born japanese-americans were american citizens. citizenship was japanese, but because of the family connnections, they decided to migrate from japan to america. that is when the diversification of the americans started. it started to include not only u.s. survivors of the bomb, but also japan born and immigrant survivors of the bomb. later, they all came together. but it took a long time to come to america. it really varied. delia: there was a propensity of the japanese-americans in internment camps who did not want to talk about their experiences. what about the people, japanese-americans who had been in hiroshima or nagasaki, when they came back to the u.s., did they talked about their experience? naoko: the answer to that is largely no. one practical reason why they were being silent about the experiences is that if they come out as survivors, then their health insurance policy may be taken away from them. radiation was considered to be one of the pre-existing conditions in of the health care system. they were very afraid that t

number five, american democracy. how would american democracy pan out since the civil war? in american democracy, they decided, it would be refined but also they decided it would be extended, and that is where the 14th and 15th amendments come in and later the 20th amendment. it is going to be refined and it is going to be extended. it is not going to be the old jacksonian democracy. we're not going to stop at that point. number six, repudiation of the states' rights theory, and we are debating that today in the supreme court. over that issue, it is about states rights. they made a decision that the states rights theory was going to be repudiated. then they repudiated it by passing the 14th amendment in 1868. it connects the bill of rights to the states. it also gives the federal government citizens which it did not have in 1787. and finally, they rejected the elite class as the basis of the american social order. that one is still going on about , the disparity of wealth and 1% of the nation controlling the rest of the nation. that was the decision made after the civil war

warning japanese-american -- u.s. born japanese-americans were american citizens. someone citizenship was japanese, but because of the family conditions, they had an estate and decided to migrate from japan to america. that is when i versification of the americans started. it started to include not only u.s. survivors of the bomb, but also japan born and immigrant survivors of the bomb. later, they all came together. but it took a long time to come to america. it really varied. delia: naoko: there was a propensity of the japanese-americans in internment camps who did not want to talk about their experiences. what about the people, japanese-americans who had been in hiroshima or nagasaki, when they came back to the u.s., had they talked about their experience? naoko: the answer to that is largely no. one practical reason why they were being silent about the experiences is that if they come out as survivors then their health insurance policy may be taken away from them. radiation was considered to be one of the pre-existing additions -- pre-existing conditions in of

the chance to stand up for american workers american farmers, american entrepreneurs and american manufacturers. it's a chance to stand with americans for economic growth, opportunity and good jobs. selling products stamped made in america to the many customers who live beyond our borders is key. that's true across our entire country. it's true in my home state of kentucky. we know that kentucky already boasts more than half a million jobs related to trade. we know that nearly a quarter of kentucky's manufacturing workers depend on exports for their jobs. and, mr. president, we know that manufacturing jobs tied to exports pay about 18% more than nonexport-related jobs. so there is every reason to knock down more unfair international trade barriers and bring more benefits back to americans right here at home. according to one estimate, kentucky alone can see thousands more jobs and millions, millions more in economic investment if we enact smart agreements with countries in europe and in the pacific. we also know how important these types of agreements are to our national security. especially in

think about that. 6000 american civilians, not american sailors off of u.s. naval ships, but american citizens plying their trade on board american merchant vessels are going to be removed from the decks by british warships and forced to serve in their navy. this obviously would not be put up with today, 200 years ago americans are up in arms. also the british and the french , are also seizing american ships. 900 vessels are seized by great britain and france before 1812. the british are seizing ships that they believe are bound for france. they don't want americans helping out the french economy because they're at war with france. not to be outdone, the french don't want to supply great britain either. they both passed conflicting orders that say you can trade with us, but not the other guys. you're in the proverbial rock and a hard place if you are an american merchant. the french are seizing ships and also impressing sailors. but great britain has a bigger navy. also who was our ally during the , revolution? right. who was our enemy? no matter what the fre

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there's chinese americans, there is korean americans.ific islanders i don't think have made that much of an inroad as have maybe the indians, for example, in tech. i'm from india, originally, but what i see is that the asian-american population, in general, has made inroads in every regard, from college education to jobs in the tech industry to jobs in the creation of tech -- tech-industry jobs. and in venture capital, also, we see a lot of people of asian origin in positions of founding roles. so i think -- that has happened for sure, kristen. i think there might be a gap, though, between, i think, pacific islanders and some of the other groups of -- and i don't know how those numbers are, but i think i would like to see more of an inclusion of the pacific islanders, for example, into stem studies and stem education and in tech in general. >> but even within the asian-american community, there is a lot of economic diversity. there are still a lot of legal problems that the community faces. even with the recession, we've seen san francis

