american terms. in order to ensure a good trade, in order to ensure peace, they had to get together and conduct diplomacy with native american peoples. the protocols and customs and language and metaphors that that diplomacy were not european in origin, they were native american in origin. this is a testament to the power that native americans had. europeans had to learn to conduct business on their turf, to do it by their method. so franklin, when he ultimately publishes the treaty of lancaster, he sends 200 copies off to his agent of london so because he thinks they might sell there. can learn of this context of diplomacy. historians, when they talk about diplomacy between native americans and europeans in the colonial era, often use a metaphor that i like that i will share with you today which is , the middle ground. they use diplomatic negotiations reflecting a middle ground between european power and interests in early america and native american power and interests. the fellow who pioneered the

it is hitler that americans are behaviorit is hitler's that americans are responding to. asked the public, if his claims against poland were justified. 86% said no. what he's demanding is wrong. if a war comes out of this, it will be his fault. then, a couple of weeks later 82% ofe war did begin, the american people said it was germany's fault. virtually no one blamed england or france or poland. it was germany's fault. they are the ones who started this. there is a clear-cut aggressor in this war. this is not a case of both sides. germany is at fault. germany is the aggressor. britain and france are defending the victim. so we don't actually feel neutral about that. these two sides are not the same. there is a significant difference here. once it was an actual war instead of a theoretical war, american opinion shifted a little bit. they still don't want to be involved in the war. they still want to avoid most of the mistakes that took place in the first world war. but they are not completely neutral. not really. they favor britain and france. they oppose nazi germany. bu

americans consumed philippine sugar for quite some time, but there were almost no americans or american investment in the philippines at the time the united states acquired it in the treaty of paris. but during the treaty negotiation, american diplomats felt they had the option to get the philippines. the philippines at 17 million people, thousands of islands, it is a large colony, and it was a colony that was desired by other powers. americans felt like, we got it so we should keep it, especially to keep it from other empires, empires at the time that were interested in that colony, germany and japan. eventually the philippines after world war ii will gain independence from the united states, in 1946. 1946 is when these two empires are no longer a threat. and in world war ii, the philippines suffered lots of invasion by the japanese and lots of brutal violence, so the freedom comes after a lot of suffering in the philippines. cuba, while americans are at war in the philippines, which goes on for years, the question of what to do with cuba. cuba made much more sense as an american colon

i did in american. yeah and i just heard back again pushed back a i haven't 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 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 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 was i was part of this conversation back in 2017 samuel l. jackson spoke on hot 97 a radio station that is a deep deep deep conversation but here's a little a little slic

for many americans, the spanish-american war was also about bringing americans together to liberate a supposedly oppressed people. while americans are at war with spain and cuba, they also send the u.s. navy to the philippines paired the philippines had also been a spanish colony for some time. the philippines, also a sugar theucing colony, people in philippines had also been trying to resist and overthrow their spanish colonizers for decades. you see similar things going on in the philippines that you see going on in cuba. arrive, as part of the war, they appear to be allies. they appear to be allies of philippine independence. when americans arrived during the spanish-american war, they appear to be allies. are they helping the philippines like they are helping cuba? that is what the local people thought. they thought that until they found out about the treaty of paris. philippines has now become a colony of the united states. 1902,is why from 1899 to the philippine resistance now transitions to fighting the americans. here you have what we call guerrilla warfare on the part of the

there was a strong african-american population. a good physical location and she moved here in 1910. she established a lab here. she had a beauty school and provided an opportunity for a lot of women here and across the country. 1919, her death in may of she began purchasing land. her daughter would see the completion of the madame walker theater which would have the coffee pot. it would have a theater, a ballroom, a casino. it was a welcoming place for african-americans. indianapolis was not technically legally a segregated city. however, there were things that took place in the city that seem to have limitations for the people who were living there. it provided a place for everyone to go. we are on trade street. this is a place where this is as built -- homes district. these homes go back to the 1950's. take 20 hours per week or more and do work on their homes constructing and building. this was a place after world war ii. there were over 100 homes built. very much within the african-american community. homes but tothe your right

