in other words, he saw this positive trait of american life, this bright thread of american society, as uniquely american and as something that would not easily transfer to his home country. okay. on to our english visitor, g.k. chesterton who visited the united states twice in 1921 and then again in 1930 and into 1931. chesterton picked up on the individuals and conformism paradox first articulated by tocquville and extended his insight by attempting to show how american individualism actually led to conformism. americans according to chesterton value and even venerate the individual, in this exultation of the individual, however, chesterton noted a curious contradiction. namely, that american individualism is the reverse of individuality. something that tocquville said in slightly different terms. chesterton explained this contradiction by pointing to the competitive habits fostered by the practices of a capitalist society. where men are trying to compete with each other, he said, they are trying to copy each other. they become standardized by the very standard of self. americans w

just as powerful, as american guilt, was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion, and generosity, spurred americans to take action. the idea that the united states was the benevolent leader of the free world also converged with religious ideas. the idea that the united states needed to be the good samaritan. finally, refugee advocates argued that americans should not admit refugees because americans are good, but because refugees are good for america. one senate resolution from 1975 declared, this period of influx of refugees in exile can serve to keep us humble, saving us from the sin of arrogance, pride, and self righteousness. now, i need to tell you, this support for refugees really was small, compared to the opposition to refugees. despite the lofty ideals and passionate advocacy of refugee supporters and reality, the majority of americans consistently opposed the resettlement of southeast asian refugees. and this by no means was a new development in american culture. public opinion polls indicate that consistently, throughout the

a lot of the depositions are from other african-americans, and the credibility of african- americans by the pension bureau was not always great. they can provide deposition. there's three women that worked he said i don't even know who they are. didn't pay any attention to me, because to me they weren't important. have to say that is the largest confederate enrichment. it had 7000 patients. most of the nurses that served to a lot of the nurses served for african-americans. a lot of them were men. and a large majority were still enslaved. their detailed to work there. in the letter he said without these nurses, or without these african-americans that were working at the hospital could not survive. clearly they were essential to the function and the ability of the hospitals to continue to do what they did. but didn't feel -- what's interesting is there was a few african-americans that worked. clearly the surgeon in charge new. if they weren't working there, they wouldn't have survived. i have done a little bit of research, they seem to take all of the cases for these nurses. he was ver

and i think in american. yeah and i just heard back again i pushed back a i haven't said the king of account as an african-american so what exactly exactly i mean you know so what are you going to do about it well that's not a real country because i don't think we're talking about hollywood hot you know we're not talking about hollywood is the what is what is structuring this entire conversation how you know this i know what yesterday officers who started a conversation were structuring this conversation african-americans have decided to make make it clear that there's a bigger narrative going on and the reality is that you need people that are in most positions in those roles that would make tweaks like like like a revolt. let me say something with you because we have an actor in our midst but what i want to hear from an african-american actor who also was part of this conversation back in 2017 samuel l. jackson spoke on hot 97 a radio station there is a deep deep deep conversation but here's a little a litt

american people won't accept it. yet, the people of iowa understood that there is something wrong when 87 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. something very wrong with today, 30,000 people a year die because they don't have access to health care. something awful when 500,000 americans go bankrupt because they cannot afford the incredibly high medical bills that they receive when they got out of the hospital. something is very wrong when we spent twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other country, and yet one in five americans cannot afford the cost of prescription drugs because the pharmaceutical industry rips us off every single day. i said that four years ago and the people of iowa said bernie, you are right. since then, what we have seen is poll after poll that the american people want us to move to a medicare for all single-payer program. [applause] sen. sanders: that means no deductibles. that means no copayments, no premiums, no out-of-pocket expenses. freedom of choice to g

