and of course the colonial empire, there was a lot of violence. there was a lot of unfairness and things that went on, but the traditions are out there. and it starts at jamestown. its language, rule of law, representative government, goes -- and it's embedded in these countries now even though the british are gone. so it's -- i think that the honor points to that sort of thing than it does more to something just for me. >> we're showing our viewers some pictures of you and queen elizabeth visiting the site there. what year was that? >> yeah. 2007. the queen was here. and in two weeks i was given a notice that i was supposed to give her a one-on-one tour of the fort without crowds, you know, just very together. and she said, well, they said she wanted to have a reflective moment. and so, you know, i was kind of -- i was pretty petrified about that. what am i going to do? so anyway, i did mention as we came to the center of the fort that this is where the british empire began and she kind of almost -- she didn't wink, but i could just tell that tha

that's one of the reasons we chose it at the first colony. the river goes into the mountains of virginia and gets different branches, but in richmond, there are waterfalls and it's not navigable from here to there and that was important because of the congress found it out, didn't know it was beginning. that sets us, gives the set iti it was put together by a man, captain bartholomew. it was a frontier, a spanish ship in the late 16th century and therefore, gave all these riches to the queen, so he was the favorite guy. and so he had the idea of establishing a colony after he knew something about the fact that there had been one already tried at roanoke island off of north carolina. so 20 years later, he felt that there should be a permanent colony and one attempt he made, you may have hard heard of if you're from massachusetts or the new england area, that he set up, he tried to put in a colony on what we think now is elizabeth island. there's a town up there, just next to martha's vineyard. after about six weeks, the indian trading didn't w

that's one of the reasons why it was chosen as the first colony. we're about 35 miles from hampton roads or the opening to the ocean. the river goes forever into the mountains and gets different names and branches. in richmond there are waterfalls and it's not navigatable from here to there. that was important because the colonists found it out. they didn't know it in the beginning. that give us a setting. jamestown, the whole idea was to put together by man that you ner heard of captain bath that you will mu gosnal. he was a private tear that captured spanish ships in the late 16th sent and therefore gave all the riches to the queen. so he was a favorite guy, and so he had had the idea of establishing the colony after he knew there was one already tried. in roanoke island off of north carolina, which became famously known as the lost colony and it's still lost by the way, no one to find the people. that was in 1580s. so this is 20 years later. he felt that there should be a permanent colony, and one attempt that he made in 1602 you may have heard

not even described as colonies. around that time before -- he was a federalist and a federalist was like there wasn't uniformity we were talking about earlier. there were certain areas of the colonies or certain areas of the country that he felt should be more dominant than others as far as representing a nation? >> madison died in 1836 so the question of texas or points west was not the issue. you use the word federalist that is a very confusing word because people who favor ratifying the constitution in 1787 call themselves federalists but in 1792 there's a political party called the federalist party. that is a different party from the people who favor ratifying the constitution. madison was an opponent of the second group but what you meant was he favored the principle of federalism which is decentralized government. yes he did. consistently. after the constitution had been written. as to how he favored one region or another, he was a southerner but wanted to incorporate northerners into the coalition which is wh

i'm definitely gonna call about the colonial penn program. as jurors continue deciding the fate of jerry sandusky, one of his six adopted children has come forward with more allegation of sexual abuse. matt sandusky offered to testify as a witness for the proseuction. it's unclear why he was never called. but prosecutors are under a gag order, so they can't comment. there are reports matt sandusky's claims follow the same pattern displayed by others who have testified in the case. jurors are expected to continue deliberations this afternoon. they are sequestered, and have not heard about matt sandusky's claims. pentagon officials point to a terror network in pakistan as possibly responsible for the deadly hotage taking and attack that leaves at least 26 people dead. the attack began at midnight at an outdoor party at a resort hotel near kabul, afghanistan. these pictures show guests clinging to the hotel wall for protection. seven taliban terrorists smuggled explosives into the hotel by hiding them under women's burqas -- authorities say. all