so, while american personnel lived in europe to provide , officials urged the american public to embrace this role as protector. what began as a short-term, limited release project became a larger experiment in the exportation of american values through food to most of europe by the 1920's. i want to give just one example of this. that is austria. on the 12th of november 1918, after the collapse of the habsburg empire, the provisional assembly created the republic of austria with a capital in vienna. what was problematic about this is many of the agricultural lands were in hungary, not in the newly formed austria. they were kind of facing difficulties in that way. they had already had severe starvation conditions in 1918. this new nation of nearly 16.5 million people faced other challenges, including political instability, serious unemployment, a large refugee population, and lack of housing. but the real problem was shortage of food and shortage of fuel. this had taken a big toll. after that, the allied blockade, which is continuing, exacerbated and extended the misery of wartime. citiz

that compares with 20.8% for african-americans and 17% for hispanic americans. for white americans 10%. asian americans 10%. omment about the reservation system in this country. is the reservation system failing? is it time to do away with it? senator dorgan: i don't believe so it all. that would be the last unbelievable injustice. that that shall be reserved was taken away as well. the fort laramie treaties reserved a substantial amount of property that was ignored and taken away by the federal government's. sometimes promises do not mean much. you read those statistics. they are devastating. lot on nativea american issues among many other issues, but when i left the senate i created the center for native american youth. i wanted to work on native american issues and try to think where would i start? it seems you should start with the children. put on the spot light on native american youth. we do a lot of work on teen suicide prevention and education and opportunity and so on. thatir the board of organization that i created. we are working on this a lot. to be

american african-americans who hoped to live out post-civil war expectations of full citizenship pulled upon returning home. upon returning home this book anyway reveals the many ways people world war i shaped the identity of black people and lent fuel to their long-standing efforts to demand full right citizenship rights and to claim their place in this country claim their place in this country's cultural and political landscape. had we many more hours, i could give you the amazing credentials of these brilliant men. but let me suffice to say, they are not only holders of phd's in their respective subjects, but they have spoken widely and traveled widely on the subject. dr. salter is a retired u.s. army colonel. he also curated our exhibition military on military history and three -- history in our inaugural exhibitions here in the museum. double victory, the african-american military experience. his publications also include, the story of black military officers, 1861-1948. dr. carr has numerous credentials to his name. in addition to his work at howard university, he is also deeply i

, latino-americans, latinos, asians and native americans. and she's currently working or almost done, i guess, she is done on a book that's coming out called "she took justice" about black women and the law. and she's also working on a documentary of the same title which will accompany the book. as she has told you, she's a u.s. supreme court correspondent. she is a member of the national press club, and she's also often on television. you may have seen her as an analyst for msnbc, cbs, cnn, abc, and she's the chair of asalah's 400th commemoration committee. and lastly, roger fairfax, is the jeffrey and martha cohen senior associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at george washington university law school. he teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, procedure and policy. and his scholarship appears in numerous books and leading journals such as the boston college law review, cornell law review, uc davis law review, fordham law review, harvard civil rights civil liberties law review, yale law review and i can't list al

specificallyery the things that americans now blamed for american involvement in the previous war. specifically. if there's another war, there should be an impartial arms embargo on all belligerents. all belligerents. aggressor, victim, it doesn't matter. impartial. we don't want to be selling arms to anyone. the only threatens to drag us into the war. a ban on loans. if we loan money to a may have an we interest in making sure that they win the war. no loans. a ban on americans traveling on belligerent ships. we don't want americans being killed in this war accidentally because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. itt happened last time, shouldn't happen again. americans were responding directly to something that happened between 1914 in 1970. -- and 1917. americans had made all these mistakes last time, next time we won't make those mistakes. this is coming from congress which is one of the things that makes it unusual. foreign policy is primarily the purview of the president. here is congress saying, we will limit what the president can do. it's probably not surprising

even on the eve of pearl harbor, most americans still wanted to avoid direct american involvement as a belligerent in world war ii. the great debate moved the american public in the direction of risking war, but never fully convinced most americans that the united states should declare war against germany. only germany's declaration of war against the united states after pearl harbor convinced americans to declare war on germany. that is one thing. the debate is about, on the surface, how much aid should the united states give to the allies to help them defeat nazi germany? below the surface, there's a much more important and fundamental debate going on. what role should the united states play in the world going forward? should it, as the anti-interventionists argued, remain a hemispheric power dominating north and south america as it had done for the last century? should it try to do that in a world dominated by hostile dictatorships? or, as the interventionists argued, should it recognize that the united states was a global power and be willing to join the fight against those dicta

