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Today. He has more projects on more back burners than i have ever seen. He won the award by the state council. Also a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. He has been very generous with his remaining time for this museum and our programs. As you see from the printed programs the topics of his work are varied with a focus on Abraham Lincoln and league and constitutional work as well. Because he lives on virginia and had some extra time on his hands one day, he wrote ou...

Symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Our next speaker is john white. John white is an associate professor of american studies at Christopher New Port University in new port news. When i look at johns vida, his academic resume i think of an old graduate School Adviser and im talking about you, jim wittenberg, would say to us when he would come to our offices to find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Wittenberg...

Historian, author, and tour garrett peck. Tool hasrance related been featured on cspan, book tv, and a program with henry rollins. He was featured on a documentary history channel. He is the author of 11 books including prohibition in washington, d. C. how dry we werent. Prohibition was a before we get started i want to invite all of you to join us in the lobby following the presentation to enjoy a sample cocktailibition era courtesy of sounding spirits gin. Ding spirits garrettet me introduce p...

I did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown speakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. As a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker ...

Tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Artifacts american takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Dc, tudor Washington Place was the home of Thomas Hayter and his wife. This was the granddaughter of Martha Washington. Six generations of the peter family lived in the house from 1805 to 1984. We take a tour with the curator who shows us a letter from George Washington, a bomb shelter and a signed picture of woodrow wilson. Curator at the house of house and garde...

On civil war leadership posted by Longwood University in virginia. Its about an hour. Less weaker of the morning is william jack davis. He is from independence, missouri. He has a bachelors and masters degree from brett sonoma state university. You may know him from civil war times illustrated. Onlys popular civil war magazine. Those with the best years of it. He is the author and editor of 60 books. They are relating primarily to the civil war, but also southern u. S. History. Think about that ...

Let me just make this point. Following what has happened to the oil price, if there was a scottish november autumn statement they would be a statement that was about cuts, cuts, cuts, taxes, taxes, taxes, a you can also watch anytime online at cspan. Org. Prime minister cameron attends the paris conference this week thed president obama conference earlier today. Scheduled to produce an International Agreement to reduce Carbon Emissions by 2020. The International Energy agency released a report o...

[applause] its good to see you guys. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be here in nevada. How is everybody doing tonight . [applause] are we democrats fired up, ready to go . It is wonderful to be here with all of you and i also want to thank harry reid for his outstanding leadership of our nation. Senator reid thank you for everything you do. [applause] my name is martin omalley. I am the former mayor of alta more and the former governor of maryland. I am a lifelong democrat and im runnin...

Things. Not on everything. But a lot of things. And lets start with our Common Ground. When 75 of the American People think the federal government is corrupt what does that mean . Its democrats, republicans, independents, its young, old, men, women. When 80 believe we have a professional class that cares more about its privilege than on getting anything done republicans and democrats have exempted themselves from all of the laws they passed then matt means once again democrats, republicans, inde...

Development you cannot get beyond a certain point. Talk about entitlements you cannot have that discussion too long before you say what about health care . You cannot talk about the u. S. Budget and the trajectory of spending. You cannot recognize to have three or four diseases to drive spending with diabetes her cardiovascular on the health care side. So i get to hang out with some smart guys with Health Care Reform and whether the things that really need to get done to reform the system . Over...