the british were stealing american sailors or impressing them, stopping american ships and forcing american sailors off the ships and making them serve in the british navy. thousands of americans were impressed, and the idea was the american flag doesn't afford any protection. the american flag is not being respected. american citizenship means nothing to the british navy. no american sailor is safe. we tried negotiate. we tried embargoes or economic sanctions as we call them today. none of that worked, so we said we're declaring war. also the british were dictating who we could trade with and who we could not trade with and urging the native americans to shoot settlers. these were the pro-reason reasons. the anti-war reasons were that we were trading with the french who were the enemies of the british. we wouldn't stop doing, it even when the british told us not to do it anymore. that's why they were stealing our ships. there were a lot of british sailors who were jumping jump away from the royal navy trying to get into that american melting pot and then shipping back out on american ships

first, if you're one of the more than 2 a million americans who -- 250 million americans who have already health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. this law will only make it more secure and more affordable. insurance companies can no longer impose lifetime limits on the amount of care you receive. they can no longer discriminate against children with preexisting conditions. they can no longer drop your coverage if you get sick. they can no longer jack up your premiums without reason. . they are required to provide free preventive care like check ups and mammograms. a provision that's already helped 54 million americans with private insurance. and by this august nearly 13 million of you will receive a rebate from your insurance company because it spent too much on things like administrative costs and ceo bonuses and not enough on your health care. there's more because of the affordable care act young adults under the age of 26 are able to stay on their parents' health care plans a provision that's helped six million young americans. because of the affordable care act seniors

it is a great day for americans. not for one party or the other or for an ideology but for the 34 million americans who will have access to affordable, available health care. it is a great win for our seniors who will no longer fall through the doughnut hole and for women who will not be discriminated against by insurance policies that historically charged them more for their premiums than their male colleagues and women will no longer be treated as a pre-existing condition thereby denying coverage for pregnancy, for c-sections and the very important preventive measures in the bill that will help prevent cancers and diseases. it is a great victory for our country, which is joining that family of economically advantaged countries that are providing health care to their people. all their people. and now it's time to go back to work creating jobs for healthy americans. >> i'm the congressman from new york. today the supreme court did not disgrace itself. in upholding the affordable care act, the supreme court has shown

. 100 million americans received free preventive care. 105 million americans no longer face time caps on benefits. more than 5 million seniors have saved more than $3.7 billion in prescription drug custs. nearly 17 million children can be denied coverage because of preexisting health conditions. today's decision keeps consumers rather than insurance companies in the driver's seat. today's decision protects more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction. today's decision allows us to continue our work replacing the current system with a true health care system. one focused on wellness and prevention and public health and keeping people out of the hospital in the first place. the supreme court has made it clear what we have known all along. those trying to block health care reform are standing on the wrong side of history. for those of us who believe that quality health care is a right and not a privilege, this is a great day. it is time for speaker baner and the republicans to put politics behind us and join with us in ensuring every american has access to quality affordable care and no pe

festival, and the asian american museum. there is a common theme this year around education, honoring students, teachers, and educators. this coming monday, we have partnered with the school district. our employees will be visiting title one schools drop the sunset and richmond neighborhoods donating over 5000 books from local as and authors. each student will receive books. we have a special surprise. one of the authors will join us in doing reading from her newest book. target interesting part of the committee and it is ingrained in our culture. i would be remiss not to mention that we do look forward to seeing all of the at the grand opening of city target this october. thank you very much. here is to ap heritage month. >> thank you to target. this year, we also have two major sponsors that have stepped up to the plate and increased their sponsorship. in times like this, it is very hard. unlike true knowledge them for being with us today. -- i would like to acknowledge them for being with us today. they have joined us in