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but, you know, there's always a surprise discovery like we were talking about, the lost colony map. we actually have studied another map in the british museum. it shows -- really shows that the fort -- the actual fort where we found it was already -- that location had been put on a map by a mapmaker in 1608 and no one had recognized that that was really, you know, pinpointing the site. >> hear from our callers again. oxford, mississippi, joanne, hello. >> caller: good afternoon. i'm enjoying this enormously. i saw the exhibition at the smithsonian called "written in bone," and it was one of the most fascinating things i've ever seen. i noticed you showed the captain gosnold reproduction. the one that really captured my imagination, you had a video of a woman and there was an interpretive reconstruction of a woman who would walk away from you in the video. you would see how you started with her skeleton and then the forensic reproduction. she walked with a limp. it was stunning. it was stunning. and i was wondering if you could tell us a little bit more about who you think she was an

and then second, he also mentioned the lost colony in roanoke, which even preceded jamestown. i'm wondering if there's any new work or any new findings down there that's of any interest. and thanks for putting on these type of programs. they're great. >> okay. your first -- the first question was what again? i didn't quite hear it. >> the first question was why does the jamestown settlement in his perception, i guess, quoting you from the -- >> plymouth, yeah, yeah. >> take a second billing to jamestown -- or to plymouth, rather, i'm sorry. >> well, yeah. every year we have thanksgiving right? that just focuses again on plymouth, it's sort of an automatic thing. in the 19th century, the story of the earliest english settlement began to come from historians out of new england. and there was a lot of focus on that. although you do the math, jamestown was settled 1607, plymouth in 1620. and another thing is -- and then after the american civil war, the histories were also written mostly by the victors who, of course, was the northern states, so that had something to play in it. a

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. >> we had a caller earlier ask about the lost colony in north carolina, some recent news that they may have discovered a map or indication of a fort on a map in the british museum in looking at it. bly straube, has anybody done any excavations in that area? >> we have done some preliminary survey of the area and found some interesting hints of early artifacts, 16th century. possibly. and so we have plans to revisit the area very, very soon. >> how much are both of you involved or in contact with your british colleagues on early colonial or precolonial history? >> well, we both have, you know. >> we're both fellows of the society of antiquaries. you have to be elected to join, an honorary english society, british society. it's very old. 200 years old -- 400 years old. i have colleagues -- >> much of the records, are much of the records kept in the uk? are there good records about jamestown, for example? >> well, yeah. most of them are known and have been looked at. and we have transcriptions of them. but, you know, there's always a surprise discovery like we were talking about, the

a colonial project i mean to echo what we just heard. well if we want to look at the geostrategic dimension at the end of the second world war the united states. understood that it had defeated hitler by denying him oil and his panzers and his air force came to a stop and that oil was going to come out of the persian gulf for the united states in preparing for the third world war wanted to make sure that it had sewed up the persian gulf now iran is trying to push america out of the first gulf syria is iran's ally russia china have important interests with iran and syria they see syria not so much as important in and of itself but as a marker it's a canary in the mine shaft if syria falls you know the world in the west is going to turn on iran and they want regime change in iran even more than they wanted in syria and in many western analysts of course are asking for regime change in syria so that they can carry out regime change in iran it will weaken iran that's the i mean just you know i'm sorry but it was only a few weeks ago going to

our experiment is colonialism has been unfortunate. instead of loss glory it has brought humiliation. >> did william jennings bryan change as a candidate in his third campaign? >> the key issue in 1896 was the gold and silver issue and the depression and class divisionses. the big issue in 1900 was imperialism. the u.s. was fighting in the philippines to try to stop the philippines independence movement from winning a war against the u.s. occupation in those islands. that was a big issue in that campaign. 1908 there were several issues. bryan tried to make the power of the trust, the power of the corporations. his slogan said let the people rule. taft was perceived as progressive telt. he was the secretary of war under roosevelt. roosevelt is a progressive president. in many ways similar it to if some of your viewers remember, george h.w. bush in 1988 running as sort of the hand-picked successor to ronald reagan. george h.w. bush was not a tremendously charismatic figure certainly, but if people liked reagan, if you like reagan, i gues

