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Im in House Counsel here at the constitutioner in and about to treat you to an exciting i want to give a quicking bug for some of our upcoming programs. Next week we will welcome former white house advisor for discussion on one with of the more widely misunderstood constitutional prakses impeachment u new biography on michigan senator arthur vangdenburg and later this month well have the Atlantic Franklin four for a tuck on his new book World Without mind the threat of big tech, and leading thinkers including jacob of the National Interest and sam of the knock times for conversation of the future of american conservatism and members receive free tickets to Town Hall Program and discounted to blockbuster evening programs and our continuing Legal Education credit offering. And for more information on membership or on Upcoming Schedule check out the membership table outside in the lobby own now to introduce our guest speaker a leading civil war historian is tucker boat right professor at
Coming up next, a conference on the end of the civil war. Historians discussed the postwar political and cultural environment in the north. The virginia secretary organized this event. Our topic is the union cause in the war and in the framework of how americans remembered it from the wartime generation and later. Everybody is awake. Matt, john, and joan are our panel this time around. The first question i want us to talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. About is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. To begin, i would like all of you to discuss what loyal mea nt within the context of the u. S. Effort during the war. Joan i will start. One of the members of the audience came up to me and asked me to make sure there were more jokes in the session. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level, i think these concepts are very tied together, Union Loyalty and sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism. It meant loyalty or country, loyal to t
Guide to harrisburg. You can do this and all other programs at our website cspan. Org history. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, fromay the Heritage Foundation discussing the recent testimony of warmer fbi director james comey in his discussion with president trump. And an author will talk about his new article, the great democratic divide. And the middle east institute Gerald Fierstein talk about gulf states. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. From the discussion. Joined the discussion. Cspan is that they frank Teddy Roosevelt library and museum were we go inside for a room look at fdrs personal office and collection of artifacts with the museums director. This library open in june of 1941. He was the president of the United States. This became the northern oval office. Fdr had an incredibly inquisitive mind. There are 914 books in his room alone. Every book was selected by fdr t
Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h