They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Seth meyers. [ cheers and applause seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause thats fantastic in that case, lets get to the news following President Trumps inauguration, the white house website no longer has an option for translation into spanish so, sorry, mexican immigrants, but if you want to live here, youll just have to learn to speak russian. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause President Trump today met with the leaders of fiat, chrysler, ford, and General Motors and he asked them one question how many people do you think were at my inauguration . [ laughter ] President Trump said today that he is, to a large extent, an environmentalist well he certainly made sure that the grass in the National Mall wasnt trampled. [ laughter and applause stay back stay back. According to sources, Hillary Clinton is seriously considering running for mayor of new york city. And just to be a dick, so is trump. [ laughter ] [ audi
[applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [applause] thank you everybody i just want to tell you what happened to me and how i broke my leg. So i was sideswiped im very lucky to be here at all. So now i will tell you a story about the civil war so im speaking about it but to have the least impact. I just want to tell you a little bit before i get to the georgia part of the story. The people believe that cancer should be a free state and theyre willing to organize themselves and take up arms and then with those operations in the north and in the west to be a radical meant in the 18 fifties. They were coming to a number of people in radical fashion as conspirators not only those that became famous to have the other side and Harpers Ferry and to be a radical meant to lean into that idea and to be in favor of a hard war but would demand so much of the nation. And so for the radical republicans the good doctor sometimes it is better but the only way as we would address these fundamental issues. To
Booktv. Org. Now we kick off the weekend with historian Leeanna Keith who looks at the origins of the Republican Party. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Cspan is here, so thats why our lights are super bright. Welcome, my name is kate whitman, and i am the Vice President of community engagement, and im delighted to have you all here. Tonights presentation is a livingston lecture made possible through generous funding of the livingston foundation. Please join me in thank them. [applause] and now to introduce our speaker for thissen evening who will tell you why she is sitting down like this. Leeanna keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. Shes the author of the colfax massacre, untold story of black power. And most recently [inaudible] she joins us to discuss tonight. Kirkus review, which is an industry publication, a wellresearched, denselydetailed account [inaudible] planted the roots for the civil rights movement. And then [inaudible] Importan
Thank you. Welcome. Good afternoon britt and catherine, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and i am so happy you could be here with us today as we welcome to celebrated historians as they present their coauthored book, and one. The problem of democracy doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an