greatall jefferson the libertarian. he praised jefferson for attacking the increasingly powerful federal judiciary as a haven for monopolist and the exploiting classes. he saw the supreme court under the leadership of chief justice marshall as an instrument of centralization and marshall wrote to william johnson in 1823 that he feared no danger more than the consolidation of our government by the noiseless, therefore an alarming history mentality of the supreme court. jefferson deplored marshall as a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his , construing our constitution from a coordination of general and special government, to general and supreme one alone. jefferson like louis brandeis capitalism, but of monopoly. in his hatred of monopoly, jefferson was not alone among the american founders. the boston tea party, which sparked the american revolution, was a rebellion against the government granted monopoly held by the east india company. after the constitutional convention, jefferson expressed grave concern

they are taking on jefferson and the jefferson administration by filing suit. the supreme court, at that point, was far from a coequal branch of government. they had no respect, no prestige. the supreme court sits and hears the arguments and the lawyer had been attorney general in the adams administration, charles lee. and then the supreme court issues an order to show cause. what that means is they are ordering madison and jefferson to justify their actions. they say they will hear the case in june of 1802. this shocked the jefferson administration. because now, the supreme court is really sticking it to them. the supreme court is going to make them justify why they did not deliver the commission and it is going to hear this lawsuit. the jefferson allies react with a fury. host: one of the things important about this series is it is interactive. we invite participation. you can call in a few minutes from now. here are the numbers. you can also tweet us questions. we will work those in throughout the program. use the #landmark cases. on the facebook page, an ar

two years later when thomas jefferson is returning to the united states madison promised jefferson he could read the manuscript of the convention but it isn't finished. madison secretly borrows from george washington the official journal no one was supposed to see and makes a secret cop y of the junior and uses that for this notes. but if you can imagine two years after abbreviated notes you don't know what they mean any longer. so the end of madison's notes bear little -- a lot of resemblance to the journal. he had not written down the important motions in the notes but was interested in what people he was interested in were saying. he went back and added extra notes and then he ran out of pasted pieces over it. he gave it to jefferson and i don't think he had read it. he turned to the parts where hamilton spoke and hamilton gave a speech where he said maybe the united states should have an monarch and jefferson says there are people trying to create a monarchy and jefferson is convinced that hamilton is a danger to the united states and secretly trying to have a monarchy. and madiso

. >> what's his relationship with jefferson. >> he had tremendous admiration for jefferson's political and literary talent. then what happens is the two-party system emerges from this feud between washington's first secretary of state thomas jefferson and his first secretary of the treasury alexander hamilton. jefferson is very disturbed by the growth of federal power and presidential power. he's very disturbed by this literal interpretation of the constitution, and jefferson begins to have secretly orchestrated attacks on the administration. as the 1790s went by, washington becomes increasingly disenchanted and cynical about jefferson. they are really not on speaking terms during washington's final years. most amazingly of all, if you want a sense of how hostile george washington ended up, after george washington died, thomas jefferson visits mount vernon, martha washington makes the statement to friends that the second worth day of her life was the stay thomas jefferson visited mount vernon, the worst day of her life having been the day her husband died. works powerful statement. the

she recorded all that she said and jefferson said. jefferson was sitting beside her. she knew every single member of congress around that table by their face, and all about each of them. jefferson would say, who is that? and who is this? not only he did not know who they were, did not know anything about them. she did not know because she made great effort to learn. she loved being at the center of things. she loved politics. george washington was an immensely intelligent man. he was not learned. not an intellectual. he was a great, natural born leader. a man with phenomenal self command. that is what adams admired most about george washington. charlie: early on, port of who ought to be leading to him.ution, he nominated >> he was the one who said that jefferson ought to write the declaration of independence, and the man when he became president who put john marshall on the supreme court, the greatest chief justice we ever had. as a casting director, he was remarkable. charlie: he could have been a kingmaker of the revolution. qualityngton's greatest during the war wa

about jefferson. they are really not on speaking terms during washington's final years. and most amazingly, if you want to get a sense of just how hostile george washington ended up after george washington died, , thomas jefferson visits mount vernon. martha washington makes a statement to friends that the second worst day of her life was the day thomas jefferson visited mount vernon. the worst day having been the day her husband died. a powerful statement, and then she says to friends that thomas jefferson was among the most detestable of all mankind and martha washington was not particularly political. charlie: why did she say that? >> well she felt that jefferson , had betrayed and doublecrossed her husband. charlie: is that a true portrait of jefferson? >> well, jefferson wrote a letter to an italian friend that ended up accidentally getting published in the newspaper. where this friend who had visited the united states, he says to the italian friend, you would be amazed at the heresies that have

