Information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. This is American History tv on cspan3. We are live from gettysburg, pennsylvania today for the annual Civil War Institute conference posted by denver college. We continue now with our live coverage. Im a member of the History Department here at the college. Im also the director of it cwi. Pleasure back to to on George Armstrong book heed upon a is 00 know the winner to put surprises. He will speak on another mistake the study of him by tj stiles. Its really at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship focusing on guerrilla warfare. Will ft. Myers yesterday theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Wenks to these scholars now have a more expansive view of civil war military history. Isse james unfortunately sometimes perceived as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a
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In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
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That was just a joy. Every single day was fantastic. As much as you see is as much fun as we had every day on the set. We joked, we laughed, we never had an argument or a fight and on a film that is rare. We had to meet before she chose us and she met with each person and saw how our chemistry was with others and we all had amazing chemistry. I am so proud to be a part of it. It was so much fun. So much fun. [laughter] i missed brittany. That was the sad thing. But that is the thing about hollywood if any of you want to be an actress . How many want to be an actress . Oh, good, that is fantastic. I dont have to tell the story. It is not as good as it seems. It has to be my acting coach told me it has to be your only option. The only thing you could every see yourself doing in order for you to withstand what you go through before you make it. There is a lot of rejection. [applause] when i tune in on the weekend, it is authors sharing new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on book