or able to say we have our first appointed chinese-american mayor, our first ever chinese- american president of the board of supervisors, and our first ever pilipino president board of education. in our second year, we are really here. we need to reflect upon what leadership means for the city as asian-americans take up those positions. the education team this year. the theme this year is education. at the school district, asian american students are almost 50% of our education system. we have a lot of asian americans coming up through the pipeline waiting to take new positions of leadership. i am really excited that 40 years after we fought for ethnic studies, in 2009, sfusd joined in and we now have ethnic studies in public schools. students need to know how integrated the history is in building the city. there's a lot to celebrate and reflect upon. it causes us to think about the future of the community. we are such an integrated and central part of the city. it is an honor to be here today. i will bring up supervisor carmen chiu. [applause] >> thank you. i am pleased to be here with my c

the picture of american workers, of american jobs. i suppose tomorrow we'll take up that motion to instruct and we'll see. if by the end of this week we're willing to compromise, are we willing to put americans back to work, two million americans? or are we going to hold fast to perhaps a funding scheme that's been proposed and can't even be agreed to by the members of the republican caucus? or an elimination of certain categories of funding like public transportation which couldn't even be agreed to by the republican caucus, let alone he democrats. it's time to look at the bigger picture. it's time to look at the construction worker in our community, the ones we represent, and say, i want you to go back owork. we'll fight this out another day. the most fundamental, most important issue confronting this american economy and each and every individual in america is where are the jobs? where is my job? how can i support my family? it's time to put the bickering aside. it's time to accept the fact that americans want to go to work and two

it makes him an honorary asian- american. he is the first asian-american president as well.ight's events would not be possible without our community partners. a group that helped make all this happened, i am going to read them all. the asian business alliance, asian law alliance, the asian pacific american leadership institute, chinese-american cultural association, chinese american political association, citizens for better community, culture to culture, why in the chamber of commerce of northern care of -- kawai and chamber of commerce of northern california, northern california chinese athletic association, national association of american professionals, national federation of independent business, national federation of filipino americans, the filipino chamber of commerce, around of applause for all of our community partners, please. that was a lot. [applause] >> i am so glad he had to do that. our next speaker is u.s. congressmen. he is representing the 15th congressional district of california in the u.s. house of representatives. in congress, he is a member of the pow

thank you former american council of germany. i wonder if you could address the question of why hitler declared war on the united states after pearl harbor. i think this ges into the question of the irrationality of hitler. just like his whole plan to conquer europe at some level was irrational rksz especially invading. he fails. his first plan was to invade with operation sea lion and take england. that fails. so he decides that the way to

polish americans are split. to is going to get this independence, is it going to be the czar, the kaiser, it is like a tossup, and different factions , as in poland, as in the homeland, there are factions, and each crew has this -- is looking across the ocean and really thinking about its national ambitious. jews. bizarre of russia is one of the principal allies. you have england with its constitutional monarchy, you know, the bull work of liberalism and the world. you have france and its republic , and in some sense it's revolutionary tradition of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and then you have tsarist russia, which is the most backward, corrupt monarchies in europe. and also, of course, but chilly anti-semitic. a large reason why so many jews come over here from russia and russian poland, ukraine, lithuania and so on, parts of the czarist russian empire is because of those anti-semitic policies, because of the bronze and because of the oppressive draft, military draft in czarist russia. so running the pro

we ought to be voting as americans. americans committed to justice and fair process. i regret that i do not believe this committee has followed that. i believe that the political motivations mind this resolution are clear and pose a clear and present danger to this nation. may i have 30 additional seconds? mr. mcgovern: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. when we vote on this referral, vote as americans, not as a partisan issue. you may have the attorney general in the future. it's not the question of the party of the attorney general. it is the question of whether or not this congress is going to provide for equal treatment of all attorneys general. and all cabinet officers. let us vote for this motion to refer and give the committee the opportunity it should take. let us vote down this motion. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. mr. hoyer: let us vote down the motions for contempt. mr. speaker, i now yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california

