just not for americans.sks for readers to look at a blog entitled refugee resettlement watch, who tracks refugees. under the auspices of dozens of religious organizations. she views a grand conspiracy to bring in jihadists and drug cartels and infiltrate the country. from this one can see despite their good intentions, religious groups were doomed from the start. the very contextualized approach that many did want but did not about not selling to talk in these churches. failing to see the historical trajectory of latino immigrants cast as a class of unassailable foreigners may have done well to lead the congregations into axioms like the catholic bishops who this past spring held mass across the border, symbolically mexicanscommunion to and mexican-americans alike and crossing the border themselves to listen to their stories. thank you. [applause] >> first i would like to thank all my fellow panelists. i have light bulbs going off in my head, all these great ideas popping in. i want to redo my paper, but i'm

it's a story that begins with the first american civil war, the american revolution which , divided americans between those who supported the revolution and those americans who favored the unity of the empire instead. it goes from the revolution through the 1780s and 1790s, first decade in the 19th century before we get to the war, and then it pays considerable attention to the post war consequences for upper canada during the 1820s and 1830s. now i argue this is a civil war between kindred peoples because the difference between the british and americans is not as clear-cut as we think of it in hindsight. we tend to think of the american revolution as making a clean break and making an american nationality that was distinct from the british, and i argue that process was only partial as of 1812. so the officers and soldiers on both sides experienced this. they see the people they are fighting against as potential converts to their side, and as people who are culturally essentially similar. so you got a great mixing in the united states as irish scots and singers people as well as people born i

american artifacts, all day today on c-span3's american history tv. >>> each week american history tv's american art facts visits museums and historic places. up next, we

for a complete schedule go to c-span.org. >>> each week, american risry tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. 1814, british and american naval forces clashed for 2 1/2 hours in cumberland bay. the battle was the culmination of six days of army and navy conflict. up next, we travel to platsburg where david, author of the final invasion platsburg, the year of 1812's most decisive battle, takes us on a tour of kilo indications to tell the story. >> pilot, joseph baron, ship "saratoga" september 11th, 1814, battle of plattsburgh in cumberland bay. this battle is lost to american history. at the first 100th anniversary, it was known by everyone. this was a human celebration. people knew how important the ballots was, but in the meantime things have changed. that poem became the national anthem, baltimore is in the center of a populated area, and people have been taught what took place there, and what took place there was very important, but it was a diversion. the real battle was up here. you see, if the british can take plattsburgh, there's no troops between here and

americans are doing it. that story when we return. >> a crisis on the border... >> thery're vulnarable... these are refugees... >> migrent kids flooding into the u.s. >> we're gonna go and see josue who's just been deported... >> why are so many children fleeing? >> your children will be a part of my group or killed... >> fault lines, al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... fault lines no refuge: children at the border only on al jazeera america >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >>> here is something you probably didn't know the mayor of london, boris johnson is an american citizens. he hasn't lived in the u.s. since five years old which is inconsequential to the internal residenceal service. if

that is sunday on "american artifacts" on american history tv. on wednesday, president obama announced major changes to american policy towards cuba including restoration of full diplomatic relations and easing of banking and travel restrictions. marsha schoultz presents what he deems are the failures of 10 administrations. the book is titled "that infernal little cuban republic: the united states and the cuban revolution." ins program was recorded 2009.

he has to get past the american force here at plattsburgh. it has 6,000 american soldiers here. he sends some of these troops west for a little while, gets the attention of the american government, and armstrong said they're not going to go down lane champlain. they're going to continue to fight in northern new york along lake erie and the niagara. so armstrong shifts the american army. he pulls of the 6,000 troops that are here, he pulls 4500 out, and he pulls them out in the last week of august, sends them um the mohawk valley, and then they're going to go by ship to the niagara. all that leaves here is 1500 regulars. these regulars are the people who couldn't make the march. they were the sick, the lame, the lazy, the prisoners in the stock ade, the band is here. so that's what's left behind and that would be what's defending on this road. so when prevost finds out that the american army has left, he starts his attack. he moves those soldiers, fewer than 15,000, to the canadian border, and he crosses the border on the 1st of september, and begins to march south. is the column

