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Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish...

Beauty from old line, wasp money, meagher is a fugitive. He writes this beautiful love letter to her where he asks her her hand for her hand in marriage, and he goes, i am here alone, i am a homeless exile, i have nobody, i have no family. Im wanted by the british empire, you know . Im nothing, but the greatest thing in my life was to find you. And if you will take me as your husband, i will share everything with you. Take my past, take my heritage, let us join our lives together its a beautiful...

Starts the next chapter with the aftermath of the assassination, so one of the great dramatic moments over the civil war era is off stage, and makes it more powerful, and i thought i want to have the impact of the little big horn there but i dont want to focus on it. I dont want to get swallowed up by huge and important event and make my book about that. How die do senate . So having it take place offstage was back way of both say, yes, its important, but also you can i can never take you not on...

We have had amazing achievements thats country. Tend to come out were just this great enlighted people and america is wonderful, the end. Its that when we have had great struggles over the worst aspects of american history, america was the largest slaveowning nation on earth, and what happened is we had this huge war, which revolved around the issue of slavery, that led to the abolitionist slavery and within a few years, a nonracial definition of citizenship, in which africanamericans were votin...

Q a. Pulitzer prize winning author is a biography of general George Armstrong custer. He discussed the book at this years tucson festival a book, held on the campus of the university of arizona. This is one hour. Hutton, hello everyone. My name is Paul Andrew Hutton, i am a professor at at the university of new mexico, just to the east of arizona today. Welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books. We want to especially thank cspan, book tv, tv, and Cox Communication for sponsoring this...

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they do not want us to sleep, then i will not, but they will have to deal with me. >> that was protestor was one of the one that was tasered by park police last night. this city will not about a time line for when they will start making arrests or issuing tickets. they are afraid once the television cameras leave that that is when they will return. libra from mcpherson square, abc7 news. >> what do you think of the occupiers? are they starting to wear out their welcome? we asked on the...