, latin americans and native americans. she is almost done with a book that is coming out called she took justice about black women and the law. she is also working on a documentary of the same title that will accompany the book. as she has already told you, she is a u.s. supreme court correspondent. she is a member of the national press club and is also on television. you might have seen her as an analyst for msnbc, cbs, abc. she is a member of the 400 committee. lastly, roger fairfax is a senior associate dean for acumen academic affairs and professor of law at george washington university law school. he teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, procedure and policy and his scholarship appears in numerous books and journals, such as the boston college law review, cornell law review, florida law review, harvard civil rights, civil liberties law review and i can't list all of them. while at the harvard law school, where he received his law degree, he was one of the editors of the harvard law review and later a senior

the other message for americans was clear. u.s. food would make the world safer and demonstrate american goodheartedness and wealth to world. the aid project helped bolster u.s. governmental claims during and after world war ii. i'm sorry, after world war i. altogether, from 1914 to 1920 four, hoover's organization handled the shipping and distribution of more than 33 million metric tons of aid, which was valued at more than $5 billion. ,his is a big operation multi-countries, and the ports that were on the map gives you a sense of the size and logistics of this organization. these organizations did save lives, but they also created a market for surplus food, because the american economy kind of ramped up to create food for the war effort and they needed a market for it after the war. a lot of american grain went to europe. it helped bolster prices for farmers. it reduced stocks. hoover himself fervently offeved food aid staved also big revolution and created a positive image of the united states abroad, both of which were major fo

i'm a ninth generation american. i'm a ninth generation american. and i'm the first person in my family who was born inwith all rights recognized by this government. i'm a ninth generation american and i'm the first person in my family. so when people say why do you guys keep talking about these issues? i'm not talking about my great, great, great, great grandparents, though i could and should. my mother and my father were born under segregation. my father, willie anthony jones, was born in poverty in segregation in memphis, tennessee. he put himself -- he joined the military. when everybody was running out of the military, my father ran in so he could put himself through college. he went to a little black college in jackson, tennessee, called lane college. and he married the college president's daughter, because my father had it like that. my dad had it like that. he knew what he was doing. and after he got out, he and my mother put my uncle milton through college, his little brother, and a cousin through college. and my entire family got out of po

un-american. making those lower prices available to the hundreds of americans with private insurance, too. we are insisting that american families shouldn't have to pay more for our medicines than what big pharma drugs for the same overseas. i say that again. h.r. 3 means lowering the cost medication for americans with leukemia by more than 70%. cost of lowering the medication for arthritis, which more than 50 million americans 75%. by almost it means lowering the cost of asthma medication for 25 million mericans with this condition from $1,500 to $270. testify inwe had one our press conference yesterday. his medication for asthma, in his case, was over $60,000 a month. 80% of it was covered by pay over but he had to $4,000 a month. absorb that, $4,000 a month for a drug that you're supposed to take four times a month? he was taking it twice a month, once a month, or not at all. a healthy thing to do. big eaping big profits for pharma. used h.r. 3, some commonly in insulins could cost as little as

american jobs and american workers first. and i don't have to tell you here in michigan, thanks to a leadership of this president, and our allies in the congress, the american economy is booming. storm so the stock market is soaring, pouring pensions and 401(k) s are going off the charts. president told me just the other day he said, he got unafraid elevator nagasaki hand out and said mister president, i just want to shake your hand and i want to thank you, because my wife thinks i'm investment genius since he became president of the united states. i'm telling, you you watch that stockmarkets, it has grown by more than 50% in the last three years. that is a more certain retirement for working americans across the land. i mean, the truth is, the truth is for all that we have accomplished, this actually is the best economy for our hardworking men and women in my lifetime. over the last three years, think about, it businesses large and small across michigan, across america, have created 7 million new jobs, 75,000 jobs right here