of the american fleet and sink them. when the british come into the bay and this whole thing starts, the british guns can fire a mile and a half, where the american guns are carrying aids for the most part. they can only shoot 500 yards. if the british royal navy is kept away, if they can sail outside the 5 hundreds yards, they can reduty the flart fleet has "confiance" comes into the bay, the wind shifts. now it's a westerly wind. in the bay, the winds are fitful. that confiance and needs a strong wind. as she comes into the bay, this is confiance outer anchor. it's shot off the front and sinks into the bay. we found it in 1996, in 40 feet of silt. there she is. ten feet long, ten feet wide. you can still see the gold paint on the side that says quebec. when that anchor is shot off, and commodore dowdy, the captain of the ship, trying to stay away from the american lines, he can't. he's drawn directly into the american fear. no matter what he does to try to turn the ship, the wind will not allow it. he's brought directl

easter american history tv on c-span3. >>> american history tv visited the mcck mcarthur memorial inginia. coming up next, in a previously recorded segment, author lee craig takes viewer calls on changes made to the u.s. navy during world war i under the leadership of secretary of the navy josephus daniels.

americans are doing it. that story when we return. >>> here is something you probably didn't know the mayor of london, boris johnson is an american citizens. he hasn't lived in the u.s. since five years old which is inconsequential to the internal residenceal service. if you are an american citizens living overseas, you have to pay tax to uncle sam. and the u.s. wants to levy a tax op boris johnson. he is not too happy but is yet to reelingish u.s. citizenship. which brings us to another group of north americans it overseas who are voluntarily vending her passports. officially it's called expatriation and it's a phenomenon happening in record numbers. mary snow has more on quitting america to save on taxes. >> would you give up your taxes? >> thousands of north americans are doing that, giving up the passports in record numbers in order to avoid paying a new tax as part of the foreign account tax compliance act, for f a.c.t. a. it has caused a three fold increase in the number of americans surrendering their

-- hardships on americans overseas. so says this man from the cato institute. >> it's causing heart ache and head aches for foreign financial institutions and overseas americans who are treated as pariahs because financial institutions view them as very, very costly to service. >>> the u.s. is one of the few countries which taxes its citizens based on nationally, not residency. faced with a larger tax bill thousands of americans living overseas would rather give up their passports than pledge allegiance to uncle sam. the i.r.s. reported: >> the united states is one of few countries to have extra territorial taxation. an american living and working in another country is required to pay tax to the country which it lives, but file a tax return to the u.s. no other civilized country does that. >> one thing is clear. for an increasing number of u.s. citizens, holding on to a bigger share of their money is more important than holding on to their american passport >>> ali spoke about this with the executive director of a not f

american colonizers tended to follow the same track that native americans did. they noticed native americans turning the land over that this grew on for crop growing. we did the same thing afterwards. by the 1930s, a lot of the lands that these grow on had pretty much disappeared. this tree is more familiar to people that are walking bare foot and have that ouch moment. often times what they are stepping on are these fruit capsules. this is from the sweet gum. it can exude a nice amber sap and actually native american children apparently would chip the bark of the tree and wait for the sap to harden for a few day and then harvest it for chewing. it's in the same family as witch hazel. it has a mildly pleasant fragrance. what i like is its dramatic fall color. fall color is something not to be taken for granted. all the people that line up for miles at skyline drive to see fall color really taking part of something quite special, because only eastern north america and eastern asia have mass displays of fall color. that's why a lot of our trees and asia's trees ar

of american national interest. he didn't say in southeast asia and he certainly did not save vietnam. it was sort of across the globe. question -- and by the way, the following day congress voted on this. the vote was 88-2 in the senate and 416-0 in the house. very important point here -- can you imagine that kind of vote today? unimaginable. there was still in those years a belief on the part of both parties that when he foreign to foreign policy, and certainly to war, both of us had to get together in the interest of the country. that does not exist today. it may exist in rhetoric, but that does not exist in action. and lyndon johnson at that time, the following day right after, called in a group of reporters. i remember very clearly. he said, "i want you all to be aware that what the congress did today was provide all, all, all authority to the president." he said the word "all" three times. he wanted to build it into the psyche of the nation that the president had the right to go to war whenever and however he

this is american history. and i think people don't really understand that, a lot of people don't understand that, coming into this exhibit. and this is that lesson. that this is american history. and this is a part of american history that, if you don't know it, then you really don't know american history. if you don't know about treaties, you don't know how the united states acquired the territory over which to govern. you don't know how the united states -- how the states are shaped the way they are. how the united states is shaped the way it is. you don't know any of these things without understanding the history of treaties. and you don't understand a lot of the place names. a lot of the names of states that we have. dakota is named of a native nation. oklahoma is red person. blood person. relative person. in one of the muskogee languages. so, there are lots and lots of things to know about the united states that, if you don't know what's called indian history or indian treaties, you don't know american hi

