april 20, lee got something off his chest in a letter written to jefferson davis. to save the useless area and measures taken to the suspension and the restoration of peace. so it's my hope's biographers will take a look at the campaign as described. they are known to be wrong. [laughter] in a way, it became hollywood's go to shorthand for ending the civil war. i would suggest to you that this perfection does not happen by accident. while i hope, i don't expect everyone to agree with my revision, i do hope it might inspire some to revisit the civil war's more. thanks very much. [applause] if you have questions, i'll remind you all over here, i'll be happy to sign books. if you have questions right now, i'll be happy to answer. >> thank you. we got one, good. >> you described the faces, if you think it only moved in one direction or do you think it was variable? you think it was early toward d.c., was that more of a spectrum? >> was a defensive move. throughout the campaign, they would do damage to the north. there is just another -- i don't know he had higher hopes

davis. i could start a game of who said it and i am confident you could not distinguish between quotes from confederates like jefferson davis and today's woke left. but why bother? one of these charlatans, amen named henry -- a man named henry rogers, who calls himself hebrew max candy entitled his book on american history stamped from the beginning, verbatim quotes from jefferson davis. after last week's elections, it has dawned on a few sane liberals that making common cause with geoff davis and john calhoun may not be a recipe for success. i have to confess i chuckled at how cnn has covered critical race theory. it reminds me of the old joke about lawyers making weak and contradictory arguments in the alternative could he does not -- in the alternative purity is not my dog. he didn't bite you. you kicked him first. with article race theory, the left says it does not exist. it is not taught in schools. you are racist for trying to take it out of schools. [applause] but we still see all aro

so beauregard automatically wired jefferson davis with this news. jefferson davis then was able to send joseph johnson from the valley to reinforce beauregard. rose was not in the city when the battle of manassas of bull run was fought. she was actually in new york city. she had gone to take her daughter lelah to board a steamer. she decided to send lelah, her middle surviving daughter out west to join florence. and she kept it with her only her youngest child, little rose. when rose returned to the city , she saw this as a confederate victory. in a victory the women had helped to achieve it. she said the southern women of washington are the cause of the defeat of the grand army. they are entitled to the laurels one by the brave defenders of our soil and institution. they have told beauregard when to strike. so that really reveals how proud rose was of what she had done. she continued to send messages to beauregard. she sent to nine messages in all one was a map of the defenses around d.c. rose also was outspoken and her hatred of lincoln and the un

so beauregard automatically wired jefferson davis with this news. jefferson davis then was able to send joseph johnson from the valley to reinforce beauregard. rose was not in the city when the battle of manassas bull run was fought on july 21st. she was actually in new york city. she had gone to take her daughter, lela, to board a steamer. she decided to send lela, her middle daughter -- her middle surviving daughter, i should say, out west to join florence. and she kept with her only her youngest little rose. but when rose returned to the city, she saw this as a confederate victory and a victory that the women had helped to achieve. she said the southern women of washington are the cause of the defeat of the grand army. they are entitled to the laurels won by the brave defenders of our soil and institutions. they have told beauregard when to strike. so that really reveals how proud rose was of what she had done. and she continued to send messages to beauregard. she sent nine messages, and all one of them was a map around. and rose also was outspok

and watching the statues of confederate leaders come down in my hometown like jefferson davis and i was watching the statues come down from the lifestream and a grip and a majority black city there was more all mice to the leaders into the black people so that means to go to the grocery store had to go down jefferson davis parkway of my middle schools named after leader of the confederacy and my parents still live on the street named after somebody who owned enslaved people. they are reflective of the stories that people tell that shape the narrative and though shape public policy that shapes the material is not to say not to take down the statue of robert e. lee that it is to say that all of thesehi things are part of the ecosystem in shape how we understand what has happened with the course of american history and the decisions we need to make for millions of people acrossns generations and how my own hometown. that was new orleans the whole city. but then think of a story has been told to me with this tells us about the homogeneity of the consciousness without understanding are faili

