I think the age of the common man is a less problematic term than the age of jackson because a lot of these things are happening independent of jackson or the jacksonians. I think you could do worse than the age of the common man. If you want to pitch it that way. Granted, native americans probably disagree with that. That is the thing. I am jotting down a list of the broad themes that happened 1815 to 1848. Youve got enfranchisement transportation revolution, a rise in the conflict over slavery, president jackson who towers over the period for 812 years or so, market revolution the age of reform. You can attach historian names to all of those themes. Professor feller well done. Thank you. And we are trying to look for the unified field theory. It probably does not exist that ties it all together. Maybe the best thing to do is here is all these themes, and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna, and so jackson was the and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna and be done and not try to figure o
Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on American History tv on cspan three. Up next, we hear from Staff Members at the three president ial libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of Lyndon Johnson, george bush, and george w. Bush. The george bush president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. As we say here in texas howdy. My apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. Welcome to the bush library. Im the director here. We have t
It is an article of faith that every picture tells a story. This series exists to connect some of the thousands of stories we have on hand and make one step from stories to history. Our presenter today is jim barber, an historian at the portrait gallery. Jim has lectured extensively on the civil war. He has finished a new exhibition on babe ruth and given talks on everyone from Thelonious Monk to albert elswick. Please welcome jim barber. Jim barber welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. Very appropriate for february is black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this face to face series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge. The connection is the thread back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anniversaries. One, the older one being the 400th anniversary of the founding of jamestown. The second anniversary was t
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