, the american flag. if you look down here, you can see in the late 1940s, early 1950s, visitors coming here to the fort to learn about where key saw the flag, was inspired to write the national anthem. here, people coming here right after world war ii, you know, you can see all the cars and everything. and you know, in the 1960s and early '70s during the vietnam era, a lot of military ceremonies were held here. these are called the tattoo ceremonies and they live on to this day where we invite guest units of the modern military, united states marine corps, army and navy to come here and perform on certain evenings in summer months. we still have change of command ceremonies for the military here. politicians and statesmen come here to walk the grounds for special programs. so really, ft. mchenry continues to inspire. just to wrap up this tour, i will show you a few places i think are kind of neat, some places that visitors don't always get to. so let's take a look at some behind-the-scenes stuff. taking

american consumers.asked economic analyst richard gill if the american jobs that were saved were worth the higher prices of cars that followed the restrictions. it's a difficult question to answer because it has so many ramifications. over the long run, exports and imports for a given country tend to balance out, as, indeed, they must for all nations considered together. since imports in a certain sense cost us jobs and since exports in a certain sense create jobs, there is in principle no long-run unemployment problem associated with free trade. hence, economists say let trade be free so that consumers can have lower car prices. that is, they can enjoy the gains from comparative advantage we discussed earlier. however, in the short run, increases of particular imports -- cars, textiles, whatever -- can definitely cost jobs in those industries. thus, against the gain of having cheaper goods for consumers, you can have painful dislocations in specific domestic industries. also, the long run over which exp

it's with you because you're an american. just like it's with me, because i'm an american. i have to live with this, too. >> was there something that hit you in the face as you started going back into the past that you didn't expect to find? >> it is the degree to which where we are right now is not a mistake and is not inexplicable. we think of the problem of racism, the quote unquote "negro problem" or the problem with the color line, you know, all sorts of variations of how it's talked about, as something that's really, really hard to figure out. and it's actually not hard to figure out. you can literally see a policy, you know, from the 17th century stretching up into, you know, we can say conservatively into the 1960s, into the 20th century, the mid-20th century here in america, designed to injure african americans. if you understand that and if you take that, it would not make sense that that would just sort of go away, that that injury would disappear within 50 years of half-halting, you know, reform and trying to make things better. it's not actually that hard to fi

so on the american side, the americans really only engaged in two major offenses, and helped in significantay in defending against the german spring offensive. american intelligence was, to be frank, not pivotal in the actual military operations on the ground. american intelligence played some role in the senior commanders, pershing and his staff and back in washington, sort of understanding the general strategic direction of what was going on, but intelligence was -- how to put this? the important thing about intelligence was that it was there performing the mundane day-to-day sort of incompetent stance order of battle. understanding who were the german forces across from us, how many of them are there? when you're planning the two american offenses, how many divisions can we expect the germans to bring in terms of reinforcements to help defend once we attack in how many days. sort of fairly -- i mean, yes, important, but not dramatic like big sort of turning point kind of we stole this key document and it tells us we need to go over there. none of that. you got some of that in world war i

caller: the american dream, the american way of life are two different things. the american dream people think of money. raised in the rock 'n roll era. there is a big difference in yes,you talk about, money, the first time the kids had money to spend. thathad the second cars parents would get them and stuff like that. freedom is a lot different than it used to be. you don't have the freedom you used to have. host: when did that change? and why? i think i started seeing it -- i used to be a democrat with mcgovern when he ran. i think i started seeing glimmers of what people wanted to do in this country. , back in theber 1960's, i could not vote until kennedy was elected. i voted for him. i can't remember whether mcgovern was before or after. it did not change every night, but it has gotten really bad. now, used to think murder was murder. if they have a lot of proof of it, you should pay for it. now, forget the murder part. now, they arrest you for what your mind thinks. they call them hate crimes. they're taking a comb to your life. if you say one thing wrong,