no jefferson davis to who is secretary of war for united states at this point in time had a brilliant plan that the west point course of study should be changed from four years to five years. it didn't last very long but pelham was one of the young men who is at west point for five years. it's the typical studies that we read about for west point at this time. while he's at the military academy he becomes very good friends with tom rosser who would be a well named confederate calvary leader as well. when they leave west point they leave together. i promised someone in the room that i would review what john comes first the mayor that what west point was for prince dari his first of merit was venting and not properly aired at its morning inspections in his other demerits were for lacking in the ranks boys conduct in class and relaxed ways one on century duty. some of the other young and rising leaders at west point with him in his class for there the same time includes adelbert ames henry dupont charles e. housley mathis w. henry edmund kirby emory upton alonzo cushing and george custer

jefferson davis, who is secretary of war for the united states, had a brilliant plan, he thought it, was that the west point study should be changed from four years to five years. it didn't last very long, but pelham is one of the young man who is at west point for five years. it's the typical studies that we read about for west point at this time. while he's out the academy, he becomes good friends with tom roster, we will -- who will later be named a confederate leader as well. they were roommates and when they leave west point, they will leave together. i promise someone in the room that i would reveal what john pelham's first a marriage at west point was. his first demerit was for a, quote, bedding not properly aired at morning inspection. and quote. his other early demerit's were for laughing at a rank, boyish conduct in class, and relaxed ways when on sentry duty. some of the other young and rising leaders at west point with him in his class where they're at the same time include albert ames, justin a democrat, henry dupont, charles e. has lit, w. henry, patrick, edmund herbie,

jefferson davis, who is secretary of war for the united states at this point in time, had a brilliant plan, at least he thought it was, that the west point course of study should be changed from four years to five years. it didn't last very long, but pelham is one of the young men who is at west point for five years. so it's the typical studies that we read about for west point at this time. while he's at the military academy, he becomes very good friends with tom rosser, who will later be a well named confederate cavalry leader as well. they were room mates and when they leave west point, they'll leave together. i promised someone in the room that i would reveal what john pelham's first demerit at west point was for. so here we go. his first demerit was for, quote, bedding not properly aired at morning inspections, end quote. his other early demerits were for laughing in the ranks, boyish conduct in class, and relaxed ways when on century duty. some of the other young and rising leaders at west point with him in his class or there at the same time include addlebert aims, henry dupont

davis. [laughter] this myth command the army through the rest of the battle a seven pines the second day of the battle. and johnston is going to recuperate in regimented and asked downtown and his wounds are pretty severe so is out of commission for quite a long time. in the meantime, lee will eventually take over the army and establishes success in his hard-hitting reputation. and the seven days battles, they will drive the union army away from richmond take the army back into northern virginia and they invade maryland and solidify his reputation in virginia command and so when johnston is finally able to take the field again as recovered, what do we do with him rated and things are falling apart for the confederacy elsewhere so johnston is going to be sent to the last. and in the fall of 1862, is when be sent to the western theater and commanded best department, tremendous amount of territory and a big says from the appellations of the mississippi river and is responsible for the army of t

davis after the civil war because he is caught wearing women's clothing, and is this becomes an incredibly popular image to reproduce in a variety of ways. so, for example, here are some versions of this image. and if you do some quick searching, you can find many, many more examples of this. and the joke really only works if you think of men in women's clothing as women's clothing as being this kind of signifier that you are less than, that you are weaker, that you are worth mocking, that it's laughable, right? so it's this signifier that he's no longer a powerful person when we see anymore women's clothing like this. so this is, this is the ways that, you know, even women's imagery when you see them wearing bloomers, suggesting that they're wearing masculine clothing that they are more powerful: these are the way these are are signifiers of their power and their gender roles during this time period. so i want to jump, this is right around the same time period as the last couple of images we looked at, 1869, so just after the civil war. and as you all know in the immediate aftermath of th

