Of steam to the time together of the north American Continent in rail. Writes, nos businessman equal vanderbilt in his impact on american history. None proved to be so influential periodfundamental over a so formative for so long. The common or lived to be 82 and played a key role in so many events in his to mulch was life. From the very beginnings of steamboat travel on the hudson river to the Seminal Supreme Court case. Gibbons the audition v o gden. , theransatlantic travel California Gold rush, the growth of the u. S. Into a continental nation. The start of travel across the nation and the planting of the seed that was to become the panama canal. The crushing of the notorious american filibuster William Walker in his attempt to abscond with the country of nicaragua. The destruction of the ironclad merrimack and the safeguarding of the gold shipments was quite a seminal part in winning the civil war. The stock and regulations of the railroad and the birth of the modern corporation.
College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
Thing specially in fields that are really dominated by the left and i think this is because more conservatives would improve social sciences. Host is there an intimidation factor about teaching sort of things . Guest what do you mean by intimidation factor . Host theres a couple of movements in our current policy, all lives matter, black lives matter, triggers. Guest i think there is. I think its a problem that affect the left more than than the right because liberal professors tend to teach the courses to have subjects that might get them in hot water. Liberal progressives are more likely to teach courses on race, gender and thats largely because a lot of conservative professors teaching courses because theyre dominated by the left and does provide one benefit for conservatives which they tend to teach courses that are less likely to incite those kinds of movements and energies and passions, so theyre somewhat shielded, i think, from those movements. Host have you ever steered away fr
In American Civil War history at Dickinson College of course the alma mater of both president buchanan and chief Justice Taney for what thats worth. Matt is the author of a number of books and articles including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming book which i think will radically force us to think about lincoln in a new way. Its hard to imagine anything that could force us to think about lincoln in a new way since there is so much on lincoln that what else is there to say . His new book will be called boss lincoln and he is going to look at lincoln as a party and president ial leader. Ill turn the podium over to matt pinsker and also let him talk to us about mr. Spielberg and lincoln goes to hollywood. Well, thank you very much. To paul and don and everyone here, it is an honor to be at a symposium like this and speak about spielbergs lincoln is important for us to do. This is a movie
The u. S. Capital historical society. Its about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is matt pinsker the associate professor of history and holds the chair in American Civil War history at Dickinson College of course the alma mater of both president buchanan and chief Justice Taney for what thats worth. Matt is the author of a number of books and articles including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming book which i think will radically force us to think about lincoln in a new way. Its hard to imagine anything that could force us to think about lincoln in a new way since there is so much on lincoln that what else is there to say . His new book will be called boss lincoln and he is going to look at lincoln as a party and president ial leader. Ill turn the podium over to matt pinsker and also let him talk to us about mr. Spielberg and lincoln goes to hollywood. Well, thank you very much. To paul an