this is his for the bradley lecture. his first, delivered in 1994, a few years after he joined aei in 1990, looked at the arguments that they had made on the bell curve. the second explores the themes in his book human accomplishment, his elegant overview and our progress in the sciences. his 2008 lecture look at the mess our educational system has become and asks fundamental questions about what education is for. last year he gave a preview of coming apart as he was writing it providing some intriguing clues about how america is coming apart among class lines and the consequences of the separation. there are many echoes in the new book of the 1984 book, losing ground pitting it was published in september, 1984, in an early 1985 "the new york times" attacked it in an editorial. while the editorial page of "the new york times" is yet to be in on coming apart, "the new york times" today ran a very generally positive piece about charles, and last tuesday "new york times" columnist david brooks wrote about the book and here

it's all silence at the end so march to a lecture the village that was bombed by saddam hussein and was wiped completely. sure. it's the church history did i think it's one of the common in our century the leader of them doing this to so many people. for. the first there is nothing we can do about it but the memory of love she can make you think how to prevent the. her womb what can we do to stop making it happen again as humans not as crews not as your own is not the same right these you know not as citizens of any country but as humans. or. this is basically adaptation of aging from one thousand to twenty my interpretation has been to bring all of these elements in this this moral agency and see how it works in fun temporaries time. as i was working the events in here on earth taking place in the green movement so a lot of this is here is just current events that they're shocked by mobile phones and recorded as rossi's made they're very easy to paint and still. there's a reason for this uprising is that people downtown voltaire's and their voice was. told people even though you want t

the course had to be moved to the largest lecture hall on campus. the gettysburg trip that year was busloads full of people. it was a time of great transition for jim, who had been working along very steadily. all of a sudden, the popularity, "the new york times" best selling stature of his book revolutionized how he was regarded by students in the university. and then in the middle of the semester, word came that "battle cry of freedom" had been awarded the pulitzer prize. i will never forget how james mcpherson handled that honor, with equanimity, grace, and humility. he didn't change. nothing changed a bit. jim was just jim. that was a marvelous thing to see. what an example. but what i really want to stress today is jim mcpherson's generosity. that's the only word for it. i've had the pleasure of working with jim, assisting him on a series of trips. princeton runs something they call alumni colleges, which are trips where alums come to be lectured to and kind of feel the excitement of being a student again with princeton faculty as we tour the a

and so tonight, as i conclude this series, i don't know whether in term of lectures we saved the best for last but i know in terms of presidents we saved the best for first. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. we've got a few minutes for questions and i have been asked, very explicitly to point out that we have a microphone here from the folks at c-span. there it is. so if you are a question thrust your hand into the air where she can see it and wait until she reaches you and then everyone can hear it. >> is this on? why are there no great unifying leaders like george washington today? >> first of all, read the farewell address. washington never believed that the united states would be without political differences or political parties, factions, whatever you want to call them. what washington's whole presidency was about, whether it was staying out of european conflict or trying to avoid as n of these intense partisan differences, washington's whole presidency was about buying time. washington was enough of a visionary to know -- washington was a strong leader

historian richard norton smith gives a three-part series of lectures on our first president. it begins in just a moment. >>> at the 1968 olympic games, john carlos and tommy smith raised their fists in the black power salute. >> they said black power, they intimidated so many people, white people in particular by using that phrase, black power. because when they use that word or that phrase black power, it made many people think that black power meant destruction. blowing up the statue of liberty or ground zero. destroying america. it wasn't anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america. and having america to have a new paradigm in terms of how we can be what each and every one of us did the pledge when we were going to elementary school and the land of the free, the home of the brave. we all wanted to be great americans, but we found that something was wrong. something was broke and we wanted to take our time to evalue yet and take our initiative to fix it. >> discover more about african african history online. search and share from over 25 years of c-sp

i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the second year of a 20-year cycle that is no different than the client server cycle that happened last time around, and i think education is an important component of this. so i'm going to take my four or five minutes to educate you guys a little bit on what is this thing we call cloud computing. i'm going to try uses much plain english as i can, leave all the technical buzzwords aside, and try to eliminate -- illuminate for you what is happening. fundamentally, is an economic thing that is happening, and that is what has always driven technologies economics. i will get to that in