you talked about the impressment of american sailors from american ships. what was happening in britain at the time of the population? it was emigrating to the united states? what was popular about the united states. they were always concerned about overpopulation. this is an island nation and it's got a pretty bounded land christmas they were worried of having too many people and that's part of what starts the colonial project in the first place. in the era of 1812 there's a very famous population theorist by the name of thomas malfis and they thought overpopulation was facing england and the war in general and that overpopulation was the cause of human suffering and the cause of starvation and the cause of want. he not only thought britain needed to be careful about overpopulation, but thomas thought the united states' growing population which was such a source of pride was a huge problem because he understood in very direct terms that the growing european-descended population of the united states was encroaching on the land claims of indians and he criti

it's just under 30 minutes. >> american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians in milwaukee. and we are joined by professor allante lore from the university of california-davis and nicole eustace who teaches history at the new york university. thank you for being with us. you're here at the conference, the annual meeting, to talk about the war of 1812 and here with us to talk about the war of 1812. let's start, professor eustace, with a look at the country in 1812. what was the population size? >> the u.s. in 1812 was as they would have said at the time a young and rapidly expanding population. the population in 1812 was about 7.2 million people, and it had nearly doubled in the 20 years since the first census in 1790. a little bit less than doubled. so it's a rapidly growing population, and it's a population that is really focused on that as a source of national strength and personal pride. people are focused on having children, raising families, and needing land to farm to support those families. so that was kind of the overall situation in terms of

they could identify themselves in hyphenated terms as irish-american, polish-american and italian-american. and what i want to do today is get at the roots of that identity, the roots of the development of that conception of what the united states is. we're to do it by going through three different sections, three different sets of developments. the first is going to be the world of party politics like the image we just looked at from the period from about 1840 to the end of the 19th century. it's a period when there is very stiff competition between the two major parties for votes and that includes votes for immigrants. it's a period when efforts to naturalize and bring immigrants into american life are particularly intense, and it's a period when identities, particularly we'll look at the case of irish-american, identities take shape in a particular way. then we'll look at a little bit about how immigrant politics or ethnic politics changes as you get into the early 20th century. during that era you see a slower pace of naturalization. you get fewer and fewer immigrants who are coming in

you couldn't be polish and american, italian and american, half it might be. you could only be 100% american. there's this very intense pressure that is put on immigrants, not just after the u.s. enters the war, but even in 1914, '15, '16, as the idea of the participation in the war grows. >> i was just reminded that the native americans were considered to be american -- >> that's right, yeah. >> -- would be able to join troops? >> yeah. it was a very strict definition, and the same thing happens with immigrants. again, to counter this argument, they organize italian brigades. they organize at home relief organizations. they have liberty loan drives where they're raising money to fight the war, to support the war. italian leaders organizing an italian liberty loan drive where they can deliver one big check from the italian community that is a financial demonstration of their commitment as americans. and other ethnic groups do that, as well. this is this battle, this tug-of-war over can you be italian and american or are all hyphens gone? can you not have all t

i'm asking the people of american to join me.you don't want the course president obama has put us on, a course that the founders envisioned, join me, help us defeat obama care that makes government too big, too intrusive and killing jobs across this great country. thank you so much. >>> former governor mitt romney, republican nominee for the the presidency speaking on capitol hill. a little bit earlier this morning after the supreme court's ruling. let's have a quick look at some of the provisions of the president's health care law and what happened to them today at the supreme court. most importantly the supreme court upheld what is called the individual mandate. that's the part of the law that says virtually all americans must pay a penalty on their income taxes if they don't buy health insurance. also standing today, the provision that insurance companies must cover pre-existing conditions. that was validated. also validated today, no lifetime limits on coverages. children may stay on their parents' insurance until the age of

