America. He recounts the murder of Francis Scott keys bond and the trial that followed. Excited to have chris derose. He was here last week chris was in sweden last week, so we are thrilled he took the time out. He is a New York Times bestselling author of the starspangled scandal, which is what were talking about today. He was former senior litigation counsel to the Arizona Attorney general, professor of constitutional and international law, and clerk of superior court for americas fourth largest county, maricopa. Chris sits on the board of directors for the Abraham Lincoln association and the board of scholarly advisors to president lincoln college. He and his wife reside in phoenix. Without further introduction, i present to you chris derose. You, tammy,thank for that introduction. Thanks to the Gettysburg Center for having us here, pennsylvania tv, and cspan booktv. This will be my for the parents and thank you for all you do to promote books and promote office. Who here has heard
Starspangled scandal, which is what were talking about today. Congressman for lincoln and rivals. He was former senior litigation counsel to the Arizona Attorney general, professor of constitutional and international law, and clerk of superior court for americas fourth largest county, maricopa. Chris sits on the board of directors for the Abraham Lincoln association and the board of scholarly advisors to president lincolns cottage. He and his wife reside in phoenix. Without further introduction, i present to you chris derose. [applause] mr. Derose thank you, tammy, for that introduction. Thanks to the Gettysburg Center for having us here, pennsylvania cable tv, and cspan booktv. This will be my fifth appearance on cspan book tv. Thank you for all you do to promote books and promote authors. Who here has heard the one about the congressman who killed his wifes lover across from the white house . When i came across this story, i knew it was too extraordinary not to share. I was working o
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b
Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s
Was so upset by the whole affair that he wrote a letter to his uncle, and in the letter he we went to bed Old Fashioned, conservative, compromised union wigs, and waked up start raving mad abolitionists. Plus, spencer crew on the great migration of africanamericans from the south to the midwest, after world war i. Workers to a lack of help prepare the mediations and supplies needed for the war effort. Began to do was figure out, where else can we find people to hold these jobs . And for the first time ever, positions for africanamericans in northern industry began to become available. There is no reason to move to the north. Because there are jobs. Tv, allcan history weekend, every weekend. Only on cspan3. Civil war authors discuss how they started writing about their topics, their process of researching, and at some of the unexpected information they have discovered. The Gettysburg Heritage Center hosted this hourlong talk. My name is tammy myers, welcome everybody. I am pleased to we