hope all of you as well, as those also in our television audience. so, thank you, and we say good night. >> thanks very much. >> thank you, all, very much. v. [ applause ] >> thursday morning, we're live in columbia, south carolina for the next stop on the c-span bus, 50 capitals tour. south carolina lieutenant governor kevin bryant will be our guest on the bus during washington journal starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> next on american history tv, journalist cokie roberts moderates a discussion on the first federal congress at the american historical association's annual meeting. the panel talks about the nation's founders, including james madison and george washington who met from 1789 to 1791 to determine the structure of the new federal government, and decide how it should

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with landmark cases returning next month for season two, c-span's senior history producer mark farcus shared some background on the upcoming series. >> by popular demand, it's returning. a co-production between us and the national constitution center. as i listened to the callers this morning, they're talking uto about race, the powers of congress, the constitution, and immigration. what we've got in season two are 12 landmark supreme court cases that really take you through the history of the country and deal with all of these cases that really, really have something to do with today. along with the national constitution center, we had a very, very long set of cases, and what we wanted to do was really take cases that had a human interest story to them, because in the end, these cases affect human beings across the country. so the cases came down to did they have an impact in their time, did they change the court, did they change the country in their time, and how relevant are

they today? all of them are relevant today. the first case, mccullough versus maryland is the power of congress to write laws to overrule the state. yik wo is a great case anthony kennedy has mentioned many times and that's all about immigration. we'll have two very good guests on set here in washington, and we have a video journalist producer who will go out around the country to the places that help tell the story for each one of those stories. for yick wo, we'll go to san francisco. for the civil right cases, that was a case that overturned in 1875 law, made it unconstitutional, after the supreme court ruled against that, jim crow laws went into effect in this country. frederick douglass makes an amazing speech just a week afterwards. we'll take you to the speech where frederick douglass makes the speech. that's a little on the set. we'll have your phone calls, tweets, interact with the

audience to talk about how these shows are relevant today. >> be sure to watch season two of landmark cases beginning february 26th at 9:00 p.m. eastern live on c-span, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> and to help you better understand each case, we have a companion guide written by veteran supreme court journalist tony mauro. landmark cases volume two. the book costs $8.95 plus shipping and handling. to get your copy, go to c-span.com/landmarkcases. >> next on american history tv, representatives from a variety of museums and history and public policy centers on the importance of these institutions and their methods for public policy centers on the importance of the institutions and the methods for educating and offering information no the public. this is an hour and a half. all right. we can begin the sessn.