i think the americans who were the most savy, americans that really moved about and there were many of them, they could see to what extent that support was growing, yes, among a large part of the population and they were alarmed by it and for the most part. and they were again, getting back the to one of the best journalists in that time. in 1932, in i think it was right before the end of the year, so it was only a couple of months before hitler takes power. you asked about tisen, he was at a lunch for a group of bankers in berlin and he realized during the lunch that they were all jewish. and during lunch, he also realized, and this scene is in hitlerland, that several of these bankers had given money to the nazi party. and he asked them why would you do that? and one of the bankers said, well tisen and others tell us go ahead, give them a little money, all of it is rhetoric to motivate the base, and it will go away and buy into it a little bit and things will be okay. and mauer's view was he was telling them get out of germany and get out fast. so some people understood it. in terms

it's part of an american tradition. the tradition of american philanthropy is still strong. remember that a century ago in that progressive era, a masters of great fortune like andrew carnegie and rockefeller gave enormous sums to charity and changed america life through building our system of libraries. rockefeller created our medical research institutions and the meadow owe rigorous medical schools we have today and the teaching hospitals. that was the creation of john d. rockefeller. a contribution to american life that was above that of many government policies and government programs. so the federal government does not have the power -- does not have a monopoly in many areas. we've still got philanthropy. bill gates is trying to be a smart philanthropist. he's done some dumb things and taken metrics and trying to do better. so we do have a vital philanthropic thing. two important respects, i think we still remain an exceptional nation in the way that tocqueville was the first to recognize. one is that we're still by and large a religious people and a people who are resp

and asian american.thers that are here, when i am telling my 12-year-old daughter about asian heritage, it is about our history, pride, accomplishments, and the struggles. they are firm in the pacific highlanders. in detroit michigan, 92, how i became involved with social movements in the chinese community with the chinese progressive association celebrating the fortieth anniversary this year. it made me want to become more involved in the community, and i am so appreciated that this is a ceremony that brings together the diverse organizations and individuals. and the pride i feel not only of accomplishments, but the organizations out there everyday make this a better place for san francisco. thank you for your work and i am proud to be here with you. >> hello, friends and family. he was talking about the pan asian family. he spoke about not being a san franciscan, but serving san francisco. i was born and raised here. and extremely proud of that i went to school with some of your children or grandchildr

>> he's misleading the american people.ying to the american people, because that's not what it does. he knows that the congressional budget office says that this saves over $1 trillion in reducing health care costs over the coming years. it's the beginning of the reduction of health care costs. we see small businesses expanding their businesses, providing health care to their employees because they get some assistance through the job credits, and remember this, something else goes along with this health care coverage that can never be taken away, economic security. you know how many millions of americans in this recession lost their health care because they lost their job, not because they weren't good workers, it's because of the scandals on wall street they lost their jobs, then they lost their health care, and then they ended up in bankruptcy court. that doesn't happen to people in the future, and for people who want to start a business but worry about leaving the company they are with because their wife and spouse -- th

americans were promised it would create jobs. the cbo predicts it will lead to nearly a million fewer jobs. americans were promised they could keep their health plans if they liked it, yet millions have learned they can't. and the president of the united states himself promised up and down that this bill was not a tax. this is one of the democrats top selling points because they knew it would never have passed if they said it was a tax. the supreme court has spoken. this law is a tax. the bill was sold to the american people on a deception. but it's not just that the promises about this law weren't kept. it's that it made the problems it was meant to solve even worse. the supposed cure has proven to be worse than the disease. so the pundits will talk a lot today about what they think today's ruling means and what it doesn't mean, but i can assure you this. republicans won't let up whatsoever in our determination to repeal this terrible law and replace it with the kind of reforms that will truly address the problems it was meant t