this is not in our american museum for african americans. i hope all americans to embrace this as their story. >> is there a year you're willing to say this will be open? >> i'm willing to say i'm working to get this done in a decade. >> 2006. you are talking 2015? 2016? 2018? >> i will be 62. i want to get this thing up so i it'stime to make sure growing pains are behind it. it is on the path we want it to be. then i can go away and teach. we have had individuals and corporations and we have begun to work with some foundations. >> where would you say the money is at the moment? how much do you think you have pledged? >> at this stage it is hard to tell. we're going through a lot with working with the foundations. michael would be to kick this off in a formal -- my goal would be to kick this off in a formal launch several years down the road. >> the opportunity to get in on the beginning of one of the most important institutions. the opportunity to help us preserve african-american culture because so much of that is still in people's home, i

you're watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. >> american history tv, history professor and author examines the role of the british caribbean islands during the american revolution. the author delves into why these 13 island colonies did not join the 13 american colonies in rebellion. he also touches on how the location and sugar business that dominated the caribbean islands ultimately played a factor in the decisive 1781 battle of yorktown. hosted by the society of the cincinnati, this is an hour. >> dr. shaughnessy is a vice president of monticello, the saunders director of the robert h. smith international center for jefferson studies, and thomas jefferson foundation, which supports ongoing international study of thomas jefferson and his world. use the professor of history at the university of virginia. he is a dual citizen of britain and the united states and after completing his undergradua

and the books that i chose were i realized how the american novel, the american fiction goes exactly against that class materialism of american dream. there are two sides to this dream, two contradictory sides to this dream. and the fact that most of the influential american heroes are outcasts and strangers, not just in huck finn, but even in the mystery tales in that magnificent writer named raymond chandler. they are, quote-unquote, little people, ordinary people who do not want material success. they are, in henry james' words, perfectly equipped failures. and i wanted to talk about them beginning with huck finn because i think huck finn is america's literary declaration of independence. and i felt that at the end of huck finn that people started moving out and going to other landscapes of america. so babbitt becomes the anti-huck which is the standardization of thought. that is what is really threatening us today, indifference, sleeping consciousness which is all the things that is talked about. okay. and then carson -- [inaudible] and then, of course, the great, the incomparabl

on american history tv on c-span3 at 8 a.m. eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. and then at 10 p.m., former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. that's this christmas day on c-span networks. for our complete schedule go to c-span.org. >>> coming up next, former intelligence analyst for both the state department and the cia mark stout explores the history of espionage during world war i. he focuses on four american agencies that participated in spying. the navy department, war department, state department and the expeditionary forces abroad, including the u.s. army. the kansas public library and the truman library institute hosted this hour-long event. >> well, thank you for that very warm introduction and very warm welcome. wasn't planning on talking about ufos, but when the t

the american people love our troops. they need a villain, the cia becomes the new baby killer, the new villain. i say anything, anything done to a terrorist associated with 9/11 or any other attack, anything gets my approval. >> thank you. agreed. coming up, anne coulter, and more. >> you see a trend developing here, professor gruber? >> i don't understand the question. >> it's a lot of stupid quotes you've made. that's the trend. >> obama care architect and m.i.t. economist jonathan gruber was grilled on capitol hill earlier today from laurps on both sides of the aisle demanding to know why he repeatedly refers to us, the american people, as stupid. coming up darrell issa weighs in on tonight's hear. did the democrats put american lives at risk by releasing the cia enhanced interrogation report? just go to facebook.com/hannity, twitter @seanhannity. tell us your answer. ♪ ♪ don't waste your money on a new set of speakers ♪ the holiday season is here, which means it's time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for pr

