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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 politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silenc ....
Thing specially in fields that are really dominated by the left and i think this is because more conservatives would improve social sciences. Host is there an intimidation factor about teaching sort of things . Guest what do you mean by intimidation factor . Host theres a couple of movements in our current policy, all lives matter, black lives matter, triggers. Guest i think there is. I think its a problem that affect the left more than than the right because liberal professors tend to teach the courses to have subjects that might get them in hot water. Liberal progressives are more likely to teach courses on race, gender and thats largely because a lot of conservative professors teaching courses because theyre dominated by the left and does provide one benefit for conservatives which they tend to teach courses that are less likely to incite those kinds of movements and energies and passions, so theyre somewhat shielded, i think, from those movements. Host have you ever steered away fr ....
See the carriage that transported president and mrs. Lincoln to fords on april 14th 1865. Behind me is the carriage that Abraham Lincoln rode to fords theater the night of his assassination on april 14th. Its part of an exhibit and a project were working with fords theater on in their sigh a lent witness exhibition which opens up this month. April 14th 1865 was an incredible day for both the lincolns and for washington. News had reached the city that robert e. Lee had surrendered to grant. The war was finally coming to a conclusion. That morning Abraham Lincoln has breakfast with his family. Robert todd lincoln his eldest son, joins them for breakfast. He was at appomattox. He was part of ulysses s. Grants staff. And he was telling the story to the family about what had just taken place. The city has in celebration. And the lincolns themselves were celebrating and finally s ....
With a hockey stick knocked out all his upper teeth when he was 18. And sent him into a spell of depression and selfimposed seclusion in his house for three years. Was not able to go to college, which he had planned to do. He wanted to go to yale. Instead, he stayed at home. Very seldom ever went out at all. Reading. And providing himself with a liberal Arts Education of a kind most people would dream of having. All on his own. With the help of his father and the local public library. But it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspans q a. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and Historic Sites to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. 150 years ago, actor john willings boo ....
All. Reading. And providing himself with a liberal Arts Education of a kind most people would dream of having. All on his own. With the help of his father and the local public library. But it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspans q a. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and Historic Sites to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at fords theater in washington, d. C. For the First Time Since that night, a collection of objects connected to the assassination are reunited in a special exhibit titled silent witnesses ....