commemorating 400 years of african and african-american perseverance in american society, enslavement, oppression from our understanding of the american story, and we would begin to recognize it and also commemorate those individuals who survived a very, very treacherous period in american history. host: professor, author, and dean, cassandra newby-alexander, thank you for being with us. guest: thank you. host: and a reminder for those watching a c-span3's american history tv, live coverage getting underway in just a moment, the ceremony that will include the dedication of the fort monroe visitor and education center. among those on hand to speak, virginia governor ralph northam along [applause] >> please take your seats. the morning and welcome to 400th anniversary commemorative ceremony. it is my honor to welcome the lady, thend the first lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the attorney general, senator mark warner, and senator tim kaine. scottepresentative bobby and a representative from virginia. bass andative karen from missouri. speaker of the house of for thes, first counsel em

american history tv airs at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >>> adam, the title of your paper here at the meeting is "crossing the border after the underground railroad, african-american north americans returning from canada." why was slaves trying to escape to canada and how were they able to do that? >> so, the underground railroad really is a whole set of things together. it's boats. it's some rails. it's roads. it was people trying to get out of serving, finding where they can be safe. sometimes it was just in the northern states. sometimes mexico. most famously to go to canada, being in a different country and be free from the chance they could get recaptured and brought back to slavery. >> what was that journey like? where are slaves at this time and how are they making that journey into canada? >> in the decades before the civil war slaves are every where in the united states. we think most of them being in the south, mostly in rural place. enslaved people are in cities, brought into northern cities. some are even r

the american fried inquiry commission. it was a commission impanelled by secretary stanton in order to conduct hearings on the conditions of which blacks lived and worked. the panel was convened i e ed i washington d.c. in 1863. he said the health of the people at that time was no good. tfts not good. conditions were similar which was also under the control of danforth nichols. he said there were a number of cases where people suffered. i would find the tents damp and children and grown persons suffered a great deal with colds and sicknesses. i considered a great deal of sickness was produced by these circumstances. there were some efforts made to improve the conditions. alexandria augusta submit add proposal for a source of fresh water which was the reason we have the drawing you saw before. in that same letter i mentioned before where augusta wrote to the method cal director, he described the lack of water in the camp and the dried up well. he produced the introduction of water pipe system that would draw water from the

on cspan3 it's american history tv with programs on how world war ii american cartoons influenced the war effort. >> watch book tv for live coverage of the national book festival saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. our coverage includes author interview was justice ruth bader ginsburg on her book "my own words." david treuer, his book, the heart beat of wounded knee. sharon robertson talks about her book, "chimed of the dream." . rick eight kinson author of the british are coming. and thomas malone founder for the mit center or collective intelligence. superminds. the national book festival, live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan2. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv, saturday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on lectures in history, a discussion about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday, at 4:00 p.m. on real america, the 1950 army film invasion of southern france. and monday, labor day, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of virginia's first general assembly held at jamestown. explore our nation's past on american history tv.

of american exceptionalism. that yearning they dry them and like-minded people to trump posture lie fourth celebration at the lincoln memorial. aga narrative is the romper placement for the much national story of the cold war years. it asserts the greatness of america, not as an inspirational actualut as a kind of claim about the -- the story regards all other countries as competitors to vanquish as if the proof of american success lies in the struggle of others. tell us about that paragraph. guest: [laughter] i think older americans who grew up as we did, during the cold war, and learned our history from the books we were taught in public schools, but also in visiting these sites and hearing this great story, they feel as though that story has been tarnished by critics, that people have come and eaten away at it, attacked it, tried to undermine it, and those people are anti-american. in point of fact, dissent and revisionism have been a part of american history since the colonial days. that is annk effective cr

i did in american. yeah and i just heard back again i pushed back a i have said the king of a condo as an african-american so what exactly exactly i mean you know so what are you going to do about it well that's not a real country because i don't think we're talking about hollywood hot you know we're not talking about hollywood is the what is what is structuring this entire conversation how we know this i know what yesterday over say who was murdered a conversation with structure in this conversation african-americans have decided to make make it clear that there's a bigger narrative going on and the reality is that you need people that are in those positions in those roles that would make tweaks like like like a revolt you know he can let me say something with you because we have an ad that. i want to hear from an african-american actor who also was part of this conversation back in 2017 samuel l. jackson spoke on hot 97 of radio station that is a deep deep deep conversation but here's a little a littl