newspaper coverage assured that the nation knew about these lectures., wendell holmes, ralph waldo anderson and others spoke and the great american or ater was scheduled to give the culminating lecture. but such were the time in america that joseph henry, the secretary of the smithsonian and science adviser to the president said i will not allow a black man to speak in the rooms of the smithsonian. frederick douglas was denied his place in the national museum. the irony was that secretary henry's most reliable staff member was a man named solomon brown, an african-american poet, self-educated science. he built the exhibits at the smithsonian and he served here for 50 years. he guarded the treasures, carrying out the research. developing programs and helping to lead the institution. the historical record is checkered. notably in 1891, the smithsonian's national zoo opened its grounds to african-americans on easter monday, given that the community was not allowed to participate in the celebrations on the white house lawn. well into the 20th century, curat

visit college classrooms during lectures in history. the presidency looks at the policies and lek sis of past american presidents. view our complete schedule at cpan.org/history. >>> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the country's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. this week, professor warren goldstein at the university of hartford where he discussed martin luther king jr.s time in alabama and the civil rights movement there in 1963.

he collects lecture fees.ast year, 2011, he gave lectures and for which he received fees that amounted to $375,000. that $375,000 has been taxed by the i.r.s. already as 35%. americans who ighest of the six earn, that is worked for this money as opposed to money from >> i'm turning to, mort, for obvious reasons for your business. do you know your income into investments to collect 15% tax, rather than the tax for fees or work that you've done -- >> not salaries it's called. >> wages. >> call it what you will. hourly wages. >> -- >> you can't shift this around without -- basically -- >> you can get it -- [everyone talking at once] >> you can buy stocks. >> but the purpose that much is to intercept advise people to save moment for investment funds. it's been like that forever. because we need that kind of and your regular income -- >> why -- such an interest in having invest funds? >> because that's critical to the growth of our economy 92 okay. some of those statements you just made -- i don't think people unde

visit college classrooms across the country during lectures in history. go behind the scenes at museums and historic sites on american artifacts. and the presidency looks at the policies and legacies of past american presidents. view our complete schedule at cspan.org slash history and sign up to have it e-mailed to you by pressing the c-span alert button. >>> a generation before president john f. kennedy acting on behalf of a grateful nation desk thated him an honorary american citizen, winston churchill paid his own tribute to his transatlantic origins. appearing before a joint session of congress on the day after christmas 1941, he observed i cannot help reflect it that if my father had been american and my mother british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. today outside the british embassy on massachusetts avenue, churchill literally described two nations. with one bronze foot planted on british soil and the other on american. this pleased the old man himself no end. of the statue announced on his 89th birthday, he said

. >>> lectures in history airs each saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. we feature classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of american history. to keep up with american history tv during the week, or to send your questions and comments, follow us on twitter. >> thanks, mark. i'm pleased to be here again today representing the texas state historical association as a sponsor of this second annual save texas history symposium. i'm again honored to have this opportunity to introduce land commissioner jerry patterson, the person ultimately responsible for making this program happen. it's always a pleasure to be among people who understand the importance and the need to save texas history. a year ago before this meeting, my wife, tara, and i were eating dinner the night before. someone asked us what we were doing in town. we said, we're here for the save texas history symposium. they said, why history need saving? and so many things flooded through my head at that point that i didn't

visit college classrooms across the country during lectures in history. go behind the scenes in museums and historic sites. and the legacy and policies of past american presidents. view our schedule at c-span.org/history. ♪ >>> today the latest weapons, coupled with the fighting skill of the american soldier, stand ready, on the alert all over the world to defend this country, you, the american people against aggression. this is "the big picture." an official television report to the nation from the united states army. now, to show you part of "the big picture," here is sergeant stuart queen. >> in recent big pictures, we've shown your army in action all over the world. today we're going to tell a different story. today we're going to take you to washington, d.c., here in the nation's capital, there are many thousands of important army activities. let's take a look at some of them. this is the washington we all know and recognize, the capital of our nation. the beautiful city with its famous landmarks. this is the visitors' view of washington. but across