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we needed consumer protections that made american products safe and american markets sound. in the last century, this consens consensus, this shared vision led to the strongest economic growth and the largest middle class that the world has ever known. it led to a shared prosperity. it is this vision that has guided all of my economic policies during my first term as president, whether in the design of a health care law that relies on private insurance or an approach to wall street reform that encourages financial innovation but guards against reckless risk taking. it's this vision that democrats and republicans used to share that mr. romney and the current republican congress have rejected in favor 0 a no holds barred government is the enemy, market is everything, approach. and it is this shared vision that i intend to carry forward in this century as president because it is a vision that has worked for the american middle class and everybody striving to get into the middle class. let's me be more specific. think about it. in an age where we know good jobs depend on high sk

what does it mean to be an american. how does one become an american in this complicated, convergence of peoples from all over the world that made this nation, calmed it into being. >> back to your writing about abraham lincoln a little more. expand, if you will, some of the things that you see that influenced him as a political leader and ultimately as a president? >> sure. well, there's a really interesting story about lincoln. i find it fascinating. and in the early 1850s, he wrote a speech and it's generally calmed the speech on discoveries and inventions, and almost no one knows this but lincoln is the only president to have registered a patent. this is a patent for inflatable cells that would lift a ski boat over schohoals in a river and t is a guy who knows how to move boats in rivers and the physical labor that requires, but hits speech and recoveriesened inventions is fascinating in a nubble of ways. basically an account of technological innovations over time that begins with genesis and goes forward into the pr

interested in american history? watch american history television on c-span 3 every weekend. forty-eight hours of people and events that document people and events. visit c-span.org for more information. next, from book tv's recent visit to wichita, kansas, we hear from robert weems. his book, "business in black and white", takes a look at what initiatives were promoted by american presence to promote african-american business development. >> part of that was motivated by the war on poverty. part of it was the means to help lemonade african-american poverty. another impulse was the urban rebellions of the mid- late 1960s. the likelihood of people destroying property in those neighborhoods would decrease. all that being said, in doing some preliminary reading, i came across a fleeting reference of a 1949 book on black business to a division of negro affairs. the vision, in fact, was in the coolidge administration. this grew out of the commerce department when uber -- herbert hoover. there was a entrepreneur who had a meeting with huger. they had a meeting together. motivation

the american left? >> it's a lot messier today than it was in the past. and so -- >> why? >> well, because you have a strain of conservatism, social conservatism among african-americans that doesn't match their politics or political voice which tends to be democratic, which tends to be some kind of reformist version of anything that starts on the black left. so on one hand, you have blacks and social communists who were in scope and saw the rest of the world as evidence of capitalists and imperialism and most certainly in the context of the golden era which everyone talks about, combining interests of labor and racial democracy. so there's a richer history of leaning much more to the left and being aligned with politics. the long running critique of black leadership and those sympathizing with the organizing of the left but not necessarily identifying with socialists, was that there was internal racism. that there was manipulation of black people for the purposes of sort of gaining leverage in the ameri

and indefinitely detained with no access to counsel which is very un-american that's not the american way it's not how we do things here and i want to protect our constitution so hopefully we win the case and that won't happen. speaking of the un-american is the word you just use that critics say that this law is also unconstitutional what rights do you say it puts in jeopardy. farce and fifth amendment definitely our freedom of expression and speech and due process in my i get i'm not attorney but to me that's a statute roll back a hundred years supreme and a car today we had due process for quite a long time to put forth a statute that says we can accuse you provide no evidence and then indefinitely detain you with no access to counsel i just it's on top removal i can't i can't imagine with the congress an executive or thinking that i want to bring attention now to something that happened just yesterday this happened in colorado police reportedly responded to a bank robbery by arresting dozens of people and reports suggest that the cops trapped as many as forty cars and handcuffed a

an american president an african-american or black president would not have. had a attorney general come out and say that the united states government can assassinate americans anywhere in the world and the reason is because a black president would have come into the office with a historical understanding for example of the f.b.i. counterintelligence program a black president would understand how the united states government infiltrated the civil rights organizations. in the sixty's and undermined the efforts of the civil rights organization he would understand how the government has been used over time to undermine efforts for civil rights and civil liberties by african-american organizations so a having that historic understanding he would be less inclined to to support legislation or or support ideas that would enable the government to engage in those types of behaviors today do you think that he doesn't have a historical an understanding of what has happened in the civil rights and also i'm sure that president obama particularly being a constitutional scho

