andrew johnson was a southern unionists and the war was over the union. furthermore there are huge constitutional issues. huge raise issues in both books so they dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors and the authors will speak and then we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions and answers and i expect you to participate. when we begin i remind you this is not a moment for you to give speeches, it is time for you to ask questions and for the authors to answer. first, harold holzer has written or edited several dozen books. he is by my standards perhaps the best authority on abraham lincoln in the world. i recently had the opportunity to use one of his books in my undergraduate class with great success. harold has received the national humanities metal and he is senior vice president for external affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. his associate, craig symonds is professor emeritus of the u.s. naval academy and former naval officer. he is a very famous on these grounds because his wife wor

this right in 1980 is just one example of the hostility between protestant unionist rangers and irishatholic celtics. it is rooted in historical fact. >> to my knowledge, nothing like this has never happened before, either weather is sports related or society related. this could potentially be a watershed. >> why? because may be attempting to murder people over football will shock scott went into action. >> you are watching bbc news. these are our top stories. an oscar-nominated journalists has been killed while covering the conflict in western libya appeared fighting continues in misrata. rebel forces have rejected a cease-fire proposal by colonel gaddafi. in texas, they are battling to contain wildfires that have burned more than 1 million acres in the past fortnight. several towns have been evacuated. >> burning from border-to- border, that is how one official described the massive wildfires now raging across texas. everything in their path is destroyed. battling the fires is a huge challenge. drowse, high temperatures, and strong wind is not helping. several towns have already bee

to sleep unionists and one of the best known persons in the whole world. all his thoughts were focused on flight to could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life. what happened in those few seconds. and what secrets these sealed barrels still pluribus current plates on r.g.p. wealthy british scientists. lightly. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines few minutes to cause a report. please please. more news today violence is once again flared up the families are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations today please please please. please .

the local has to care about the program, has members who met in the trade unionists to be put onto a compact system joint work fighting free-trade agreement, fighting this dreadful thing to columbia, which like wars in iraq and afghanistan during billions of dollars tax dollars out of this country that could go much for fulfilling these the mansion budget deficits for years to much about wisconsin, ohio, indiana and on down the line. which reminds me, we have further marked as a cure who was allied with bob mellencamp and others and work some back, a leader of u.s. labor against the work. perhaps he could end up the great u.s. labor against the war fire. it's on the table. i want to highly recommend the chart on the back. you know, we need to reframe the debate about what we need to do to protect public jobs and services. right now the limits of the labor or postal seems to be perhaps the rich very much needed. put another notch to take the pressure off the base benefits now. gasifier points out, you really want to deal with this problem but the fiscal crisis in the public sector, yo

he is a unionist. he is for the common man. he campaigns for the homestead act. a lot of things seem very progressive and populist and yet populism -- it is a double-edged sword. a lot of times populists are in favor of measures you would think would be progressive. he is for the homestead act, giving poor people land. he wanted public education. he was always a champion of public education thinking back on his own life, he wanted a better shot for people. he only wanted that -- he was for the homes that act. when reconstruction came there was a time to get land reform, republicans in congress wanted land reform in the south to give them land to give them the kind of independence that johnson understood was needed. that is what land meant. you don't work for people you can grow your own food and subsist on your own plot. he didn't want that for blacks. this populist part, be racist part inhibited his thoughts about how this might be expanded to include everybody in america. he makes his political run at thinking of himself as a champion of the common man. he is f

i asked myself this question and other trade unionists answer the question and friends of mine who areot the labor movement and don't know anything about the labor movement asked me this question. so how did you get into this situation? how did we get so week? it happened on our watch. i mean, how did we get here? and i think we have some good answers to that, mostly globalization as practice, productivity and technology productivity and the destruction of the labor movement but there is another one that -- i was on some radio talk shows and meetings and stuff in wisconsin, and it seems to me that we also have two not just talk about what is happening but treat them as symptoms. and what is the cause of the symptom? if you are in ours, you try to figure out what actually is going on, right? and one of the things i think we have not done well in the labor movement is try to figure that out and look, if we don't talk about what is really behind all this i don't think we can correct it and move in a different direction so look everyone in this room knows all these terms, the neoliberal, n

