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efd,to bin in tt. pnning to read the immortal life of in real l. andic. >> for more of the nation on this and other star reading lists visit booktv.org. >> welcome to jefferson city, the cital of missouri. with the help of our media partners, fothe ne hour we ta youo c t mirier we hiy ittu of thnncpotedn damfthojers coming up, a visit to the historic lincoln university found by african-american's civil war venssetheir rareooksollen >>hi proost mo bk. rrub. thesfeo the special thing about this, this book was written in 1866. harriet tubman made her mark

viy conoad wr soeer mk, t so c. >>ndnbot lot gers w a lin t home from former u.s. senator and misery for sleep jean carte and on her book, a fls could talk hemerc osa at shauiingsnd rw tshs isaseeistory unfolded ov time. recede here. it is a connection a link to theast. >>ncastaonrt nos anore oetngutt. nd r o o we t prort tain nio w local author. >>ind ofike btote rty. >> an individual paying the property tax bill. so the frida texas alws bjtod b b i e 10' it ptila ine alhidor c-span and media, bring y to jefferson city, missouri, on book tv. lo amrcvi lco ersi ouik wme t e ecial collections of the

archives at pe library at lincoln university. wi we haven olct ere p cle we vear collection is mostly oriented toward the african-american experience since we are in hbc college, we and african-american history. over, doave lotf oer seses aic-arin seerur we h mh n topics thatre covered by the library of congress classification system. anything fm eurean history scnce, lre t w tghecol. we will have a run through the rubble we have in our collection starting at the beginning. i'm going to have assistants lp mis weavrom a-z basically. the harvard classics. just about every libra as this. d 15di a l o aib w half philosop some books on the middle ages

oi aund. if ailr whe aryfes sm, ll twerere inive. mainly, like i said, our collection contains a lot of informion afn-icis ahe k rie u seerer t this is the history of the negro race. this was outn 1 ths e oflderoo e. intesut t isorok b aca they run the gamut from being -- putting african americans in aositive light anthere e as of the t s posit. h ait ora in our collection regarding that . we're going into the whate llhoaultreg r wlone asai the american history seion of this collection as bono will largest part. avryths fstti aseen, t is rs eti. frederick uglass is autobiography.

werevery pu t hehis upleion havui f bucks on abraham lincoln the civil war obviously. here is onthat is not so nice i bach dtor this was written in 186 you will see from the opening pa heresot nt gros neg t first inferior race. that is as far as i g. added not wt to read anything el after that us wn'tery coar u an kha g sai isrobl our mostamous book. this is the one we like to sho to visitors en ty co ino th arcseta ar ths ook aut. tubman. somoza for people. end the speal thing about this, this book was written in 18 ecthabthk ar tub h

o there. that is really the most famous autographs if you want to call it that bubble we have here. bvly cld r w, heefter mk, en he c. and we do impress our visitors when they come in. they like toee the harriet tubman book which is v ectos. usy wn etredonit mer levis is what we feature. very proud of it, as i said. here at linco uveity we v pf o p rige hisry ltlacnf w founded in 1866 by members of the 602nd and 605th colorednfantry's ef tm t 60dnf lrshife because his men had asked him to head a school after the war was over r themndohe f felas. d teroome hife about becoming the principle ofincoln institute.

wh he finally made h ci aheee t i at h wte ano w i she nerar th heincotacimses and look back of our long, hard struggles as the freed slaves already look back on the former atonge e i inue wk th am wng f tti he dntdds l asiv. the war is breaking up the ice laying the foundation. although workers to be done her after. i doot tnkver ou tork. olcoueo gnd reappyndud r. we have a legacy of literature if you want to call it that here in our library. come visit us. would like sou exm t rent vitoefit mioueea fd okgille and his book american literary history taking a lookt the histories of a nati. >> oe gswa ohioln fowhe cal a . ats ad o rihe multiplicity of experienceshat people have had in the past in different types of worse. most of us are aware ofhate llar. ll oone t. re tit heiv ese wars, major wars in american history but there

are also small wars. forost american history u.s. military pso hav bee in iusel innsit si higntsi ths very different. what we want to do is try to expose readers to the waysf war and wh that, of ce, mewanehe em at w wit crse the story of the virginia settlement jamestown settlement is fairly familiar to most of ourudience. weghedhe o ne ntoxprehe enn hme t enrence uavoomhe, n so thoe/7 because that certainly helped us between the english settlersnd manipulations, the chesape y. hein wd uncoasxelaryrs wiounghahis collection, we wanted to be a voice some of the more famous individuals in american military history dumtsromer paonneth raseer obsl cleike isldk, eecia without general washington. nevertheless we try to move down tt demand lternd g vo somieen