i believe with american advisers and american support, more focused american air power they could achieve great things. >> somebody on this side of the room, the one with the two fingers. that gentleman is also fine. >> quick two part question. do you see parallels between what is happening in iraq now and the spanish-american war which started with a splendid little war in the last decade of the century and ended up with this country called the philippines which we didn't expect and what we do with it and we end up with the ten year insurgency against muslim brothers, that is the first part. there is a book written by the british commander of the arab region. and he wrote from living with the arabs and the other armies that in arab countries is easy to conquer and impossible to occupy. anything we learned since you wrote that in the 1950s? >> as a fellow military historian, there is more continuity than discontinuity in military history. i like the analogy to the spanish-american war and the successful american counterinsurgency campaign in the philippines that followed, almost in arguab

it will be easier for americans to travel to cuba, and americans can use american debit and credit cards on the island, nobody represents the american values better than the american people and this contact will do more to empower the cuban people. and i believe that more resources should be able to reach the cuban people, so we are significantly increasing the amount of money that can be sent to cuba and the cuban people and the emerging cuban private sector, i believe that american businesses should not be put at a disadvantage and increased commerce is good for americans and for cubans, and we can facilitate transactions and people will be able to open accounts at cuban financial institutions and for american exporters to sell goods in cuba. i believe in the free flow of information but it has denied cuba's access to technology that empowers people around the globe, i agreed to increased communications, to be able to sell goods to the united states and other countries, these are steps i can take as president to change this policy. the embargo that is imposed for decades, i look forwar

that was in a time of injustice done against african americans who felt the american system was lost. they felt it would be easier to tear down the structure of the old. but for all of america's shortcomings, john lewis stood with those demanding the promise of america not be discarded but instead realized in full by being purified in practice. as lewis said to the crowd in 1963 during the march on washington, he wanted the people to protest across the nation. "until true freedom comes, until the revolution of 1776 was complete." the designs and principles of our founders are good, though our nation fell short for far too long. we honor john lewis today, not as a revolutionary, but as one, to paraphrase dr. king, came to cash the check the architects of our republic wrote, the promissory note demanding every american is guaranteed the right of liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness. john lewis held america to its promise, by doing so he put his life at risk, suffered ridicule and bodily harm. in history, he was vindicated. we honor you today for holding our nation to its highest

largest war we have ever fought in, the american civil war. it gives you a flavor of the international context. in ireland, there has been no major exploration of the role of irish people in the conflict. we have no national memorial to those of our immigrants who suffered as result of the american civil war. during the sesquicentennial event, we have not had a single conference to discuss it. my country's failure to remember her famine-era immigrants is hopefully something that is set to change. during an address in new orleans last week, the irish minister the equivalent of the secretary , of state, specifically referenced the experience the -- of the irish in the american civil war, and in so doing for the first time officially highlighted those people i have come to refer to as the forgotten irish. thankfully, they are most early not forgotten americans. they continue to be appropriately remembered by those in this nation that they came to be a part of all those years ago. as an irish person, i would like to extend my gratitude to you all

and americans killed in sinai.ike the israelis has been killed around the world. >> it seems that americans are going to be more at risk of being taken hostage. what can we do about this? >> well, americans and our alley, westerners all over. but we do what we continue to do. it's a little unusual to say, also, that, you know, well, this unsuccessful raid makes us a paper tiger. it doesn't make us a paper tiger. it's the reality of it. every operation, every hostage rescue attempt presents its own difficulties. and we have the best trained personnel in the world in trying to conduct these operations. but i think we've gotten to this place in our lives where the administration and everyone else wants a zero risk world. >> all right. >> but it doesn't work that way. >> i understand, mike, that you want to take that side. i think when you tell the world that, you know, we tried and we lost twice, there's in point in it. >> of course there's a point of it. >> hillary clinton thinks we need to empathize with our enemies

it was a kind of honeymoon for the american army and the american people.at home we were worrying about reconverting war plans to civilian production. i remember we were worrying we would be left with too many shells and too many tanks when the war ended. remember we were looking around for a job in some civilian industry that we wouldn't get cut short when the need for machine guns and need for bandages was suddenly over. well, the honeymoon ended.x on december 16th the triumphant cheers died down in europe and the christmas season of 1944 nobody was predicting that the war would end by saturday night or a week fromc(cúl wednesday. and today, with the good news from all fronts singing on all radios, let us remember the dying days of 1944 the infantry remembers those days. they were not being reconverted for civilian production. nor were they worried then or ever that they would be left with too many shells or too many tanks. the army had come fast and far last fall. we had developed a certain tendency to become complacent. complacency came to an end in tim