davis after the civil war because he is caught wearing womens clothing. and this becomes an incredibly popular image to reproduce in a variety of ways. so, for example, here are some versions of these image. if you do some quick searching you can find many, many more examples of this. and this joke really only works if you think of men in womens clothing as womens clothing being this kind of signifier that you were less than, that you were weaker, that you are worth mocking, that it's laughable, right? so it's this signifier he's no longer a powerful person when we see him in these -- in womens clothing like this. so this is the -- this is the way even womens rights imagery when we see them wearing bloomers, this is suggesting they're wearing masculine clothing they are slightly more powerful and their gender roles during this time period. so i want to jump this is right around the time period as we looked at 1869, so just after the civil war. and as you all know in the immediate aftermath of the civil war people are considering what to do next. by 1869 a

davis after the civil war, because he is caught wearing women's clothing. and this becomes an incredibly popular i believe to reproduce in a variety of ways. so, for example, here are some cards de visites. if you do some searching you can find many more examples of this. this joke only works if you think of men in women's clothing as being this kind of signifier that you are less than, that you are weaker, that worth mocking, that it's laughable, right? so it's the signifier that he is no longer a powerful person when we see him in women's clothing like this. so this is the way that, you know, even women's rights imagery, when we see them wearing bloomers, it's suggesting they were wearing masculine clothing, that they are more powerful. this is the way clothing acts as signifiers of their power and their gender roles during this time period. so i want to jump, this is right around the same time period as the last couple of images we looked at, 1869. so just after the civil war. and as you all know, in the immediate aftermath of the civil war, people are c

and means i had to go down the boulevard to get to the grocery store and i had to go down jefferson davis boulevard. my middle school was named after them and my parents lived on the street because of the things we knew, the names and economic so they were just symbols and reflective of the stories that people tell. in the stories shape the narrative the narratives shape the policies and the policy shapes and materials and conditions in people's lives in this not to say that taking down and all statute of robert e. lee are making federal holidays going to suddenly wake you up, but it is to say that all of these things are part of an ecosystem of stories and ideas and narratives that help shape how we understand what is happening over the course of american history and what sort of decisions we need to make in order to make amends to the harm that is been done to the people across generations. so i was thinking about how different and how new orleans of my own hometown is reckoning for failing to reckon the people who are telling the stories. and the walter johnson's rate has written about

is this not what jefferson davis one southerners about women will be portable to rape? by three african-americans? is this not what he predicted? they didn't use it. i'm not going to give it to you to discuss that. what else does this tell us and remind us of? what we all do as historians, we make calls, judgments because judgments about what is fact, what facts should be included or excluded, we should remind ourselves facts are changing all the time, the applejack rate, this expedition of incredible violence that unraveled to this is just a lot of fun and we got drunk. that is remarkable. we need to remind ourselves the facts we recover. i'll go back to gettysburg. why is it when we think about the summer of 1863 in pennsylvania, we think of them as a band of brothers. when it came to the temptation of taking against pennsylvania civilians, they resisted. why do we perfect over other facts? the army in northern virginia wasn't army, we know a few hundred if not more african-americans, they were sent back to the slave market in virginia. why when we got to gettysburg a

davis avenue to stone wall jackson avenue, would that still be an issue. so you know, what are we trying to preserve here? i think those are the questions that many of our leaders at the state level have to answer, and the other portion has, is a street a monument, is a school necessarily a monument. this came around the time when statues were being removed from new orleans and other cities around the country. i think we have to really look at this from a broader context. >> what's your plan? are you going to pay this $25,000 fine. >> we're looking at that. we have had donors from across the country offer to pay the fine so we would not have to spend $1 of taxpayer money for that. we want to also make sure that we don't have the responsibility to challenge this law for a bigger issue as it relates to what cities and municipalities have the right to do and whether or not the law truly is unjust. if we decide that, we'll move forward potentially with a court challenge. no final decisions have been made at this time whether to pay it or not. we will continue

davis in the civil war who have sought to undermine the unity and the absolute basis of our democracy. let me go back to the press again. this is our job for the next year above all else. if we get this narrative, and i say this to all my colleagues out there, this is the story that we cannot lose focus on, and we'll get it if we pursue it. >> carl bernstein, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >>> new clues into what went wrong in preparation for the astroworld music festival and why inspectors on sight say it looked like a war zone. >>> a lawyer for the armorer on alec baldwin's movie "rust," why she says she's being framed. what they say happened between the shooting and when police arrived. nsurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h. because ur derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it. ♪ say it's all right ♪ ♪

