the war goes on and gettysburg soon becomes a preserved landscape first by the gettysburg battlefield memorial association and then by the war department of the united states government, and the agencies that manage the battlefield park held an enormous amount of challenges and the story of the rock walls on little round tops are a great example of this. as i mentioned, chamberlain and his men had no protection, no walls. they are sensed in the night of big round top to take that summit, and then reinforcements moved basically in behind them a and occupied that stretch of little round top and they have no idea there will not be more fighting on the hill and they do what soldiers do. they stack up. they build defensive works and that's the rock walls that we see there today. those rock walls were a source of incredible consternation to joshua chamberlain because he didn't want americans in the 1890s or 1990s, he didn't want americans going to that spur and thinking his men had time to build rocks that they had any kind of protection to hide behind. he wanted to convey the idea that for

even before gettysburg, mead sort of sees what cycles is. he has his eye on sickles as early as the winter of 1863. he sees sickles and joseph hooker. and he says he's a person of undue influences. he's a shrewd individual. but to your question more directly, regarding the movement on july the 2nd, i think it's hard to look at that any other way but to say that sickles' directly defied an order given by his commanding officer. sickles is ordered to extend his line to connect with the second corps, hancock's corps down south. mead expects him to do so. he sends his son down it one time to suggest or sell sickles to hold that position. he's anxious about it. he does not like that position. and ultimately will defy that order and move his third corps into an incredibly isolated and vulnerable position. we know what happens when confederates attack on july the 2nd. sickles' third corps is steam rolled. the big picture is, it's really hard to disentake advantagele george mead's reputation without grasping dan sickles. sickles will have lincoln's

2013 on gettysburg. peter: and that disloyalty is based upon partisanship against -- and that is why? jennifer: right, right. peter: how does it manifest itself in any kind of disloyalty? jennifer: well, it doesn't, but the perception is there, and that is what the joint committee on the conduct of the war is going to investigate. and the joint committee on the conduct of war seeks to root out pro-mcclellan factions, because they view them as disloyal, and meade finds himself wrapped up in that. pete: would you say a victim of it? he escapes it eventually. maybe tell us a little bit about the committee. let's go ahead and do it now. i will get a book to show folks, because the testimony of the committee has been transcribed by published and edited hide. i will get in just a moment. jennifer: sure. the joint committee on the conduct of the war originates out of the first union defeat at bull run and balls bluff, and the joint committee on the conduct of the war that was established in 1861, and the intent

there is another book on the gettysburg campaign. chris stone knows more about george meade than anyone on the planet who has been working on meade quite extensively. eric is working on meade and the gettysburg campaign, too, so it is a way of saying that george meade is coming back in the conversation, and with all of these works taking different approaches, i think it will give this justice to this neglected or misunderstood civil war commander. so many misinterpretations of george meade need to be challenged with more nuance of this important general. >> so let's get to the canard's. one of the persons to add to the list to writing on george mead is doug gawd. he is a neighbor as well. again, we have a lot of fresh scholarship awaiting us on the general. so, get us started here, jen. tell us some of these misunderstandings, misperceptions of george meade? >> well, if you follow any conversation on social media or talk to people at cwi or civil war conferences, they tend to distill meade to some basic truisms or overstatements. one

there is another book on the gettysburg campaign. chris stone knows more about george meade than anyone on the planet. he has been working on meade quite extensively. another guy is working on meade and the gettysburg campaign, too, so it is a way of saying that george meade is coming back in the conversation, and with all of these works taking different approaches, i think it will give this justice on this misunderstood civil war commander. so many misinterpretations of george meade need to be challenged with more nuance of this important general. >> so let's get to the canard's. one of the persons writing on george mead is doug gawd. he is a neighbor as well. again, we have a lot of fresh scholarship awaiting us on the general. so, get us started here, jen. tell us some of these misunderstandings, miss perceptions of george. >> well, if you follow any conversation on social media or talk to people at cwi or civil war conferences, they tend to distill meade to some truisms or overstatements. one of the quick ones you will get is mea

