Aaron is a native of michigan not far from lansing, did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington, d. C. And moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. Book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book, published by harvard, titled calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. Just again published in 2018. Aaron, lsu is a great place for him. Aaron is a self proclaimed foody so has lots of places to select from in new orleans but today well talk about his book, which has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formerly the museum of the confederacy, now the American Civil War museum in richmond. Lets welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] prof. Sheehandean good morning. Thank you all. I will start by saying happy fathers day to everyone in the audience. Its a weird thing to spend sunday morning talking about violence, but
Conversations with nonfiction authors and others making things happen. Weekly hour long conversations that regularly feature authors on Nonfiction Books about a variety of topics and behind the scenes of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Industry with industry updates and best sellers lists. Find our podcasts by downloading the free cspan app and wherever you get your podcasts and our website, cspan. Org podcast. April, 1865 brought the confederate surrender at appmattox and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and many africanamericans were hopeful that johnson would promote. And they were disillusioned with johnson, after Frederick Douglass talked about it. And eventually led to his impeachment. Within the records of the archives is the impeachment of johnson, february 1868. Three days later 12847 voted to adopt the resolution. In the failed promise, Robert Levine brought Frederick Douglass and wider black community to reject Andrew Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachm
Speaker mccarthy has added a new wrinkle, opening an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Thehouse inquiry. Good morning and welcome. It is Constitution Day. We will talk this first hour about the impeachment inquiry. 202 7488003 you can send in your questions. The house is set to return this week. There is polling on it already. This is the headline. Americans divided on biden impeachment probe. 38 of independents say they support it. 32 were not sure. I am directing our House Committee to open a formal inquiry into joe biden. The logical next step will give our committee the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. This is exactly what we want to know, the answers. I believe the president would what answer these questions and allegations as well. This effort will be led by the committee on oversight. I do not make this decision lightly. Regardless of your party or who you voted for, these facts should concern all americans. The American People deserve to k
Host the u. S. House returns with my senate to leak window to pass a spending bill and avoid a shutdown. Speaker mccarthy has added a new wrinkle, opening an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Thehouse inquiry. Good morning and welcome. It is Constitution Day. We will talk this first hour about the impeachment inquiry. 202 7488003 you can send in your questions. The house is set to return this week. There is polling on it already. This is the headline. Americans divided on biden impeachment probe. 38 of independents say they support it. 32 were not sure. I am directing our House Committee to open a formal inquiry into joe biden. The logical next step will give our committee the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. This is exactly what we want to know, the answers. I believe the president would what answer these questions and allegations as well. This effort will be led by the committee on oversight. I do not make this decision lightly. Regardless of yo
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