discussion about the burning of you, south carolina following the surrender of the city to william tecumseh sherman. and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on oral history, an interview with daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers. a classified study on vietnam which he copied and gave to the "new york times" in 1971. find a complete television schedule at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching you call us, e-mail less -- us, or send us a tweet. during the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> each week, americans artifacts takes you to museums archives, and historic basis. the amelia heart -- a millionaire heart archives at purdue university shows a selected items from the ehrhardt collection, including poems and letters she wrote to her families, as well as a prenuptial letter she gave to her husband on her wedding day. amelia ehrhardt worked in west levy at for the last years of her life. it was during this flight that ehrhardt disappeared and 1987. >> from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the state

columbia, south carolina surrender to the union army under general william tecumseh sherman. recently a panel that historians discuss the fall and recovery. that is tonight on the civil war at 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on american history tv. >> this year, c-span's touring cities across the country exploring american history. a look at our recent visit to greensboro, north carolina. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend. >> today we are at the greensboro historical museum in an exhibit called the murphy confederate long arms collection and this collection was actually originally loaned to the museum, and then bequeathed to the museum upon dr. murphy's death in 2003. john and isabel murphy was a particular collector inveterate long arms. he was born in washington, d.c. and attended school in virginia. he was a southerner. he then enrolled in the navy. he served as a doctor for 20 years before retiring and assembled what is an outstanding collection, one of its kind of confederate long arms, and by that i mean rifles, was it, shotguns, and carbines

for example in december of 1864, when union general william tecumseh sherman captured savannah one local woman proclaimed, i wish a thousand pins were stuck in his bed and he was strapped down on them. another woman and her friends were forced to host a group of occupying union soldiers in their homes, and speaking for that group wound woman quipped can just the meteor thought of being among the damn yankees are enough to make all prematurely old. of course there was another craftier side for these women. when they used their southern charges to bewitch the occupying soldiers and they called it, quote, buttering those yankees to serve our own ends. so i'll talk how i got into this book. i am from philadelphia. i was born and raised in philadelphia. so i moved to atlanta, georgia in 2001, and spent six years there are and it was quite a culture shock as you can imagine. i had to get used to seeing the occasionol con fred rat flags on the lawn, the jokes about the war of northern aggression, and just the idea that the civil war seeped into daily life and conversation down south in a way it

. >> that is why i think all the way back to william tecumseh sherman saying "war is hell," and the peopleere the most opposed to war are the warriors. they understand more and more. >> war is addicting. that is a fact that many people won't acknowledge. war is hell. at the same time it is addicting. you never feel more alive than when that rpg shoots by your head. oh man. it is exhilarating. i feel weird saying it publicly, but it is the truth. you have people that reenlist to go back and get it again. they know they are never going to get in civilian life. some will try with drugs, some will try driving motorcycles down the freeway. it will never have that same rush, the same aliveness ever again. >> i second everything. you are not going to find it. i think a fallback to that, like bob was alluding to, depression. there is a huge part of that. you finally realize i'm not going to get there again. i'm not going to find that high again. then what do you do? what you do from there? you have to the evil to channel the energy you have harnessed to do something. i think to get back to the com

earlier in the month, general william tecumseh sherman had issued field order #15, which promised to confiscate lands and redistribute them to the newbie-free former slaves. this was the origins of the 40 acres and a mule idea. the world was watching a new kind of warfare unfold in the american south. massive citizen armies pulled from civilian populations of two democratic societies nearly 3 million men in arms. 10% of the combined population. nobody told them about the democratic peace theory, which is so popular and washington circles these days. sherman's march and the burning of columbia is as much about young men in war, wreaking vengeance upon helpless civilians, but there was also strategic purpose to the destruction. they aimed at destroying the capacity of the south to wage war. to destroy railroads and factories, to emancipate and arm slaves. the march was also designed to demoralize the south, the civilian population, in particular. and to demonstrate to the southern people but also to european powers -- here is my international history -- that the confederacy could no lo

about the burning of the columbia, south carolina, following the surrender of the city to william tecumseh sherman and his troops. and/oral histories, an interview with former consultant to the nixon white house, on the pentagon papers, a classified study on vietnam. which he copied and gave to the "new york times" in 1971. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. email us at comments at c-span.org. or send us a tweet at c-span, #comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> the u.s. house gaveling back in momentarily to continue work on a k through 12 education measure that would eliminate no child left behind national school requirements and give that authority to the states. debate and votes on a number of amendments are expected throughout the afternoon and before tomorrow we could see work on legislation to fund the department of homeland security. current funding expires at midnight on friday. live to the house floor here on c-span.

