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well, that s a loaded question peter. wonderful to be with you part of it is that i was born and raised in huntsville, alabama and surrounded by engineers who came to huntsville to in the race to put the man on the moon. so engineering was a very common degree that people pursued i needed money for college. my activist parents were broke and vanderbilt offered me a merit scholarship on forever grateful. i loved science and math and i use the logic of engineering in my writing you could particularly i think see it in my most recent book where i m a self-hot-taught historian, but i bring a systems analysis. to the structures that create racial inequality. so there s a connection there. it s helps me to think critically. well that path began in huntsville, alabama. it went through vanderbilt university and then to oxford university masters in english law jd from harvard. and then a clerkship with supreme court justice thurgood marshall the clinton white house and finally t ....
first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. the other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scott s fabulous invasion. moving in land to mexico city in 1847. lee served in many respects as scott s eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that great campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lee s two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war which taken together don t really do a whole lot to explain to us what we know about robert e lee once the civil war begins. host: we will get into that in just a minute. light horse lee wasn t necessarily a good father, is that correct? guest: he was splendid cavalry commander, carrying out raids during during all kinds of small ....
civil war era at gettysburg also serves ashe director for the civil war era studies program. he did his graduate work of history at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. he also holds a master of divinity degree. his roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. nguelzo.comto alle and get a full accounting of all his publications and his biography and doings. what i m going to do is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. i will read them in order. the first is called abraham . ncoln, redeemer president lincoln s emancipation proclamation: the end of slavery in america. published by simon & schuster in 2004. lincoln and douglas, the debates that defined america. whitening: gettysburg, the last invasion. published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln prize to alan, he is the only person who is 13. has won 3. he is cu ....
how should the city function? ins is an opportunity unique the united states. i don t want to see a dresden kind of thing, or frankfurt. , that looks like new york in a small way. i don t want the fabric and the character of the city to change. but is what i liked about it when i came here. reporter: thank you very much. jim: on our facebook page we re asking you if the gulf region is better off than it was before hurricane katrina. you can join the conversation at facebook.com/c-span. or on twitter. 29 marks theaugust anniversary of hi hurricane katrina. on wednesday night, the 2006 2 of new orleans. you have nothing left. your whole community. your family. everyone is gone. friendsater and your that you don t use to see that that used to seeing. that you used to see. you will never forget it for the rest of your life. followed by a town hall meeting. i m relying on you. , federalis state level level. i don t have them. meoted for you to represent on the loca ....
the seventh ward. in new orleans. it is behind tremaine, behind the historic district. itis not historically district itself. even though there are historic homes here. this is where we are at a year after the storm. the houses, 5-6 feet. these houses were built in the traditional style. maybe not raised enough. this style of home is double shotgun. what is great about these homes as far as being built for this environment is they are raised. they can t be ventilated. they have windows and doors and all sides. good for air circulation. construction is what is the best thing about it. they have cyprus framing, and it s the old river cyprus that grows in water. it doesn t get flood damaged. many of these people have hard pine floors, which straighten out just fine. you see there is a big mix of homes, old and new. is this a predominantly african-american neighborhood? predominantly. for the most part. it reflects the city s balance, i would say. this might be the stre ....