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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Invisibles 20160409

Following us on twitter at booktv or facebook, facebook. Com booktv. Booktv 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. Now were going to kick off this weekend with author Jesse Hollins talk about the lives of slaves in the white house. Ill begin by saying that im delighted to welcome Jesse Hollins as he presents his second book invisible young story of africanamericans in the white house. Hollins is a highly Media Authority who has contributed hundreds of articles of aron american history, politics, news, and makes regular appearances on washington journal. Abc news now, using egg exchange and political reporter for Associated Press and one of the Supreme Court correspondents and in his first black black men built the capitol he pointed out structure, monuments including capital statue u of freedom and latest offering he has his focus on extense and historically overlooked role of an africanamerican that played in the history the white house. Of our first

Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts 20160305

This structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and

Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20160312

And in pennsylvania, he was known as a civil war scholar. His first book is about crime and punishment in the 19th century south. Life afterk, reconstruction, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. That makes him the ideal speaker to set the stage or the symposium, with his talk on reckoning with reconstruction, on its sesquicentennial. Ladies and government, let me introduce ed ayers. [applause] ed good morning everybody. Great to see you. I will be honest, i came in from california, two weeks, which is just long enough to become acclimated with the west coast. I am ignoring the fact that i got in at 2 30. That is muchow much i care about you. People know some things about reconstruction, many of them are partially true. I found that many audiences, even those who come to a talk on some facet of the American Civil War as well as those who are freshmen in college, readily admit they do not have the full story of reconstruction fully nailed. Here is what i think the common stock of know

Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20160401

I am a history buff. I do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things how they work and how they are made. I love American History tv. I had no idea they did history. Thats probably something i would really enjoy. With American History tv, it gives you that perspective. I may cspan contrast betwee southerners and native americans. Historian edward ayers looks at the end of the civil war and the dawn of the reconstruction era. Reconstruction began as early as the summer and fall of 1864. He points to the Republican Party expanding to include democrats who supported the union war effort. He talks about Union Victories on the battlefield, including the fall of atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley campaign. This hour long talk was part of a day long symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Now, let me introduce our first speaker. Weve charged him with playing the role of keynote speaker to offer something of a history course in reconstruction. To highlight some of the

Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20160320

He is a reconstruction expert. Into some of the things of the postwar era. Im confident he is up to the task and not just because hes my boss as chairman of the museums board. Dr. Edward ayers is the founding chairman and served previously on the boards of the American Civil War center and the museum of the confederacy and for that matter, the library of virginia. Over the past eight years, he has become the face of public history. And of the civil war says question tennial says uestion tennial sesqetennial in richmond and serving as the future of richmonds past. He retired from the university of richmond last year and is now the Tucker Boatwright professor of humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. Before he began his pioneering work with the valley of the shadow project at u. V. A. And the studies of the civil war period in augusta county, virginia, and franklin county, pennsylvania, ed was known primarily as a historian of the postwar sound. His first book w

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