Summer reading list. Send us your choices at booktv is our twitter handle. Post on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv or send an email to booktv cspan. Org. What is on your Summer Reading list, booktv wants to know. Booktv covered a book shoot after it was called the confederate battle flag a historian at the American Civil War museum in richmond. Ten years ago, what has changed with regard attitudes on the confederate battle flag in the last ten years. The question is how much change in the last ten days . Met has been the remarkable shift in attitudes or a remarkable period for the history of the battle flag as an object of discussion. Ten years ago when the book came out still fresh some of the controversies that occurred in states like alabama and South Carolina where compromises had been reached to retire flags, flags from the capital of those two states to other positions on the Capitol Grounds and they were contextualized with historical displays by confederate monuments in
Have acceded to the southern demands that they be a separate country, and if lincoln had gone along with the congressional reconstruction, would the radicals have done to him at least in modified form what they did to johnson . Is. Let me just say one thing thatll connect baseball to lincoln. [laughter] yes, i can do that. In the election of 1860, theres a wonderful political cartoon that shows Lincoln Holding a bat and the other three candidates holding balls, and its using baseball as a metaphor for which candidate should be elected. And lincoln is talking about striking the ball fair and hitting a home run. So [laughter] there are long connections here to baseball and lincoln. As for the election, you know, lincoln wrote a blind memorandum beforehand saying in the event that he lost, he felt it would be his duty before the inauguration of the next president to resolve the conflict in some way. So i dont know, jim if you have thoughts about what would happened had mccellen been elect
Side. In fact, just 59 in San Francisco. We are going it talk about just 70s inland. A cool start to june coming up. Lisa, thank you. This morning theres renewed attention on a constant problem in the east bay. Side shows. A dangerous stunt that takes over intersections,en dengering the lives of drivers and spectators. One happened again this weekend. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has more. The streaming tires on this street near interstate 880 were heard throughout the nature. I heard it, it was pretty loud. This oakland resident tell me these side shows happen here much too often. Its frustrating its scary, and unfortunately its part of our life now so we are used to it. Residents and Business Owners say that is car spinouts like this happen at least twice a month. Heres last november at the exact same spot. Oakland police and the Highway Patrol have tried to crack down on these side shows. But one hot rod owner i talked to tells me there still isnt much fear the police are goin
60 in the city. 63 over in oakland. Low 70s in san jose. So if you get that afternoon sun, it will be a mild day. Otherwise a cooling trend to start the week and the month. Details on that in a few minutes. Chris. Lisa, thank you. Theres renewed attention this morning on a constant problem in the east bay side street shows. One of the stunts happened again this weekend. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has more. [screeching tires] the screaching tires on this street near interstate 880 were heard throughout the neighborhood. I heard it, it was pretty loud. This oakland resident tells me these side shows happen here much too often. Its frustrating, its scary, and unfortunately its part of our life now so we are used to it. Residents and Business Owners say that car spinouts like this happen here at least twice a month. Heres last november at the exact same spot. Oakland police and the Highway Patrol have tried to crack down on these side shows. They even mobilized a mass he have block
That there are protections in place to make sure all the hard work done by the so many lives sacrificed are also preserved. Youre also going to hear from the president of the United States, who will be here in selma, 2 30 roughly, eastern time here from selma, right here at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge. He will be bringing with him the first Lady Michele Obama and the president is bringing his daughters, sasha and malia. And we expect that one of his messages will be to really challenge the generations of his daughters and other generations, that they will have their own marches and their own fights to fight and his message will be that the struggle the fight continues. Also during our programming today, youre, of course, going to hear from the man who was just 25 years old who is the most recognizable image of bloody sunday john lewis, congressman john lewis, is here. My conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. Youre going to hear the extrao