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Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political c...

Fire up his base and his Coronavirus Diagnosis has made it even harder to divert attention from his much criticized handling of the pandemic. I have had straight over to washington now where our correspondent is standing by my trumps chief of staff says the president could be released from hospital today what can you tell us about his condition. Well frankly we dont know as weve heard weve seen a lot of conflicting information over the weekend with doctors painting this very sunny outlook like w...

People and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. That takes place in the 1850s. It was compounded by two weak president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. In fact, the mentor to both Rachel Sheldon and me. I think i was his first phd students, and rach...

I am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. Thatnk it is appropriate we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850s as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. History is fundamentally about people and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional process during posturing. Weaks compounded by two president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a ...

Point counterpoint. But i expect that to happen. At any moment. So i have all the questions here. Theyre really good ones. And not surprisingly, there are about four of them that are basically the same, but with a little bit of a twist. And it was a question that i was planning to ask anyway. So what i would like to do is just start over here and one at a time tell me who you think was the most hated general of the war. I think we all pretty much know this answer already. But and well go down th...

Planning on asking anyway, and what i would like to do is start over here. One at a time, tell me who you think was the most hated general of the war . I think we all pretty much know this answer already. We will go down the panel with that, then we will say who you thought was the most loved it general of the war. Lets start over here. The most hated general of the war . I get not only that question, but i get to go first. [laughter] can you start on that end, so i can kind of be like the rest ...

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This one definitely tried to get your way into work to figure have anything else except report this morning were a problem on to a system wide delays for the rest of the morning commute none reported so far but we might as we progress drop this morning is from going off the 40 this morning to drive into San Francisco held a live shot at the bay bridge toll plaza every than normal because a lot of our writers getting in their vehicles and diving into the city 20 to 25 minutes from the macarthur m...

Is ok, we are ready to get started, here. Lets get everybody in their seat. Ok, have you got me . No . Well, this is the part of the program that i have been looking forward to the most. The panel discussion. We have some Great Questions here. You will note that i on purpose have separated george and will. [laughter] i am not saying we are doing a pointcounterpoint, but i expect that to happen at any moment. I have all the questions here. The are really good ones. Not surprisingly, there are fou...

My great aunt was a Strong Influence and came out to my montana in a covered wagon and they met lincoln and one of the daughters of one of the great ands aunts decided she would marry this fellow. And one said, he is a democrat. And she said, yes. Said,e other and aunt we would rather you marry a dog. But lincoln was very much in the picture. Anyway, you have already met all of our distinguished panelists. So we are going to have a about the and various topics that have been covered here. And i ...