Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our
He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd
Their own generation and now. At 4 00, editor gail sheehy. At 9 00, allen west on the core values of faith and freedom. On American History tv, monday morning at 8 00 eastern Juanita Jones abernethy. Starting at 2 00, state of the unions address by gerald ford and bill clinton. Then the history of Race Relations in ferguson, missouri. Find our complete Television Schedule at www. Cspan. Org. Let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Call us or email us. Or send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. All weekend, American History tv is featuring wheeling, west virginia. In 1818, the Historic National road the first improved highway built by the federal government, arrived in wheeling,. Crossing the ohio river it led to an industrial boom and contribute it to western expansion during the 19th century. Cspans city tour staffs visited many sites showcasing the citys history. We have been dealing with lots of requests that t
It will be the place where conventions are held that will form a new government for virginia, a government for virginia loyal to the United States and the union. This new government over virginia will then create the new state of West Virginia. Our nation was in the midst of a terrible civil war. Those in eastern virginia, predominantly, were supportive of the confederacy. So, when virginia takes her vote for secession, the last vote on april 17, 1861, the majority of of the virginia delegates will vote to secede from the United States and to join the southern confederacy. Those voters from northwestern virginia, who were overwhelmingly against secession, they would come back to this side of the mountains in West Virginia. They would have mass meetings, public meetings, to decide what northwestern virginia would do and they decided they needed to have a place for a more formal convention and wheeling would be the place rest to have that convention. It would be safe, given that it is th
Rapidly. America is running out of gas. And it is our turn to seek new ways to generate power. Each time we have shifted to new sources of power history tells us, it has taken 60 years. America cannot afford to wait. To promote a national effort, a federal agency has been created to plan the best use of our present resources. To mobilize science, industry, and government, to develop new sources of energy. And to accomplish this without injuring the environment. Its an american tradition confidence in mans hours of invention. Every promising sources being explored, from machines that drop our out of the freeflowing tides of air and sunlight, confusion, our massive effort in the complex field of nuclear reactions. With the promise of power that is truly limitless. Producing more energy would be meaningless without conservation. A major study focuses on americas favorite means of transportation. Searching for engines that will go much farther, for much less fuel. Batterypowered cars are b