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Are spending much time at all training for the crater. I think it gets back to how we tend to want to remember this story. The story of the black Union Soldier is front and center. I couldnt be happier about that. I think theres been a danger in the way the story has been pushed over the last few years. It is the moral narrative of our civil war memory. We want to correct for forgetting about them for so long. I think we tend to gloss over some of the darker sides of black soldiers. I dont think...

Explore the history of espionage during world war i, focusing on four american agencies that participated in spying. Including the u. S. Army. Public library and Truman Library institute cohosted this hourlong event. Thank you for the warm introduction and warm welcome. I was not planning on talking about ufos. When the topic comes up, its irresistible. Recently let me say that in the 1990s the cia declassified a u2 Spy Plane Program written back in the 1970s, if i recall correctly. Thatf the fi...

Tonight watch as the National Park service commemorates 150th anniversary of the battle. Well also take a look at how the attack failed and why the u. S. Colored troops were unjustly blamed. Author kevin levine on the contribution of the u. S. Colored troops and immediately following the civil war. Here are some of the highlights for twheekd. Friday on cspan and prime time, well visit important sites in the history of the civil rights movement. Saturday night at 8 00, highlights from this years ...

Believe that if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault, that would have been it. In other words, we can imagine black soldiers marching, charging over blanford hill, right, into petersburg. Thats a very soothing image. I think that tells us more about how we want to remember the war than the battle itself, because anyone who has studied civil war battles, they never go as planned. Right . Theres always something that goes afoul. So is it any surprise that given this massive d...

What i tried to do was to fit that response into the broader context of slave rebellions. Those that actually happened and those whoa were rumors. It didnt matter if it actually took place, if there was a ruer they dont need to hear cries of remember fort pillow. They know whats done on the morning of july 30th. They do it. In fact if you look at the numbers of black soldiers who were mass kacremassacred. It falls into line of the numbers that are usually killed in the aftermath of state rebelli...

A year i felt good about being a black person. It was on april 9th. We. Wkvy celebrated emancipation. We talked about lincoln. We talked about freedom. Thats when i really felt good. The other times was an existence as if we were pushing a barrel up a hill. Thank you everyone. I really enjoyed that. Thank you for your questions and your time. [ applause ] once again, kevin, thank you very much for you spending time with us and i want to again, thank st. Pauls episcopal search for this venue. I t...

Our invocation will be given by dr. George w. C. Lions. He was pastor here in petersburg. Pray with me in your own tradition as i pray loud in mine. Gracious god, after 150 years of reflection and remembrance, we invoke your name so that you would prod our hearts to remember the lives lost in battle so that we might seek peace in our time. We acknowledge your reconciling presence always at work. Even through battles. Which has brought women and men together from all walks of life from every stat...

Said, quote, the whites retreated into the niggers. Others were called having to, quote, fix bayonets to stop them. This was a desperate moment for the men in the 4th division, but for the other three divisions, there was now an added element of an enraged enemy that was likely to treat them as accomplices in citing foreign slaves in selection. George kilmer noted, quote, it has been properly asserted that white men fell back into the greater in order to keep whites from confederate vengeance. T...

Resignation. Is tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan 3s American History tv. Now on american artifacts, we visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to learn about its collections and its new space, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. The largest stamp gallery in the world. Welcome to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. My name is allen kane, im the director of the museum. Youre standing in our newest gallery, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. We have almost 6 million postag...

Venture into the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminist side of a super hero as jill lapore searches wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about their reading habits. On American History tv on cspan3 at 8 a. M. Eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. And then at 1...