the final hour and we did get some strong earnings from industrial names like rockwell automation and speaking of the president s speech, we will have the first reaction from the white house right here on closing bell. a live interview with top economic adviser larry kudlow in just a few minutes from now. and we will ask him for some clarity on china and the status to have the trade negotiations joining us now for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. kind of a quiet market day here, but perhaps a little bit of upward bias for a while until just the last several minutes. i think it s about everything that you just touched on i think it s the majority was president trump, the expectations coming out of that speak that speech at the economic club. was he going to unveil anything that the market didn t already know so once you get through it and there was nothing new that the market could bite into, the market sells off sort of an anti-climactic feel to the whole da
we have a little feedback, which i m sure we are taking care of. ok. you all know him, and we will have many more chances at this lincoln forum to talk to and with and about him, so i will just introduce him in the most obvious and also the most admiring way. he is the founding chairman of the lincoln forum and has led this group for 23 years. please welcome frank williams. [applause] frank: thank you, harold. you will get yours next. [laughter] last year, we had professor caroline janney, now at uva, succeeding our friend gary gallagher. she talked about what happened to those former confederate soldiers who were paroled. mash.s really a mishmn harold and i got to thinking about another, undisclosed, or one with misinformation, about justice and injustice after the war, which is the title of this talk. you will see why, in a few minutes. on april 10, 1865, general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses s grant at appomattox courthouse. we certainly all know that, and w
getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know that it won the flannery o connor award. is a very good writer who has decided to turn to the craft of history. his most recent book is entitled the end to war: fighting the civil war after appomattox. i am not the most perceptive but i am guessing your trick is different than what we heard from patrick gallagher last night. [laughter] peter carmichael: we re looking forward to hearing your presentation, the a war that could not end at appomattox. greg downs. [applause] gregory downs: thank you so much and i want to thank also allison jordan and diane and everyone at the cwi for inviting me and taking car
america. american history tv was live today from gettysburg, pennsylvania, on a symposium on the end of the civil war and its aftermath. coming up next, all of our coverage from the day including consequences and treason and loyalty in the civil war era. the talks were part of the annual conference. good morning. i am peter carmichael. i am a professor of history at gettysburg college. director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure to introduce gregory downs. greg has recently accepted a job at uc davis on the other side of the coast so this summer he will be packing up his family and getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know that it w
good morning again, i am peter carmichael. i am a member of the history department and the director of the civil war institute and it is my pleasure to introduce lesley gordon. she started her academic career at the college of william and mary ann went on to the university of georgia where she studied. she completed her dissertation on general george pickett which became a book which is a model biography, published by the university of north carolina. and the inspiration for all of this of course begins right here at the civil war institute in 1983. she was one of the high school scholarship recipients that came here. one of many who was gone on to have academic careers. as you all know we have a strong contingent of high school scholarship award winners this summer as well. she now teaches at the university of akron undergraduate as well as graduate students. for a very long time she was the editor of the journal of civil war history and i believe her tenure is coming to a c