five years later when he wanted to get a postmaster jump from jefferson, and jefferson rebuffed him, he turned around and reveal jefferson's relationship with the sally hemmings. everything was fair game in those days. there is a certain image that americans have that there was a golden age, the people wore wigs and buckled shoes. it was not like that at all. these men were passionate and argumentative. -- there is the dual this the duel. this long relationship with erin byrne. -- with aaron burr. how could that happen? >> it is hard for people to understand the cult of dueling. it was protecting your honor. culture was prevalent around politicians and soldiers. hamilton was a major general by the time of the dual with aaron burr. charlie: he was general hamilton? >> major general hamilton. charlie: i appreciate this is a dueling culture and it is about honor and you do not lightly not meet the challenge, but here are two men. they are not ordinary politicians, they have a lot to lose. >> they also thought that they had a lot to gain. both burr and hamilton were politicians with thei

jefferson was a very courtly, soft-spoken virginian. jefferson did not like confrontation. hamilton loved confrontation. hammond had a real -- hamilton had a zest for political combat with thomas jefferson, if you said something that disagreed with his politics, he wouldn't challenge you on it, he would just make a mental note, record it in his diary and get back at you later. alexander hamilton would immediately confront you. he loved to debate. i think the split between jefferson and hamilton really is on the one hand a political split, a debate we are still having. jefferson represented weak central government, low taxes, states rights, strict interpretation of the constitution. hamilton represented strong government and liberal interpretation of the constitution. charlie: and a bit of urban, rural as well. >> absolutely. jefferson foresaw an american that would have traditional agriculture. hamilton foresaw the country that would have traditional agriculture, but banks, corporations, stock markets, manufacturing -- a country that looks very much like the country we have

madison agree with jefferson, he admired jefferson. i think he was charmed all his life by the lightning flash of jefferson's mind. he also knew that lightning was uncontrollable, so there were occasions when he had to guide jefferson and prompt him and bring him back down to earth. we can see madison trying to do it about the bill of rights. he wrote jefferson and says, virginia has a bill of rights, which of course jefferson you. madison had helped write it. but he said that i have seen the bill of rights violated in every instance where it has been opposed to a popular current. is a newwords, it virginia constitution, the legislature just goes ahead and violates it, wherever the people are in favor of it. it is only a partial barrier. the old security for people's rights would be the structure of government of what we now call checks and balances. jefferson wasn't having any of it. he kept responding to madison, saying a bill of rights was something every people was entitled to have, from every government. he used the metaphor drawn

jefferson was a very portly, society of -spoken virginian. jefferson did not like confrontation. hamilton loved confrontation and had a sers for political combat. thomas jefferson, if you said something that disagreed with his politics, he wouldn't challenge you on it, he would just make a mental note, record it in his secret diary and get back at you later. alexander hamilton would immediately confront you and he loved to debate in person and on paper. but i think the split between jefferson and hamilton is on the one hand a political split, a debate we're having. jefferson represented weak central governor, low taxes. hamilton represented strong central government, liberal interpretation. >> rose: and urban-rural, too. absolutely. jeffersonen foresaw an america that had traditional agriculture in small towns. hamilton saw banks, large cities, in other words, a country that looks very much like the country we inhabit today. signing it was likely hamilton who was the profit of america's future rather than jefferson when it came to the economy. >> rose: and what was washington's o

you know why he chose jefferson county. it happens to be the home of a national defense installation. there's a united states armory here. a united states arsenal here. only two hours from here, via travel time in 1859. you would think as a national defense installation, it would be well guarded. there were no guards. brown seizes the armory and arsenal with no casualties, seizes the weapons, holds the installation. unfortunately for him, brown word will get out quickly that harper's ferry has been taken. militia will be called into action, including the guard from shepherd'stown, and the militia will begin to swarm towards harper's ferry. jefferson county militia, principally from charlestown, being the first to arrive on the scene. less than 12 hours after brown's raid, brown's war to end slavery commences. john brown is completely surrounded at harper's ferry by your neighbors. he discovers united states marines in the washington navy yard who were immediately sent to baltimore. they marched to harper's ferry where they

