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According to one former cia operative. Well talk to Valerie Plame. And voting on same sex marriage in iowa, at the polls. The pentagon is vowing to help iraq reclaim the city of ramadi. The capital of Anbar Province was captured by i. S. I. L. Today. Fighters seized control when the iraqi army retreated despite the orders to honored hold hold their ground. The defeat in ramadi was seen as a had emerge set back for the iraqi government. Mostly sunni province, i. S. I. L. Now controls much of anbar as well as several roads leading to the west and north. But the had evening a defense spokes woman...

This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Federal investigators this morning are trying to learn why an amtrak train was going twice the speed element when it derailed. The attention is now focused on the engineer who was in control. Seven people were killed hundreds more treated for injuries. Duarte geraldino is live in philadelphia. Good morning what do we know first of all about the condition of those that are still being treated at hospitals . Reporter its important to note their ages they range from 19 to 80 years old. There are about eight people in critical co...

These democrats rallied behind the confederate interpretation of appomattox. In their valor, endurance and skill to copperhead neoprobe insisted southerners were equal to the north to the confederacy was subdued by overwhelming numbers. Heres lees interpretation lock stock and barrel. The south to is divided. By southern unionists opposed confederacy during the war rally behind grants interpretation and reveled in the fact that the noble grant and his army had broadly sushil. Surrender was a vindication for white southerners. Americans held markie maher asserted more fervently that the surrend...

Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. ...

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. Create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and w...