Assassination and a week after robert e. Lees surrender in april of 1865, generals william certificate shan and Joseph Johnston met to discuss the union armys future. Naval historian craig simons and history Professor John look back on the historic meeting. Once they were inside, sherman took out of the pocket the tell gram he had been handed just as he was leaving for the meeting and showed it to joe johnston. So far he had shown it to no one else. It stated that two days before Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated in washington, d. C. Johnston looked up at sherman with horror and declared it was the greatest possible calamity for the south. At 6 50, lynn downy discusses her biography of the inventor of blue jeans, levi strauss. Heres a lovely remnant. And the patent was awarded after three tries with the Patent Office on may 20, 1873. For an improvement in fastening pocket openings, which is really boring language for basically the invention of the blue jean. Sunday at noon on oral histories. We begin a series of five interviews with prominent africanamerican women from the explorations and black leadership oral history collection. The late gwen eiffel, an american Peabody Award Winning journalist, discusses her life, including her experience with racism in the newsroom. Getting in the door because i had survived this insult of being paved in a certain way. Then when i got in i had to prove to them i could write, meet a deadline, a good colleague in the newsroom and environment where once again i was one of very few people of color. So once just getting in the door isnt enough, its what i say about it, its nice the door opens, but what do you do once you walkthrough it . Far complete heroin history v schedule go to cspan. Org. Is agent feature of cspan2s book tv is our coverage of book fairs across the country. Nonfiction author talks, interviews, and viewer callin segments. Saturday, book tv will be live beginning at 9 00 eastern from savannah, georgia, for the 10th anniversary of the savannah book festival. Featured authors include john tammany author of who needs the fed. Desandra king presents pat conroys book a low country heart. Terry mcdonald with his book the accidental life. William dorothy talks about his book in the shadow of the ayatollah. Rich is not a four letter word. And dan slater, author of the book wolf boys. And calls with authors throughout the day. Follow and tweet us with your questions at book tv on twitter. Join us Live Saturday beginning at 9 00 a a. M. Eastern for the 10th anniversary of the savannah book festival on book tv. The u. S. House returns at noon eastern today. Members expected to debate rules for two bills coming up later this week. Including a measure that would change the rules for federal funding grants for Family Planning and Preventive Health services. Theyll also consider three resolutions appealing obama administrations Labor Department rules. One of which deals with drug testing for those seeking unemployment benefits. See the house live when members return here on cspan. Beginning at noon eastern. Also on capitol hill, Senate Lawmakers continue their consideration of Trump Administration nominees are now voting to continue debate on congressman economic mulvaney to be the next white house budget director. Watch as the votes are tallied on cspan2. Waiting for the house to return for debate at noon eastern. Until then earlier this morning a Bipartisan Group of house members held a briefing with reporters offering their lee action to the resignation of Michael Flynn as National Security advisor and potential sanctions against russia