this time jefferson winning. he would be the first president inaugurated in the new capitol of washington, d.c. but these years in philadelphia are setting the tone for the rest of our early history. and all the way up to today. so the room itself will start out as a courthouse. so this would have been a courtroom. but around the time this building is finished construction, it's being built during the constitutional convention. so when they are finished construction is around the time that philadelphia offers it to the u.s. government. i think philadelphia's secret hope is if we're nice, they will stay here and not go to the new city. so they give them the new courthouse building. they end up actually expanding it a little bit to make more room for congress. we think the setup looks like this. we have a seating chart from one session of congress that shows the design of the desks and all we don't have any of the desks that have survived. we're fortunate we have some of the chairs today. unfortunately, we only hav

in the world. >> at jefferson said we're 192 years old. what would happen if we didn't act our age and partnered with another great organization? and we said, the citizens of philadelphia would be well served to take some of the great inno vagss that have happened, and work together, and let's really bring them to philadelphia and make this the center of health care disruption. >> where will the money come from that the teams are awarded? >> shared 2 million investment shared equally between the two institutions. >> we know the teams, one is focusing on epilepsy research, the more more specifically on bone graft infection. talk about the research. >> i'll just talk about it from high level, and then let steve talk about it from a more specific level. from our stand point, trying to reduce infections with bone and managing difficult epilepsy goes to the heart of prioviding bettr care for patients. if we can make it work, it's to the benefit of patients and members throughout the region. >> specifically we're looking at new methods of delive

you can imagine president jefferson davis sitting here at this little desk in his retirement home. here he sat and penned his two volume work called the rise and fall of the confederate government. and in these two volumes, he put down everything he thought about that had gone on in his mind before, during, and after the war. this is what is known as his apologetic. i can see him sitting here writing copiously. and i am just so glad we have this little desk to remind us of all the anti-went through. here we are in president davis's bedroom. this is a wonderful room because everything in this room we long to president davis. his wife gave it to her friend after he died. these were his bedroom slippers. we call it a little suitcase or overnight bag. caller box that was used by him. you can see from this that it was used outside, around the shirt, the collar and then the theer would be stored in color box. this was part of the dressy war every day. the dressy war every day. the shirt, the chair in which he sat, and the most for nothing in the room is is that. the bed is a beautiful bu

jefferson davis worked in this room for several months. floodlights in here are identical to what was there in 1861. either oil or gas fired lights. the space above is the gallery. they can watch the lawmakers make the laws of alabama. we had the senate in this room from 1851 to 1985. the last room we will see is the old house of representatives. there are a hundred and five chairs. . froms to them in this room 1851 to 1985. this room is used on a continuous basis. the main purpose today is for the governor of alabama to deliver his or her state of the state address. there has been address delivered in alabama since 1851 we will continue that. it tells the story of the entire southeast. >> civil war and civil rights is the focus, and america's civil war is the most studied subject in the world: by the american civil rights, and they both happened here. tour staffthe cities recently traveled to montgomery, alabama to learn about its rich history. learn about other stops on the ur at c-span. work. you are watching american history tv, all we

jefferson indebted free anyone. madison was the son of a plantation owner and the us secretary was so shocked but but he had a deep benevolence to violate those principles of the revolution. but you could not imagine a world where it didn't exist or and that profits that he thought would be made the first to be freed in thin said stuart africa. so he was very comfortable with a regional the no negative comments. but then when he goes back to buy a. but there were written two years later it did not reflect medicine. >> after a longer delay that is a line better than what actually happened. i think he revise them with their own understanding. i think louis leakey was interested in the constitution in that convention grew as time went on in 77 i believe that they realized their raiding the constitution. i was traveling by airplane but they had. >> i didn't realize that fast. [laughter] >> to be simply irresistible >> it actually thinking it may not get through congress, over time and then she begins to ruins he wanted

jefferson was the exception. as soon as the conversation was done. particularly when washington started complaining about how he was feeling worn out and tired, freight his memory was going. jefferson would say tell me more. their relationship has been studied quite a bit. there has been a lot written about it. but it was clearly a nuanced relationship. the men respect each other. we tended to focus on the points of division. i saw flaws in china. when he feels jefferson was made a promise when he feels he broke the promise washington takes a personal. his own diary which is interesting. >> a big round. >> the conversation that came out. good research to be done. i great storehouse. hindered -- younger graduate students. now, like washington and get paid for doing this tonight. yeah. so, that means you can help out. do that in an orderly fashion. >> don't even have to read it. >> when i tune in on the weekend's authors sharing and knew releases. >> the best television for serious readers. >> they can have a longer conversation delve in. >> author aft

