Confederates. Hosted by historical park, this is about one hour. All right. Speaking of our speakers. We are very privileged to have bill blair with us this evening. Bill is the walter l and helen p fareed professor of middle American History at pen state university. It has one of the best faculties in the country dealing with the civil war era. There are a number of bills colleagues who are wellknown. Phil is right at the top of that list as a teacher at penn state. He received all of his degrees as bachelor, master and ph. D. At pence tate university. I first met bill 20 years ago when he wasnt an academic. Bill was a newspaper editor i believe. After having a career in newspapers and journalism, he decided he wanted to devote his life to teaching and studying history. We are all the better for it. He is the author of many books. I just want to mention a couple. With malice towards some. Thats his latest book published in 2014. Virginias private war, which is a wonderful book. Cities
Thank you for coming out. I hope the rain will let up. This is the 100 anniversary of ratification of the 19th th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. Angela dodson has put together a table sort of almanac titles remember the ladies. A documents the long struggles for suffrage for women in this country. It recalls what Abigail Adams said to her husband at the time of the drafting of the constitution. Letters,n sources, speeches, newspaper accounts, photos, drawings, angela highlights the milestones in historic push for womens Voting Rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. It places that movement in the social of other major and Political Developments that were unfolding. Men turnre women than out to vote, but lest anyone think the fight is over, just recall the massive turnout on the mall last january, reaffirming womens rights in effectively protesting donald trump selection. Angela has lots of experience report
Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Groups role in campaign 2020. Nextgen americas benjamin insel talks about his role getting the youth to support joe biden. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is the washington journal. You are looking at the Wisconsin Center in milwaukee, one ofseveral sites for this years Democratic National committee convention, which starts this night. Program would take place from there, but it can be held from other areas. Cspan willf that, be covering at 5 00 this evening. We want to hear from you about political conventions and if you think they matter in this day in age, especially in the new environment we are in. You can let us know your thoughts by calling us. For republicans, 202 7488000 free democrats four democrats, and independents 202 7488002. Us, tweet ustext cspanwj, and a post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The New York Times has a highlight of who you will see tonight, including minnesota senator amy klobuchar, the nevada senator and the first latina to lead a Se
Joining us, joining us, our first guest of the morning. Is joining us from joining us is Holly Otterbein, with politico, a Campaign Reporter, joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host what would be the overall goal for the dnc . At the end of it, what do they hope to accomplish . Guest of course, joe biden right now is ahead in the polls. His main goal is to do no harm and present a message to the American People which the democrats have not really been able to do that well so far. Joe biden has often been overshadowed, sometimes part of his campaign strategy. The democrats have been glad to allow donald trump to sort of stay in the spotlight in his handling of the coronavirus to be just what is talked about most of the time on the news. But now, it is the democrats opportunity to present a vision and present that they are unified. This is something the party has worked hard at over the last few months. They did not want a repeat of the 2016 convention, where