getting americans to work again. [applause] e is one more feature, consequence of making the right decision. that is the consequence for freedom itself. here and around the world. i happen to believe that is essentialtrength to preserve liberty. i was in great britain some time ago and spoke with tony blair and david cameron and other leaders of the government. one of the said something to me -- then sets of the to me. if you are lucky enough to be elected president of the united states and you travel abroad to other countries, you will here what they think your mistakes are. what we all fear the most is a week america. [applause] american strength is essential for liberty here and around the world. [applause] the world has seen that strength time and again. of the world has seen a strong america in the past. in memorial day, i was in san diego and celebrating with our veterans. the honor associated with those who serve our country and have served in the past. three of the veterans were from the second world war. one

we needed americans who are healthy and can buy health insurance. the more of us who have health insurance, the cheaper it is for all americans. thank you so much. >> thank you, everybody. this has been a progressive caucus. >> more years! >> four more years! >> everyone, let's take your leader! >> and to recap, we have been looking at and listening to reaction to the u.s. supreme court's decision today on the affordable care act. the supreme court upheld most of president obama's health care overhaul. the vote was 5-4 with chief justice john g. roberts joining for more liberal members. he wrote the affordable care acts requirement. that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. because the constitution perms such a tax, it is not our roll to permit it or pass upon the wisdom. that chief justice john roberts and the decision handed town today. the court did limit a major piece of the that expanded medicaid. to tell us what it means, we spoke earlier today with neal. he ar

americans, of course, responded in very typically american ways to that entre into something many people in the rest of the world had already experienced. we began with a kind of nationalist fervor that was justified as reasonable patriotism. i like to point out that we clearly must have been having post traumatic stress disorder because for about a year after september 11th there were african-american men walking around the city of new york with nypd hats on. that can only be explained as a ptsd response. i know, we'll just let you sit with that for a minute. but the other thing that happens in that moment, i don't want to miss this, is that a new version of what america typically needs emerged, and that is a racial enemy. americans in part identify who we are and who deserves what through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites, and in this moment the new racial enemy became not so much reagan's welfare queen, who was imaginary, but instead this imagined other that is somehow muslim or arab or sheik or something else. we became willing to stomach a ki

yes, right there. >> how much publicity did the american journalists bring back to the american news media after all the beatings and atrocities happened? >> in hitlerland, i end the book in early 1942, when the last americans have been rounded up and exchanged for the germans. by the way, a little footnote, what happens after the declaration of war, there are about 120 americans left serving as diplomats or journalists. they are in an abandon spa, so it's inturnment, but mild conditions, by world war ii standards. but, the german diplomats and journalists are inturned in the green briar, some of you may know what that is. it's the most luxuriois spa in america. there were many americans who tried to find out early on what was going on. of course this is before the full scale holocaust, and the conference, i want to make that clear. but there were americans and journalists allowed into the early camps that were mainly for political prisoners and they were pretty highly orchastrated events and they were aware of that. but the more, you know really brave ones found out more and more an

>> radio in the american sector.rican ingenuity and innovation and just general ability to do things was quite extraordinary. the russians got to berlin two months before we did. they took everything that wasn't bolted down and that was. including the power stations in west berlin. and moved them to the soviet union. and construction equipment. and radio berlin, which was the largest and strongest radio station in europe, was in their sector of berlin. what we had was an 800-watt radio station that was carried on telephone lines of which there were very few. so that to deal with the russian voice, the russians telling the story of what was happening we used trucks and jeeps with announcers like that who went from square to square during the airlift announcing the news of the day. >> right. it's, you mentioned in your introductory remarks you were talking about the general view of the soviets and what they were up to in trying to close off berlin. what was it in the summer of 1948 that prompted really dramatic action?

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