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2011. It is about an hour. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be here again. I love this venue. I get lots of good questions, which we will save time for at the end. This is an interesting occasion for me. This is the first time i have been in front of an audience talking about Andrew Johnson. Forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. I had to write that and do a spell check to make sure i didnt have jefferson where i should have had johnson, because the temptation was actually quite great. If someone had told me a number of years ago that i would have written a book about Andrew Johnso...

Life, i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He really is an interesting person. And not that i didnt know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. And it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. Theres something about it th...

He is the author of the british are coming. The war for america. I will stop there and move on to Brenda Wineapple who is the author of several books as you know including the ascetic nation, confidence crisis in compromise, 1848 to 1877 which was named the best book the 2013 by the New York Times. In the sight of american historians. Regular contributor to regular publications since the New York Times in the book review. The Extensive Research has a. In American History when our country was rocked by the first ever impeachment of an american president. Please welcome Rick Atkinson and Brenda ...

Lexington. I do not know whether ending with mark means we are ending with a southerner or a northerner. He went to berkeley for his phd. Or one of those famous border states. I lectured in kentucky in many times and i learned that kentucky seceded after appomattox and became a confederate state. Before that, it was the United States. In a sense, that is the complexity of the history we have been dealing with. When the 13th amendment was being considered, the delegates from the house and kentucky tried to get an exemption to the 13th amendment. They did not do so. Mark is working on two books,...

The historians are looking for eyewitnesses to event that happened 60 years ago. Inall know if it happened these halls here, the only people still alive for the pages who were 16 years old at the time. We are come in handy if you times with a couple of the project and we hope to continue to do so in the future. Constantly amaze me. Meeting judge tracy was a page for eight years. Having the pleasure of driving over in his car with his Capitol Police man afterwards. Still has his badge and we got there all the security. If anyone needs a ride back, he is here. , great pressure pleasure, i. T. Is...