did you simply look at the text and say, i know jefferson. i know the jefferson that i want to be. christopher: first and foremost, i wanted to honor what was there. i am still doing research. the more i learn things. i think there is so much in a text. the thing you realize about jefferson quickly is that he did so much, you could make any choice and justify it. the choices are endless. what tommy me, and encouraged often was bridging this gap between the figures and the audience. for me jefferson became a composition of people in my life that had characteristics that worked for the parts of jefferson that we were showing any script. -- in the script. we needed extremely charismatic, but also dangerous. my grandfather is all over that. there is so much of my grandfather in thomas jefferson that i cannot even -- on the want to -- on the walk -- the way he holds mccain -- the cane. they give me that costume. christopher: purple velvet. i call my suit presidential. that was an upgrade from off-broadway. it was brown. i went in for the fitting and they put the purple velvet suit on me

this is the home of president jefferson davis and his family. the confederate government was formed across the street at the alabama state capital. he was elected provisional president of the confederate states of america. they moved into the first white house of the confederacy shortly after they came to montgomery, maybe in march. i want to tell you little bit about the house. 1832-18 35. between this is a picture of the house in its original location, it was not here. it was down on the corner of lee and 5th street. you can look at the map, we were very close to the river. it was moved in this was the 1921. first montgomery preservation project, because the house became endangered. it was going to be torn down and the white house association was formed to save the house. come this way. here's a picture of a copy of a painting that hangs in the pentagon. he was secretary of war under franklin pierce, and it was the end of 1860 when mississippi seceded from the union. when he turned in his resignation, he said it was the saddest day of his life

jefferson was the exception. when washington wanted to talk with jefferson -- they would really have it out with each other sometimes. jefferson would -- as soon as the conversation was done, he would go out the door go in another room and write down every single thing they said. part of it to use against washington later on. particularly when washington started complaining candiedly about how he was feeling kind of worn out and tired, afraid his memory was going, jefferson was like, tell me more, tell me more. so their relationship has been studied quite a bit. there's been a lot written about it. but it was clearly a very nuanced relationship. i think the men respected each other. we have tended to focus on their points of division. they both respected each other very much. but they also saw flaws in each other. but washington was very much a -- almost a black and white thinking type of individual that, when he feels that jefferson has made a promise and he feels that jefferson has broken that promise, at least

so when jefferson wins the election he ties his own vice president candidate and of course burr and jefferson being tied means by the constitution the election goes to the house of representatives so the first thing we do in our new capitol is basically the house of representatives has to elect the new president and they have to vote more than 30 times before the tie can be broken so now you're saying okay. we've learned our lesson, let's fix it. so the 12th amendment comes along to straighten out the way of electing a president. but you look back to these early days and they're managing to find out what doesn't work which isn't much and find out that most of that constitution does, and so we're able to today look at that room that's much smaller than the senate today but the senators who sat here, pretty much do the same things as the senators in washington today. >>> american artifacts continues with a tour of the whitney plantation shavery museum in indiana. >>> each week we take you to museums andph[z historic place today we visit whitney plantation to learn about the history of slavery

jefferson was the exception. what washington wants to talk with jefferson and they would have been out, and as soon as the conversation is done, he would go in another room and write down every single thing they said. part of it against washington later on, particularly when washington started complaining candidly about how he was feeling and he was afraid his memory was going. jefferson would say tell me more. tell me more. so their relationship has been studied quite a bit. there has been a lot written about it. but it was clearly a very nuanced relationship. i think the men respect to each other. we tended to focus on their points of division. they both respect each other very much, but they also -- washington was very much almost a black-and-white thinking type of individual when he feels jefferson has made a promise and he feels that jefferson has broken that promise, at least to keep quiet after he leaves the administration and starts working again then. he takes it very personally. i wish washington had be

they have to take loans, like thomas jefferson. it leads to andrew jackson saying that being president was dignified slavery. it may be very unfair to compare premodern presidents with modern president. often the challenges are different. not until teddy result to the present even leave the country. --teddy roosevelt did a president even leave the country. our morals have changed. we will have normative impressions of presidential greatness. that is how we interpret what they did in office. things that may not have been controversial then are controversial now. i call this the andrew jackson problem. by many standards, he is a great president. we define a whole age by him, jacksonian democracy. jackson himself is a simple, a frontiersman by reaching the presidency, sending a powerful message about what is possible in this new country. his common rhetorical support for regular people changes the tenor of our politics. he democratize is government service by entering the federal practice of treating government jobs as property that t