that compares with 20.8% for african-americans and 17% for hispanic americans. white americans 10%. asian americans 10%. omment about the reservation system in this country. is the reservation system failing? is it time to do away with it? senator dorgan: i don't believe so it all. that would be the last unbelievable injustice. that that shall be reserved was taken away as well. the fort laramie treaties reserved a substantial amount of property that was ignored and taken away by the federal government's. sometimes promises do not mean much. you read those statistics. they are devastating. lot on nativea american issues among many other issues, but when i left the senate i created the center for native american youth. i wanted to work on native american issues and try to think where would i start? it seems you should start with the children. put on the spot light on native american youth. we do a lot of work on teen suicide prevention and education and opportunity and so on. thatir the board of organization that i created. we are working on this a lot. to be an

embassy 40 years ago iranians took 'd american diplomats prostate. you're in it embassy here in iran and. you can't launch an attack which the attack faith but they knew what that this might be as it might serve as an ex used to. be but i think they're not they're pretty sure that the americans will not attack directly right because they not that donald trump doesn't want doesn't want to get in a direct war with iran or any other country as of now so that if they've been doing that the americans will retaliate we will probably bomb strike on our there are there iranian interests in syria are in iraq but there i think the pretty sure that the americans will not. crush thanks very much very high in that are interesting on their faces very as well the sign was great there across thanks very much crushed lawyer middle east expert speaking from tehran i just wanted to say it's a very dangerous moment absolutely thanks for having our i'm going to cross countries thank you. all right 2 more world news now a big story we're closely following as well wiki lea

it's all going to put american jobs and american workers first. but i think all of you know closer to home, it was right out of the gate three years ago this president said that we could do better in our trading relationship with canada and mexico. and he took decisive action to renegotiate the nafta agreement. and after two years of negotiation and one year of delays on capitol hill, this week the house of representatives will vote to approve the usmca. it's a win for michigan. it's a win for america and american workers. i don't have to tell all of you here in the heartland about the experience we all had in the wake of nafta. back in indiana, we literally saw not just factories but entire communities shudder over the last 30 years. as nafta has the structure of nafta essentially, intentional or unintentional, created an incentive for companies to move jobs south of the border. but under president donald trump, those days are over. the usmca puts american jobs and american workers first. [ crowd chanting "working for trump" ] >> the usmca they t

there was an american policy that african-american soldiers would not -- that american soldiers wouldnot fight under the french. there was a social juxtaposition from a lot of the white officers on his staff serving in his unit that did not want african-american soldiers to fight alongside white soldiers. when you say john j pershing gave this division to the french, he does bear responsibility, because he was in command. he has the ultimate responsibility. but he was being tugged from the top, the side, the bottom. the french were clamoring that you are going to put men on the battlefield. we are very clear the way we choose our words in the gallery upstairs and this gallery. we say john j pershing made the ultimate decision. there was a book about why he made that decision. john's question, there were a host of african-american who wrote about their experience in world war i, but the books never got published. i read most of those over the years, being an african-american military historian. i began to combine those in 1996 . that is where the information exists. it exists in librar

embassy in tehran taking 66 american hostages. next on american history tv author david farber talks about his book "taken hostage" which chronicles their ordeal and examines the u.s. government's first encounter with radical islam. >>> i think the 1979, 1980 hostage crisis between the united states and iran really set the tone probably for our relationship all the way through today. it was really a significant juncture point in how the united states's people thought about political islam, the nation of iran and lets be honest, how they think about us. there were two powerful movements in iran, both of which worried the united states but one more than the other. there was a come knit insurgentsy within iran, the soviet union was trying to foster a communist insurgents in iran. we thought about that and sided with the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. i don't think most person political elites thought too much about the islamic disdents in that state. it was just kind of off the radar. part of

japanese americans stood out. with the a concern west coast. japanese submarines weren't in the pacific ocean and there were -- were in the pacific ocean and there were some incidents, but nothing to implicate japanese americans themselves. we have to really stay on top of this. was an immigrant from japan, but he wanted to do something to help the war effort. to the university of chicago that was running a program for the army called army specialized training program teaching japanese to u.s. army personnel. that's what my dad did during .orld war ii he was allowed to leave camp to go to chicago to be part of that program. yes i mother and me to leave with him. we said no -- he asked my mother and me to leave with him. we said no at the time. , we result of internment were talking about what happened to us to make sure that it doesn't happen to somebody else in the future. action was tohole make sure the civil liberties act of 1988 was passed. secretary to the united nations on 9/11. keep muslims off airplanes. d