so, the students at gettysburg college and the ones who are future gettysburg college students will have jim to take classes from. >> that is fantastic. >> was that an official announcement? >> yes. i hope i have not jumped the gun there. >> breaking news. >> it is kind of breaking. last week was i think when everything was finally settled and he signed on the dotted line, so to speak. he will definitely be here in the fall. >> that is fantastic. >> that's great. >> chris, i will get it started here. you gave us a little bit of background about ear experiences at the park. i just would like to have a sense of how visitors who came to little round top, who came to the 20th mainline unit, could you just tell us what's informed their thinking? what were their expectations when they came for when your tours? >> yes. that is a tough question to be able to answer. one of the things that i find fascinating about little round top is that you have all of these layers of history kind of stacked up on top, prebattle history, it's actually fascinating. of course, the battle itself and then you have

we saw it at gettysburg. it was ridiculous to do all of these different programs that we did and visitors would walk away not understanding what any of it meant. it was brought home to me when day. i was at the angle where picket's charge reaches its climax in the battle and there was a couple standing there at the angle. there weren't many people around. and they were from britain. and they had seen the electric map, the museum, the cyclorama. they had even done a tour of the battlefield and he looked at me and said, he goes, um, what was this all about? [ laughter ] >> and i never forgot that. because it really brought home to me the failure of what we were doing, that we weren't helping people understand why this was relevant. and one of the key things i learned as an interpreter is that you can have all of the facts and figures, all the troop numbers, all the ranks, all the dates of commission, all of that. if you can't make the story you're telling relevant to the people who are listening, it doesn't mat

go south of gettysburg. just as you cross into maryland, there is a pull off there, and they have some of the maryland interpretive civil war trail markers. it would have been a great defensive position. the creek itself is important, but there is a bridge called parr ridge that would have provided a good position for the army of northern virginia, should that position need to be employed. he gets criticized for this, because it suggests he wants to fight defensively, but as soon as the battle begins july 1, reynolds does not give the pipe creek circular. but it is a conditional plan, and, remember, meade is an engineer. he is a topographical engineer. he could fight the defensive battle if need be. that is what it is. but what it is made into have to -- after the battle by sickles and others is the interpretation that meade did not want to fight there, that he wanted to fight defensively or retreat. they also look at that in the joint committee on the conduct of the war, meade and pipe creek. it diminishes

then i reached out to gettysburg. then i reached out to. he put me in touch -- with maybe some of you know him. he is a renowned bugler. probably the most renowned bugler in all of america. really quite amir amazing. he gave all the support to the program. he is a retired -- he served 23 years as a trumpeter, a drum major, with the united states air force band in washington d.c.. he's nationally and internationally recognized as the leading expert on military calls. finally, in 2017, we launched 200 years of taps. every evening for memorial day to labor day at 7 pm we could relinquish the noise and the pressures of the day by strolling the 27 acres of the cemetery park to witness the sounding of taps. i have had the honor to participate in this moving ceremony almost 300 times by now, even though the actual ceremony stays the same every evening is different. he's gifted musicians. these buglers whose patriotism brings them to the ceremony to honor our veterans by sounding taps. they sound the one minute call of gratitude. one minute call fo

specifically gettysburg. because, when i was you know going to the national park services, when you say national park service you match in the entire service is always on board with everything that say some park is doing. and the national park service is like a navy, where every park is its own ship, and they do things kind of in their own way, and each park there are some similarities, they wear the same uniform they do love the same things, but they are not all on board with doing the same type of interpretation. you know some parks are easier to bring along than other parks, a lot of times it has to do with the person in charge of the park maybe it's a superintendent it might be the chief of interpretation, but there was always a feeling i encountered in the park service among some people that the only thing we should talk about on the civil war battlefields is the battle. the soldiers, the battle, the fighting that occurred there and leave it to academics in classrooms to talk about why they were fighting

actually fought at gettysburg. at least i think that is right. john: you are correct. nina: at the 75th, if they had limited it to only men who had fought at gettysburg come would have -- they would have -- john: two. or ten. nina: the numbers would be really small. at the 50th, because there really were not african-american soldiers at gettysburg. yes, it is a jim crow period. but they are also excluded by the fact that there were not black soldiers at the battle of gettysburg. but in 1938, because they are not limiting it just to who fought at gettysburg, there are actually a number of african-american men veterans , who come to the 75th reunion and they are interviewed. there is a great collection of photographs, actually, at gettysburg of men who came to the 75th reunion. and a number of african-americans are present at the ceremony. peter: and just a little plug for my college -- gettysburg college housed most of the veterans. not in the dorms, but they had buildings that accommodated them. so for that reunion