thousands of americans are doing just that.up their passports in record numbers in order to avoid paying a new tax as part of the foreign account tax compliance act. the critics say it has caused a three-fold increase in the number of americans surrendering their passports. created in 2010 by congress. it was initially inteched to crack down on overseas tax cheats. the congressional research service projected it would generate $8.7 billion over ten years. the law was inspired by the testimony of the former banker turned whistleblower. he described how they used techniques to help americans avoid paying taxes. the bank turned over the names of 4500 u.s. account holders to the u.s. in response the law was enacted in 2010. it imposes taxes on people who are not cooperating with the u.s. to date over 77,000 institutions and 112 countries have signed off on the law. but that still leaves 83 countries worldwide that are not compliant including russia, argentina, monaco, because nia, pakistan, and vietnam. critics say it goes too far

and not just the american war, but the french war and this long conflict that preceded american groundorces even arriving in vietnam. so i would suggest that again another important portion of strategy is thinking about proportionality. and i think the use of our nuclear arsenal in the 1960s might have -- might have kind of overstepped that boundary of proportionality. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm wondering if the real lesson of vietnam westmoreland sort of hinted at it, from what you said. was that all politics are local. and the domestic enemies are the ones that count. and we can go from there to -- well, from vietnam to iraq, afghanistan, libya and ukraine. and america -- well, we don't seem to appreciate that. and where's the responsibility when saddam hussein was out of the way, the shia came to power and turned on sunni. and the kurds were like secondary enemies even though they have oil money. and obviously, you know, they are a kind of enemy. where is the responsibility on the part of military advisers to let the civilian advisers know that all politics are local? >> clearl

this includes 10 million american men and 18 million american women. two, real median weekly earnings are lower today than in the year 2000. median family income is down $4,000 since november of 2007. our wages for families have declined dramatically. $4,000 is, what, $350 a month. so it's in this context that we must consider the economic fallout from the president's unconstitutional executive amnesty in plain violation of law and the expressed will of the american people, the president has ordered five million work permits to be issued for those illegally here p. these illegal workers will now be able to compete for any job in america. people say, well, they're already working. they're already in the labor force. well, many of them are not. many of them are working part time. in los angeles we found that half, more than half of those who entered since 2010 are unemployed. one reason may be they're unlawfully here and they can't get a good job at the power company, the count commission, the city hall, working at construction companies, good-paying job

the american dream is a luxury for those who have time to dream. and we don't.e are too busy working. so to hear people say what do you think about the economy, and what do you think about it's direction, i see record corporate profits and $603 billion that wal-mart is costing the general economy, while i am being told that i should feel bad about myself because i am not doing better, again, one third of the country, 45 million americans, we are not getting ahead, we are not seeing these record profits we don't get profit sharing. and if you believe in a free market, if you say that incentives are a thing that people respond to, i am here to tell you that the incentives are off for so many millions of thaws we are about to run into serious trouble. >> it is true, isn't it, that bosses are asks for more than just your presence and punning chew wallty? they want you to compose yourself in a certain way, and behave in a certain way, in addition to merely doing base line compliance. >> absolutely. they are not paying decent livable wages, they are not providing upon

i had to read american history in order to understand american reality. and i discovered that even that soldier, the first president, who along with benjamin franklin said that we as public servants should not be paid because money corrupts, also wanted to have a national university at the capitol, and he along with madison, with adams, with jefferson wanted to have pluck schools, public -- public schools, public education. and what he said was that the basis of public happiness is an education founded on literature and science. now we have s.t.e.m. again, read walter isakson. why -- isaacson. some of the greatest scientists, he talks about einstein, and then he talks about steve jobs. some of the greatest scientists, they were musicians, they were philosophers, they knew literature. einstein talks about the fact that knowledge -- meaning scientific knowledge -- is limited, but imagination encircles the world. steve jobs, when he gives up university, this was no paypal perp to pay him, you know, to drop college, you know? but he then goes and audits in ca