blockators and governors african-americans, hispanic, and asian americans from the polls in 2017, pushed by the democrats' collapse of their party. the republicans opted to disenfranchise rather than reform. guest: yes. it is that. i mean, and so many ways, it explains where we are right now. where you have a party that is moved so far to the right that its policies just resonates. trumps why you have the point person in wisconsin -- in aabout, in an talking about, how to suppress the vote in that is how we win. democratic constituencies have a key urge for the republicans to stay in power, but it is only by , not resonating with americans as we understand democracy and we understand the vote in the elections. but by keeping key constituencies in that electorate from voting. to keep them blocked from the ballot box. that is what policies have done. has been updated to talk about the 2018 elections. preview that. guest: this is where you saw this massive voter turnout. it was the highest murder -- it was the highest voter turnout in 2018. one of the things you hear is how can there be vot

so when you go back to the american revolution, an estimated number, 6000 african-americans fight for the u.s. forces, but an estimated 20,000 fight for the british. when you take that seem up forward best when you take the theme -- when you take that worldforward up to the war i african american's were , always fighting for the side that offer the best chances for freedom. african americans had was been there. the reason why world war i to me was so important and as a bridge , is because african-americans thought, when president wilson said, we must fight to make the world safe for democracy, they thought that meant them. [laughter] so when they went to fight, the double victory they were fighting for was not just to help america win the war when they went overseas, they were fighting that, hopefully, when they got back, that the qualities of being a citizen, democracy, mob violence, economic stability, educational uplift and a whole host of other things would come to them. but within 24 months after the declaration of war was given on 6 april, 1917, this thing called the red summer

reed: but the american people. and you know over the last few years, remind me recently this morning about two years ago we delivered on tax cuts and i stood exactly right here and i knew that was going to unleash the american economy. we have an economy now at an all time high. 50-year lows of unemployment. 1.4 million new jobs in america. and today we have come together for the american worker, the american farmer, and we have united as democrats and republicans to do something good for our fellow citizens and that's this updated mexico-canada trade agreement. as i stood here two years ago and i had a discussion with my good friend from new york no longer here, mr. crowley, i declared in one voice saying hell, yes, i'm going to vote for those tax cuts and hell, yes, i'm going to vote for this mexico-canada trade agreement because what we are doing here is again unleashing the power of america. standing together it is amazing what we can accomplish. and i applaud chairman neal. i applaud the democratic working gro

an expression of the american mind. so on the one hand, what it clearly and obviously means is that the declaration is a summing up of all of the principles that the americans had been searching for during the years of the imperial crisis. it's a summing up. so when it says we hold these truths to be self-evident, and then it lays out its self-evident truths. this is -- these are the principles of the american mind. but as an expression of the american mind, the declaration was also laying the foundation for the new constitutions and for the new governments that were going to be created by the new states. and in fact what the declaration of course does is it establishes the moral foundations, not just of these new states, but of the united states of america. and that is the great meaning of the declaration, is that it provides the moral foundation for this new nation going forward. all right. before we jump into the declaration, and what we're going to do in today's class is we are going to systematically line by line g

the americans worked there. they also worked all the way down in the caucasus and all the way deep into the ural mountains as well. it was way beyond the limits that we sometimes think of. now the size of the famine made it and a enormous challenge to try to deal with. but there were other challenges as well. one of them was the mere fact of the number of people that needed help. about 200k, you had american men working the famine in russia. obviously, they could only do so much. so they put together an army, literally, of russian employees, who worked under them. this network of russians who worked for the ara and eventually reached 125,000 people. and none of this work could have been done without the russians. so while it was american relief that was orchestrating it all, much of the work was done by the russians themselves. transportation, as you can imagine, over one million square miles was one of the biggest headaches. the railroad network had been destroyed as a result of the civil war. adjuvant was no l

the usm ca is a win for american workers at american farmers.ing to create hundreds of thousands of jobs all across the state and nation. and i have to tell you, there are a lot of people out there taking credit for the usm ca, but i was there every step of the way. and make no mistake about it, president donald trump got it done. [applause] to this president's leadership, support of all of you and our allies that were in congress and many of which are here today. we have made america great again. [applause] but to keep america great, we need you to decide right here and right now that pennsylvania is going to vote for four more years of president donald trump in the white house. [applause] four more years. four more years. >> think about it, four more years means more jobs, former years means more judges. former years means more support for our troops. and it's going to take at least four more years to drain that swamp. [applause] you know the choice, the choice in this election couldn't be clearer. miss the stakes could not be higher. today we