at gettysburg. at least i think that is right. >> correct. >> at the 75th, you know, if they had limited it to only men who had fought in gettysburg, they would have -- >> to. numbers >> would be really small. one thing you have going on in the 50th is because there really were not african american soldiers at gettysburg. i mean yes it's a jim crow period and they probably would've found ways to exclude them but they are also excluded by the fact that they were not black soldiers at the battle of gettysburg. in 1938, because they are not limiting it just to who fought at gettysburg, there are actually a number of african american men veterans who come to the 75th reunion. they are interviewed. there is a great collection of photographs actually at gettysburg man. who came to the 75th reunion. the number of african americans are present at that ceremony. >> just a little plug for my college, gettysburg college, house moved most of the veterans. it's not in the dorms but they had buildings to accommod

is --what is interesting at the 50th, the veterans come back to gettysburg actually fought at gettysburg. at the 75th, if they had limited it to only man who had fought at -- the numbers would be really small. at the 50th, because the really were not african-american soldiers at gettysburg. yes, it is a jim crow period. they are also excluded by the fact that there were not black soldiers at the battle of gettysburg. in 1938, because they are not limiting it just to who fought at gettysburg, there are a number of african-american men and veterans who come to the 75th reunion and they are interviewed. a great collection of photographs at gettysburg of men who came to the 75th reunion. a number of african-americans are present at the ceremony. college housedrg most of the veterans. they had buildings that accommodated them. nina: right. john: peter: you are able to recover a wide range of voices. the differences among people and -- they used the civil war and i was struck by your sensitivity to these complexities. nobody could come away from your a right say, there was way of remembering t

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we played that clip from joe biden at gettysburg. we just passed the one 57th anniversary of the gettysburg address, where lincoln called for a new birth of freedom. did that happen in the years afterwards? and how many times in this country do you think we have had a new birth of freedom? when do we know we have achieved that? david: that is a great question, i have written about that. yes, a real rebirth was achieved in the wake of the incredible slaughter from the civil war. it was a rebirth of the constitution itself, and really a second american republic, a new republic born out of the three great constitutional amendments, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. every american should understand those three amendments. as one caller said, they should know who james madison is. we should know this three amendments, and all of the other reconstruction acts that came with it. it was an attempt to re-create in american republic around the ideals, under law, of a multiracial democracy. it was defeated by the resistance of the south. whi

tonight, the gettysburg college civil war institute hosts an evening with oklahoma state university professor jennifer murray discussing union general george mead and his wartime career and experience as the union commander at gettysburg. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. and enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend. ♪ >> down from canada, the mallard ducks. a school room window in nebraska. ♪ the view of a country, any country is harsh through iron bars. i'm joseph welsh. i'm a lawyer. a flight of birds in trouble and a white temple on a hill. this is the story i want to tell you. it's the story of the supreme court of the united states. you feel very small when you stand in the supreme court building in washington. the columns rise three stories high, great shafts of marble in the mountain state of vermont. inside, premium marble is afoot and all around you, in polished walls and columns under a coffered ceiling. in this room, historic meetings take place. with tourists of other days observing. a staircase of marble spirals upward. in the hallway, an open pedes

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he retired to gettysburg so he could come to washington. ms. hammatt: i do not think he felt at home in new york city. that he enjoyed i feel from a successful point of view his time at columbia. he did a good job for them and he liked what he did but he did not last long in that role. they invited him to be the leader of nato, so he quit working for columbia and went back to work as a civil servant. he really was a civil servant at his heart. patrick: we have had a couple of mentions about the new memorial in washington. did you at the library have anything to do with that? can you give folks context? ms. hammatt: we know the memorial just recently opened to the public. it is quite lovely. i have not had the chance to go since it has been completed. the presidential library worked with the eisenhower memorial this onlineo create that isnal portal really quite content heavy, and it is not with the eisenhower foundation. the eyes presidential library and memorials worked together to create this timeline and a video archive really for anyone, but

