In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini
All while writing this book and compiling the first catalog of riiss photograph. In the years it has taken to get these exhibitions mounted and this book published kb eed bonn worn ever single type of hat in the business and none of this could have been possible without her talent, energy and passion for her subject. With that, i will let bonnie take the stage. [ applause ] jacob rhys. Amy, thank you so much, im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay so im going to read pretty much lets see what we have to say here. The jacob im going repeat what amy did to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of this project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition now on view in the Jefferson Building at the library of congress is the result of a collaboration of the past several years between the library and the museum and the city of new york. The museums owns riiss photograph of new york city slums in the late 19th century. These photographs are the earliest evid
Thats live at 6 00 p. M. Eastern also on cspan. American history tv on cspan3, features programs that tell the american story. This weekend we continue our special series on the 1966 vietnam hearings, 50 years later. We will hear a special consultant to president johnson followed by Committee Member questions. Our purpose is equally clear and easily defined. In his speech of april 7, 1965, president johnson did so in the following terms. Our objective is the independence of South Vietnam and its freedom from attack. We want nothing for ourselves. Only that the people of South Vietnam be allowed to guide their own country in their own way. This has been our basic objective since 1954. It has been pursued by three successive administrations and remains our basic objective today. Next saturday, secretary the state gives his testimony defending johnsons vietnam policies. For the complete American History tv weekend schedule, go to cspan. Org. Next, East Carolina University professor Charle
Perception of citizenship changed after the civil war. Road to the white house coverage continues wednesday from South Carolina. Donald trump will address supporters at a rally. We will take you there live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Then to chapin, where marco rubio talks to voters. Thats live at 6 00 p. M. Eastern also on cspan. American history tv on cspan3, features programs that tell the american story. This weekend we continue our special series on the 1966 vietnam hearings, 50 years later. We will hear a special consultant to president johnson followed by Committee Member questions. Our purpose is equally clear and easily defined. In his speech of april 7, 1965, president johnson did so in the following terms. Our objective is the independence of South Vietnam and its freedom from attack. We want nothing for ourselves. Only that the people of South Vietnam be allowed to guide their own country in their own way. This has been our basic objective since 1954. It has been pursued by thre
Brian Thomas Schatz citizens against government waste. You are president of it and you have been around the organization for 30 years. What does it do . Thomas it was created following the release of the Grace Commission report. Peter grace and jack anderson, syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of