and on cspan3 american history tv with programs on american u.s. legal history. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv, saturday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, a discussion about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday, at 4:00 p.m., on real america the 1950 army film invasion of southern france. and monday, labor day, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of virginia's first general assembly, held at jamestown. explore our nation's past on american history tv, every weekend on cspan3. >>> the u.s. senate comes back into session on monday september 9th with two important issues on their agenda. passing federal spending bills and anti-gun violence legislation but before senators return to washington get a behind the scenes look at the senate with cspan's history program, the senate, conflict and compromise. here is a preview. >> in government under which we live was created in the spirit of compromise and mutual concession. >>s thomas jefferson questioned the need for a senate. >> the founder envi

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history of americans at war. hollywood recognized a good story. they rush out in 1941, the john wayne movie based on the story and they quickly became some of the most famous americans of world war ii. what i wanted to do in this book which came out with some of my graduate work was the true story of this unit so i got to meet the last survivor who's still living in georgia. his name is frank and got to meet the families of many of the pilots where the flying tigers three units. their assembly primary documents, letters, diaries, reports, old newspaper clippings in particular the true story of what it was like to be one of the tigers in burma, china, in the early days of world war ii. the book is dedicated to my grandfather's who i believe are watching on c-span right now. my grandfather was a doctor during the war my grandfather was a navigator on the g25 in the pacific growing up, i would get to go to see a lot of the planes that were in the museum in tucson where i grew up. i want to acknowledge with that gene

they talked often about american hypocrisy about the american revolution being on complete. the haitian revolution in haiti were where the real revolution took place because they freed the slaves and put in place a polity and so, i think that black abolitionist say slavery is wrong, violence, and that we have a moral authority, god- given right, and it's really important when they can sort of solidify the legitimacy with biblical penance, who can argue against the bible, certainly in the 19th century, you can't really do that. so, they are using biblical allegories to justify using violence, to justify using force , and, they are using revolutionary language. i love the idea, and i talk about this in my book, they use the violence of give me liberty or give me death, he who must be free must strike the first blow. the use of language over and over to threaten and provoke the abolition of slavery and they feel justified in that big guys they believe they are suppressed to. i think again it's very easy for us to look at this from a 21st-century perspective and say of course yo

we can chase this massive invitation down to critical moments and say that key americans americans courage on d-day . >> lieutenant spaulding's case and a couple others, how much gear was lost right away in spaulding's case, waiting in the water they tell him to ditch a machine gun and other gear and he went up on the beach with barely any equipment out all. for that surprise you that they could continue to fight with much of their gear being lost or elsewhere >> one of the problems is this, at omaha beach we had high surf and we have to remember that these storms were in the english channel. when the guys came in some of them had been in the water for three or four hours, in one landing craft i talked to one veteran that said five eh-tah six guys would pacing for several hours before they landed on the beach and in fact he retested them and i've interviewed veteran they said they didn't care how many bullets they wanted to get their feet on dry ground on a beach. so, they should've gone in lightly the ranges for example, they didn't carry equipment for the job was to get them fact fast an

that is why so many americans are burdened by college loans, so many americans are experiencing daily, chronic economic tension and anxiety. ladies and gentlemen, this is not going to happen differently just because we elect politicians who say we want to make your pain less. i do not to just say, i can make your pain less. i want to challenge the underlying forces that make all that pain inevitable. [applause] we have been trained to forget where the power lies. we have been turned into spectators and in some ways, we have allowed this to happen. we have acquiesced with our own disempowerment. donald trump and the forces he represents are like opportunistic infections. they could not have gotten hold of us the way they have had there not become a weakened societal immune system and that is each and everyone of us. none of this is going to change on a fundamental level unless there is a rising of consciousness among the american people. we must realize citizenship has to be an issue, a part of any well lived life. right now the political establishment looks at the american voter like

