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
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The day when Americans pay tribute to military men and women killed defending the United States began, for the most part, as a commemoration by Southerners of husbands, fathers and sons who perished in the 19th-century Confederate revolt.