Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters and their lives. Better or worse than how they deal with africanamericans . Hard to be worse than the treatment of africanamericans, so then better. So Laura Michael and brooke at the beginning talk about, i think, sort of overall southern white perceptions of race. And brooke makes the argument both of them make the argument that this is an accurate depiction of the way whites perceived the way things went or an accurate portrayal of the souths memory of that time at that time. So again to that
American history on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on a schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Coming up next on American History tv, meg thompson discusses the 1864 election between president Abraham Lincoln and general George Mcclellan. He claims that lincoln was so unsure about his reflection chances that he had his cabinet member sign what is known as the blind memorandum. This pledge for cooperation was link ones lincolns then unknown challenge if he lost. Also spring how important a soldier vote was. President lincoln won by the 1864 election by 21221. This 50 minute talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. All right, i am not going to adjust the microphone, because we spent some time getting it adjusted for meg. I apologize if i look like i am hunched over. [laughter] i hate to stereotype, but i am sure that meg looks like a mildmannered middle school math teacher. Ironically, that is exactly what she is
Weather day, absolutely. Were going to see some sunshine. To start off your tax day, how about a great sunrise. Gorgeous out there. You can already start to see some sunshine coming out there through the clouds. The clouds will hang around here or there through the Morning Hours but lots of sunshine already so temperatures are going to head on up above average. Were around 53 degrees right now. A nice north, northwesterly wind at 6 miles per hour. We turn more north, northeasterly for the afternoon. Its going to be good. One thing to note if youre headed out the door, go have low visibilities. Fog develops and will continue to develop for the next hour or so. Through the Shenandoah Valley from martinsburg down through luray. Winchester starting to see visibility drop as well. Areas of concern would be right around laurel and college park along 95. Watch out for some low advice willty low visibility and fog there. Were headed to the upper 60s with a good mix of sun and clouds. Larry, ov
Its 80 around the bay. Farther north and west, away 70. And we will have this high humidity with us by noon, it will be in the mid to upper 80s. Then flooding into the low 90s by 3 00, 4 00. Well likely see storms beginning to pop up. Melissa is looking at the monday morning commute. No major issues. Chopper 4 over 66 and things are looking good. You can see the volume which is incal, but it is moving. Wider look at things, you can see were not really seeing any red on the screen. A little slow down on the beltway. Top of the beltway looking quite good. 270 at shady grove, volume but moving. Coming up at 6 11, well take a look at bw parkway and the gw parkway. D. C. Police just told us about a deadly shooting overnight in southeast. A man was shot in the head and they can abo neck about 11 00 last night. This is the 66th murder of the year so far in d. C. Thats a 50 increase from the number of murders at this point last year. Today a grand jury begins hearing a case against a man wante
That will tame the impulsive nature of the president elect, somebody who is more steady and more objective and more thorough in their analysis. Im not sure thats what you get with general flynn. Reporter flynn accused of mishandling classified information which the u. S. Military thats scrutinized twice. In both cases he was never charged with wrongdoing and has defended his actions. Flynn a registered democrat has been by trumps side for much of the campaign. Acting as top adviser in highprofile surrogate. Next president of the United States, right here. Reporter another trump loyalist senator Jeff Sessions emerging as the top candidate foerng according to a transition official. If picked he could face a tough Senate Confirmation fight over accusations over racist marks 30 years ago. Causing the alabama senator to be rejected for a judgeship. Sessions denied the allegations at the time. If anybody had a problem with his record they would have run against him and made that very clear.