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Courtrooms of the Thurgood Marshall u. S. Courthouse to celebrate an american hero. Thurgood marshall to whose memory this magnificent courthouse is dedicated to this courthouse where he served on the Second Circuit. We welcome our cspan audience to our proceedings, as well. Our gathering is at the intersection of two initiatives which engaged in the courts of the Second Circuit, and initiatives which i had the privilege of proposing which have taken life because of the creative and dedicated work of remarkable colleagues of the bench, bar and our court staff. The first, the 125th Anniversary ...

In this one volume with its overall size but to encapsulate the entire story with the articles of confederation that led to a the constitution that captures the Amazing Things during that period and the other speaker is a librarian at the American Philosophical Society and the editor of this terrific new volume on the American Revolution i also want to plug is book for a the politics of war please give a great welcome to michael and patrick. [applause]. So we will try to talk about in refashion americas founding in with that in mind i would like to start with you patrick so what do you take to...

Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As...

Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters...

York city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Its television for serious readers. And now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. This is from last months mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. Im Chris Goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. F if youve ...