he retired to gettysburg so he could come to washington. ms. hammatt: i do not think he felt at home in new york city. i do not think that he enjoyed i feel from a successful point of view his time at columbia. he did a good job for them and he liked what he did but he did not last long in that role. they invited him to be the leader of nato, so he quit working for columbia and went back to work as a civil servant. he really was a civil servant at his heart. patrick: we have had a couple of mentions about the new memorial in washington. did you at the library have anything to do with that? can you give folks context? ms. hammatt: we know the memorial just recently opened to the public. it is quite lovely. i have not had the chance to go since it has been completed. the presidential library worked with the eisenhower memorial commission to create this online educational portal that is really quite content heavy, and it is not with the eisenhower foundation. the eyes presidential library and memorials worked together to create this timeline and a

tonight the gettysburg college civil war institute hosts an evening with oklahoma state university professor jennifer murray discussing union general george meade and his wartime year including his experience as the union commander at gettysburg. watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 3. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend. ♪ >>> in the summer of 1839 a foreign scooter accidentally sailed along the shores of the united states and transformed the federal courts into a forum for an explosive national deb e debate. the drama that began when the enslaved africans on the amistad revolted and took control of the vessel off the coast of cuba would culminate in the supreme court of the united states. with a former president arguing on behalf of the africans' appeal for freedom. the amistad case forced the federal courts and the nation to consider the legal foundations of slavery. for several weeks in the summer of 1839 newspapers along the atlantic coast reported sightings of a mysterious schooner supposedly commanded by african pirates. late in august the crew of the navy brig

tonight the gettysburg college civil institute hosts an evening with oklahoma state professor jennifer murray discussing general mead and his wartime career, including his experience as union commander at gettysburg. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend. >>> david savage, it's the 20 thd anniversary of bush v. gore and we're in the midst of sorting through another close election. we asked you, because you've been covering this supreme court since 1986 for "the los angeles times" to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election, what we were going through then in comparison to what is happening now, and also some of the lessons that were learned. so, let's start with the court itself in 2000, the rehnquist court, nine members and seven of them had been appointed by republican presidents. but how did they align ideologically? >> it was pretty much 5-4 conservative court. rehnquist was the real leader of that court. justice scalia was a prominent figure. it sort of leaned right. there were several moderate rep

tonight the gettysburg college civil war institute hosts an evening with oklahoma state university professor jennifer murray discussing union general george meade and his wartime career, including his experience as union commander at gettysburg. watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend. >>> every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3, go inside a different college classroom and hear about topics ranging from the american revolution, civil rights and u.s. presidents to 9/11. >> thanks for your patience and for logging into class. >> with most college campuses closed due to the impact of the coronavirus, watch professors transfer teaching to a virtual setting to engage with their students. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union, but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should just mention, madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is, indeed, pr freedom to print things and publish t

we play that clip from joe biden at gettysburg. anniversaryed 157th where gettysburg address lincoln called for a new birth of freedom. didn't that happen in the years afterwards, and how many times in this country to get think we have had a new birth of freedom? when do we know when we have achieved that? guest: that is a great question, john, i have written about that any couple of beds. yes, a real rebirth was achieved in the wake of the incredible slaughter of the civil war. it was a rebirth of the constitution itself in really, a second american republic. born out of the three great constitutional amendments, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. every american should understand there aree amendments a lot of other things on that list. but we should know those three amendments. an attempt to re-create in american republic around the law, of ar multiracial democracy. it was created by the white democrat party in the south during reconstruction and afterwards. you can say we had another kind of rebirth, certainly in policy measure

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trump ended up appearing over speakerphone in gettysburg, and he actually delivered a speech inspired by abraham lincoln's famous address here, check it out >> four seasons and seven total landscapings ago, the liberal media brought forth on this continent a news so fake, conceived by the haters and losers can you believe it, folks? and dedicated to the preposition that every person, woman, man, camera, tv was created equal. >> jimmy: okay, i got it that's it. [ applause ] speaking of the president, today he decided to pardon his former national security adviser michael flynn. he announced it via tweet. he wrote, "it is my great honor to announce that general michael t. flynn has been granted a full pardon. on one hand, flynn is thrilled on the other, he's like, you pardoned the turkey before me? [ laughter ] when people heard the name michael flynn, they were like, "wow, they brought back a character from season one for the finale [ laughter ] cool." [ applause ] that's how you do it." seriously, there's a name from the past even michael flynn was like, "damn, i totally forgot about

the gettysburg college civil war institute host as conversation on union general george meade and his wartime career. that's next on c-span3. after that a discussion on little round top during the battle of gettysburg and the role of union colonel joshua lawrence chamberlain. later a look back at the battle of antietam. >> civil war institute hosts an online discussion with oklahoma state history professor jennifer murray. she is currently writing a book on union general george meade and talks about his wartime career, techly at gettysburg.