burning of columbia south carolina, following the surrender of the city to the union general william tecumseh sherman. and sunday at 2:00, an interview with daniel elbert on a classified study on vietnam which he get the "new york times" in 1971. contact us on www.c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. >> history book show features popular writers and airs on american history tv every weekend. this time, recounting the call of industrial business magnates william knudsen and henry kaiser to leaf their private sector positions and lead the war production effort during world war ii. this is a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. i'm henry olson, vice president of the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative which is a foundation or organization within aei, entity, that's what i was looking for entity within aei that supports original domestic policy-relateed research and big think books of which our current speaker, arthur herman, is the author of the book that is the summit of today's -- subject of

for example in december of 1864, when union general william tecumseh sherman captured savannah one local woman proclaimed, i wish a thousand pins were stuck in his bed and he was strapped down on them. another woman and her friends were forced to host a group of occupying union soldiers in their homes, and speaking for that group wound woman quipped can just the meteor thought of being among the damn yankees are enough to make all prematurely old. of course there was another craftier side for these women. when they used their southern charges to bewitch the occupying soldiers and they called it, quote, buttering those yankees to serve our own ends. so i'll talk how i got into this book. i am from philadelphia. i was born and raised in philadelphia. so i moved to atlanta, georgia in 2001, and spent six years there are and it was quite a culture shock as you can imagine. i had to get used to seeing the occasionol con fred rat flags on the lawn, the jokes about the war of northern aggression, and just the idea that the civil war seeped into daily life and conversation down south in a way it

general william tecumseh sherman took atlanta in september of 1864, about 5 months before the peace conference and began his infamous march to the sea. "i am going into the very bows of the confederacy," sherman -- bowels of the confederacy," sherman said, "and propose to leave a trail that will be recognized 50 years hence." mary mary chestnut was the wife of a former united states senator from south carolina. some of you may remember her from the ken burns series on the civil war. she made an entry in her diary when she learned that atlanta had fallen. "no hope," she said, "we will try to have no fear." these are the ruins of columbia, south carolina, after sherman's troops moved up from georgia and destroyed it two weeks after the hampton roads peace conference. "columbia is but dust and ash," she said. "men, women and children are left there homeless without a particle of food. socialites were surviving on scraps of scattered corn left bond the ground by sherman's horses." this is a union mortar, one of many that were brought down by rail that were battering petersburg, virginia, at the ti

a discussion about the burning of columbia, south carolina following the defeat of william tecumseh sherman and his troops. sunday afternoon on oral history, an interview with daniel ellsberg on the pentagon papers. the classified study onvia. which he copied and gave to the new york times in 1971. follow our complete schedule on c-span.org. call us at 202-6 26-3400. or send comments to the addresses on your screen. >> veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald apologized about what he told reporters. here he is. va affairs sec. robert mcdonald: thank you. good afternoon and thank you for coming. i'm bob mcdonald. as you know, when i was in los angeles, engaging in a homeless man to determine his veteran status, i asked the man where he'd served in the military. he responded that he had served in special forces and in an attempt to connect with that veteran, to make him feel comfortable, i incorrectly stated that i too had been a special forces. that was wrong and i have no excuse. i have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces. they and all veterans deserve a d

about the burning of lumia, south carolina, all on the surrender of 80 two union general william tecumseh shermanand sunday afternoon at 2:00 on oral history, an interview with former consultant to the nixon white house daniel ellsberg on the pentagon papers, a classified study on vietnam which he copied in gave to the new york times in 1971. find our complete schedule at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us at -- email us at -- or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. on thursday, the federal communications commission voted three to two to approve new open internet rules. the rules are designed for -- to prohibit inners that service providers from discriminating against content moving to their network and for charging for preferential treatment. this portion of the meeting is an hour and 35 minutes. >> we are now pleased to present for your consideration an order that was set forth clear sustainable, enforceable rules to preserve and protect the open internet as a place for innovation and free

for example in december of 1864, when union general william tecumseh sherman captured savannah one local woman proclaimed, i wish a thousand pins were stuck in his bed and he was strapped down on them. another woman and her friends were forced to host a group of occupying union soldiers in their homes, and speaking for that group wound woman quipped can just the meteor thought of being among the damn yankees are enough to make all prematurely old. of course there was another craftier side for these women. when they used their southern charges to bewitch the occupying soldiers and they called it, quote, buttering those yankees to serve our own ends. so i'll talk how i got into this book. i am from philadelphia. i was born and raised in philadelphia. so i moved to atlanta, georgia in 2001, and spent six years there are and it was quite a culture shock as you can imagine. i had to get used to seeing the occasionol con fred rat flags on the lawn, the jokes about the war of northern aggression, and just the idea that the civil war seeped into daily life and conversation down south in a way it

for example in december of 1864, when union general william tecumseh sherman captured savannah one local woman

discussion about the burning of columbia, south carolina, following the surrender of the city to william tecumseh sherman and his troops in 1865. and sunday afternoon on 2:00, on oral history, an interview on the pentagon papers, a classified study on vietnam, which he copied and gave to the new york times in 1971. find the complete television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know you think about the programs you are watching. call us, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> next weekend marks the third -- 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, when voting rights advocates on a march from selma to montgomery, alabama were met with violence from alabama state troopers. "american history tv," will be live from selma and etc. and sunday, and we will show highlights of our coverage. here is congressman john lewis one of the leaders of the march, reflecting on selma 50 years later. >> two weeks ago, i was with congress and lewis. for the first time in my life, i walked across the bridge. what struck me is that when you get to the top of the br