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Event, and thanks sponsoring, i should say, and thanks to all the folks at urban who helped to put this on. As you can imagine, an event of this size is neither inexpensive nor easy to pull off, so thanks, everybody, for the help. Tonight well have two panels that will run until roughly 7 45 and then well have another reception until about 8 15, plus or minus. Ill say a few words to sort of tie the thinking behind the two panels together, and then well wade right in to the first panel. But again...

Ultimately they voted to hold those officials in contempt of congress. The committee will come to order. The committee will come to order. To declare a recess of the committee at any time. Pursuant pursuant to Committee Rule five therule 11, house rule 11, chairman further proceedings today on the question ofwhen ad an amendment which the recorded vote is ordered. Pursuant to notice i call up a report in a contempt resolution. I have a point of order. Map please finish . Thank you. Now pursuant ...

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We are very pleased to welcome back to this stage dr. Mark grimsley. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here this afternoon. I am looking forward to talking with you. Lets get this up on the screen. We are talking today about the and about the final wars on native americans. I am neither a civil war historian or a military historian. I still know a lot about the civil war. [laughter] but i dont identify as a military historian. And the way i actually came to the subject of my first book, which i ...

Passage in the senate and the president is expected to veto this bill. For our first hour this morning, your thoughts on the events that took place in the house yesterday when it came to Syrian Refugees. You can give us a call at these numbers you can post in our twitter page or on our Facebook Page and you can also send us an email. Usa today breaks down the action that took place in the house of representatives yesterday. The bill is being decried incribed as a pause admitting Syrian Refugees....

He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should ma...

At which the civil war is still very much a part of living memory. Right . There are livingductions of the war, people involved in combat who are still alive. In 1912, state of pennsylvania issued an invitation of honorably discharged veterans of the civil war to come to gettysburg for a reunion of sorts. And you probably have already seen pictures of this or read about it in David Wrights book. I want to spend a little time talking about that. That marked something of the high water mark. It wa...

The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as...

This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Ok. So in getting ready for this, i wanted to do like a little background work on the socalled semicentennial of the civil war, which was of course 1911 to 1915. I found this quote. Ill tell you where it comes from in a little bit, but it seems to me to encapsulate the feeling of the early 20th century. The days of the civil war now belong to the historians, the poets, the writer of romance, in the dramatist. Now i think you would add the reenactor th...