on the civil war, the gettysburg civil war institute hosts a discussion on the wartime career of general george meade. then at 8:00 p.m. on lectures in history, university of texas a at arlington professor on the life and work of social reformer a leading advocate in a number of causes including abolition and women's rights. and on sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, historian douglas brinkly discusses jamb licqueline kenne. they focus on her historic preservation and cultural work, especially the white house renovation. watch "american history tv" this weekend on skrrks pan 3. c-span 3. >>> the public health service, its people and programs effect the lives of millions of e

more than 10% of its number. 11 men on that walt died at gettysburg. but to basil, place is the reverse of a challenger taunt, he was capable of being a generous full men. he forgot now, the whole question of signs in parties. only that he too had been a soldier. that is what's to him, the building commemorates. arching over friends as well as enemies. the victims of defeat as well as the sons of triumph. boston eons were serialized in a magazine called the century. the best magazine at the end of the 18 century 19th century the 18 story. he fought for the union, and he helped a way to feel division of white america. many of the pages in the 18 eighties, they were devoted to a series called battles and leaders of the civil war. to set some memoirs, of the surviving commanders on either side. a claim to look at the conflict, from a strictly military point of view. to analyze neither of the causes, nor the consequences. vessels note of reconciliation is that this is very much the note of the magazine itself, the place where historians first published. fr

in two hours, gettysburg college civil war institute hosts an online discussion on union general george meade with professor jennifer murray. stillman -- deanne stillman is with us today. she is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. her latest book is "lead brothers," a story about the strange friendship between sitting bull and buffalo bill. it also tells the story of annie oakley, who was a friend of both of these men. this book was named by true west magazine and the millions as the best book of 2017. author ofo the "desert reckoning," the winner of the spur award and the los angeles press club award for best nonfiction. her book "mustang" was an l.a. times best book of the year and was released in audio with wendy malik, angelica houston, frances fisher and others. times also the author of this book of the year, which , ater thompson called strange and brilliant story by an important american writer. we have that important american writer with us today, so give a warm savannah welcome to deanne stillman. [applause] thank you so much, savannah, and savannah book festival.

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abraham lincoln, the gettysburg address, it was not fully received favorably. a chicago newspaper said it was dull and drab and childish and fishwatery compared to a another chicago paper, the chicago tribune, who said, after the 1948 campaign between harry truman and thomas dewey, dewey wins. so much for chicago journalism. speaker whoowed a spoke for two hours, everett, the most prominent orator of the day. two hours. he spoke all that time. opened that address by saying, ladies and gentlemen, it seems like four score and seven years ago when everett started that speech. what would lincoln say if he was here today? i think if lincoln were here wow, ihe would say, cannot believe that i am 211 years old. do not fact-check it. he was born in 1809. i can see the millennials fact checking now. "wait a minute." gordon: it is been great chatting with you. it has been a lot of fun. merck: thank you, guys. >> sunday, on the presidency, george w. bush presidential library and museum director takes us on a virtual tour of the facility in dallas, texas. here's a preview.

war, the gettysburg civil war institute hosts a discussion on the wartime career of general george meade. then at 8:00 p.m. on lectures in history, university of texas a at arlington professor on the life and work of social reformer a leading advocate in a number of causes including abolition and women's rights. and on sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, historian douglas brinkly discusses jamb licqueline kenne. they focus on her historic preservation and cultural work, especially the white house renovation. watch "american history tv" this weekend on skrrks pan 3. c-span 3. >>> the public health service, its people and programs effect the lives of millions of americans every day. whether it's a matter of medical research, pure food and drugs, contagious diseases or the delivery of health care the public health service plays a significant role. how the public health service became what it is today is really the story of public health in america. a story that's still unfolding. throughout the years, the public health service has fought its battle in plague-ridden cities and the

at 6 pm, on the civil war, the gettysburg college civil war institute -- discussion on the wartime career of union general george been. then at 8 pm, on lectures in history, university of texas in arlington professor, stephanie cole, on the life of work of -- social reformer lucretia, a leading advocate of mid 19th century causes, including abolition and women's rights. on sunday, at 8 pm eastern on the presidency, historian douglas discusses jacqueline kennedy's tenure legacy as first lady, with businessman and philanthropist david rubenstein. for kiss on her historic preservation and cultural, work especially the white house re