davis is the emperor and copperheads are royalty. nasby is excited to find himself in this dream the duke of nasby. other than opposed to the civil war, nasby introduces himself to lincoln as a free-born democrat and tells lincoln, you are a gorilla, a findish ape, a thirster after blood. he tells lincoln he will back the war only if the president follows his command to revoke the emancipation proclamation and send blacks back to the southern en slefers. incensed by lincoln's unresponsiveness to this request, nasby leaves in a huff saying lincoln, gorilla, ape, i am done with you. petroleum nasby announces his misery when lincoln wins the 1864 election and becomes apoplectic. in reporting lincoln's assassination locke asks nasby for his regret that the president and his cabinet had not been killed in 1862 before the damage to southern slavery had been done. now, everything of course that came out of nasby's mouth was exactly the opposite of what david ross locke actually felt. locke and lincoln admired each other immensely. they met

davis is the emperor and copperheads are royalty. nasby is excited to find himself in this dream the duke of nasby. other than opposed to the civil war, nasby introduces himself to lincoln as a free-born democrat and tells lincoln, you are a gorilla, a fiendish ape, a thirster after blood. he tells lincoln he will back the war only if the president follows his command to revoke the emancipation proclamation and send blacks back to the southern enslavers. incensed by lincoln's unresponsiveness to this request, nasby leaves in a huff saying lincoln, gorilla, ape, i am done with you. petroleum nasby announces his misery when lincoln wins the 1864 election and becomes apoplectic. in reporting lincoln's assassination locke asks nasby for his regret that the president and his cabinet had not been killed in 1862 before the damage to southern slavery had been done. now, everything of course that came out of nasby's mouth was exactly the opposite of what david ross locke actually felt. locke and lincoln admired each other immensely. david ros

. >> jefferson davis, come down in my hometown of new orleans and thinking about what does it mean that i grew up at a majority black city there are more to enslave people and started thinking about how the city reckoned with or failed to reckon with its own relationship to the history of slavery. a history that is ingrained and embedded in the physical infrastructure of that city in a profound way and opened it up and started thinking about other places across the country and across the ocean how they were telling that story. so much of this, i have been writing it for years. so much of this is animated by trying to write into the gaps and to fill the gaps i feel like i had experienced and that i was carrying from a young age. in trying to answer a lot of questions and fill a lot of voids in my own education that i had not had the answers too. the book was almost a process of attempting to fill those gaps. >> to watch the rest the program wash booktv.org search for clint smith or the title of his book how the word is passed using the search box at the top of the page. next i am

what's more, he's battering jefferson davis. he sank the confederacy must emancipate us slaves because otherwise we're never going to have any time standing in the eyes of the rest of the world but spring of 1865, he's advocating emancipation of slaves. the confederate army. on both terms, it's easy to say while he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt moral urgency and i'm sure there was a pragmatic motive in his thinking at the same time, he didn't have to. there is no compulsion for him to step forward and do that and get he does. does it mean robert has suddenly become racially enlightened? no. after the war is over, makes no effort to promote reconstruction. he has no interest whatsoever seeing black people and seeing them occupy, to the contrary, he is critical of reconstruction so domestic what lee does for some kind of enlightenment experienced the same time, don't depreciate it either. as part of the problem, robert e lee and the complexities, contradictions, always like mary chestnut discovered.

