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Screeria nigeria. Lincolns life. Professor wilson. [applause] professor wilson good morning. See what it says here. My name is douglas wilson. [laughter] im the codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center in illinois. It is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln institute symposium. He is a young scholar. He has already earned an array of honors. He was educated at penn state where he took his bachelors degree in two dozen one, and the receipt of maryland where he e...

I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors...

A truce or cease fire. Latest sign is a statement made by egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, according to state tv. He said that, quote, israeli gra aggression would end on tuesday. That, of course, is today. Thats consistent with similar statements weve heard from other officials late last night. We spoke with a senior egyptian official and he told us hes optimistic that in the next 24 hours there would be a cease fire. Hamas officials are being even more specific. Senior hamas official telling ...

The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and ch...

Knowing theres talented leaders in the room. Would you want to revive that in some way . Something that would fit on a billboard . I mean, i think again the myth that the gentlemans agreement between grant and lee is a compelling one and not one that doesnt have merit. It was a great achievement for these two men to end the war. I would like to say parent radically, sometimes people these days well talk about a long civil war and appomattox didnt win the war. Effectively, appomattox ends the civ...

Along chambridge road with ice in the area, but no accidents reported there. Well head down to Charles County right now, this is northbound livingston road at Metropolitan Church road with a report of an accident heading towards 210 and northbound livingston road. The trip to haymarket is not seeing any delays. You can see the eastbound volume here picking up, but no major delays just yet. And no accidents as folks continue to the beltway. Over to the rails, checking them, metro, marc and vre no...

In russia, though, the benchmark micex index fell by more than 3 at the open. Right now, its down by just over 2. 3 . The u. S. Futures at this point are hanging in there. Theyre showing a slight rebound after yesterdays selloff in wall street. You saw that decline when the dow was down by 230 points. Also saw the s p and the nasdaq down significantly. We will have a deeper market discussion with our panel in just a few minutes, plus a live report from kiev. Secretary of state john kerry gets re...

For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was ...

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow ge...

And intimidation. Bought a book but it was one woman choose walking along the west by the window and fell. You must know the old glory the ukraine or so members of the gravity of what is on the ground. It is. Typical things. The military operation goes into overdrive in ukraines these dozens were killed and some of the deadliest fighting of recent months. Germanys deal for scrutinizing us surveillance activities and or queens dramatically right after chancellor merkels retired from her visit to ...