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President obama gave the commencement address at the u. S. Coast Guard Academy this past wednesday. On American History tv, we are looking at president ial commencement addresses from a decade ago. You can watch george w. Bushs 2005 address at the Naval Academy tonight at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes viewers to museums and Historic Sites around the country. On april 9, 1865, general robert e lee met ulysses s. Grant in the village of appomattox courthouse and...

Name of the village which was built on a stage coach road between richmond and lynchburg here. Courthouse being spelled as two words. Appotomax was a county that was formed in 1845. And in virginia the county seats are always known with the county name, and then the two words, court house. But it was a village that did have a courthouse building in it. Lee arrives here on the afternoon of april the 8th. He deemploys some of his artillery here in front of him on this road on the way to appotomax ...

Effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museums exhibits. Linda lipscomb welcome Linda Lipscomb welcome to the museum. The museum here has been open for almost three years now. And we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond, virginia. We house here a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. We will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. Her...

Der at eight an mat i then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that generals grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. After that is correct well hear from two living historians who portray the generals at the ceremony. And later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. Each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. On april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. Lee met ulysses s. Grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia ...

See her remarks live at 1 45 p. M. Eastern. And later the gop field grows by one, when former pennsylvania senator and 2012 prognosis candidate Rick Santorum joins the race. He will announce his accountsy in butler pennsylvania. See that live at 5 00 eastern, also on cspan. President ial candidates often release books to introduce themselves to voters. Here is a look at some books written by declared and potential candidates for president. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton looks back on ...

One, two, three. Up with, two, three. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, were going to make a little bit of a stage change here. Okay. Were waiting. Were going to make a bit of a stage change and then well get to our prak focused on the surrender meeting between lee and grant in the mclean house on april 9th 1965. Just give us a couple moments. Attention shoulder arm present arms at at 1 30 about 1 30 on the arch of april 9, 1865 ulysses gran and a small entourage of officers arrived here at the...

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Critics and Alex Rodriguez plan to fight the yearlong suspension in federal court. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Foreign dignitaries from around the world are in israel today to say farewell to ariel sharon, and the Controversial Military leader passed away saturday at the age of 85 after 8 years in a coma and honored earlier today in jerusalem during a state ceremony outside the Israeli Parliament. The memorial was attended by current israeli Prime Minister ne...

And this increase is a line with inflation to ensure that the level of funding will keep pace overtime. The reason i say these things is we stressed this morning the absolute criticality of a strong federal partnership, predictability of funding and significantly increased federal funding to help, to earn the tide to turn the tide on this. I want to make a clear we appreciate and respect at the local level we need to step up and do our part as well. So thats what you see on the part of our commo...

Offitsis, ariel sharon has died. The deck rated ex general and leader has left an indelible mark on the mid east, he passed away in a tel aviv hospital. He was 85 years old. In 1984 at the tender age of 13, he joined the underground Para Military force where he fought in the battle for jerusalem during israels war for independence. In 1967 he was in battle again, commanding a division during the 6day war. During the yon space kippur war, they surrounded the Egyptian Third Army which turned the t...