It looks like this where americans can see democracy at work and the republic thrives. Get in a form to straight from the sores on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are to get the opinion that matters most is your own, this is powered by cable. April, 1865 brought the confederate surrender and assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. Inre this period of uncertainty americans wondered how the new president Andrew Johnson would lead the divided nation. Ss to attack the policies and a number of lectures across the country johnsons conflict with congress over reconstruction led to the impeachment and in their records of the National Archives is the resolution to impeach johnson written on a scrap of paper and introduced in the house of representatives february 21, 1868. Three days later the house voted 128 to 47 to adopt the resolution. In the failed promise, they portray the conflicts that brought Frederick Douglass and the community to
Calls, emails and facebook questions, life sunday at noon eastern on book tvs in depth on cspan2. Nnieoining us now is a snider. Here is the headline, White America still has not learned the lessons of katrina. Lets start with the headline, what have we not learned since katrina . I think your previous guest was talking about disasters that we have learned from. The lesson i am focusing on is preparing communities with resiliency. That is something we really struggled. The main agency that is charged with Coastal Protection and restoration in the u. S. As the army corps of engineers, which is a 200yearold agency that lives within the department of the army, oddly enough. It has become laden in red tape and made it very difficult to take this innovative approach and quickly quick reactions that a lot of folks need. Their role is to make sure these Community Stay safe and come up with plans to keep that from to keep them safe. Is that a safe way of putting it . The army corps of engineer
Okay . So lets just go back and look one way to look at this is to look at the maps that i hate which are just Electoral College which suggest that we live in red or blue states, you know, that we are a certain kind of people. Actually you see, this is a more accurate, you see this has west virginia. It may be that we dont have county level data, okay. Are you less confused . Right . What you did is called our attention to the fact there are brand new states that are just voting for the first time which is another advantage the republicans have. All of these situations actually play to the advantage of the republicans, that they have not only the army but also new states that have been formed under the aegis. Okay . Anybody else have another question . Yes. Theres one on each side. Dr. Ayers, writing a book about the shenendoah valley and activities there, will you address in that book or today the importance of david hunters actions at the battle of piedmont 5 june, his subsequent mov
Most important slave conspiracies in american history. He spoke about it at the university of richmond 20 years ago and hes going to be interviewed about that book later today for television. Most of dr. Egertons work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization and abolitionism during the American Revolution and Early National period. You will find a partial list of his publications in your program. His work deals with the intersection of race and politics. His most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, steven douglas, Abraham Lincoln and the election that brought on the civil war. And the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from that final book and the title of his talk today is black activism in the wars of reconstruction. Ladies and gentlemen, doug egerton. Thank you. Good morning. Nice to be back in richmo. I have already learned at least one important lesson this m
In the traditional or nontraditional media. Continue toat there be hearings in congress that move from one committee to another committee about what happened in benghazi . Is there any possibility that that is going to end up in some legislation or some meaningful thing . No. It is just a show. You give doing it over and over again, you hijacked other Committee Meetings to talk about this topic because the people organizing understand there is an audience i will react to that and overtime there is a lot of News Coverage of it and there is a tremendous amount of activity around it on the internet. So i would ask when was the last time any of us saw a story and maybe we have seen them but when was the last time there was a story about the origins of a gun that ways used to kill a Police Officer . Have we seen a story . That story . Shouldnt it be that if you are a policymaker or legislature that is concerned about this, shouldnt it be that not just the terrible, tragedy stories we are mo