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
But the james is virginias largest river. It forms in the appellation mountains and flows through the chesapeake bay. The river serves as a trade route for colonists. It is sometimes referred to as founding river. Next, we will go to tredegar iron works. Tredegar iron wass possible for producing a large majority of the canons produced during the confederacy. They at structures that no longer exist from battlefield hospitals to the battlefields himself. The ironworks is one of the few remaining structures that war,ed before the civil and existed for decades afterward. Its history goes back to southeastern wales in the united kingdom. When richmond businessman wanted to begin in ironworks era in richmond, they contacted engineers and millwrights to come over and design their rolling mill and ironworks here. Tredegar hadtarted a good imagination. He was not a good businessman. They ran into financial trouble. A west point graduate was brought in initially in 1841 is a purchasing agent, ki
In this, our first report, emily takes a look at teens and tobacco products. Smoking isnt cool. Its not something you want to do. It can scar you for life. Smoking is not cool. Its gross. It smells bad. If you play sports or do any of that, it affects all that stuff. I think that im never gonna do that. A lot of kids dont admire when you smoke because its disgusting. Smoking can ruin your life. And while most teens seem to agree that smoking is bad for you, a surprising number still light up. In fact, according to the federal government, every single day, about 3,200 kids will try smoking for the first time. To give you an idea of just how many that is, 3,200 is more than the entire population of the town of goshen, connecticut. Theres a lot of kids that smoke over on the skate park. I dont personally know anybody who smokes, but ive seen people do it. I see people around the School Smoking a lot after school and even before school. Either they follow their dads and their moms or they
In this, our first report, emily takes a look at teens and tobacco products. Smoking isnt cool. Its not something you want to do. It can scar you for life. Smoking is not cool. Its gross. It smells bad. If you play sports or do any of that, it affects all that stuff. I think that im never gonna do that. A lot of kids dont admire when you smoke because its disgusting. Smoking can ruin your life. And while most teens seem to agree that smoking is bad for you, a surprising number still light up. In fact, according to the federal government, every single day, about 3,200 kids will try smoking for the first time. To give you an idea of just how many that is, 3,200 is more than the entire population of the town of goshen, connecticut. Theres a lot of kids that smoke over on the skate park. I dont personally know anybody who smokes, but ive seen people do it. I see people around the School Smoking a lot after school and even before school. Either they follow their dads and their moms or they