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At the university of richmond on the subject of her latest book remembering the civil war. She returned to richmond the following june to accept the Jefferson Davis award for the same book. Her first book, burying the dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. She also edited an edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. As carrie knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think as many times as you have. [laughter] it is a branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar period a...

Combat ourselves for racial peac peace. The trenches that we have dug together around santiago shall the eternal resting place for all that separates us in our business and civil situations. Heres booker t. Washington offering the ultimate reconciliationist message trying to unite the United States in sectional and racial peace, not in a purposeful forgetting of the past, but in acknowledgment of the sacrifice of the devotion of black men that they had always shown to the United States. Of course, this reconciliation between the races was not to be at that moment, but neither was there as much...

Entries to actually tell us what all of this means in the grand scope of things. The other thing is that some confederates we can say well, we can go to the pension files, these documents when confederate soldiers will fill out documents to get money and prospects which we will talk about in a few minutes but those files in many ways are incomplete. They are also hidden from public view. In fact, some states actually still have medical seals on these documents because they contain private details. Medical details, about family members that you dont want necessarily to go public. So for the vet...

Here on cspan 3. Every election cycle were reminded how important it is for citizens to be informed. Cspan is a vehicle for empowering people to make good choices. It really is like youre getting a sevencourse gourmet fivestar meal of policy. Boy, do i just sound like a nerd right there, but its true. To me, cspan is a home for political junkies and the way to track the government as it happens whether it is on capitol hill or the agencies. Most staffers seem to have a television on their desk and cspan is on. I think it is a great way for us to stay informed. I urged my colleagues to vote for...

Keynote speaker. You can speak in a disjointed way. Im going to do a disjointed speaker speech for you this morning, if i may. Lets start with a couple of reflections on the confederate title flag. If politically correct people were capable of understanding history, they would complain not cross. He southern emblem of a government, with slavery as is backbone. The bottle flag is different in another sense. Was not thee brigade, not the division. He served with friends and neighbors from the same area. What did the second, fourth, fifth, 27th and 33rd virginia have in common . Southerncame from...