we feature classroom lectures on different topics and eras of american history. to keep up with american history tv during the week, or to send us your questions and comments, follow us on twitter. we're at twitter.com/c-spanhistory. >>> american history tv usually shown on the weekends on c-span 3 will continue this week in prime time. our focus on tuesday night is black history month. at 8:00 eastern, with the ground breaking of the new smithsonian museum of african-american on history and culture. the museum's founding director takes us through the storage facility to see some of the artifacts on display. at 8:30, the relationship between martin luther king jr. and his mentors, benjamin mays and howard therman. as we travel the civil rights museum built on the site where martin luther king jr. was assassinated. and at 10:30, professor william foster teaches a class on the history of the "n" word on american literature and culture, with a focus on "uncle tom's cabin" and mark twain's "huckleberry fin." >>> this week on "american artifacts," we visit the center

i wasn't lecturing. >> stephen: you weren't. >> not at all. just letting them know -- >> stephen: you're not saying hey, guys let's put the anger on the back burner and settle this rock, paper, scissors. you're being tough with these guys. >> absolutely. you mentioned my dad and you mentioned what he was about, but back in the day it was absurd to shoot at 2:00 in the afternoon when kids are coming home from school, or shooting at a car where your mom was in. i was educating those guys. >> stephen: so are you actually saying in there, like, if you're going to do this, do it, you know, where you should be shooting each other? >> no, i was saying don't do it at all. >> stephen: okay, okay. >> and they didn't do it at all. >> stephen: did that stop? >> it stopped. >> stephen: how would you know about that? is there a bat signal? >> communication. i'm always -- >> stephen: your spider senses were tingling. >> what do you mean? >> stephen: come on! >> absolutely. when you're in a community where i'm from and you see on a daily basis kids are outsid

that we have in lecture series here at the institute. and whether he gave the second of those in 2006, his title was does europe have an economic future? his response was an unequivocal yes, but, he cautioned, only if europe did several important things to keep its forward momentum toward integration going. and he stressed in particular the need for structural economic reform. now prime minister monte is in the most important position possible to make that happen. it's, therefore, a truly great honor, privilege and personal joy to host the prime minister and to introduce him to this distinguished audience. super mario? >> thank you very much, fred. it's really very touching and emotionally heavy for me to be here with so many friends and so the synergisms about the crisis of italy, europe, et cetera, et cetera. i didn't quite realize how tall an order fred would have been able to put in front of me. i really want to underline how we all involved in policy observing, policy making have been benefiting from the peterson institute work and

henson wrote a book about the expedition that didn't take off and after an unsuccessful lecture tour he wasn't in good health and barely eking out a living until a friend got him a job at the u.s. customs office in new york. >> he worked at the customs office until he came back at about age 43 and worked there until he was about 70. when he retired, thanks to the intervention of his friends who were able to find a modest retirement source for him, and at that point, he lived in the dunbar apartments in harlem in relative comfort. >> it wasn't until 25 years after henson's return that his colleagues began to honor his contributions. the explorer's club was the first in 1937. later he met president's truman and eisenhower and honored by congress and other organizations. well after his death at 88 in 1955, he received the national geographic medal and interred with honors at arlington cemetery and had a u.s. naval ship and government building named of after him. one has to wonder what kept him going in breaking through the obstacles. he wasn't much of a talker so not much is known about

. >>> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the country's college professors. you can watch the classes here, every saturday night at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00. this week we join university of michigan history professor kevin gaines where he discusses the music of the civil rights movement. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> welcome history 197, the long civil rights movement. thank you all for coming. i'd like to thank c-span for coming to the university of michigan to tape this lecture which is on the music of the civil rights and black power movement, and we have a lot of material to get through, and so what i'm hoping is that we will just go right to the slides and begin. now, why study the music of the civil rights movement? and when you look at this period, it's really striking how the mass media affected people's perceptions of the movement, and we're talking about the nightly news. we're talking about print journalism, photo journalism and also popular culture, popular music and film and sports. the 1960s, and i think we'

he's an old friend of the museum of the confederacy and has written and lectured about the museum itself and its role in civil war memory. his latest work "the dogs of war 1861" is a collection of essays that are apropos of the civil war sesquicentennial, he'll be in virginia in april lecturing about jeb stewart at the university of mary washington. great live series on april 3rd. today he'll be nominating -- i can't say it, i'll let him tell you. but, emery, if you get up here and talk about jon bankhead mcgruder, i'll cut you short and we'll get on with robert e. lee. >> thank you very much. you didn't mention some embarrassing things. fortunately. i did some work on "time's" person of the year before coming here. i thought it would be a better look if i could see what they'd done to maybe project your voting this most influential person in 1862. supposedly this -- i mean, journalistic legend has it that it was a slow news week in 1927, and "time" was smarting because they had failed to put charles lindbergh on their cover. when he flew across the atlantic. and so they had to do someth

