Even with the sun today closings and delays because of weather storm. King George Country and Spotsylvania County schools are closed today. Fredericksburg sut yain Madison Country on 2 hour delay. Maryland now, caroline county, dorchester, queen anne as, talbert Country Schools all closed. Calvert country, kent county and st. Mary Country Schools on two hour delay. You can find the complete list of closings and delays scrolling on bottom of your screen and also on fox5dc. Com and fox news app. And theres a school in north are you require not School Related because of first up Jeff Sessions nominated for attorney general and Homeland Security nominee john kelly will tough a grilling by lawmakers tod lack. A number of group opposing sessions and Melanie Alnwick is live at capitol hill this morning. Melanie. Well, steve, allison, you see how the line as grown here all of these folks here waiting to try to get a public seat. Theres people advocating for causes like Legal Marijuana and civi
Even with the sun today closings and delays because of weather storm. King George Country and Spotsylvania County schools are closed today. Fredericksburg sut yain Madison Country on 2 hour delay. Maryland now, caroline county, dorchester, queen anne as, talbert Country Schools all closed. Calvert country, kent county and st. Mary Country Schools on two hour delay. You can find the complete list of closings and delays scrolling on bottom of your screen and also on fox5dc. Com and fox news app. And theres a school in north are you require not School Related because of first up Jeff Sessions nominated for attorney general and Homeland Security nominee john kelly will tough a grilling by lawmakers tod lack. A number of group opposing sessions and Melanie Alnwick is live at capitol hill this morning. Melanie. Well, steve, allison, you see how the line as grown here all of these folks here waiting to try to get a public seat. Theres people advocating for causes like Legal Marijuana and civi
History of america at war. He explores the challenges the u. S. Military phase from the u. S. Revolutionary war to the war in iraq. He talks about the popular misconceptions about the American Revolution and the civil and vietnam wars. This event is about an hour. Mr. Davis good evening, everyone. I am always so pleased when i hear someone did not know much about history as a teenager 20 years ago. I run into this a lot. I read your book when i was 16. I am 40 now. That is why it is the 25th anniversary edition. Thank you all for coming. It is an honor to be here in fraunces tavern. I am a lover of all places historical. I have been since i was a small child. In fact, when i was a kid, our idea of Summer Vacation was throwing mummy bags, army surplus sleeping bags, and a canvas tent in the back of the car and go off to places like fort ticonderoga, gettysburg, valley forge. Visiting those places as a kid gave me the sense that history is not something that happens in books. It happens
Gettysburg. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1963. The Centennial Anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. I remember being a child, standing there, not fully understanding with the civil war was about. What the gettysburg address was about. What had really happened gettysburg. But knowing, in my heart, as i stood there, feeling the summer stones if you have been there, they are unforgettable i knew something extraordinary had happened. This was a sacred place. I took home from the visit in 1963 a small wooden revolver, a souvenir, with the dates of the bowel stamped on the barrel battle stamped on the barrel. I keep it as a reminder of what history really means. Morei set out to write than 25 years ago, hard to believe, but when i set out, i wanted to maintain a sense of childlike wonder about history. I could not understand people saying, history is so dull. So boring. All these days and battles and speeches. History is anything but that. It is the story of real people and
And incorporates in 1889. Ut it was near the location of the old historic fort. And even those early pioneers who formed the community, they used to be a fort here which is how we ended up in the town of casper named after ft. Casper. Find out where cspans local next t vehicles are going online at cspan. O are, g localcontent. Watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. 200 years ago on august we fourth, 1814, British Forces entered washington dc, and burned the capitol building, the president s house, and most of the Federal Buildings. Next, steve vogel, author of through the perilous fight six weeks that saved the nation, texas on a river truer of washington. This program is about 90 minutes. I had a boat on the potomac for about 30 years. It is a great way to see the city. It is a different city. I think of the potomac is an obstacle on the way you have to cross on your way to d. C. Is the reason the city is where it is. Its one of the most remarkable urban