africans or african-americans.e know that the slave system that would be put in place here in virginia as well as other places was about economics, clear and simple. many people who are part of the transatlantic slave trade were from different ethnic groups. i think we have to sort of disassociate this homogenous idea that all africans call themselves themselves, to es --standing that economiw economies of slavery demarcated how you would view people. in virginia, we had some black slaveholders in the colonial period as well as the antebellum period. they owned people purely for economic purposes. they were always very small in number, and that was, in their minds, to compete with other -- with the economies going on here. the majority of black slaveholders own family members because, by the end of the colonial years, going into the antebellum period, you had more rights to protect your family enslaved, they were if you are the owner, as opposed to if you are all free. virginia passed laws by the early 1800s statin

>> these were places where there were not a lot of euro-americans. they may have been native settlements, some of these places. but they are homesteads. rural, agricultural commodities. -- communities. but there are also people who escaped slavery and go to toronto and montreal. it is really a very diverse set of experiences north of the border and i am trying to find people who were in all of these places. >> what is their life like there compared to if they had stayed and gone somewhere else in the united states? >> with the fugitive slave act of 1850, people begin to feel the north is not safe. they began to think people are going to get kidnapped out of northern cities and they cannot just be safe in ohio or new york, but they need to go all the way into canada. similarly with the dred scott case, there is the sense that there is going to be no such thing as free territory. that anywhere, whether it is california, illinois, people need to get out of that and move to a completely different country, so they think canada is the chance to have the fr

into american history. i have suggested little cameo appearances. pocahontas or -- doesn't really help. on sunday i said, if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of american history. that may not be attainable and may not even be desirable. we live in the real world and school boards and publishers may have problems with that. so, there is another approach. that is what i want to suggest today. that is to look at, if you like the narrative we have, one which i critiqued yesterday. that east-west narrative of american growth and expansion of the nation. so look at that and identify in the narrative, a missing strand. that missing strand would be the native americans. what i'm going to talk about this morning is kind of a large swath of american history where i pull out native americans from out of it and say without a native american presence or power, these things would not have happened as they did. it will take you about five minutes to say, wait a

we continue to cover the frank lamere native american presidential forum, the first native american form major presidential candidates held in sioux city, iowa, monday and tuesday. lewisturn to stephen questioning democratic presidential candidadate julian castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development. >> the sovereignty of indian tribes has increasingly come under attack. most notably, the not indian adoption industry has continued to attack the constitutionality of the indian child welfare act and spread misinformation about by perpetuating negative and racist stereotypypes of indian families and tribal communititi. as president, what would you propose as the potential solulution to not only protect , but to broadly preserved and strengthened trouble sovereignty. >> i know there's a very shameful history behind whyhy it was necessary the first place. that we never want to go back to. in fact, she you pointnted out n your question, we only want to strengthen iqa. number one, i would make sure supportks know that i the indian child welfare act as president and go out ther

american history tv is lectures in history series continues now with a class looking at the american revolution and the continental army. we hear about how the american army differed from the british military and demographics, organization and officer selection process. this is about an hour. >>> welcome everyone to another exciting adventure in the history of war. today we have gotten to the continental army so welcome to all of you and welcome to many of our new students watching from who knows where. happy 40th birthday c-span. so today we are going to focus on the continental army and we are situating this very much in the broad history of war and the military. the continental army in a lot of ways is different from other armies that have preceded it largely because it is one that is very much based on ideals and certain concepts and beliefs rather than your traditional army. so what is the continental army. where is it? anyone? >> america. >> okay. continental army based in america. it will become the first united states army but before it is the u.s. army, it is the army of ame

