C cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. Lee surrendered to general grant down in appommaammattox courthouse, this is t
Here are some featured programs this weekend. On cspan, saturday starting at noon politicians, white house officials, and Business Leaders offer advice and encouragement to the class of 2015, including former president bush and the chair of Dreamworks Animation and 9 15 p. M. , Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush and at noon, mu commencement speeches from Condoleezza Rice and michael nutter. On saturday morning,booktv is in new york with book expo american beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments with publishers and authors throughout the day. Sunday evening at 9 00 on after words, we look at the case that considered the constitutionality of proposition 8 the law that resended the right of samesex couples to marry in california. On cspan3 7 00 eastern conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. Sunday afternoon before 2 00 life and death of the 20th president , jameis garfield serving
Congressman from ohio assassinated 200 days into his term as president. Get the complete schedule at c hf c cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five d
The demographic changes for the 1980s. This is about 20 minutes. The book is called Barack Obamas america have new conceptions of race, family and religion end of the reagan era. Catholic University Professor John Kenneth White is the author. Professor, lets begin. Tell us about the cover of the book. I had not been to do with the cover, but it works so well for the book because it is the photographs of people who attended obama rallies in 2008 and you have a mixture of coming in now, white, black, hispanic, you name it. Theres even a couple of pictures and their of al gore and you have to really search for that. But it describes i think visually the changes in the democracy of the United States that led to Barack Obamas election. And sho forth. And i think americans understand the changes taking place in the country are here to stay. But for some americans can creates discomfort because there is a sense of loss. A loss of a 1950s america. A loss of a time when rules were clear about m
I this program was part of the seventh annual savannah book festival. For more information visit savannahbookfestival. Org. Now on booktv, amie parnes and Jonathan Allen speak about their biography of Hillary Clinton. The coauthors look at clintons political career since her primary defeat in 2008. After this hourlong event, well bring you a book party for the authors. Were going to, were going to read a little bit from the book. I just first wanted to say thank you to everyone who showed up. I see a lot of familiar faces. Im from Silver Spring originally, so its a big kick to be here, because ive been sitting in the audience. I was telling folks earlier that i saw ted kennedy deliver the Midnight Ride of paul revere here many years ago which was kind of cool, so its hard to make me, like, really nervous, and im kind of nervous now, so thank you all for showing up, really appreciate it. [laughter] and i guess were just going to start with a realizing so that we can get to with a readin