combat missions across three wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. each week american history tv s american artifacts explores the history of the united states through objects. up next, we visit capitol hill to talk to house historian matthew wasniewski and farar elliott and see a selection of artifacts from the house collection. the story of how african-americans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. we actually have 22 african-americans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house. 2 in the senate. largely a house story. and it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. during the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals, because they believed in the equality of african-americans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. these were radicals in the h
not one a lot of people are familiar with. we actually have 22 african-americans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house. 20 in the house, 2 in the senate. it s largely a house story. and it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. during the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals, because they believed in the equality of african-americans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. these were radicals in the house, like thaddeus stephens, who was chairman of the ways and means committee and a very powerful leader. also people like henry winter davis. elahu washburn. in the senate people like charles sumner and benjamin wade and they really drove the agenda and pushed the lincoln administration to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a reconstruction after the war that was one that was not so lenient toward southern states and was going
the university of chattanooga. we are here at the 28 annual symposium on the 19th century press, the civil war, & free expression symposium. this afternoon s program is titled presidents and the press. breslinrator is jack from iona college. let me introduce jack breslin. thank you, david. this afternoon we have three presentations on presidents and the press, a topic that is getting quite a bit of attention these days. so i will start with my presentation. that will be followed by my colleagues bill hunsicker, in minneapolis, minnesota, and david beaulah, in augustine georgia augusta, georgia. my paper is focusing on civil war generals for president. this builds on a previous paper i had done a few years ago, the king at the elections of william henry harrison and zachary chieftains,military as was referred to by when editorial. harrison had a certain amount of political experience, and had served of governor of the ohio territories, and also served in congress for a sho
today we are going to start a week of starting specifically prof. curry: today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it s important, why most political scholars hate the electoral college. with the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the electoral college but it s a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. i do a whole week on this one because it s how we elect the president, but very few americans understand the process. if you take a course in the american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. but also because it s really important in how it structures how elections turnout. just like how we started our discussions of presidential
week of starting specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why why mostrtant, political scholars hate the electoral college. hopefully you have read most of the book so far, if not, all of it. you get an argument against the electoral college, but it s a useful book because he lays out all of the common arguments for think isl, which i helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. i do a whole week on this one elect the s how we president, but very few americans understand the process. theou take a course in american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. but also because it s really important in how it structures how elections turnout. we started our discussions of presidential nominations by talking about the history of nominations and taking a relatively deep diving to the process rules of nominations today. we start out president