to such publications as the washington post and the new yorker and well as the new york times for the times he edited the collection of online civil war cesquare centennial essays called disunion. and just two weeks ago. he wrote a beautiful times op-ed essay on the indirect number between james buchanan and abraham lincoln in 1860 and 1861. that op-ed was drawn from his new book lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington, which you i hope you see over one of my shoulders. i this one i m not gonna try to guess which one that is. it s a riveting account of the great succession winter. focusing not only on lincoln but on his surroundings. kind of a railroad passenger. i view of the north as lincoln slowly made his way from springfield and washington to become the most looked at president in american history up to that time. so it ted i m going to lead the conversation and then in around. at around 11 11 15. we will we will go to the q&a, but we ll have a good long tongue time t
History inf american the middle of the 19th century, when nothing much happened. It was just the womens movement, and the country divided in two, and spiritual spiritualists, dt bonomo, all part of the same cultural moment. Just in case you were getting bored, there was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed. Thats probably notgure that is not has been finished being revised upward. Then there was the period of reconstruction in the south. At the same time, settlement in the west, the gold rush back in 1848. It completed with the slow and painful and very disturbing removal, of the indians from that particular part of the country. Just a few things that i concerned my with that i concern myself with for the last years. The strange and complex series of moments in American History populated by very a very Unusual Group of people you wouldnt think of necessarily occupying the same historical time, never mind place. I would introduce some of the names. Ulysses s grant and
[applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] interested in American History tv . Visit our website, cspan. Org history. You can preview programs, watch college lectures, archival films, and more. Cspan. Org history. To year, south dakota on American History tv. Located on the Missouri River, this capital city is the second smallest in the u. S. With a 13,000. On of just over with help from our Cable Partners in the next hour we will explode his we will e,plore the history of pierr beginning with the State Capitol building. Mr. Venhuizen pierre is a pretty small town as far as capitals go. Fort pierre is another 2500 people. Between the two, probably 15,000 people. Not only is it small, but it is pretty remote. It was selected as the state capital because it is in the middle of the state. It is really a two or two and a half hou
Trains bound for germany, the migrant crisis dividing europe. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city, im John Henry Smith, president obama will walk on a glaser later today, part of his trip to alaska and there to talk about Climate Change and push for a stronger u. S. Presence in the region. The president will ask congress to speed up construction of new ice breakers in an effort to compete against russia and china in strategic arctic waters. Right now the u. S. Only has two worker ice breakers compared to moscows 40 and first on the president s agenda the Warming Arctic waters and the urgent need for action, libby casey has more from anchorage. Reporter president obama delivering a warning at the beginning of alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet and called it stark and is not a problem in the far off future, its a problem here and its a problem happening now. He said its already impacting infrastructure, and community, health and the future. If those tre
Professor dirck argues that prior to his presidency lincoln was very much a typical american. he also spoke about lincolns interactions with both slaves and White Supremacists and how attitudes changed during the era. This class is about an hour. We are dealing with the american slave system in roughly 40 years time, called the antebellum period, leading up to the civil war. This is when american slavery is in its heyday. This is when more americans are making more money off the forced labor of africanamericans than they ever have before. And economist who studies this, the amount of wealth from cotton exceeds every other investment in america. Hans of money has been made off the cotton empire. And we see how americans have gotten into the cotton empire with the invention of the cotton gin, americas transition from agriculture to cotton agriculture. If there is one thing i want you guys to get out of this class slavery is not just a southern history topic. It is an American History top