davis as the emperor and copperheads our loyalty. lindsay excited to find himself in the stream and duke and asby pretty early opposed to the civil war, nancy in one stretch teased presently can introduces himself to lincoln as a pre- born democratic tells lincoln, you are hunting and he tells lincoln that he will only if the present follows his demand to revoke the proclamation and disarm african-american soldiers and some black back to their southern enslavers. and by lincoln's own response to these requests, nancy reads, are saying that lincoln be eight, i'm done with you and he announces that his misery and when lincoln went in 1864 election and becomes. [inaudible]. in 1965 and re- surrenders to grant and reporting lincoln's assassination, lincoln or lack has nasty boys regret that the president and his cabinet had nothing to it in 800 before the damage to sudden slavery had been done. while everything of course came out of the asby's mouth was exactly the opposite. about davis or and they admired each other immensely in a coupl

and what's more, he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying, the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise we're never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865, he's advocating the emancipation and recruitment of slaves for the confederate army. now, in both terms, it's easy to see that he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons. not because he felt any kind of moral urgency. and i'm sure that was a pragmatic motive at work in lee's thinking that we. still at the same time, he didn't have to. there was no compulsion for him to step forward and do that. and yet, he does. lsion for him now does this mean that robert e. lee has suddenly become racially enlightened? no. because after the war is over, he makes no effort to promote reconstruction. he has no interest whatsoever in seeing black people have the vote and seen them occupy office -- i mean to the contrary, he's very critical of reconstruction. so, don't mistake what lee does for some kind of enlightenment in

and what's more he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise where never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865 he's advocating the emancipation of an important of slaves for the confederate army. on both terms is easy to say that well, he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt any kind of moral urgency and i'm sure there was a pragmatic motive at work in lee'sthinking . but at the same time he didn't have to. there was no compulsion for him to step forward anddo that and yet he does . does this mean that robert e lee has suddenly become racially enlightened ? number after the war is over, he makes no effort to promote reconstruction. he has no interest whatsoever in seeing black people have the vote. in seeing an occupied office. to the contrary is very political. so don't mistake what lee does for some kind of enlightenment that he has experienced. but at the same time don't appreciate it eith

. >> wore here to celebrate the taking down of the jefferson davis statue here in new orleans, tonight. these were all jim crow era statues meant to emphasize that white people are in control. >> is there any value in -- >> there is no value in keeping those statues. there is value in remembering what the statutes were put up for. >> what do you say to the people across the street marching with flags. >> i don't say nothing. they are not on my radar. they are unredeemable. >> we pray that those attacking our heritage may repent of their sins. we pray oh, lord that truth of history would triumph. >> i feel like the country never really reunified after the war in a way that included all of its citizens, right. maybe taking down these statues now could help us reunify. >> but don't try to take away history because if you don't agree with it and if you study history it was more than just slavery. there was taxation issues. >> is he putting on a bulletproof vest? >> probably. >> why? >> because there they firing paint ball at these guys the other night. sounds harmless, but who is to say th

he was talking about jefferson davis, he said, they are rep jillian and their characters were forged -- reptillian and their characters were forged. there is a lot of hypocrisy and deceit in my opinion. host: your member is dina titus. caller: yes. host: it depends on how she votes on what? caller: i don't know her as a person. what happens is she votes with the crowds. as mark twain said, if you don't think for yourself, you don't think at all. joe manchin is an independent thinker and there are others that i know, elected representatives just do with their told. host: tyrone in alabama, independent caller. how do you plan to vote? for or against the incumbent? caller: against. host: are you a democrat? you called on the independent line. how do you lean? caller: i am a democrat but i am going to give you all that is going on. i ran for the special primary election and i am in the area they do not count the votes. i am black, i am african-american and they have been shutting me out, trying to keep me from -- i control the government from where i stand. i do not have to be in office.

he was talking about jefferson davis, he said, they are rep jillian and their characters were forged -- reptillian and their characters were forged. there is a lot of hypocrisy and deceit in my opinion. host: your member is dina titus. caller: yes. host: it depends on how she votes on what? caller: i don't know her as a person. what happens is she votes with the crowds. as mark twain said, if you don't think for yourself, you don't think at all. joe manchin is an independent thinker and there are others that i know, elected representatives just do with their told. host: tyrone in alabama, independent caller. how do you plan to vote? for or against the incumbent? caller: against. host: are you a democrat? you called on the independent line. how do you lean? caller: i am a democrat but i am going to give you all that is going on. i ran for the special primary election and i am in the area they do not count the votes. i am black, i am african-american and they have been shutting me out, trying to keep me from -- i control the government from where i stand. i do not have to be in office.

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