the american oil. it's incorrect in my mind to suggest that american policymakers actually taught china would liberalize american academics might have but if you look at nixon and kissinger if you look at brant scowcroft if you look at the debate about china within governments over the years it's not been china's going to become a democracy in the american image it's been china has to be part of the system responsible stakeholder to use the phrase that robert zoellick i think popularized so that's the idea the debate now within the united states about china is that doable really and here i think there's a misunderstanding of how what has the united states worried right now and that's what underlies a lot of this revisiting of the past and saying was this really something we should have done now even mentioned henry kissinger. former u.s. secretary of state who just a few weeks ago warned that the united states and china may be in diff with heels of a cold war and he actually said that the major conflic

all the people of this book really saw themselves as the real americans, as representatives of real americanalues, even though the mainstream saw them as a threat to those values. john brown was executed as a traitor. susan: after his famous raid at harpers ferry, west virginia. prof. jackson: yesterday, december 2, was the anniversary of the execution. a major turning point for how people felt about slavery. it was one of those moments i was just referencing, where a critical mass of people thought, if john brown was willing to do this, surely i can stand up and say i oppose slavery. yes, he carried out this grassroots organizing campaign not on his own, but with the help of a number of black leaders in various cities and also canada. he traveled to canada, he held a convention there with black leaders, many of whom were exiled from the united states. he had six financial backers in boston called the secret six who were willing to give him money for weapons and for whatever plan he might have, they were secretive about it. he is the most famous, probably the most famous radical of this peri

place in american society. what happens as you would expect that across the midwest where there were many supporters of lincolns republican party for the many veterans in the civil war who fought against slavery abolitionist and strong in places like minnesota or michigan or other places or oh ohio, i figured there would be a strong legacy among farmers in the sense of support radical reconstructions. and there was but what happens is the grange was organized with specific purpose of bringing the country back together again and healing the wounds of the civil war. that's what they said their first purpose was. the farmers across that line in a common struggle against corporate monopoly. that's what they said they were going to do. i was the purpose of the grange. the one who said shakespeare didn't actually write shakespeare. fantastic stories. he's quite a character. this book is full of characters in that way but he was the leader of the grange in minnesota. he articulated positions, he had been a radical rep

american history. as we continue to work in addressing inequality and education, incarceration and criminal justice system, income inequality and attacks on voting rights, we also pause to celebrate the incredible resiliency of those arkins and their descendants. s in that experience i have been asked to describe one individual who fights for justice as much to teach us today. and when i'm introduced at poker gatherings, it's often mentioned i am the first african-american to represent the virginia and the u.s. house of representatives since reconstruction. and only the second in the history of the commonwealth. the first was john mursa langston who after successfully contesting his election in 1988 was finally seated as a representative in 1890. 103 years before i began my first term in congress. now my service in congress and that of so many other would not have been possible if it would not have been those who were forced to pave the way. the first black senators and representatives, elected dwight

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not just some americans. over these four centuries, african-americans have overcome the legacy of those chains to leave indelible and positive marks on our commonwealth and our nation. and so today we celebrate those contributions, especially the achievements of so many outstanding virginians who shaped the america we know today. men and women of achievement in industries as diverse as our nations. role models for all americans like booker t. washington and maggie walker. dred scott, oliver hill, doug wilder and henry marsh, hen henrietta lacks, so many more whose stories we will recall this weekend. each of these people has a story of great achievement of overcomi overcoming adversity, of blazing trails and opening doors for others, and their individual story is a part of this epic story that bring us here today. a story that began in tragedy on the shores at point comfort and saw a nation and a people through civil war and reconstruction, through jim crow and the civil rights movement to where we are today

enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. >> this holiday week, american history tv is on c-span3 every day with primetime features each night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, a discussion on aviation with aviation writer and filmmaker paul glenshaw on the first u.s. military airplane, the 1909 wright flyer. tuesday, the year 1969, with woodstock, free speech, and the gay rights movement. new year's day, wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. thursday, the forgotten battles of the civil war. and friday, the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bulge where adolph hitler launched a surprise counteroffensive against allied forces. watch american history tv all this week and every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv products are now available at the new c span online store. go to c-spanstore.org to see what's new and check out all of the products. >> more american history tv now with an event commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first africans in virginia and the dedication of a new visitors center. from fort monroe in

