Raffles going on. At your table youve been given a note card that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them. And what i will do, i will take out the most objectionable ones. And then well proceed from there. But so if you find that and if youve got a question, then write it down and well ask our wonderful speakers today. Weve also, at the break were going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to acknowledge them. And then our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So that will be the end of our day. I really like our speakers presentation title today, mission impossible, rethinking george b. Mcclel an. After this conference i think its more impossibler to do that. But dr. George rable, professor at the university of alabama where he held the care of southern history. He is the author of of a book that won the 2003 lincoln prize and was the choice outstanding academic title. His most recent book is damn yank
And the signing of the emancipation proclamation and generate firstcome 1863. The author reports contrary to popular belief lincoln struggled with his decision and spent quite a bit of time drafting the document as he dealt with self doubt and oppression. This is one hour. Hello. Thanks to those who are here this evening i am sure todd will sign them after the event but another program coming up october 1st historian and author will be here to talk about his new book, robert e. Lee. That should be good. Cspan is here tonight filming booktv so if they miss tonights program they can see it on cspan. I would like to welcome Todd Brewster who has spoken at the library before a member of the history faculty and u. S. Military academy at west point. Longtime journalist working with editors at time and life and senior producer for abc news. Working with many publications and also the coauthor with update Peter Jennings the century. He lives here in richfield with his wife and children and an
To see that interview a few months before kwame ture Stokely Carmichael died you can go to the cspan Video Library available at cspan. Org. Just type in kwame ture and Stokely Carmichael and you will be able to watch that. Gentlemen we are running out of time. Mr. Clyburn we have referenced ferguson a couple of times here in this conversation. Whats going to happen when Congress Comes back with regard to the hearings, legislative action especially perhaps a lot of the talk was about the militarization of the police force. Do you foresee any legislative action on behalf of congress . Guest oh yes i do especially regarding the militarization of the police forces. I think to have Police Officers decked out in camouflage, sit in the top of these mraps many of which are made in my district and i know why they are made. They are there for ieds, ieds that were really maiming people. They were made for the city streets. These things were made for war and for you to dress as if you are going to
The war of 1812, and Henry Kissinger on international affairs. For more information about this weekends 48 Hour Television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. You are watching booktv. Starting now, Todd Brewster recounts when president clinton announced his plans to free the slaves in july at of 1862 and the signing of the emancipation proclamation january 1, 1863. The author reports that contrary to popular belief lincoln struggled with his decision and spent a great deal of time crafting the document as he battled selfdoubt and depression. This is about one hour. Hello and welcome. I am sure that todd will be happy to sign them after the talk as well. Ive like to let you know about a new book on robert ely coming out as well and cspan is also here tonight filming for their booktv program. And so id like to welcome a member of the history and faculty at the United States military academy at west point. A longtime journalist who has worked as an editor at time life and is a produ
Mornings panel. We are going to talk a good bit today about the aftermath of the civil war and the legacy and memory. In this mornings panel were going to focus on the events of the spring and 1865. The last chapter in the work. In the war. I enjoyed by experts on lincoln, lee, and grant. Elizabeth and gary. Let us go back spring of 1865 and sets the stage. In march 1865, lincoln gives his famous second inaugural address. What are his hopes and expectations for the spring and his vision of what victory and peace might look like . Mr. Holzer shall i start . Professor varon that would be great. Mr. Holzer some people expect a more triumphalist second inaugural. But before he gets to ounces of malice, makes clear that he believes the war must continue as he puts it, until every drop of blood drawn with a lash is repaid by one drawn by the sword , if need. And he makes extraordinary declaration that north and south alike are equally guilty for the longstanding original american sin of slav