He discusses his involvement in the fall of richmond in 1865. The museum of the confederacy hosted this event. [applause] mr. Quatman mr. Quatman a thank you for joining me. It is a visiting story the story that very few civil war buffs know. Ive given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the U
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, amy binder takes an in depth look at experiences and activism of conservative students on the campuses of americas colleges and universities. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Well, thank you very much for coming out on this rainy thursday. And thank you very much to christine and tulare for inviting me to the center. For more than half a century, conservative critics have been in think thanks, foundation and the media have championed the cause of conservative College Students who they say suffer on College Campuses. In books with such titles as freefall of the american university, and tenured radicals, critics charge the american Higher Education has become the place a liberal if not radical faculties, and that in the classrooms of the politicized university, middle of the road students complacently consume their professors misinformation. Moderate students are smug liberal students are smug and feeling that theyre on the
Thank you for coming out on this rainy thursday. And thank you to christine and larry for inviting me to the center. For more than half a century, conservative critics housed in think tanks and foundation and the media have championed the cause of conservative College Students who they say suffer on College Campuses. Freefall of the university and tenered radical book tights, they are claiming Higher Education and liberal, if not radical, factory and middle of the road students misunderstand i am sorry, liberal students are smug and feeling they are on the right and conservative students have to decide if they will voice their outrage or listen to the tirade. And wellfound organizations have been put in place. The academic bill of rights to legally protect students and we have the American Legal Foundation as well. The claire booth policy institute is targeted to women and the Federalist Society or humane studies at George Mason University provide internships for budding conservatives.
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During the election as this young preacher from georgia which is dr. Martin luther king jr. Who sort of leads the masses of africanamericans from racial to presentation. So in this notion that a rosa sat and, you know, martin could do this stuff and jesse could run and then barack could fly, all these things, they sound good, but they really simply few a much more complicated history. And that complicated history really involves so many africanamericans, women and men, who proactively dismantled racial segregation including rosa parks. Rosa parks was an activist. She didnt just refuse to give up her seat by accident, it was a concerted, strategic effort to try to transform democratic institutions. Tufts University History professor and author of dark days, bright nights, peniel joseph, specializes in the sub field of africana. His latest, stokely a life, will be in bookstores march 4th. Sunday hell take your questions in depth live for three hours starting at noon eastern on cspan2s bo