the communications between the colony and england were really censored very strongly. i mean, the company -- virginia company did not want any negative news to get out. i mean, a little bit did. but they really -- we don't know how many letters got shredded, you know, that they just didn't make it through because they had such negative comments. so, we do have some records. and we know events. we know when ships are arriving. we know from where they're coming. and, you know, it's kind of spotty evidence, but the artifacts in some cases are illustrating what we know from the records, but in other cases they're bringing up questions of things that were not really addressed in the records. one instance of that, for instance, is children. children don't get recorded because they're not considered important enough. women rarely do as well. but in this early context, john smith's well, we have an object that was used by a child who's teething, a quite young child. this silver whistle and teething stick. this is pink -- this is coral here. it would be much longer. it's very s

their purpose was to capture new york and then to begin to recover the colonies one by one. and they were commanded by two brothers, william howell and robert howell -- william howell commanded the navy. and it was the largest projection of seaborne power over a longer distance than any other than in the modern period. it was also the largest force that britain put into the field during the entire span of the revolutionary war, which lasted longer than the civil war in our participation, world war ii combined. eight years. washington's job under orders from the continental congress was to defend new york city, which he really felt to be indefensible, particularly as the british commanded the sea. what followed was a total disaster for american arms. absolutely everything went wrong. one thing that went wrong was the health of the army. there was no camp discipline. in the civil war for every soldier killed at battle, one died of disease. in world war i, it was about one to one. in the american revolution, the ratio was 8 to 1. 8 deaths from disease to 1 in combat. and that w

they left minorities in charge in all the eleven thousand states and what's happened in the post colonial era is that the minorities have been thrown out of power the maronites in lebanon the sunnis in iraq the the jews in palestine of course have been able to become a majority and they've solved their problem by by becoming the majority in gathering jews from around the world and of course pushing out muslim palestinians but the alawite so the last minority that rules and that's the heritage of the french colonial period the sunni muslims are going to overthrow them i believe and what's going to be a protracted war because it's becoming a proxy war as your your guests have have mentioned and so it's going to be a long struggle and i'm joshua's as you can we hear liz very important let's take a look at some of the recent events in syria. am syria has descended into civil war and all means including force should be used under international supervision to help restore peace this is the take on the situation in syria voiced recently by friends french foreign minister for abuse said he would

our experiment in colonialism has been unfortunate. instead of profit, it has brought loss. instead of strength, it has brought weakness. instead of gloiry, it has brougt humiliation. >> the -- did william jennings bryan change as a candidate from his first race in 1896 to his third bid in 1908, and what issues dominated the 1908 campaign? >> it was a key issue each of those campaigns. the key issue in 1906 was the gold and silver issue and the issue of the depression and class divisions in that sense. the big issue in 1900 was imperialism. the u.s. was fighting in the philippines to try to stop the philippine independence movement from winning a war of insurrection against the u.s. occupation of those islands. 1908, there were several issues. bryan tried to make the power of the corporations the big issue. his logo was shall the people rule. but taft was perceived as progressive at the time. he had been the secretary of war under theodore roosevelt. roosevelt is a progressive president. so in many ways, similar to some of your viewers remember, gorge h.w. bush in 1998 runni

effect the population of the bees and in fact about a third of the bees die every year due to colony collapse the latest buzz about monsanto is. they're genetically engineered crops and herbicides could be a factor in the decimation of the honeybee colonies have an advantage. in poland fifteen hundred beekeepers recently demonstrated against monsanto's mon eight ten corn deposit in thousands of dead bees at the ministry of agriculture in europe they're against g m o's because they know about it in the u.s. smith says it's been a carefully controlled media control and another coup according to critics monsanto bought be research firm below logics last year the logic has also pass themselves off as the lens investigating colony collapse disorder explaining what happened then certainly we want c.b. logic and best to gating the connection between cmos and colony collapse disorder monsanto claims is the responsibility of the f.d.a. to assess g.m.o. risks but the revolving door between the corporation and government could be distorting the facts the person in charge of policy if you actual

