joanne freeman and our fantastic moderator stephanie mccurry for such an important. timely and illuminating discussion you really enabled us to better assess current challenges with faith in american government and the current climate of society through the lens of the kinds of lessons. we can draw from our history.vat of the heartland. but what does it mean to say that he was a president of the heartland? here i'm referring to his his what midwestern values hard work patriotism honesty duty and integrity. now those values are not

joanne freeman and our fantastic moderator stephanie mccurry for such an important. timely and illuminating discussion you really enabled us to better assess current challenges with faith in american government and the current climate of society through the lens of the kinds of lessons. we can draw from our history. so thank you both so much. you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past american history tv on c-span 3 created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. here 2018 was the centennial year of us participation in world war one and american history tv marked the anniversary with a variety of programs. how you do? my name is michael mccloskey. i'm here to talk to you a little bit about what the average soldier from the american expeditionary force in world war one with thought felt carried that sort of thing in reality when you were in the trenches in 1918. they would not have looked anywhere nea