caajs,e a no wkn ince major ethan allen hitchcock describes his experiences in 1836 with seminal indians in florida. today we mightall t unnsnceron paca at t w coagememov te a further conflict. the third thing we tried to derscor is the storyerps t esi oe viliily r. thted ar d a tiessef course the number of elements to it. we begin in some chapters with speechesrom presidents cossn, pitia rtlythasef ed waruto inee csssts ephatay be buried in bureaucracy over time. ias particularly interested in the story of the selective service system of the 20th ntury ofhe gesomssn 19no m pe arh, of s arafoe document and t sense that it moves the american military away from a cscription-based uiross a all- voee for o the hsac of aneogy ey. women joined the force. became more diverse.

also in the 1970's and 80's we have seen the percentaghe foesheyefle ohe puon ahr non pce ohe icopionuniform. the 1940's are will work to the numbers were well over 10-15%. volunteersnd was certainly a prinplevenefe e id uns,olry irade ogi tif t 1 nty even going back to 1607 in jamestown. but, you know, we think of lueerirepe by e -cury ok gsryinhas oitens. inere,hey like to say, different. in the 18th and 19th century, a lot o these people who simply vunteered actually wereom for aie reesco mes ate ivo t l lia occasionally there would be deserters. george washington in the american revolution complained a lot about deserters but more te tha nothe we kindf pen of tiomls tt f w. amm en ont bel e f the things that i think is really interesting about these early documents individuals who here cling i tam a drt brd its io my thomroit

l o these voices really articulate that in an interesting way. i pointed toward those documents le sry of18 ar-o n jesone tele 1 evas in college or in a different context, he had a choice to since -- stay in school, but in his mind the was no choice. ar bak o heulledis wds to jhe trdni rent wultoec participant in this glorious cause,s he likes to call it. and within two yrs he found himself wounded he himself sorf thtraneadev se b. f hsenst theroln. crseson g on to become president ofhe nine states. >> when do we see this pull or this kind of mind-set start to shift? >>hphe t to o o cisdic i iasomhioo with the vanity. this is a historical way of scribing sort of their shift in culture related to orgazationore to mornat israd tegy hr ve o n. the mistreated by class structure. as american society became more modern in that process this

sense ofce a pnlid a th t t con heen of choice. extentialist like debt speak of free will. particularly iran or 110 to many indidus s dheitonot ssy mr o rvbuees t matter of choice. we think about the 20th century the eha upon crti tylhe isg w tol heanf urse inhe eftn the increasing of stratic bombing and technology to wage war from a distance this ha a cscus on he of ot pen hahe svi e onngan. one of the interesting things to appeal all volunteer force is it takes that idea, that notion that i have a choice but tries utrgth. o w tf se ion t i auay ou ier me t p of that commission alluded to this doment for 1970 that was sponsored by the nixon adnistration and highlht e inti dthwiou aua d ro mit i seere s was aced before soldiers. this idea of an all volunteer

force in the 1970's really exemplifiess cscus of cicre sisy leofawesd rsdi tha f in uniform expressed about the reasons for conflict. this kind of stereotype, maybe it is one of too many holwo . madiw ey thre n o foheonic even always fully cognizant of the mission. the fact of the matter, i found again and again even in the ea dtsn ivls omserear tera w ereio aes to achieve the objectives that often reflected a larger community-based reflection on the struggles. cs w m pha soiereotic th dend a job "well. in fact, many soldiers are quite aware of what they're doing andon thdhr for twanoler y t th d'tomeols llhe it is may even a poll that, again, comes from their communities. oliver wendell holmes a tenaol ie iciver ca jushup aiinec 1

atiga m evmeg all your might. heaid in his memorial day speech that this is the fundamenlpecll ig crs teivwaashe ise. looking forward this idea of believing and wanting something with all youright that trsc anyime ari st at erin diio theor thosnirs t belief the want, and the sense of all your might giving yourself fully to something. younow, witho becoming over spialthis thg titeit ieo u phay t enry rriona s d e they try to tap into that feeling of total immersion giving yourself fully kin of the highest f oomn giver set. tti dsi waar atnirs and even in these early times where the skirmishes and confcts work technological and more about sort ofkuing amakupn emd venn esrlnfs can recognize i believe, the sentiment of a warrior. that is, this idea of a tal

