witnesses include the sheriff of dallas county florida was also the chair of the marjorie was actual public safety commission. from yesterday's, this is two hours. >> morning, i want to call this hearing order. the title of this hearing is examining state and federal regulations for an against violence. i want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. i should surely want to thank our witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. and in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, tu

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ulysses s. grant makes the most dramatic rise of all the presidents going from the 33rd to the 22nd spot. where does your favorite president rank? learned that and more about the life and leadership skills of 44 chief executives in c-span's "the presidents." it's a great vacation reading available wherever books are sold or at c-span.org/thepresidents. >> if you want more information on members of congress order c-span's congressional directory available online at c-span store.org. >> host: niels lesniewski, senior center staff writer with roll call on monday the senate begins a very busy week before the august recess. the chamber holding three votes money on whether to override the presidents of vetoes of resolutions blocking u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia. niels lesniewski, why did the president veto those resolutions? >> caller: well, the president believes that this is generally speaking and unto and appearance by congress in his conduct of foreign policy. also believes that arms sales themselves