you win and become the first asian-american elected mayor of a major american city. then it is on to congress. you serve 10 terms, a total of 20 years in the house of representatives. you serve because you believe everyone needs representation when decisions are made, something japanese-americans did not have. so you listen and you help. you work long hours to get all the work done. the day comes when you and others in congress organize to seek justice for the wrongful internment of japanese americans during the war. no one was ever found guilty of a crime against america, and yet all of you still carry the stigma of being the enemy. this must change. you want for all japanese-americans an apology and restitution. it takes years. four times, you introduce the bill in congress before it finally passes and becomes known as the civil liberties act of as the civil liberties act of 1988. only then does healing begin. "there were good citizens who didn't rise up to protest what was happening to their japanese-american friends and neighbors in 1942, but if we speak out when

so american men and women she was just sort of in the country's military decision. every song came to a complete. you know told a shot to kill me and i see i would destroy. any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished them the offender and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's or when. the united states our culture sector contributed over a trillion dollars to the gross domestic product in 2017 along with $210

he is the 20th american to die. >> they focus with american lives.was precious, the only life one could report on, the only life one could consider as an american -- as a serious loss was an american life. >> tonight, as we have this program we hear from president bush on the high price these young men paid. we say goodbye to them. ♪ >> every human life is precious. yet i have to answer yes, it has been worth it. >> in the month following the invasion, panamanians were shocked to discover mass graves where hundreds, perhaps thousands of bodies were dumped into pits and buried by u.s. troops. >> there was a report of what some were calling a mass grave, which i think is a term that is imprecise. >> i didn't say we had any mass burials. there was one case of some number, i cannot prove to you that number. [crying] >> to date, there have been 50 mass graves throughout panama. the u.s. military was directly responsible for the killing of men, women, and children that are in these mass graves. these mass graves exist throughout panama and some are believe

no to american burning american flags burning as well the flags condemning the american actions and expressing support for those who the americans have targeted. let's not delve a little bit further into this story i'm happy to say we're joined live by middle east expert only been him for more on this unit good to see you just beginning with the embassy storming which is of course a developing story as we speak from what you've seen how big a security breach is that we know a fire has started stuff we believe evacuated. i think this is a big story. this storming of the embassy. shows the. iraqis are not willing to put up with the american attack on this group. has been. determined to try and revenge in old saw. symbolizes the wishes of the iraqis to get rid of the american presence in iraq we are speaking to you're in jerusalem at the moment we saw as really flags being burned as well at the protests right after the u.s. strikes what is the link in iraq or is just just the default thing for them to do. so therefore for them the american attack on the 5 bases of the iraqi militias on

we appreciate it. >>> "american history tv" is on social media. follow us at c-spanhistory. >>> this is "american history tv" on c-span3 where each weekend we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. >>> caroline fraser discusses the life and novels of laura ingalls wilder. she explains the differences between actual events in the author's life, "the little house on the prairie" books, and the television adaptation. the jefferson county, missouri, library hosted this event. >>> good evening, everybody. we are thrilled to see you here tonight. this is the third and final program in this series. we've kept ms. fraser very busy for the last two days and we've had wonderful crowds turn out each time. we sold out of the books. it's been really very satisfying and to have c-span here taping this to show on television is just icing on the cake. it's a wonderful thing to know that something so positive

you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv products are now available on the online store. store to seepan what's new for american history tv and check out the span products. each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and other historic places to learn about american history. alexandria,t virginia to see civil war related sites where women worked as nurses, sold goods to soldiers, and aided communities of newly freed slaves. the national women's history museum is dedicated to ensuring that the distinctive contributions of american women, to our history and our culture are written into our national narrative. the national women's history museum has sought to achieve this goal for 20 years. onlineently exist as an museum, but our goal is to develop a physical museum on our national mall. in 2014, congress passed a bipartisan act to create a congressional commission to evaluate the feasibility of a national women's history museum here in washington, d.c. >> commission to study a national women's history museum and further purposes