My wife said, when you get a pulitzer, you can get an armani. [laughter] im hoping to get mostimproved historian james that is a distinguished award too. [laughter] peter thank you for so much that you have done over the years. Thank you. [applause] the civil war airs every saturday at 10 00 eastern time. To watch more programming any time, visit our website cspan. Org history. You are watching American History tv, for weekend, every weekend on cspan3. This weekend, the cspan cities toward travels the country with time warner cable. To mourn to learn more about the life of lexington, kentucky. In the mid1940s, if you had asked who is a bright shining star in american politics on a national scale, someone who is going to be governor, perhaps president. A lot of people wouldve said ed prichard of kentucky. He was one of those people who worked in the white house in his early 20s. He was destined for great things. He came back to kentucky in the mid1940s. He wasnt dieted for stuffing the
Underscore the wars bleakest battles while exposing and underlining that there are few winners and fewer heroes. Little glory. James the idea that the civil war really was its a kind of neorevisionism. It was useless because it didnt accomplish anything. Peter roughly 700,000 casualties. Is it worth freedom for africanamericans that some would say with second place . James it comes out of the skepticism about whether the civil war did accomplish a new birth of freedom. I think if one goes back and take a look at what the slaves themselves thought about the freedom, or even the native the nader is one black historian called it. Clearly that is better than slavery. If one looks back at what the slaves themselves thought about freedom in 1865, one of black historian wrote about freedom in the 1900. Clearly it was better than a slavery. In my opinion, the civil war accomplished a huge amount in terms of changing the direction of this country, largely for the better. Not that there werent h
Vicki alecia what do we know about this grisly discovery. Reporter a 12year old homicide case is being activly investigated in oakland. Police along with the fbi were out today near the port of oakland today. They say they are looking for evidence that could lead them to closing the investigation and bring closure to the victims family. Reporter shootings on a regular occurrence in her neighborhood but she has never heard of bodies being found in her neighborhood or set on fire. This is an extremely scary. I hear bullets fly all the time to read one time it hit my car. And not too long ago, i have came into the house and someone was shotsome one window was shot. Reporter police is being very tightlipped about this they are asking if someone had seen anyone or had surveillance the deal that could help the Investigation Called the authorities. Alecia reid. Kron4newd s steve sources have confirmed the investigation is linked to a 2004 missing person case in which the recently received a t
Rally. Out to mola lenghi. Reporter the protests started in front of the trump hotel. It was peaceful but powerful. Another night. Another protest. We want to make sure this is never normalized and no one says hes the prid in front of dcs Trump International hotel on pennsylvania avenue, resisting president elect donald trump. We are going to resist the policies he pushes for if he continues to push for bigotry. The concern is he wants to deport muslims and build a wall around mexico and stop certain refugees from coming in. Im a muslim, and my mom and parent are not from this country and will get deported. Because of him. Reporter after making their voices heard at the trump hotel, they marched to the white house where some question the president elects victory. He lost the popular vote in the election, for the second time in 16 years, the american political system fail sod badly, the loser of an election could be made president. Reporter others want to be heard. We know he will be in
Again just volume. In two days, metro will begin its Safetrack Program. It is a year of big maintenance projects across the metrorail system and it is likely to have a big impact on your commute. Molette green is live with more on todays announcement. This will cause some some headaches, molette. Reporter yeah, we just had a passenger here who stopped and took his time to read this sign giving a big heads up to passengers about what will happen p in just a matter of days. In hours we will hear from the mayor and the transportation chief to tell us what their action plan is. Thousands of passengers use the system to get into and out of the capital city. Workers, tourists and the like. So this is going to be a big adjustment. Weve been talking about this for the beginning of single tracking between East Falls Church where i am now and ballston. Passengers i spoke to this morning say they will just endure the longer wait and take the train. Im going to wait for the metro when it comes. I