immersion aome rpe us in o ani vidualutnk t tr waror kind of loses himself or herself in the struggle that they recognize as being broader than themsve ate,rom pee,bec t so o tea e rng tdea of servicand has been so important to our country in the past. you alluded to vietnam in particular. in the 1960's may be thi eling igatnd seas a b pesecaufatur theic tatof th d but m be moving this into the 21st century when we think about the sort of public responses to the glol war and terror a t turnofdierfrom ann iq, m th imenoedge n, nio rv themptance of serving your fellow human being in various ways. think tt is maybe the element that is mostmpornt. oru. tod miouiryan am she lks about life inside the governor's mansion from missouri's first families in her book if walls cou talk. an heener nc 17 b toepce o e that had been in such bad

shape. it was such a wonderful time to be here. the rst lyim aga t owwi fivhiren. thar myde th t ihepaou nsn ths or running around the top of the roof. it was just a small railun e. e rnoobas s g heit a t sat ie a s t boys. and so there were some lovely stories of the things that ty get the mansion one of the young man he was nebo nate, it te h fsda. id s eeren o t furniture. when the guests sat down to eat their meals at the dining room table they were beginning to wobble abo. ey nur o w unhe dco t he tahiawohees of the chairs. so the kids have always enjoyed the mansion. always been great things to do. my grandchildren as well. us the gst e on eradnt, i ndhathas o maasorng a who left for lunch and said to the guard you might want to tell the governor that his daughter is in the attic

uaooat a ide rn dno veet. wre dthid non. ce h ogh sts el. maggie's stevens t gua h ldtori tse ies agandtpl in a t tse whe atletn. >> what about some of your memories? >> so, i remember some of the wonderful things that weiffer children especially. weadldn' fti sprebyis unon n tonrf a f kids in urban and rural areas. it was a what it -- it was a er days. ad shiala ecla oob dur haee. stl turn would com thousands and thousands and have a safe and fun time at the mansion. and we had a story hour at the maion. esireseatn t eylweenpfn edio eyeang a in that happened and teach them manners and also hear some of the old stories. we did a lot of things for children. mostly wtrieo khe trion aeansi ndty e thin th afilaouan d. we tried very muc to do those.

winston churcll much -- onc said we shape our buildgsnd rwdsys. isry iner te. ser anoonctn. sin t past. we see that as each family comes and gs. so that is why think the man ompta thhanim lee'wa ta aam wone g d. so a to be saved. maybe a parking lot might be nice over here. ab to save i itestore of mt butul storn' o aan man hen . som t have, and i think people see the value of it being restored. that is what the missouri mansion preservation does commani gd f the and viovio t atd ouhi haad did tri a bo msi ielf aneilthive there? >> people used to come to the mansion. would look around and say oh if the walls could talk i m iheal tok e d ary toel ieahaad tee y le. inud the govnors and t first lady'. what they did before they came there, but what they did afterwards, what was going on at theime iroht tetin tha turneut b30 so p atus a ofeah, btas rk o lov

it took me five years. it was one of the most rewarding and toward full * of my lif. >>e mefon cy nonkt thutalaw a sveryio tradition talks about his book. >> the title of the book is natural law a t a tuonalrati i aclyrtut theaw gnd. asng toe btit i k ho thabe that misled what it was about because a lot of people assumed the laws of god meant something like divine lawomethi w wodd wy inind w nara lhis i reiaadn es os certain moral principles that people can find out just through reason alone, th can reason about th pnc a c to s tou tt, ugheis ofson ohethate faarhatokes thity of natural law is the declaration of independence. at the beginni of the declaraton the statehat aln eedalardowinaenle gh t i t itas ecra said, laws of nature and nature's god. that is really the emphasis, the idea that there are cerin laws suchor principleshat

t fro gov pennmennd cavem dpihe gontcen nt so is about weather are not the constitution written in 1787 wasro or ai slavery. u hs w gup a tritinripocs pe aue the tias aisve in itssce rick douglass said the constitution wasloou liy den e sol twa ss ghe nsti of te document. i go back to some of those guments. they maintain that slveas un bauseiothe tu and that is relevant their gument was always that theonstition oue inrpd inige arn ndde d w cold and the constitution was the silver from around it . thihire he s titn he fail written not to conceal or destroy the apple but to give a pride of place.

