from the get-go learning to work together and this at this event show their constituents and the american people that they can literally work together, recent together at a higher level on all the issues that americans are concerned about and get the best decisions by reasoning together instead of it being based on power, money and votes. we win and you lose. i m calling to say thank you for the debates. i just watched the vermont governor s debate and i m embarrassed to admit that when i first saw there were seven candidates on the stage i thought it was going to be a circus but i m glad i got over that and i watched. i was really impressed with some of the ideas, the suggestions that they made particularly the gentleman who said that an educated workforce is to the benefit of our country so we should be paying students to go to school, not charging them and putting them in debt for going to school. and i really liked the woman candidate who reminded us that senator jeff
time on july 20, 1861 after addressing the congress though on the hot morning of july 21, he could stand the suspense no longer. he knew the combined armies of johnston worked with hunting the enemy near the railroad junction of manassas. he commandeered a special train and truck northward. arriving at manassas in the midafternoon, he wrote towards the south. he was dismayed by what he first encountered strugglers and wounded men with tales of defeat from the, discarded weapons, damaged equipment in the battlefield. davis tried to rally the stragglers. i am president davis and he shouted. follow me back to the field. some of them data. by did. by the time he reached the headquarters where he found them sending reinforcements to the front it was clear that they had won the battle. union troops were in the retreat. davis went further forward in the justice soldiers cheered him to the echo. that evening he met with johnston at their headquarters. davis wanted to organize a pursu
written numerous scholarly articles and he comments frequently on american history and politics for major media outlets. his writing has appeared in the los angeles times the huffington post slate the new republic the conversation time and the them post just to name a few. and he s here tonight to talk with us about his first book and i think it is probably gonna be the first of many it looks like you ve got some projects lined up but the book tonight west of slavery the southern dream of a transcontinental empire published by unc press and i will mention that we do have the shop the book for sale in our museum shop. so without without further ado, i m going to turn the screen over to dr. waite. great. thank you, kelly. and thank you all for for showing up. i know it s been a long long year. i m not going to give individual shout-outs, but it s really nice to see a lot of familiar faces on my screen. so i i first went to the american civil war museum with my parents when i wa
had to do the fighting and we need the moses generation this weekend working with the joshua generation and don t let them divide us, old versus young. some of this language clarence that we have heard before. the tea party is nothing but dixiecrat tenet was lee atwater who made that point. lee atwater the southern strategy architect he said and i ve got it on tape. you can t say it like you did in 1950 and 64. you have got to save us sing. you have got to use terms in the abstract and that is how he was able to capture the southern folk and they became republicans from dixiecrat to republicans. it s the same thing. it s just that they speak in abstract. america is getting smart. everybody up here is absolutely right. it is no longer them saying its them, them, them. it s now us and these folks who are against medicare and social security, they are kicking their grandma under the bus. they are kicking their own people under the bus and i think mr. turner is absolutely right.
now the race for mayor in new york city. this formed the latest in a series of debates between the candidates with less than three weeks before voters in new york city go to the polls. the democratic primary is scheduled for tuesday, september 10th. if no candidate obtains 40% of the vote a runoff will take place between the top two finishers. in a leading democrat and republican will face each other in the november 5th general election. the race continues to make national headlines, and it will put the candidates and their campaign in the perspective. joining us from new york, kate taylor for the new york times. thank you for being with us. a pleasure. three weeks to go, set up this race. what you re looking at? as you said, if none of the candidates get 40% in the primary there will be a runoff but when the top two candidates. what you have right now is three candidates all in a very tight race for who will be the two people who get into the runoff. the most recent