jefferson started sabotaging him with the press. back to the know nothings. >> back to the know nothings, not because i relate relate to that title at all but the reason they went bonkers to the pope and the vatican was there partly anti- catholicism. the know nothings, they pretty much went bonkers, and it related to their anti- catholic leadings they were trying to keep caplets out of the country. >> they were anti- immigrant and anti- catholic. a lot of immigrants started coming in especially the german and irish after the famine in ireland and of course they were all catholic. the know nothings didn't like that at all. they were rigidly protestant. they wanted to keep out immigration. this is a continuing story in american history. the last one in wants to be the last one in. that hasn't worked yet and i don't pick is going to work now. anyway that's why they throughout the pope stone and what have you. my great great grandfather, by the way, ran for congress as a know a know nothing in 1840 in tennessee. he lost. >> before we g

>> nothing from jefferson county -- >> no. >> i think john said that trump would narrowly win jefferson county. >> right. and control room, tell me again, what do we now know? all right, so, now we're up to 75% of the vote in kentucky. and you can see right on your screen what the results are. but again, you have to wait in a state like this, given the makeup of it and the margin as it's moving. so, we'll wait. that's the process. >> where we're going is that jefferson county is where mitch mcconnell began his career as the county executive, or county judge, as they say. >> jefferson county is in trump won narrowly. so, now what? >> now, look, as long as donald trump keeps this bandwagon going -- earlier we talked about all the primaries that reagan and bill clinton lost. >> right. >> i mean, as long as this keeps going and he keeps winning in different places, he's going to be in fine shape. >> jeff, you said something earlier, aggregating the trump and cruz vote, the two outsiders. two-thirds of kentucky, two-thirds are either for trump or cruz. >> right. >> won't there be pressure fr

and jefferson the enlightened figure of the democratic republicans was their leader. now, that's the first party system. it's so-called because of what follows. indeed, the first party system was an earlier moment. during the first party system, one of the key issues was the embargo and we see from this political cartoon that the embargo is spelled backwards as oh, grab me so using a little bit of creative license, the artist here is representing the embargo as a large turtle biting at the british smuggler who would try to break the embargo. now, the embargo was really a foreign policy measure. it was designed to make it so that britain would have a hard time trading with the united states. it ultimately was one of the policies that doomed the united states to a second war with great britain. again, that's part of the first party system's history. it's about the ways in which the federalists and the republicans clashed, the ways in which hamilton and his legatees and jefferson and his successors came into office, came into power and eventually faded from the scene. wh

how this week's jefferson award winner is working to help them get justice. >> and what's cool about your school? email your nomination to us at coolschools@kpix.com. we may come and feature your school on the show. ============b r e a k ============== in the shadow of san quenti ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the gillette mach 3 turbo still feels better after 10 shaves than a disposable on it's first. mach 3 blades have twice the coatings. for a closer shave with zero redness. get an incredible experience shave after shave after shave. gillette. the best a man can get. victims. allen martin reports... erson award winner >>> in the shadow of san quentin there's a group focused on the victims. allen martin reports, this week's jefferson award winner is helping victims and their families have a voice. >> all the work with the victims. >> reporter: jan miller has been helping murder victim families for 22 arbecause jan miller is one of those families. >> i feel empowered myself by getting involved. >> reporter: in 1984, jan's daughter, 19-year-old veronica cast murdered in her apartment in chico. it'

you know why he chose jefferson county. it happens to be the home of a national defense installation. there's a united states armory here. a united states arsenal here. only two hours from here, via travel time in 1859. you would think as a national defense installation, it would be well guarded. there were no guards. brown seizes the armory and arsenal with no casualties, seizes the weapons, holds the installation. unfortunately for him, brown word will get out quickly that harper's ferry has been taken. militia will be called into action, including the guard from shepherd'stown, and the militia will begin to swarm towards harper's ferry. jefferson county militia, principally from charlestown, being the first to arrive on the scene. less than 12 hours after brown's raid, brown's war to end slavery commences. john brown is completely surrounded at harper's ferry by your neighbors. he discovers united states marines in the washington navy yard who were immediately sent to baltimore. they marched to harper's ferry where they

