All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Historians who edited or wrote essays for the book reinterpreting seven histories talk about new avenues for understanding the history of the south. Topics discussed include native americans, the civil war, slavery, the environment, and the Great Depression. This panel was part of the 2019 Southern Historical Association Annual conference. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us on this panel about southern history. I am lori glover and work at st. Louis university my cochair is Craig Thompson from North Carolina state university. Decades since two the publication of interpreting southern history. Survey of theark scholarship that historians produced since 1965. The publication date of writing southern history. It marked a critical moment in southern historiography. The 1965 volume has surveyed the scholarly landscape. In 1987, the authors in interpreting history raised difficult questions about the direction of the discipline including challen
The house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days, or even just to the Monica Lewinsky question. They gave themselves wide running room rate democrats try to keep that from happening. ,he rules were established and our memory is, partyline vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and moved pretty swiftly. The house floor was ready to take it up under the Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Those of us here remember so much drama. We went through three speakers within a couple of days, first with the resignation of speech or of speaker Newt Gingrich. Bob livingston became the next in line, then what happened . There was a scramble. Allies Bob Livingstons tried to talk him out of it. Had made the decision to resigned with some agony. Was aigned because there full on press in the democratic world. Larry fl
Coming up in just a couple of minutes, we will show you some of the highlights of that debate. You are covering this for national journal. Lets begin with the political environment in 1998. What led to the impeachment of president clinton . Alexis one of the interesting things we might forget, all this time, going forward, bill clinton was under investigation for almost his entire presidency. Ken starr had begun to investigate the whitewater investment deal back in 1994. By the time we were in the fall of 1998, president clinton and his entire white house were very used to being under investigation for a whole variety of allegations related to his past in arkansas. Even his fundraising efforts, when he was prident. In the fall of 1998, he was elected to a second term, but they were going into the Midterm Elections. What Kenneth Starr as the independent counsel had uncovered was a whole series of alleged relationships the president had had in the past that he had investigated. Then he h
What do you remember about what happened and how all of this transpired over the next month . Alexis the senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but it is not a legal proceeding and is at its heart very political. But it had so many interesting, dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of west virginia, a stalwart constitutional scholar and not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way, he ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying that this should not even have happened, that the trial was misguided. He even told his colleagues that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinating to listen to. The president s legal team was really interesting. He had a strong array of legal representation there. And he also tried to sort of, what would you say, to try to add, to put some english on the ball. His legalen
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