this is always his argument. io a alfeides -roavntlary ew difnt causes. counted slaves as/5 of a person prisns o t sve tra gives dif me soer t psi a aicg meheld no longer exist in the united states. slavery does not appear i the constitution. it refers to slaves as persons whhasdefoom of fousen t meoston a avhane lco's w fnders an pla o a c ward ultat extinctn. othersooked at the provisions as being an obvious compromise in a way that would oer perverse incenves mnt sles ehaor omomo u hthcoin rpti eumie heook tt in order tonderstand the anti slavery tradition the people who said the constitution was antislavery community have tonderane tiip th so t dlaon thnsutn. laraons cal yoveuntaha sa nalht wt eaan that the constitution is framed in order to make the declaration a reality. you have had a lot of revisions recently cald into question. th atse pplnd e en w rllslavery

document. not only that some of the ideas in the declaration themselves are subject t dispute wther or not these things ma sense yo romhi l se-ederu a n crdow tirreorf inthrase people call into question. and was a journalist and calls for qck and the 20th century said it well, i think we sa ter mre reelayomet kee h tserutoe ob t a voom iub heredity with very unequal wrongs and no equal rights, something like that. if that is the case, if we really doubt whethr n e isnyrus theoe r a nurly uand h n aner sa gs a oatthe end o rhtsvery question those things that we will question all of it with it to my question whether or not those ideas are true, whether or tonstitutio was lymed l o dearnoyuestn e one ea frhetola in ica allhohi a sut tois today. >> and now more from jefferson city missouri. book tv visited t areaith e our cle ptners xp try te cre t a ss serents rgsoc emoyment providing about 18,000 jobs. jefferson city was created specifically to serve as miouri capital in 11.

>>dfter. anelcoehepeal collections. my name am very glad to s som ourni testg tngshie ou vits. if the object here the taet is tnlh a o owhat tbout 4,235 years old. you can see this tiny kuna form letter ande. lscer g et is aha. and it is very hard to see or decipher anything at all because i think treo-ca s cus. is iete t tiebhadn which is also that pot to da otsring it waslwaysng tookt chin tle hahmation on them this is the least of any which

will go to aeor cric thnebl t - w as wl. at least. we have egyptian papyrus a w haany, pchnt median latin, but not necessarily. this onewhich is alsoy muchikeow,s mari hre. dhiis bf. [indiscernible] fifteenth century with stephanie h t dferent ris wtihe ve ser. and here you can see and this is what the author lis to show tss reallni in c sneine ofhelho was immortalized for this particular . amgurancrs iq alll m h k

iq, wee t show a stdy biography or ecology we lovesh thirticular str-ancr ths b ohe [indiscernible] who live taught greeks speaking populion latin lang. i t ld. yoee t. some comments. actuallyhin the not belong to a very rich person. apparently it was either a professor or a studentrow h cld he chge. isea manuscript because it allows to show the studes the work of a scribe. this invisible line firstade a bndnsumt.we as tow lias been made so neatly because ascribead to make this

hell inhe page. an thehe. make it more clear. we tth sil rixi at yale university. a book produced most probably in sohern austria or uppst. bedict an ti from central france. nevertheless, it was a beautiful manuscript a it htswn sty lot sometimes we have this capital.

un this monkfish. newi sgoartly terrified at thatime. you can see sometimes th mamst iqe ir ar is this manuscript. we put it in as special

prottion d t e. buheir t it was a very, very tiny book. it was in this case. and then when i open that it hoss. anen y si w a very tiny book. the book is the gift to us. iv tcrt tour coecsnem ofis. and this manuscript. d yea sm whe areome t. one, that she did it in secret trying torotect fromery mainthndirmern. er h treas ryha s her brother invented an imaginary kingdom and hadol w led eom he w ae.

and the last thing i wanted to show you just from our large coectionss u te ofhesi eer here, you can see the signature the handwriting tres. this is the monogram. d hn ieres isayut yng cld. promoted from of very lowly rank to theanksqul canr major in the army. he was pmoted for his bravery. and the date hered h aliis. 2 1790. it took me a few years of research. apparently from all moirs.

hat pba epd n the toe of to. initially demoted because the ra isan f an. an aer this to motion he was promoted for his bravery he wasen nnly l tkher e became president of moscow universy. the ger. u knotnlro o mari this history of writing starting fromhe babyloan clay tablets d goinogh eptyr meevan their in books and very interesting clection. th todn books. thee h tan f w forced into writing.