jefferson and his particular friends. there were certainly two distinct world views, federalist and republican. but not really party discipline in any sense that certainly we would understand it today. there was no national party structure again in the sense that we understand it today. the republicans and federalists were alliances more than parties. and in the absence of structured political fighting teams of the sort that would come later, conflict in this national election to come in 1800 ran wild. the lack of faith in the nation's new political system to contain the partisan strife made matters worse. fractured or weak parties and a lack of faith in the political system. these two things have an enormous shaping of partisans p partisanship. i will come back to that. in the 1790s, as i suggested, matters came to a head in the presidential election of 1800. in the lead-up to that election, fire and brimstone claims filled the press. i'm going to share with you my favorite election trick. it's from the federalists. i th

there you see cbs 4's melissa garcia reporting from jefferson county. the jury reached a one. >> reporter: it took the jury just 30 minute ss to come back with that not guilty verdict. that's because marijuana avkts different people differently, and in this case his client was perfectly capable of driving, the attorney said. >> it's not like alcohol. marijuana is different. the standards are not one size fits all. >> reporter: attorney robert cory says his client was pulled over last year in lakewood for a burned out headlight. after a voluntary roadside test, the officer believed the 27-year-old driver to be under the influence ralph banks was arrested and charged with dui. >> it was a nightmare. worst experience of my life. >> reporter: he submitted to a blood test which is found the level of thc at 7.9 nanograms, well over the legal limit to drive. yet a jury on friday found banks not guilty. >> he's a responsible consumer. and i'm glad that a jury of his peers in jefferson county agreed that he was being responsible and that he was not impaired. eve

how this week's jefferson award winner is giving inmates the tools to succeed in the job force. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, own a computer. and even if they did, they can't get one internet. >>> well, imagine teaching someone to write computer code without a computer and even if you did, you can't get on the internet. >> allen martin reports, this week's jefferson award winner isn't letting those challenges stop her if it means helping inmates get the training they need. >> i like that. >> reporter: beverly parenti and her husband would drive by san quentin all the time. >> on the ferry you pass san quentin, you drive by san quentin, but you never really know what's going on inside the prison walls. >> reporter: five years ago, chris was asked to speak to inmates at the prison about how to start a business after they get out. he got beverly to join him and what she heard from an inmate changed everything. >> he said, i can no longer let 12 minutes of one day of my life define who i am as a person. >> reporter: that inspired them to create the last mile. because the couple has spent years in hi

it's jefferson life in monticello? spam that jefferson's burial places in monticello. interesting piece about that is monticello, the property is run by a nonprofit foundation except for the family burial ground, which is controlled a descendent of jefferson's descendents. the reason that matters is because there are a group of people who say we are descendents of thomas jefferson by way of sally hemming, one of the enslaved peoples of the debt the plantation. they are not officially recognized by the family even though they are officially recognized by monticello. so you have a disagreement at the property about two as part of the jefferson family. because the official jefferson family still does not recognize the hemming's descendents, they are eligible to be buried in the family plot. every so often you hear them after to bring that group into the fold so to speak. just one more example of how the issues, appeared something that happened hundreds and hundreds of years ago. great question. [inaudible] >> i didn't look closely enough to be sure. that is certainly poss

the election of jefferson davis and the organization of the confederacy. the martin luther king memorial. the leader of the whole civil really sprangt from that church. you have a wonderful contrast. one of those strange parallels. selma as thefrom civil rights movement changed from the focus on transportation to focus on voting. the marchers came. at saint jude's just a little bit west of town. through the streets of montgomery. they came through court square. this thoroughfare is main street because some any things that happened here. it is a national main street as well. aspects ofbeautiful the issues of civil war and civil rights. both in the same locale. we are want to take all the credit or all the blame. our cities to her staff recently traveled to montgomery, alabama, to learn about its rich history. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. next, bob coming up woodward reflects on abraham lincoln's legacy and how it has affected a number of his successors, including richard nixon, roc

the jefferson building, the big building. not the madison building where you do research, but the main building. that was a whole row of boarding houses. lincoln lived in one of those boarding houses. it was originally a boarding house where theater well lived. he had been the assistant to john quincy adams and was one of the brilliant organizers of the abolition movement. , thea giddings lived there leading abolitionist in congress. there were a number of others there. sprague was a virginian. clear tot was very people what on in that house in terms of people buying their freedom and people coming and going who were black. but it was a kind of station of the underground railroad. later, mrs. sprague fell on hard times and it came to the attention of president lincoln and he gave her a federal job. the second question was? if you could remind me again. >> when he was feeling like a slave because of his father hiring him out, did he express that in any way or talk to his father or others about it while he was under that condit

