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Aaron burr. This is an hourlong event. And now, let me turn to why you are here this evening, which is not to discuss the 1968 election or gas crisis of the 1970s, but rather the 1800 election with Thomas Jefferson, and to hear from a man who has been arguably one of the leading scholars of that most fascinating president of american figures. I speak of Andrew Oshaughnessy, from the university of virginia, where he is also director of the international jefferson studies center at the Thomas Jefferson foundation. We are truly honored to have them here this evening. He is the winner of innumerab...

1950s have received much researcher attention over the last two years, we have invited historians to speak about their work in these records. Several historians have spoken to us about the Senate Select committee on improper activities in labor and management. Better known as the mcclellan committee. Several have made presentations based on the hearings of the house unamerican activities committee. Historians have conducted Considerable Research on the Senate Special committee to investigate crime in interstate commerce, better known as the Kefauver Committee. For that reason we are pleased to...

Delighted to be at the convention. My first convention. Ive been working for hillary for eight years. To get her in the white house. Thats why im here. It is my passion. Im from ohio. Im a delegate for bernie and i 21. Am this is my first convention. I am the state director of College Students for bernie and im really excited to be here. My generation and the millennials, we are about the same size of the baby boomers and it is really important for us to show up. We are having a great time at the convention and looking forward to the rest of it. Voices from the road on cspan. Talk next, histor...

Ways about the war. And so its very hard to its very hard to pin that down. But i really think that the kinds of evidence that im looking at, it is not just data. These are the words that the participants used, and everyone says nothing but slavery. Now you mentioned in passing, reconstruction. Thats a whole nother book and whole nother field. But basically my take on reconstruction, very subjective. Just like Everything Else ive been saying. Reconstruction would not have been so bad if the southerners had done had responded appropriately to what the war was about, and that, in good faith, end...

Becomes that, i think the term they use was the wind. This wire and wind that came through georgia. Sarah reuben made an interesting point about the destruction itself. I thought it was interesting, i left it out of my talk. She said we have the sense of the march to the sea as being the giant tidal wave this tsunami. 60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the de...