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General grant, effectively ening the civil war. Well be live this afternoon for the next three hours as the commemoration continues today with reenactments of the gun stackings that took place on this day in 1865, when more than 22,000 general lees infantry troops turned over their weapons and battle flags. Also, later in our program, youll hear remarks from historian david bliegt who talks about the legacy of appomattox here at the park. Bru, first, we joined by the two men who played a starrin...

Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at ...

Littleknown aspects on the lives and leadership of Union General ulysses s. Grant and then on real america a 1965 Progress Report on nasas projects including the manned Space Program and the mariner 4 flyby of mars and just before 9 00 writer and awardwinning documentary filmmaker rick burns on how the public learns about history through film and tell vision. American history tv, all weekend, and on holidays, too, only on cspan3. We have more now from the recent u. S. Chamber of comerlss daylong...

This is the operation room, this is the largest section of our facility. In here we have one supervisor, two pattern and makers. And the rest of the people you see working diligently are tailors. We build and maintain all the garments for the historic area of products. So maintaining includes laundering and dry cleaning. This rack right here is often issued to people and then its going to they can come in and pick it up and take it out for their use. Generally when you come to work here, youll g...

There was an interesting article in the New York Times today abetter an aider and of the attackers, it appears clear that that was inspired at least in part by the sermons and lectures coming out of yemen over the internet. That radicalized farook. Were still not clear on how her journey became to become a terrorist. They managed to kill 14 people are largescale terrorist attack like paris where you had a 130 people slaughtered, mumbai, madrid 191 people killed, simultaneous terrorist attacks ex...

He asked his wife, does it bug you when people refer to me as darth vader . And she said, no, it humanizes you. [laughter] announcer saturday night at 8 30 eastern, an indepth look at Community Policing in minority ethnic minority communities. Most people get defensive if they feel like you are being offensive. In invery respectful counters and requests, if it is not a crisis, if it is not a requests situation, versus demand, those things changed the dynamics a little bit. Afternoon atnday 2 00,...

The montgomery bus boycott. Well reflect on the boycott and see what role lawyers played in that protest and the civil rights movement, as we hear from fred gray, attorney for rosa parks, and demonstrators. Then at 6 00, William Davis on the littleknown aspects of the lives and leadership of Union Generals grant and lee. Sunday afternoon at 4 00 on real america, a Progress Report on nasas projects including the manned Space Program and the mariner 4 flyby of mars. Writer and awardwinning documen...

Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you ...

Later, congress and the 1965 heart seller immigration and nationality act. Next on American History tv, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell gives a lecture on the rivalry between two kentucky politicians who served as governors and the senate. Senator mcconnell argues that the competition between Happy Chandler and Earle Clements led to the election of Thruston Morton. Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and tr...

Im Walter Isaacson, and im Walter Isaacson and im with the Aspen Institute here and its our pleasure at the institute to be the host and the facilitator of the franklin project. The project began when general Stan Mcchrystal was out talking about the importance of National Service two or three years ago in aspen, and everybody related to it, and one of the things we try to do here at the institute is turn thought into action, so we said, well, if this is important, lets try to create a program a...