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Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way l...

College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to pol...

Gettysburg. He describes the action on east cavalry field and argues against the theory that confederate general jb stewart had orders to get around the union flank. Instead, he suggests he was supposed to protect the confederate flank. This is an hourlong event. Have six lectures today, or six talks. Eric wittenbergs outofthebox with the 8 30 slot. He is such know him, a good friend of the heritage area. He is an attorney working in the Business Development and litigation arenas. Born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. As many of us did, he made his first...

A good friend of the heritage area. He is an attorney working in the Business Development and litigation arenas. Born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. As many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the American Civil War ever since. He is an alumnus of Dickinson College in pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. He has a masters degree and a doctorate from the university of Pittsburgh School of law. He is also an awardwinning civil war historian. His specialty i...

Heard of. One of the most notorious sinner of war camps in the history of modern warfare. It was a confederate prison for Union Soldiers in the southwest of georgia. We will talk about hanging henry wirz. He was executed for perpetuating mistreatment and murder at that can. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era tried for war crimes. Of 1865l in the fall set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the allied prosecutors preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and his defe...