. >> this weekend in american history -- an american history tv special from virginia.fricans arrived in america 400 years ago. our guest, today at 8:30 a.m. eastern is cassondra alexander from norfork state university, taking calls about the origin and history of slavery. a commemorative ceremony at 9:30 with governor ralph northam, senators mark warner and tim kaine and house of delegates speaker kirkland cox. at six clock p.m., hear the story of the civil war told in 56 minutes. and sunday at six clock p.m., american artifacts takes you to the museum and history and culture for african-american history from reconstruction through civil rights. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. >> next, we talk with daina ramey berry about the economics of slavery. she is the author of "the price for their pound of flesh: the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation." we recorded the interview at the organization of american historians' annual meeting in philadelphia. ho

it represents the important impact that african culture had on american culture, particularly american music. this fiddle is made out of a gourd, and that is a traditional kind of instrument used in west african culture for centuries and centuries. and west african musical traditions were brought to american shores by the captive africans who were brought here, and they ended up having a profound impact on american music and other cultural forms, such as food ways, language, and so forth. this represents the beginning of the influence of african culture on the development and the creation of a unique and a mixed american culture, a culture that derives from european, native american, as well as african-american tradition. >> museum of history and culture, and karen sherry with a bit of a tour. i want to get back to what it was like when they first arrived here and what was the english territories in 1619. i know there is no record, you do not have a lot of information, but as somebody who has researched this, any idea give any or reminders of what these boys and girls were going throug

enjoy american history tv. now and every weekend on c-span 3. >>> weeknights this month, we are featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend. tonight a look at the 50th anniversary of the kai he ga river fire of 1969. historian david straddling talked about the fire, the myths associated with it and the campaign to find solutions. he's the co-author of where the river burned, karl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. american history tv airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >>> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, female activists in the 1960s civil rights movement. >> while women were instrumental in helping to organize and put the march together, the event was purely dominated by men. >> sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern, the global significance of the declaration of independence during and after the american revolution. >> multiple translations of our declaration made their way to colombia, venezuela and ecuador over the course of the 50-year

single american in the future. it is urgent. i declare a state of emergency on day one. i'm a business person. i spent 30 years looking at business. i know we can solve this and be richer. i know we can create energy cheaper with renewables than with fossil fuels p or we're in iowa. this state has the highest percentage of renewables of any state in the united its of america. is there anyone out there who thinks warren buffett is so stupid, that he's building windmills in iowa? we can do this and be healthier. we can do it and be richer. we create net millions of good paying jobs for people by doing this. we should not be afraid. we have to do this. the oil companies do not want us to do it. but i look at this, i listen to people talk about the united states and you would think we are nothing but crises and failure. we have the most successful society in the history of the planet. we have a couple of big challenges. we have to break these corporation stranglehold. we have to do it if we will solve the problem. hone

course on the american lives in the american revolution.

they all apply for american visas. and i described the challenges they face in getting the visas, some succeed, some don't. people who don't, most of them end up being deported to auschwitz in 1942. but i'm trying to commit this political story, bureaucratic story and make it human story. when i was a journalist, in eastern europe and the soviet union, bring collapse of communism i was struck by the fact that the political debates in washington have very little to do with what is actually happening on the ground. so i tried to connect in the political story to the human story that was visible to me. the one of the elements was of course the obsessionwith national security . it was feared that if we let refugees into the country, they could pose a threat to us national security, they could be, the germans could be trying to infiltrate the fifth columnists, not the agents into the us. curiously enough, anotherbook i wrote about world war ii is called the saboteurs . it was about not the agents who landed sent here by sub

medical personnel that serve during the american civil war.

at the time, history book are focused on the issue of the american they and wrapped american history up in this idea that the country had been a place of opportunity for the many, so long that we can and. now the frontier is closed, we will be limited from now on. their fears surrounding the russian revolution in there and i guess terror attacks in the u.s., la, around three. many of whom were jewish or immigrant or both. and perhaps, most crucially, the desire to limit immigration was raised in eugenics pseudoscience. social darwinism, the idea that biologically some people are better than others and reiko beatty and by cultivating its good racial stock america could maintain its white superior culture and made no more immigrants. americans read mass-market books like the passing of the great race, which argued there was a superior nordic race responsible for all progress in this race was in danger. or, this is another title, the rising tide of choleric and white supremacy, which is not meant to be demeaning. is a promise he was the ideal. it would therefore seem to in three years.