on the civil war, the gettysburg college civil war institute hosts a session on union general george mead. then at 8:00 p.m. on lectures in history, university of texas of arlington professor stephanie cole on the life and work of social reformer li eer lucresha. and on sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, historian douglas brinkley discusses jacqueline kennedy's legacy as first lady with david lubenstein. they focus on her cultural work, especially the white house renovation. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. ♪ ♪ >>> this is the story of a city, the story of a campaign against disease. how it was planned and organized, and how the people responded to it. the city, columbus, georgia. the disease -- polio. the means of preventing it, immunization. and the actors, the people of columbus, led by their local health department. the campaign was divided into three separate phases. first, there was a statistical survey to determine who needed the polio shot. then community organization and a publicity program to stimulate people to actively participate in the

world war i brought him, instead, command of a tank training center at gettysburg, pennsylvania, where he prepared troops of the new tank corps for overseas duty. his performance won for him distinguished service medal, but before he was able to get to europe, the war ended. in the late 1920s, after graduation from the command and general staff school, major dwight d. eisenhower was assigned to france to prepare a guide book on american battlefields in europe. it was his first direct experience with that continent. with the '30s came other assignments, climaxed by service under general douglas macarthur in the philippines. for four years, he worked with macarthur, who was commander in chief of the philippine army, to help the commonwealth government work out a plan for its military defense. ordered back to the states in december 1939, lieutenant colonel eisenhower went to ft. lewis, washington, as executive officer of the 15th infantry regiment. in the dark spring of 1940, german armored divisions were crashing through holland and belgium. the lufthansa were streaking destruction throu

discussing union general george meade and his wartime career including his experience as union commander at gettysburg. watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend. >>> every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3, go inside a different college classroom and hear about topics ranging from the american revolution, civil rights and u.s. presidents to 9/11. >> thanks for your patience and for logging into class. >> with most college campuses closed due to the impact of the coronavirus, watch professors transfer teaching to a virtual setting to engage with their students. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union. but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should just mention madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not freedom for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> american history on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern

they were dedicating this veterans cemetery at gettysburg and they invited the man they considered the great oratory of the era. he new latin and the great romans and he gave a two hour speech to hail the dedication of the cemetery and gettysburg. and then somebody else got up and talked for two minutes and he is the one we remember. so he wrote to lincoln after this if i could have captured in my two hours how perfectly you captured things in two minutes, i would've done a good job. the unionists choose bell and everett and both in their mid- to-late 60s and i hope you don't think i'm making fun of age, but life expectancy back then, they are much older and today people in their mid-to- late 70s are talking about running for president. back then you did not hear that. and the platform was the union as it is in the constitution as it is, which i think we can think of as the don't talk about it platform. if we don't talk about the problem, it will go away. by the way, to tell you the rest of the course, it did not go away. we don't have to continue because we know how it turns out. but

he gave a two hour speech to hail the dedication of the veteran cemetery at gettysburg. somebody else got up and talked for two minutes and he's the one we remember. he wrote to lincoln after this if i could have captured in two hours how you captured things in two minutes i would've done a good job. the constitutional unionest choose bell and everett, both in their mid to late 60s and i'm hoping you don't think i'm making fun of age when i say this, but life expectancy back then, they're much older. today people in their mid to late 70s are talking about running for president. back then you didn't hear that. their platform was the union as it is and the constitution as it is which we can shi of as itself shhhhh, don't talk about it platform f.we don't talk about the problem it will go away. by the way,ing the rest didn't go away. the course is over. we know how it turned out. so the constitutional unionest have bell and edwards, northern democrattings douglas and johnson. thank you harper's weekly for doing fine artwork. this looks like a cable tv panel discussion. 16 d

on the civil war, the gettysburg college civil war institute hosts a discussion on the wartime career of union general george mead. then at 8:00 p.m. on lectures in history, university of texas at articling professor stephanie cole on the life and work of lucretia mott, a leading advocate in a number of causes including abolition and women's rights. and on sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "the presidency," douglas brinkley justices jacqueline kennedy's tenure as first lady with david rubenstein. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> the supreme court heard oral argument in edwards versus a vannoy publishing the right to unanimous jury trials for defendants in federal and state courts and whether the ruling can apply retroactively in other cases. this is just under an hour and a half. >> the chief