vernon crafters washington the same way that jefferson's home outside of charlotte captures thomas jefferson. mt. vernon was a product of george washington air. when he inherited from his brother it was a modest building if you go down to george mason's house. it looked a lot like george mason's house a second story that was attic like to be married we also have lots of money so he built and bought all the forms around it so it became the great plantation that it became. he built the whiskey distillery and the mill for grinding grains he changed from tobacco to grain and all those things tell the story about washington. his resourcefulness, is willing to change, is wanting to break from the control of the british early. the tobacco trade was controlled by the british. he was free to trade on a sunday did want to be under the control of the british even in the 17 50. you can get a feel for those aspects of this very complicated person. it's alsa wonderful archive they built at the fred w. smith library. they have archives of his papers but they also have always preserved his farm ledgers and

thomas jefferson is four. those are the four presidents that had an average score of being a great president. the near greats were theodore roosevelt,ing will son, gentleman sock and harry truman. then i think the bottom two are interesting inclusions. john adams and lyndon johnson. we will not see these presidents on other rankings. this is partly because in the study, scholars tended to more favorably rate the presidents that severaled in the area -- in the era in which they did their research. if you did research on colonial america and the early american republic, you would be more likely to think john adams was a great president. we today perhaps criticize him harshly for the alien acts. it criminalized dissent as the united states was gearing up for a war with france enforcement was mrit kalt. onned amanies' opponents affiliated with jefferson. lyndon johnson, another president who servely will be a controversial. scholars like his domestic policies. find a lot to desire in his prosecution of the vietnam

so you have a disagreement of this property about who is part of the jefferson family because the jefferson official jefferson family still does not recognize the hemmings descendents, not eligible for burial in the family plot. every so often you hear of an effort to bring that group into the fold so to speak. one more example of how issues come back up. >> in that jefferson cemetery. i did not look closely enough to be sure. i will look for the telltale signs when i go back. >> are there any other strange causes? >> any other strange causes of death? well, legend has it, the doctors did more damage than the bullets ever did. legends have it stood out in the cold during his inaugural address and spoke for a few hours. i have read his entire inaugural address. it is still the record longest inaugural address and even for that number of words because by very slowly. a lot of talk about the pros and cons go back to roman history. for my own state, managed to cut about half. it still wasn't enough. there has been research in recent years three presidents he die in about a ten year period. the

jefferson 7. appearance -- his first appearance. 2014 at 162 members of the american political science association. i participate in this survey. i can't tell you that much about it. it has not been published as far as i can tell. they've had newspaper stories about the research. they have e-mailed the participants in the study the final rankings but i don't really remember what it was like . it to me a long time. it took me 45 minutes to an hour. i remember being surprised by decisions. i was more positive towards barack obama than i thought i would be when i was challenged to think about him and individual dimensions instead of a social judgment of his performance. wereof the attributes that measured would be diplomatic skill, integrity, military skill. that is somewhat reflecting a political scientist mindset when you include legislative skill. something we know clinical sciences have tried to address want of five. each president receives a score out of 100. the results, lincoln is 1. almost a

jefferson and his particular friends. there were two distinct world views, federalist and republicans. but not really party disciplines. there was no national party construction in the sense that we understand it today. the republicans-in and federalist were were alliances more than parties. in the absence of structured political fighting teams. conflict in this national election to come in 1800, ran wild. the lack of faith in the nation's new political system to contain the partisan made matters worse. fractured or weak parties and lack of faith in the political system. these two things have an enormous shaping influence on the tone of partisanship. i will come back to that idea. in the 1790's, matters really came to a head in the presidential election of 1800. in the lead up to that election fire and brimstones claimed filled the press. i'm going to share with you my favorite electioneeing trick. it's from the federalist. it can be carried out at a time when the roads were poor and communication across long distance was

and jefferson had designed the town. because of washington not having any money to build the city he had to resort to ridiculous schemes of course that's not so ridiculous today. lottery has been very much a part of the united states history and raising money in the united states. you'll see down at the bottom a man named daniel blodgett started. it would be a great lottery. the completely and utterly failed and cost money. had it succeeded it would have been close to $5 million he would have gained, but he actually cost the government money, but he did lower others into land schemes, and one of those was james greenleaf of greenleaf's point, a man who was one of the most remarkable scoundrels in the history of the united states , and a great deal more should be known about him. we talked a lot about the federal government, and what i have chosen to call troubled governance, but now we have to think about something else, and you notice, i ami am sure you have known that i have left out something. and that is the slave. t