and hispanic americans. [cheers and applause] >> and with wages arising more aware americans are working today than ever before and it's particularly important to the president that wages are rising most rapidly for working families and blue-collar americans. the truth of the matter is the fastest way to increase for people going to work at factories or plants is the forgotten men and women of america are forgotten no more. [applause][a the other day karen and i slipped away for vacation time for two days. [laughter] we were sitting on a beach outside of florida i had a ball cap on and sunglasses into fellas walked by both wearing budweiser t-shirts. [laughter] tattoos on their arms. he stopped and said you are vice president pence and i said yes sir. he said we you tell the president i made twice as much money last year as i made the year before and he just needs to keep doing what he's doing. [applause] and then he took two steps away and said i don't know what you do but you keep doing what you do to. [la

400 years of african and african-american perseverance in american society. we will stop excising enslavement, oppression from our understanding of the american story, and we would begin to recognize it and also commemorate those individuals who survived a very, very treacherous period in american history. >> professor, author, and dean, cassandra newby-alexander, thank you for being with us. dean newby-alexander: thank [applause] >> to begin our program, please welcome the honorable donnie artech, mayor of the city of hampton. [applause] please take your seats. good morning and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. it is my honor to welcome governor ralph northam and first lady pamela northam, lieutenant governor justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine. u.s. representative bobby scott and representative elaine luria of virginia. representative karen bass of california, and representative william clay of missouri, speaker of the house of delegates burkland cox. bo

experience in american history. if we have more historians where are heathen or otherwise studying religion, we can help to dispel the myth that the study of religion is exclusively done on confessional terms. in doing so, political historians can help put a stop to this jack in the box phenomenon that john butler referred to, and even yes, admit that religion can be colorful and surprising at times. but it should not be left on the periphery. it should not be left to just pop out of a confessional box occasionally, usually surrounding a presidential election. no. we should engage religion in our political history as a common yet transfiguring vital force in american politics. one that is worthy not of uncritical worship in a triumphant narrative, nor one that is relegated to disdain and neglect, but a consistent interrogation in our political narrativ narratives. instead of a jack in the box, perhaps we could let religion enjoy what john butler called an extended performance. not as a stand alone performer on the h

life, this bright thread of american society as uniquely american and something that would not easily transfer to his home country. okay. on to our english character, who visited in united states twice in 1921 and 1930 and into 1931. chester ton picked up on the paradox first conformed bid toekville and how american individuals actually led to conformism. they value and even venerate the individual. in this exultation of the individual, however, chester ton noted a curious contradiction, namely that american individuals is the reverse of individuality, something that toekville said, in slightly different terms. chester ton explained this by the habit fostered by the capitalist society where men are trying to compete with each other he said. they are trying to copy each other. they become standardized by the very standard of self. americans were particularly vulnerable to this habit of competing with and thus copying others according to chester ton because they are a very self-conscious people who are intensely sensitive and conscious of criticism. such sensitivity and self-consciousne

in american history. her book was published in april of 2008 and just won a national jewish book award for outstanding writing based on archival material. we heard from her two years ago regarding the ms st. louis. we're very glad to have her again with us today. the floor is yours. >> i want to start by thanking the commissioners for inviting me today and also for coming to the museum this morning to see the americans in the holocaust exhibit which for anyone listen who did not come is available for people online for those who can't come to washington. the exhibit is part of a major new initiative to share new research on the united states during the holocaust and to explore along with our visitors what americans knew and did during the nazi era. i work on these questions. my role this afternoon is to present information on the factors that played into american responses to the refugee crisis in the 1930s and 1940s. the context of the period is crucial here. it's not meant as an excuse for inaction nor t