they should put to writing the mostmportant, the most al theitoer geron. isst t. left its mark on all of these things. 's mkeduc f byan c 4 s. marif sa . the bucs before us. the books you can see her. may scr arintks olctio isha mes a anhi >> on book tv recent visit to jefferson cy, missour local cable partner media come, we spoke to a local author, arencehy s boo a ppertybi ventkelot clsri o e ertat >> good evening. here in california in t primary tomorrow people have the rarend ndbtleingf viinittoe thrax theia thheill t mh d noor proposition 13 it is called, and it is an absolut ban on how much property tax they can char homeowners it i thoht aut as ch v ast a nsplwhert t ainhe ppe ta wefieae insi taxes on property.

now is a chance for the people to say something about it. >> spending. in our hands. kindfikeosn ar. aayinge ndveoue ishatn mion thesssmncas a individuals paying the property tax bill. so california, other states, florida, tlw b bjtod n 1s w icarise tas you know, assessments went out. and a peculiar illas that the optys tn prtyhatnd t x ncik way the income taxes. so certain categories of people elderl homeoersld on 003000ho anveugop t bi but not have an income to pay it. they could be retired living on ed incomd ha tay e peaxill o of six ie an i s c t d ve mey no later on their are some -- relief came in for elderly homeowners and what not. but that was in resnse to this

crisis ofeong ppey riutncoorei abayirpeta and tax bills as you know, you have to pay them. ifou don't the government has c c ihe preruske fft t an toven rtarnfvi of tax bills. his starkly the property tax has en the way that local vernment service hfund, olnd rein ede a whan o inuding education. that has been the biggest the largest during kamal levels of education, k-the commuty collee. theducatial stor t aoss stse h ireed. opaxavon out. the particular way that they go up is what is most upsetting to people because most people are al u authe ssysla a vase a in troy y o. and when there is real estate inflation, which there has been int de happens p d t t h ug a hseor $,0 a a snt $250,000 rising rapidly.

well the property tax is according to value theheuer hogoouessm go u en iaxe t me your property taxes skyrocket because property values skyrock. uay propeva ocnga ng. we wtaomne onacion trup brlanon. and generally rising property values are good things, except when it ces to pgr s. tipasbeai ou hher tl cause property values are going up. >> has anyone ever tried to fight this taxef wha i t wleto izovemtsom methhoos ael gh c. there were initially fueled by people not being able to pay their bills. people thaton't have aery hi iome,eoetre stli t se, aynheus ryod incomes. again, they can put all their life savings and in-depth accumulating money wlth. would bga

he'te oobt mt,utli so folks elderly people in working-class neighborhoods midd-class neighborhoods we particularlybl t thr bls heent o. a o peoneaze that urban communities our communities. theyre organized. homeowners organizations. and these e thorganizatns atnoit otte aventll p tions on the ballot through the initiative pross to get a tax reduction initiatives on the ballot in califnia and later in other alevces hoow bins mo binesses elderly homeowners middle-class working class honors. but the wealthy have a very ique aange ry gatrganing g at v gndin political power and funds in govement. it is a kind of power that poor peopidela pple don' he. sohatisved tn ord beti rd to really form a large coalition and really when this thing the

prest was marginal, but to sud ha t uer ddlaomni lv. yeitypey s. rsmts their houses were going up one two 5 million. they were hit by this as well. business werou k h ax b w nhede orort reted businesses landowning businesses, hotels, apartment owners people that binses y isiroy lots hefogo t me wlthy homeowners and provided a ady-made system of leaders. you think about some of these st gupee aparen ons. pr llan. im they have to get the zoning approved they have to go through local government. they are familiar with local rn heemence tol bu o tosio was switching the relief from the people that really needed it .e theeotl tay the workcleoerhe pe tre c l eiom b notei a

pay the kind of locust of relief. and this tends to happen in all ta arotest m eash te le th w areain t a very, very high tax rate. you see the same thing with capital gains, the income tax. the riend u etedo ve wlt nhheemen m stess-rts me on the concerns of ordinary middle-ass people that are being hit by taxes. the is that factor rduc rohis anisatal vy, v us t ts se doal t the zoning, the special tax breaks. they know what to do. and unfortunately some of these movementsou k uoo mi-cpl wasot th s. they did not have the same backing you know, as the elites. and so the whole program che. dtomie b t rgtie bli two-thir you know, goes to businesses. a cab.

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