here's colonial beach across 17th, south of port royal. this guy is moving to the east, northeast at about 15, 20 miles an hour. it will cross the river, get into st. mary's county in about 30 minutes, 40 minutes or so. temperatures are running in the low 90s. so there's a lot of heat and humidity. we're up to 91. where the clouds have been thicker, it's in the 80s with a heat index value 96 degrees. we will expect with the heat and humidity around and you see the hazy sunshine out there temperatures to top out kind of where they are in the low 90s with scattered, strong thunderstorms here and there for really the rest of the afternoon picking up over the next couple of hours through the early evening at least. more on this coming up and of course the weekend. got good news on that jc, back to you. >> thank you very much, huward. >>> today -- howard. >>> today marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly metro redline crash that killed nine people. two trains collided near the forttonnen station -- fort totten station. right now they're

second step is in 1807 england bans the slave trade to all of its colonies.08 we do the same thing. that end new slaves coming in to the caribbean, but you want doesn't end slavery in the caribbean. then in the 1830s, england pass as law to end all slavery in the caribbean, paying masters a small sum for every slave, having some apprenticeship programs to ease the transition from slavery to freedom, and by 1837 there's no slavery in the british western hemisphere. >> do you have any idea the numbers that were in the caribbean, under the british empire? >> you know, this is something where i wish you asked me before i went on cam remarks i would have looked it up. but it's probably 3 or 4 million slaves. >> many more than originally in the u.s.? >> that's right. that's right. here's the difference. in england the basis of the empire is englarngsd itnd it's britain, it's the united kingdom not barbados or jamaica okay. it's united kingdom telling barbados, jamaica okay you're getting rid of your slaves, you have no sense. england is doing something to somebody

and colony collapse disorder monsanto claims is the responsibility of the f.d.a. to assess g.m.o. risks but the revolving door between the corporation and government could be distorting the facts the person in charge of policy. who made the policy. as he was monsanto's former attorney later months not just vice president and back if you next year's u.s. food safety zone are hardly reassuring for americans concerned about the safety of their food. abby martin r.t. washington. and abby joined us earlier today to talk more monsanto and g.m.o. foods i first asked her about monsanto is history of scandals here's her take. yeah there so much scandal it's hard to put it all in one package but going back to aspartame it's an artificial sweetener that's two hundred times we were the sugar first owned by cyril who the c.e.o. was donald rumsfeld at the time and then when he joined reagan's cabinet they passed through aspartame when the national association of soft drink association said we do not want this passed all the tests that cyril have presented to us are full of holes shoddy at best

second step is in 1807, england bans the african slave trade to all of its colonies. a few months later on january 1st, 1808, we do the same thing. that ends new slaves coming into the caribbean. but it doesn't end slavery in the caribbean. then in the 1830s, england passes a law to end all slavery in the caribbean, paying masters a small sum for every slave, having some apprenticeship programs to ease the transition from slavery to freedom, and by 1837, there's no slavery in the british western hemisphere. >> do you have any idea the numbers that were in the caribbean under the british empire? >> you know, this is something where i wish you'd asked me before i went on camera. i would have looked it up. but it's probably 3 or 4 million slaves. >> so many more than originally in the u.s.? >> that's right, that's right. now, here's the difference. in england, the basis of the empire is england. it's great britain. it's the united kingdom. it's not barbados or jamaica. and so what you really have is parliament telling barbados and jamaican masters you're getting rid of y

britain's north american colony started off with different religious traditions. some of them were havens of people who were subject to religious persecution, including the huguenots who settled in south carolina after king louis xiv revoked the edict of nantes and said that the protestants would not be tolerated in his country. so the founders who understood their multi various religious heritage provided in the constitution there be no religious test for office in th bill of rights they provided that congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion nor one prohibiting the free exercise thereof. this didn't mean an entire separation of church and state, although tocqueville uses that phrase during his visit to massachusetts still had an established church which it supported by the taxing power, tax revenues of the commonwealth of massachusetts. that was abolished a couple of yearte but tocqueville noted the