. -- by the americans. the number of enslaved muslims in the united states probably rose before the close of the atlantic slave trade. it caught many african muslims in its net who were enslaved and shipped to the united states, which had drastically increased importation of enslaved people in anticipation of the closing of the trade in 1808. sometimes, these enslaved muslims were apparent to otherwise blind white americans. presbytery krugman charles al qaeda jones noted that the mohammedian africans have been known to accommodate christianity. god, they say, is allah and jesus christ as mohammed. different countries have different names for the religion. jones' observation signal discomfort with african-american spirituality. despite the visual hourly of african-american muslims, most enslaved muslims remained invisible to their captors. this, i think, was the beginning of an erasure. it remains largely hit -- opaque to historians. refusal to acknowledge this part of the african-american muslim past contr

you know, it's not about american life and then black life. it's black life as american life. american lyric for me keeps that marriage singular. >> given that so much of what we are experiencing today, brian stevenson just made this point moments ago, and here you come now echoing his comment, that so much of what we are experiencing today with regard to the contestation of the humanity of black people, black boys, in particular, has its linkages all the way back to segregation and prior to jim crow and jane crow and prior to that slavery and what you've just basically laid out. and yet that is a story that so many americans who don't look like you and me are tired of hearing. so if you're telling me -- you see where i'm going with this -- if you're telling me what we're dealing with is not disconnect from what happened today but americans today don't want to hear about what happened yesterday, then how do you -- >> how do you continue? you show that racism is as much a part of whiteness as it is a black life. >> race is all of our problem. >> it's all of our problem. so that

this was when americans, many americans truly believed they were ridding the world of fascism and riddinge world of racism and they took their country's claims to freedom and racial democracy seriously. a film like it happened in springfield and a film like the springfield plan which minis city started to copy the springfield planned those were serious efforts during wartime. and when the war ended it seemed like it was a bland and all the air from it was released. the war was a time when the nation was thrust together despite some obvious instances. it was a race riot in harlem and there was one in detroit and some portrayed wartime is a time of absolute harmony but in relative terms it was a time that the nation pressed together in tickets ideal seriously. >> host: one of the things he made very plain is that northern blacks had an advantage over southern blacks. they had their franchise. >> guest: that's right and that's where i think the books that paint the north is similar to the south, you know i think those books are correct up to a point but in the north african-americans could v

latinos have never been viewed as sufficiently american enough so to fill that vacuum the americans of criminality, contagion, all slowly lead to the erosion of the rule of law in this alternative immigration narrative. it is this fear that the american way of life is being abandoned. the rule of law is a signifying order that orders fairness and justice and it leads to the idea that to the american means to be law-abiding. since many undocumented persons are technically breaking the law it is questionable whether they can ever be good americans. briefly, the history to the united states after 1848 becomes much or complicated when crossing the border becomes an act of 1929. for much of the 20th century cut the history is one of mass deportation. mostly to mexico and occurring when economic pressures dictated the pressure resources of local, state and federal governments to be used to support americans. the first such in the 1930s when only half a million are sent back to mexico. the next deportation occurs in the 1950s in the operation went back, not my word. over 1 million people were

easter american history tv on c-span3. >>> american history tv visited the mcck mcarthur memorial inginia. coming up next, in a previously recorded segment, author lee craig takes viewer cal

eastern here on american history tv on c-span3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. from the founding of the united states, george washington encouraged the creation of a garden in the nation's capital that would inspire and educate citizens on plants and their uses. this vision was realized in 1820 when congress created the u.s. bow tannic garden on the capital grounds. the most recent addition, the national garden, features plants of the

. >> you're watching american history tv, 40 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span herory or information on schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. tv recentlyhistory visited the macarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia for the world war i centennial symposium. oring up next, timothy describes how world war i was different from previous wars. this introduction is under a half hour. present dr. timothy or. in american es military history. he has written about the lives of union soldiers. american naval history and virginia history. dr. timothy or. [applause] >> on september 19, 1917. one of medal honors. the medal e admitted was a small conversation for his services. the more he looked at it the more despicable than medal.. i was left alone with across, i have thoughts in my mind with those that were with me. it resembled a grotesque impression of the war brutality. focused upon the colors, solid black with a sickly yellow edge. he began nightmares. he wrote, it seems like progress is made of sh

visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of american history programming everyweekend on c-span3.