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Going to be a beautification out here, which i guess never hit me, but i guess it might in a way. Because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do among others, besides give you a time line as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years which i think is one of obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life because, i mean, the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture im going to try to get across to you, if Park Services is...

Again, another day has passed, nothing has happened, no incremental progress, no compromising. To some it might just be one day, but to too Many Americans and other dates fighting for your help or how you will pay your rent or how you will feed your kids is a brutal and terrifying thing. Whats oneor more day to an average american . It might be a a day closer to e rent being due, without having the money to pay it. It might be another day with insufficient Unemployment Benefits while bills pile ...

What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil...

And also the literary director of the library of congress. Much of my own writing has been about the history and the people of latin america, and the purpose of this conversation to share a little bit of that history and talk about how it compares with and connects to the pandemic that were living through right now, right here in april 2020. So many of us are at home, working at home, living at home and sheltering in place as science takes the on the covid19 virus. Im so fortunate to have a trul...

With, and connects to, the pandemic we are living through right now, right here, in april 2020. So many of us arent home, working at home, living at home, and sheltering in place as science takes on the covid19 virus. I am so fortunate to have a truly skilled and knowledgeable colleague joining me today scholar who wears many hats suspending histories archaeology, and geography. John hessler is the director of the collection at the library of congress. In a specialist on early america. He is the...

We know from early historians how devastating this variety of smallpox was, 90 of all indigenous deaths were attributable to smallpox, tell us about that. There was a point of scholarly discussion. One of the sources we have, most of the media is a chronicler, spanish chronicler arrived in spain, he wrote a diary or memoir, talks about the actual mortality rate, keeps talking in terms of 50 but some of the other sources we have, people like cortez himself cortez writes and cant stand, and in eur...

Videos on our website. Where history unfolds daily. 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. In 2010, the liljenquist family of virginia donated their civil war of photographs to the library of congress. Met011, american artifacts them at a library of Congress Exhibit of their photographs to learn the story behind the collection. This is the very first photograph that we bought in maryland ...

200,000 plus salary through june 30th when his contract was supposed to end and the board wants larry bowers, a 37 year employee and current chief operating officer to serve as interim superintendent. They will start a nationwide search and expect to have a replacement in place by july 1st, but it is not clear at this point exactly what kindful candidate the board is looking kind of candidate the board is looking for or as one critic said, whether that candidate even exists. Back to you. The Fai...

Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on her schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. You are looking at a live picture from Oak Ridge Cemetery from revealed illinois, where the 150th anniversary of president aber cap president abraham we can pause euro. With us is richard hart, a springfield resident and author. Your book is lincolns springfield. Tell us what...

Springfield. Tell us what we are going to see today and whats going to happen behind you this afternoon. This afternoon, you will see a reenactment of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in springfield 150 years ago. It started on the square downtown and it will take probably half an hour for the procession to reach Oak Ridge Cemetery, which is on the north side of springfield. That procession will be a reenactment of lincolns actual funeral. There will be a number of divisions with reenactors in tho...