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world war i brought him instead command of a tank training center at gettysburg, pennsylvania where he prepared troops with the new tank corps for overseas duty. his performance won for him the distinguished service medal, but before he was able to get to europe the war ended. ♪ ♪ in the late 1920s after the command of general staff school, major dwight d. eisenhower was assigned to france on prepare a guide book. it was his first direct experience with that continent. with the '30s came other assi assignments climaxed by douglas mccarthy in the philippines. for four years he worked with macarthur who was commander in chief of the philippine army to work out a plan for his military defense. ♪ ♪ ordered back to the states in december 1939, lieutenant colonel eisenhower went to washington as commanding officer of the 15th regiment. ♪ ♪ in the dark spring of 1940, german auto divisions were crashing through harlem and belgium. ♪ ♪ >> he was streaking its destruction through europe skies and beleaguered britain standing alone. the united states had passed the selective serv

not at gettysburg or -- but that alone is not the source of its power. shows these individual men and they are individuals. every face here is different. shows these men at the start of their -- the journey that would lead to their defeat nearly charleston. his work implies a story and has the narrative of force of a great history painting. and that force reminds us why the civil war was necessary. now, the work was intended as a memorial to himself rather than to his regiment. and it's true that his figure is the first we see. but the faces of his soldiers are modeled with equal care. and time has named the work in our minds, making the individual moment into a collective one. the statue actually captures is the parade that -- the ceremonial parade the regiment made through boston, right before they embarked. and during that parade, shaw would have been, as a matter of realistic fact, positioned on the outside of his men, riding his horse alongside them. time is renamed the work in our minds, as i've said. it makes the individual work into a collective

at 6 pm, on the civil war, the gettysburg college civil war institute -- discussion on the wartime career of union general george been. then at 8 pm, on lectures in history, university of texas in arlington professor, stephanie cole, on the life of work of -- social reformer lucretia, a leading advocate of mid 19th century causes, including abolition and women's rights. on sunday, at 8 pm eastern on the presidency, historian douglas discusses jacqueline kennedy's tenure legacy as first lady, with businessman and philanthropist david rubenstein. for kiss on her historic preservation and cultural, work especially the white house renovation. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span 3. this is the story of a struggle. between a president, franklin d. roosevelt, who went to the white house on a pledge of a new deal. i. and a group of men, once referred to as the nine old men. presided over by chief justice, charles edding hughes. the issues were large. they included the problems of a nations industry. it's people. it's agriculture, its resources. but the immediate battlefield of the s

he's written great books, "abraham lincoln: end of slavery in america" and gettysburg, the last invasion. and all of those have won the lincoln prize. who else would you give it to? allen guelzo? >> the story of most human societies has followed a more or less predictable pattern. it's the pattern of tribes. sometimes a tribe establishing control over others by war or subversion. or tribes breaking free of that control and in both cases led by a charismatic leader whose reward is god-like power over all. these tribes identify themselves by language or ethnicity or soil. but their story is mostly the same. us, not them, power, not libertlibert liberty. 244 years ago, from the intellectual beginning of the 18th century enlightenment, one nation broke from this pattern, identifying itself by the inailable rights of all men as not received from a legendary leader, but from the almighty creator himself. 11 years later, this nation wrote a republican instrument of government that turned all of its attention to how those rights could best be secured. in a world of empires and monarchs and surfs

during the civil war, the battle of auntie em killed more than 3600 people the battle of gettysburg killed 3100 soldiers and then comes the covid deaths reported yesterday that's followed by the 19 '06 earthquake in san francisco. and september 11th, the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. >>meanwhile hospital icu bed capacity continues to drop all across the state that greater sacramento region is the most recent to fall below the 15% threshold, and it will be forced to enter the regional stay at home order tonight at midnight. here's the breakdown by region, according to the state's health department as of now the bay area and northern california remain above the 15% threshold, san joaquin valley and southern california. they're both under 10% capacity. >>hospitals across the region and state are making good use of surge plans developed to deal with the surge of covid patients said that is really unfortunately living up to the worst fears kron four's rob fladeboe is tracking the response from hospitals in the south bay he's live in san jose. tonight rob these are really diffi