the american dream is working again for every american. [applause] vice pres.ence: and i have to tell you, also wages are rising at the fastest pace they have had more than 10 years. more americans are working today than ever before. and i know it is particularly important to the president that wages are rising most rapidly for working families. for blue-collar americans. the truth of the matter is the fastest wage increase for people that are going to work in our factories and plants across the country, in a word, the forgotten men and women of america are forgotten no more. this economy is for everybody. [applause] know, is. pence: you saw that the other day, karen and i slipped away for a little vacation time. it was like two days. but we were sitting on a beach just outside fort myers, florida. i had a ball caps on and sunglasses. las went by both wearing budweiser t-shirts, tattoos on their arm. [applause] fellares. pence: this stopped and said you are vice president pence, aren't ya? i said yes sir, i am. youooked at me and i said, tell the president i ma

also live on american history tv, on c-span three. >> american history tv continues now with a discussion on innovations in art, during world war ii. we heard about propaganda cartoons, norman rockwell paintings, and abstract expressionist art. a 1940s and 50s movement, that included american painters, jackson and mark. held by friends of the national world war ii memorial, this is close to an hour. >> my pleasure to introduce rachelle friedman who is going to be talking to you about innovations in art during world war ii. this is her second year coming to the conference. she was here last year. we are really excited to have her back and excited to hear her presentation on art. please join me in welcoming rachelle. >> [ applause ] >> good morning, and thank you everybody. it is a real pleasure to be here. last year, as you heard i was sitting in your spot and it was a really profitable conference and when the call came out, to present about innovations in world war ii, i was happy to answer that call. at the time, i thought this will be something obviously very interesting, in my mind at

every american. think american people should have choices. at they want to keep their union health care or their medicare advantage or their medicare supplemental's, they ought to be able to. that is a commonsense approach to approving our health care system. i want to rebuild our country. i've called from the biggest infrastructure program since the gratian of the federal highway system. because infra structure creates jobs, improves the standard of living, and it makes our businesses more competitive. and i can get it done. because i was a leader on a bipartisan effort in congress to do that. i have called for a way of dealing with the climate crisis. but part of it is that big bet on american innovation which we can do. we have to solve this problem not here but around the world. these are the kind of solutions i will put forth as your president. even deeper it is than these policy discussions? is how terribly divided er. delaney: in many ways that is the say it shall -- central issue facing this country. i believe it is the challenge that

enjoy american history tv now and every weekend. on cspan3. ♪ >>> the house will be in order. >>> for 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country. so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. cspan, your unfiltered view of government. >>> american history tv products are now available at the new cspan online store. go to cspan store.org to see what's new for american history tv. and check out all of the cspan products. >>> at the beginning of august we were seized what could be confirmed was towards the middle of the month the germans started to leave the city. yes, those those were the same germans who assigned 25 year-- on their pockets. then on the 14th normandy went on strike. the next day the gestapo that was the day that the police car opened fire on the national guard. after that it seems the french-- flag was

the american people. that pilot who i talked to that came up to me new i was came up to me on the plane and said, congressman, when are we going to do something? i don't answer is. i don't think there is an answer. but not to act is irresponsible. public,he american every day, and somebody mentioned when one person loses their life, it does not get a lot of coverage. if we had a moment of silence for every american that lost their life, we would not be able to do anything else. we want to act perfectly, we want to act in a way that stops all of this from happening. but not to act as a refusal to meet our responsibilities to the american people. >> woody think about mitch mcconnell having the power to bring this legislation to a vote in the senate? many sayr: the person explain that is senator mcconnell. the american people need to be outraged by that refusal to bring a bill supported by over 90% of the american people to the floor for consideration. vote for it.e to every senator will have to make their o

