Sam hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, south carolina, five days ago. And if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, we werent able to move into the so we arere buying living out of boxes and crates and things. It sounds strange to say i drove up from south carolina. Im used to driving down here. I have been looking forward to this for several reasons. Theis, when the theme of symposium is generals you love , i dont have to worry about what peoples expectations are. , ended a fan of John Bell Hood even though i am not as closely related as the name implies. I am a collateral descendent. I think i am a second cousin. Grandfather,s andrew hood, comes off a different branch, but i am a big ,an of general hood because like most people i am a big fan of an underdog. Fan ofm also a huge people who are not around to defend themselves, and they deserve a defense. I, for probably 20 years, have been researching general hood. And
David fanning, founder and executive producer of drain,ine. And margaret former executive producer of American Experience. The library of congress cohosted the 45 minute event. How to book balance back in copyright, she coordinates the fair use and free speech project at the center with the professor of the Washington College of law. What a great pleasure it is. I feel like my life is passing before me. Be on a panel with these people is really extraordinary. Each of the people here have merely makeo not great documentary, but create a future for a different kind of documentary than was ever possible on any other kind of television to be made. Has contributed differently to doing that. In some cases, supporting each , which doesnt always happen in Public Television. Ive had the pleasure of working with some of these people, because over the last decade, we have been working with different organizations to make fair use more available, particularly in archival ways to makers and public
Panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. Coverage on American History tv on cspan 3. [no audio] everybody. Ning, were ready to get started. Welcome back to the last day of our conference. And also welcome to our cspan viewers. Were live. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. We still have some Tickets Available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if uyoyouve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to make knowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our
States. Next saturday and sunday, we are live from the 28th annual annual southern festival of books in nashville with all day author programs. It features the likes of beth macy on the jim crow south, the carter presidency and history of the spanish civil war. Thats a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. My husband and i on the bookstore. I want to know if all of you can hear me. We have a new sound system. Doesnt work . Great, wonderful. We are obviously thrilled, honored to be celebrating the publication of jfk and the reagan revolution. We have two coauthors with us, a man who needs no introduction and his coauthor who is the associate professor and chair of the department of history of the Sam Houston State University and the two of them worked on the book together and they will be talking about it together and we are so th
Shortest month as if its some politically correct addendum but not as it turns out in the center of it. You just need to pick up todays paper and read whats on the front line. He owned a few people. And set it in motion. Its always struggling with the question of race. Im interested in how my country works. It is important that what were not trying to do is substitute one persons history for another. We are to try to expand. When they said at the end of that sentence that we should be in pursuit of happiness that meant we were a country in the process of becoming and always getting pretty free of debt. Women, he didnt mean africanamericans, he didnt mean a lot of things and he added that because he got bigger so what i think the opening of the africanamerican museum on the mall is not a narrowing of our history, its an expanding of our history. The south had 9 Million People when the civil war started, 4 million of them owned by other people. 45 percent of the staff so that means you c