They said mr. President , what do you think, and he said, well, it reminds me of the story of the young woman who put on her stockings and she looked up and said, i think theres something in it. I dont know if they got this, you know, theres something in it, but they went to work immediately. They took that to be a yes. Yeah, thats a go, but its a good thing because the confederates are, you know, building this ship, so they rushed back to new york with a model, and they get to work on the actual ship. The image that sort of shows the launch of the monitor . Yeah. And its, you know, i feel a certain kinship to the monitor because it was built in my mothers ancestral home of green point. Theres still an Erickson Park there, my mother went to the monitor school when she was in 1921, its still there. Built in the 1890s, so its very much their town, but there was a big shed where ships were made, and it all converted today and night, 24 7 production of this ship with a very crew of workers
What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
United states joining us today. This pandemic became front and center in early march. Towards the end of march, around the 23rd of march. And what impact has all of this had on visitors and on your bottom line . In terms of visitors, there have been no public in our buildings. Were in 42 facilities across the country and no public since that time. So on a normal day, how many people would visit the National Archives here in washington . Its about a million and a half a year come through the rotunda to see the charters of freedom. And so has it impacted your Financial Resources . Well, we have a shop in our Museum Rotunda underneath the rotunda and our president ial libraries have shops also. The gift shops have certainly not been receiving any business. We have a couple of online stores, Museum Stores that have been doing business, but certainly not at the level that we have during the regular season. Now that were moving into the summer months, what will june, july and august look lik
Dow indicated up by about 200 points, s p up by about 20 and nasdaq up by about 59. The dow closed above 26,000. S p was actually up about two points ant the nasdaq up about 32 treasury yields about where weve been 10year around 0. 7 . This morning, it is at 0. 715 overnight, twitter adding a warning to a post by President Trump. The tweet is a video of two toddlers running down the side walk that had been altered that said racist baby probably a trump voter. Twitter tagging that as manipulated media with a link that the original was cnbc story about a friendship between two toddlers the continued battle between social media and some of the social Media Companies and President Trump. Facebook removing Trump Campaign ads that used a banned hate group symbol to identify context. It issued a red triangle symbol used by nazis. The campaign used that symbol as it denounced antifa, a group of protesters the president has blamed for vandalism during the protests a lot of back and forth in ter