the cia was a covert sponsor of several traveling exhibitions of american art to every major americanwith the funding of individuals like nelson rockefeller. the wealthiest americans were more than happy to support this. an fact, rockefeller's mother had cofounded moma, so the art traveled, and the europeans saw it and they see this representation of america, and i don't think it is may be as powerful as coca-cola in promoting america, but they are seeing that art is coming out of america, that america is no longer an artistic backwater. think of art is the first category that comes to mind when we think about innovations connected to world war ii, but as we have seen, the governments and artists turn to about thevey messages war. animation used as film to convey political propaganda and obviously, this is a genre that continues to exist. abstract expressionism is a uniquely american fresh form the world had never seen before, and it helps cement new york as the arch capital. paris was never really able to recapture that position. it continues to influence art today. as rothko and got

cspan3, american history tv with programs on how world war ii american cartoons influenced the war effort. >> watch book tv, saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. coverage includes author interviews with justice ruth bader ginsburg on her book. david treuer, sharon robinson, rick atkinson, and thomas malone, founding director discussing his book, "super minds." live saturday 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on cspan2. >>> labor day weekend on american history tv, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history a discussion of abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday at 4:00 p.m. on reel america, the 1950 film invasion of southern france. monday, labor day, 8:00 p.m. eastern, commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the first general assembly hemmed ld at jamestown. explore our past on american history tv every weekend on cspan3. >>> sunday night on q and a. university of pennsylvania professor amy wax on free expression on college campuses and conflict surrounding an opinion piece she co-authored in the philadelphia inquire remember. we were trying to tout this code of behavior

hey, my father is an american g.i. he was in southhampton england loading ships for d-day, and anyway, he got to normandy in late july. he met my mother over there, and she lived in -- called -- anyway, the occupation for many years and they had no food. you couldn't go to a local supermarket and get any food. she had nothing. they had to try to grow their foods in mine fields, because there was no open field and the occupation was pretty heavy in the 40s. so her uncle got shot by the germans because they thought they were shooting at him. he was hunting ducks, but she met my father. my father was in the supply end of the army, and my father would go and give them food. they never saw canned peaches or a lot of food there before, because they were pretty much starving under the occupation. she said the germans that were there were very nice, but like you said, they were young, and some older -- >> bob, i think we lost you, but thanks for your comments. >> i would just add, again, that he's right. that most of france wa

older americans grew up on the american story and it's magic now grieve for a loss of american exceptionalism. that yearning may drive them waand like-minded younger people to attend july 4 celebrations at the lincoln memorial. he andaga narrative is a replacement for the more gently drawn natural story of the cold war years . it reinforces the greatness of america not as an aspirational tail but as a kind of factual claim about the nation . a status was lost, stolen in fact by a politically correct crowd of disbelievers and it's this. superiority and the cold war message, the m aga story regards all the other countries as competitors to vanquish as if superiority lies in the conquest of others.. >> guest: i think older americans who grew up as we did during the cold war and learned our history from the books that we were taught in public schools but also in visiting these sites and hearing this great story, they feel as though that story has been tarnished by critics, that people have come away at it, acted, tried undermining and that those people are and american. in point of fact, dissent

american veterans.e are holding our nation's solemn pledge to protect those who protect us, and they have protected us brilliantly. with america's core interests, guiding us as we do, we are making unprecedented strides. our american warriors pulverized the bloodthirsty killers of isis. we defeated 100% of the caliphate in syria. we are holding thousands of isis fighters right now, prisoners, and we are going to give them to where they came, europe, certain countries in europe, they have got to take them back, because we do not want to hold them. we are going to give them back. they have got to take them. they let us hold them for 50 years. we don't want them. they should take them. do we agree? they should take them? [applause] pres. trump: they say to us, "why don't you hold them in guantanamo bay for 50 years?" and we spent billions of dollars taking them. now europe has to take them and different countries where they came from have to take them. do we agree with that? [applause] pres. trump: i am ju

you can see the american government in canada. >> thank you very much. my pleasure. >>> we are featuring american history programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span3. lectures in history. american artifacts. real america. the civil war. oral histories. the presidency. and special event coverage about our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. e has landed. >>> the eagle has landed. about to step onto land now. >> that's one small step for man ,