notes that the new englanders who were isolated in their own colonies for 200 years and spread across the northern part of the country were moralistic and intolerant. they believed in following moral principles and in making other people do it too, persuading them if possible but using powers of government if indeed. and tocqueville clearly admired on balance the reformist yankee impulses as an example of democratic americans working together in voluntary associations to improve their society. and one of these efforts as he notes was the temperance movement which ultimately persuaded the nation to embark on a dozen years of the noble experiment of prohibiting alcohol. that experiment failed but in tocqueville's time, the temperance movement did vastly reduce alcohol consumption by something like two-thirds average alcohol consumption in this country. in what one historian speaking of the period before which tocqueville arrived entitled a book the alcoholic republic." the consumption of whiskey was very high and there is not a total lack of correlation with the average consumption of w

for example, every year smallpox went through the british colonies. every 30 years there was a great epidemic that hit boston. the people left boston, moved up and down the coast and started to go into the frontier and move farther and farther west because of those epidemics and one reason this continued was because inoculation was illegal in every british colony. it wasn't that people hadn't done it successfully somewhere else. the turks had done it successfully and as early as 1715 lady montague had written about this and members of the royal society of england had spread those writing to america, but there was so much superstition wrapped up in intervening any way against what was considered god's will that the smallpox epidemics went on. ethan allen thought something had to be done about this and he did it in what became his quint essential way. in front of the town meeting house on a sunday as everyone poured out of the service he had himself inoculated by dr. young. a needle and thread passed through a sword by somebody with smallpox was then pa

and we have the answer to a long-running mystery, why so many colonies of honey bees have been wiped out across the globe. >> opposition groups in syria are planning a day of demonstrations right across the country as the diplomatic efforts to stem the violence there just stagger on. kofi annan, international envoy driving the u.n.'s peace plan, is warning of an imminent civil war. he's accepted his own initiative has failed. speaking to the u.n. security council in new york, mr. annan laid the blame for that failure mostly on the assad regime. steve kingston has details from washington. >> terrified residents in the syrian town near homs. the images filmed yesterday show families running for cover amid gunfire and heavy shelling. little wonder the united nations' own envoy admits his peace plan is failing and that the country is in danger of spiraling out of control. in new york, kofi annan had a blunt message for the security council -- spell out to president assad what will happen if he continues to wage war on his own people and work together with regional powers to forge a diplo

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the united states fought a global war against great britain and its colonies from june 18th, 1812 and nearly 200 years of between the united kingdom and the united states of america have existed since the conclusion of that war and -- >> where as. >> the -- the colonies unified and by virtue in 1931 achieved recognition as an independent nation and -- >> where as. >> -- the current board between the united states and canada stands as the longest unguarded border in the world and -- >> where as. >> -- the national parks service and parking canada are working together as part of an international effort to recognize and commemorate the bicentennial of the war of 1812 and -- >> where as. >> -- canada, great britain and the united states became strong alleys in the 20th cently as they provided the world support necessary to obtain victory and -- >> where as. >> -- these three nations are pleasantly in accord in their efforts to wage the ongoing global war against terrorism. now therefore we, on this 18th day of june, 2012, on the bicentennial on the united states declaration of war in a co

that was coming from the french colony. she was in algeria and came back to france. she had a very white skin. very, very white with speckles? >> freckles. >> freckles. more glamorous. glittering. but she was glamorous for me, sparkles -- no, freckles. sorry, i cannot say. [laughter] but she has beautiful red hair, light afro type but red hair. to me, i was like, oh, my god, she is so beautiful. for me, if i want to be friends with someone that i admire, i have to be like him or her, cannot have the red hair. so i say, i also come from nigeria and i am like you. [laughter] i do not think she believed me so i was inventing names. anyway. so she influenced me. she had white skin. you could see her veins. she was very strange but beautiful for me. i was always attracted by different beauty that i saw everywhere. i remember some movies called guess who's coming to have dinner tonight with sydney party. i remember i said to my parents -- i was 12. if i come with a black girl, what will you say? and they say, if you love her, that is perfect for you. years after when it to