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had fre

i came to this lecture trying to find a definition of what cloud computing is. maybe i understand a little better, but i still do not have its in the simple terminology that i understand. my other question is from my point of view as a user of computing services, i have recently had the experience with a couple of banks going through a total change of their website, which caused me no end of aggravation to try to continue my accessing of my data, and i had the feeling, and i think you kind of touched on this, that for maybe financial reasons or because you technology people are so influential in the world you convinced these banks they had to do this, it just really made my life miserable for a couple of weeks trying to figure out how to use their new system. i mean, it seems to me that -- you know, i had the impression that technology people are sort of making work for themselves by influencing institutions that they need to change what they have already in place. i still go by the old model -- if it is not broken, do not fix it. so i am opposing these question

he met ling three times ai said here in the lecture. he meets grant, of course, not until the reconstruction here. he ends up meeting grant, in fact, at the white house, he campaigns vociferously, vehemently for grant. and grant finally appointed him as part of the commission to haiti. that was a complicated appointment that douglass never felt very good about the way he was treated. but he saw grant as the leader of the party that had in effect to his people, and to his dying day, he was a strong defender of grant, not only as the war hero. but even as the president who what presided at least over the triumvirate reconstruction. >> let's go to seattle, matthew on the line with david blight. >> caller: hi, thank you. i was just wondering if douglass is going to win with the crowd there? >> well, it's a very frank and good question. i'll give you a frank answer, i don't think i have a prayer. but i gave it my best shot as it were. and who knows, right? it depends on whether people -- i think in the end here, however people wish to vote o

yes, we are live, without knowing the subjects of the lectures. we thought that not divulging the nominees in advance would enhance the suspense. and you've confirmed this with your attendance today. we thank you for trusting us to arrange an interesting and worthwhile program and are confident that you won't be disappointed. the person who won last year's vote was abraham lincoln, which surprised a lot of people. abraham lincoln won an election in richmond, virginia? this tells us that perhaps richmond isn't what some people think it is. and it reminds us that the person of the year for 1861 or 1862 is not a popularity contest anymore more "time" magazine's person of the year is a measure of popularity. it is a measure of importance and a means of learning about the year. our panelists will try to convince you, the audience and the voters, that their nominees deserve to be recognized for their importance. without further ado, let's get on to our first nominee and first speaker. bob, for him and the others you will find a biographer in your progra

a courthouse without a statue is naked after all, james mcpherson came and gave the inaugural lecture of our campaign, attended a reception with people who donated and was endlessly patient with everyone. it was a very important way for us to start our effort. i'm pleased to say that our courthouse is no longer naked. but i think the most personally compelling example of jim's generosity is that even though as i mentioned i jumped off the tenure track professionally, he kept asking me back to do alumni colleges. when it came time to organize the conference in honor of his retirement, jim asked that i be included, which then led to my contributing to his trip. what an act of generosity. but that is typical of james mcpherson. thank you. >> associate professor of history. influential, recommend latest prize winning book and recently was abroad, i believe, in israel with the mcfersons. thavolia. >> good morning. it's really an honor to have been been invited to participate especially because i'm not a mcpherson student under grad or graduate. when vernon e-mailed me, first of all you can

this lecture is the second of a three-part series taking a closer look at the evolution of president washington's character throughout his life. this is about an hour. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, gay. i don't remember that last sentence. anyway, thank you very much for that more than generous introduction. and i want to thank everyone beginning with its namesake responsible for the lecture series, not to mention those joining us via c-span. i recognize many a returning face from last month. this means one of two things. either a, you're a student of all things washington, or b, you are a glutton for punishment. but in any event, i'm delighted to see you. character, said mark twain, is the architect of achievement. it was twain, after all, who famously declared himself to be a greater man than the father of his country for the simple reason whereas george washington couldn't tell a lie, he twain could. on closer examination, the joke isn't on washington at all, but on the humorist and his hero worshipping contemporaries. for the same mark twain who chuckled over a god-like washin