jefferson had died. [laughter] you can see in newspapers, some vague -- what? tragedy. whoever thought of that was very savvy. as far as the election itself is concerned -- was concerned, things got worse when thomas jefferson and aaron burr tied for the president -- presidency. for six days and 36 ballots the house voted again and again. here we see the impact of a lack of faith in the political system joined with a lack of party structure. in the midst of the deadlock, jeffersonian republican governors in virginia and pennsylvania put their state militias on alert, prepared to seize the government for a jefferson if burr should win in the house. i think that is remarkable. i think that is overlooked. of course in the end, jefferson won, fully convinced that former federalist would join with him after his victory. party crisis seemingly over, but, there was no telling if national two party strife would rise again, particularly in the wake of another presidential election. to prevent it, connecticut fede

he got 23% of the vote in jefferson county. and it looks like cruz and rubio split the vote of the louisville voters who are not trump. it looks like rubio having a bad night, may have stopped cruz from winning kentucky. >> what do you make of rubio, what is his appeal in that part of the country? what would be a rubio appeal in kentucky? >> you have around louisville and lexington, a lot of people who work in cincinnati actually live in kentucky. in those three areas, you have the sort of -- you have a lot of republicans with college degrees around louisville and lexington who tend to be for cruz and rubio. they're the kind of people who keep voting mitch mcconnell to the senate essentially. there is an establishment republican base in louisville, the mcconnell kind of people. my guess is a lot of them went for rubio opposed to cruz or trump. >> the old republicans from the civil war drights days, they're ideal logs. heidi, i would love to know where those people are voting today, born republican, almost like what religion you

it's been here at 23 and jefferson streets for 49 years. it's expected to fall in a matter of ten seconds. philadelphia housing authority president, he tells us that the towers became magnets for crime and the icon a public housing stigma. what about the people who lived here? they have been relocated in the past year. in their place the implosion will make way for part of a city wide plan to add more low rise town house units. >> want to create communities where families can thrive, where children can be out playing. >> i think the neighbor ishood is going to be much better because it was not that good. >> reporter: and take a look at a map here. the implosion zone. a lot of the area is closed off. again, the center of all of this is around 23rd and jefferson streets. there have been evacuations as well. in fact, within the last 30 minutes we saw police going door to door just making sure that everyone is out. you also have bus routes 33 and 51, they are also being detoured. take another live look here. again, we're about two to three bloc

he is on the democratic republican and jefferson side. he should be against it. he is convinced maybe not going to war is a good idea. he ends up voting to pass the bill for the funding of this treaty. and he is vilified. he is vilified that he voted for this treaty against his side to the point where he loses his seat in his next election to congress. but even worse, in the short-term, he is stabbed on the sidewalk of philadelphia by his brother-in-law because of his vote. he survives but i'm sure family gathers become a little awkward for a while. but it tells us how high our political tensions can be in our early days. yet, yet at the same time, we're also proving that that new constitution, despite the difficulties, works. probably the best day in this room's history in a lot of ways is the day john adams is naurg inaugurated by the speaker of the house's platform. he will stand on the platform with thomas jefferson at the front of the room, outgoing president george washington. this is a big deal. changing presidents for us today is a fairly normal thing. we

how this jefferson award winner is helping people connect with their culture.>> we want to know what's cool about your school. email your nominations to kpix.com and we might feature your school on our show. we will be right back. - hi! - hey. loifor over 60 years now, grocery outlet has been selling the brands you know and love, for up to 60% less than what you'd pay at traditional grocery stores. - and check this out. announceright now, two pounds of halos california mandarins are just $1.99! - and we've got a really catchy theme song. hit it! - ♪ grocery outlet bargain market ♪ >>> yellow peppers are great. they are important. they are not locally grown, but that mild flavor and sweetness for this time of year, fantastic. the pepper sandwich, a little bit of sausage, slice of cheese on some sourdough bread. we will get to that when jeter -- get to that would later. you want to make sure the crown is showing no rot soever in the stem is green. when you bring them home, put them in your refrigerator right away. yellow peppers in the market, great price, great flavor, can't beat it