150th anniversary of the battle of the crater, thank you, and welcome to those who have not attended the program this evening. I want to, before we get started, thank yous, specifically for st. Pauls church for allowing us this wonderful venue for our programs earlier today and for the one were about to have here this evening. I would like to thank the rector of the church, rick greenwood. I would also like to thank this evening the senior warden of the church, steven tuck, and steven is in the back, so give him a round of applause because hes keeping this open for tonight. But again, its one of the things we try to do with the programs that weve been offering, especially today, and i dont think we could have had better venues being indoors today with the weather, but we were at Guilfoyle Baptist and i see, mr. Powell, youre here this evening and we appreciate the courtesy we were given this morning with your congregation and here tonight at st. Paul. We chose these two locations becau
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T
Not viable Supreme Court candidates. I think that is a terrible loss. Right. Ralph, john, thank you very much. Great conversation i think we all know that u. S. Constitution there are three branches of government. They just did a survey that less than 30 of americans can name off three branches of the government. The executive branch, which is the president. Which is the legislative branch of congress, the Judicial Branch which is a Supreme Court. They are supposed to be three equal branches yet none of them feel the others live up to their potential. On that note i want to thank you guys. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you all for watching weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including wow. The world has changed, today a fast, reliable Internet Connection is s
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