receptive and inclusive to this that my second book was the other civil war, which came out of a lecture he allowed me to give in his undergraduate course. we really have, in many ways, he perhaps alarmed his advisers by going in a different direction. when i went down south to do my work, i rode the bus, so i didn't have to worry about those license plates. thank you for your question. >> i think it's important to remember that jim reminded us of contingency. we read a let are last night, asked jim how many more soldiers from the confederacy would it take to have won for the confederacy and he replied to the student none, that, in fact, we now have contingency in the civil war. i don't think historians have given contingency to reconstruction. i think we have to look back at reconstruction with the same ideas we did with the civil war when i came along when it was assumed there was no way that the confederacy could win. i'd also like to remind people we too easily forget because we saw the outcome and how the union wins, that with the civil war, the direction of history was going differ

he met lincoln three times as i just said earlier here in the lecture. he meets grant, of course, not until the reconstruction years. he ends up meeting grant, in fact, at the white house. he campaigned vo sis russly and vehemently for grant in 1868 and again in 1872. and grant finally appointed him as part of the commission to haiti. it was a complicated appointment that douglas never felt very good about the way he was treated. but he saw grant as the leader of the party that home run in effect freed his people. and to his dying day, he was a strong defender of grant not only as the war hero, but even as the president who had presided at least over some of the triumph's of reconstruction. >> let's go to the west coast and hear from seattle next. matthew on the line for david blight. welcome. >> thank you. i was just wondering, what do you think is the likelihood that douglass is going to win considering the light complexion of the crowd there? i'll take my answer off air. >> well, that's a very frank and good question. i'll give you a frank answer. i d

i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have a great problem when they come to a concert of classical music and view it as this is supposed to be serious music. this is not serious music and i would ask to you laugh. you are welcome to laugh. you may laugh. you need to practice laughing. we can progress -- all right. now, for those of you that find laughing difficult ladies and gentlemens you can at this timtiter in a nice way andf you want to be butch about it do the manly thought. please this isn't a work of aesthetic value it should be seen as humorous. as i of practicing this piece i can assure you and my ability for tongue twisters in english is limited let alone in japanese so if you see me stop and the priest turn extraordinarily red it's because i had a booboo. if you will excuse me. (music) this is the sort of thing you don't normally see. this would be a curtain and the oil makes it easier t

. >> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the country's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 11:00 a.m. now professor william foster teaches an english class in which students investigate the and society. in this lecture, professor foster discusses the history of the use of the n-word in american literature and culture. in the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain. also please note that some viewers may find language in this hour-long program offensive. >> good afternoon, class. >> good afternoon. >> today we're in english 102 composition and literature. we're going to start off our discussion talking about the use of the n-word in both harriet -- harriet beacher stole's very famous classic, "uncle tom's cabin" and we'll be talking about mark twain's "huckleberry finn" is correct. there has been recent controversy talking about a publisher who is changing the n-word to slave and they're changing the injun word to indian because a lot of people offended by that. this is not a

paul of this story, because you were giving a lecture over there, and he was in the room, and he cameto you afterwards, and you converted him. he asked you, he said, "well, what is this?" and you said, "it's libertarianism. i'm a libertarian". and everything started there. - yeah, and i gave a lecture at the university there, and i had been slightly injured on the way, and so i was bleeding, and, before i could get any bandages, i just continued giving my talk, and a lot of people came up to me and thought that was a little bit odd, but i was there for a reason, and i'm very businesslike when i go to places like that, and my job is to do what i can to spread the ideas of liberty, not in an aggressive or combative way. these are attractive ideas about how people could live together peacefully with mutual respect, respecting the dignity of other people, engaging in trade rather than stealing, for example, having dialogue rather than murder people who disagree with you--those are very attractive ideas, and what they need is a hearing, and so i'm willing to take them to difficult places a