. >> and now unionists me and -- unanimously support giving how many billions of dollars to build electricity although not one single penny from ottawa but now you cut. [inaudible] >> we have said we're prepared to support the project for this has the capacity to radically reducing greenhouse gases and climate change with a major shift to clean energy in that part of the country. we're clear real treat all provinces equitably with the budget and you can handzus gaston we'll continue to support projects that are good for that. >> host: that is the end of the one on one now to the floor of view. >> back to the question about why you too possibly make sense of $6 billion of corporate tax breaks in the middle of the largest deficit in canadian history. high spending government in the history of the country and some of it has been sheer waste that is what the auditor general report is all about. this was a stimulus but scattering money around to build gazebos and fake flakes sam the canadians don't have confidence in your management of the economy because you waste public money that is why the aud

fashion himself after his hero, andrew jackson county comes of age during the age of jackson, he is a unionist. he is for the common man. he campaigned for the homestead act. there's lots of things that seem very, very progressive, very popular in the way. as you know, populism has the double-edged sword there. lots of time populists are in favor of measures do you think would be progressive. he was for the homestead act, giving poor people and. he wanted public education. he was always the champion of public education, thinking back on its own life and how deprived he was. he wanted a better shot for people. people who were privileged. the catch was the only one of that for whites. he was for the homestead act as i said. when reconstruction came and there was a time to give land reform, republicans in congress wanted land reform to give the former enslaved people to give them land, to give them independence that johnson and others understood was seated. that's what land men. you work for people, gravure and food come you can subsist on your ipod and you're not beholden to anyone. he wanted th

of vale fell constituency groups such as the coalition for women and the coalition of black trade unionists. there is a new next up initiative to incorporate young workers to conferences and mobilization campaigns. these efforts have been accompanied by an expansion of the issue addressed by labor. the fight for workers includes immigration reform, work and family balance policies, sexual harassment protection, protection of civil rights and anti-discrimination actions. i wanted to talk in a bit more detail about young workers because i think they pose a special challenge to unions. the gender -- generation gap and the gender gap can be especially hard to bridge. young people also present a great hope for the future and as a generation, seem to be interested in social justice. the afl-cio reports on young workers conducted in 2009 and 2010 revealed an increasing number of americans between 16 and 34 are experiencing unemployment, part-time employment, and low-wage jobs. there also overwhelmingly worried about their future. young americans have been responsive to the progress of political ag

fashion himself after his hero, andrew jackson county comes of age during the age of jackson, he is a unionist. he is for the common man. he campaigned for the homestead act. there's lots of things that seem very, very progressive, very popular in the way. as you know, populism has the double-edged sword there. lots of time populists are in favor of measures do you think would be progressive. he was for the homestead act, giving poor people and. he wanted public education. he was always the champion of public education, thinking back on its own life and how deprived he was. he wanted a better shot for people. people who were privileged. the catch was the only one of that for whites. he was for the homestead act as i said. when reconstruction came and there was a time to give land reform, republicans in congress wanted land reform to give the former enslaved people to give them land, to give them independence that johnson and others understood was seated. that's what land men. you work for people, gravure and food come you can subsist on your ipod and you're not beholden to anyone. he wanted th

fashion himself after his hero, andrew jackson county comes of age during the age of jackson, he is a unionist. he is for the common man. he campaigned for the homestead act. there's lots of things that seem very, very progressive, very popular in the way. as you know, populism has the double-edged sword there. lots of time populists are in favor of measures do you think would be progressive. he was for the homestead act, giving poor people and. he wanted public education. he was always the champion of public education, thinking back on its own life and how deprived he was. he wanted a better shot for people. people who were privileged. the catch was the only one of that for whites. he was for the homestead act as i said. when reconstruction came and there was a time to give land reform, republicans in congress wanted land reform to give the former enslaved people to give them land, to give them independence that johnson and others understood was seated. that's what land men. you work for people, gravure and food come you can subsist on your ipod and you're not beholden to anyone. he wanted th