, whites, native americans, asian americans. even now we live in a context where after the great recession wall street is back up with record profits, and wall street and the nasdaq and different hedge funds. regular, average, ordinary americans and working class and working poor are doing worse than ever. one thing i can add is when we talk about thugs the reason why it is racist is because we only call african american people thugs. if we call the wall street guys who committed corporate crimes and got off scott free and did not go to jail, if the president was calling them thugs i would have no problem with the word. when you frame a word just and directed at one racial ethnic group, it is racist. the whole reason why the calling of african-americans thugs is problematic is because we are only directing that isat them. so the whole idea that we are thugs, we are savages is racist, and it ignores the political context of genuine racial and economic exportation. there is a reason why hillary clinton said let's end mass incarcer

i have faith in the american people. i believe we are smart enough to correct our mistakes i believe we are intelligent enough to reck nice talent, energy and education, including what women have to offer, and i know from my travels to small towns of america, that we have a vast potential which can and must be put to constructive use in getting this great nation together. i know that millions of americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the air to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible. [ applause ] >> americans all over are demanding a new sense ability and now philosophy of government from washington m. instead of sending spies on participants at earth day, i welcome efforts of concerned citizens of all ages to stop the abuse of our environmentment instead of watching a football game on television while young people beg for attention of their president concerning our actions abroad, i would encourage

an american flag on it, but it might not be american.might be a deception, in violation of international law but it could still be a deception, so the germans launched the submarine campaign, and if germany went ahead with unrestricted summary warfare, he would bring the united states into the war, and so that is what happened on january 9 19 17. the kaiser and admirals and generals sat down in a big conference, and they said, should we go ahead with this, and the kaiser said yes. the admirals wanted it. the kernels wanted it. they thought this was the big wonder weapon. as it turned out, it was not. you would lose a lot of ships. you would never lose so many that you would lose the war, and the americans coming into the war boy, one of the things of the strategy and foreign policy in the first world war is that germany, a rising power like the united states, manages to turn into its enemies both britain and the united states, and that sealed their fate in the first world war, and much of it has to deal with the submarine menace. >> than

and, he posited in a speech at the white house, suffers for african american men, 180,000 african americans who had fought in union ranks. agency run by the military that would aid the slaves' transition into freedom. and he commented at a speech at the white house, separates for at least some african-american men. 180,000 african-americans who had fought in the union ranks and as he would say, very intelligent african-americans because he had met people like douglas. at that speech that he was giving, john looks good was in the crowd and he says, you know what that means? that leaves edwards citizenship and now i will put him through. the following good friday, one week after lee's surrender, john wilkes booth assassinated lincoln at ford theater. a long and often chaotic struggle to define the war meeting began between the new president andrew johnson, the republicans in congress, and the justices of the supreme court. upon taking power, andrew johnson immediately tried to define the meaning of the war unilaterally. he was only in office for one month when he announced a sweeping reconstr

changing the whole middle east. >> among them were americans. >> i met many americans. i met many germans and french people and english people, but many americans. guys from new jersey. >> there were also american weapons. soldiers carry them like a badge of honor, even the children. >> how old are you? >> this child soldier, 12 and 13 years old, now go to what isis call schools. >> they start a new school system, which i found is completely wrong, completely crazy. it's a system. >> isis officials trodded out a few prisoners for totenhofer to talk to. this man is one of a group of kus kurdish soldiers. >> when did they capture you? >> he told totenhofer he was afraid. >> shortly after, isis put kurdish prisoners in cages, dressed in orange jumpsuits about. they were paraded through the streets and isis made a propaganda video out of it. it's hard to believe, but according to totenhofer, there are people in moos you will who say they are better off under the islamic state. almost all are sunni and they have suffered at the hands of iraq's shiite government. >> first of

the raid was american improvisation at its finest.and american strike on the heartland of japan so soon after the attack on pearl harbor provided americans with a much needed boost in morale. although the raid resulted in minor damage to its targets, it had a profound impact on japanese strategy. causing military leaders to be more concerned about attacks on japan than they otherwise would be. the two surviving doolittle raiders commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the raid just last month. ladies and gentlemen, three b-25 mitchell bombers, two of them b-25s, one actually a marine corps pbj 1 livery. in early june of 1942, as the japanese and american navies converge on a tiny volcanic island in the middle of the pacific ocean, the stage was set for a dramatic shift in the momentum of the pacific theater. tipped off to japanese plans by u.s. cryptographers, they searched hundreds of miles of ocean for enemy ships. one found a japanese fleet storming toward midway and radioed the information to american military planners. this, ladies

women and men, black people and white people, native americans, irish americans, latino americans, jewishstian and muslim americans. young and old. rich and poor. workers and business owners. gay, lesbian, transgender, and straight americans. all of us are needed. [applause] o'malley: there is no such thing as a spare american. there is however, a growing gap of justice in our country today. it is the gap between the strong, just nation our children need for us to be and the nation we are in danger of becoming. for today, in america, 70% of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago. this is the first time that that has happened on this side of world war ii. today in america family-owned businesses and farms are struggling to compete with ever larger concentrations of corporate power. 50 years ago, the largest employer was gm and the average gm employee could send his kid to college on two weeks wages. today in america, with dreams of college and a decent paying job at a secure retirement slipping beyond the reach of so many, the american dream seems for so many of us to be

it's one way to prove you care about american jobs and american workers. one study tells us that knocking down unfair trade barriers in places like europe and the pacific could boost our economy by as much as $173 billion. and that it could support as many as 1.4 million additional american jobs. in kentucky, the study says it could bring almost $3 billion in new investment and support more than 18,000 additional jobs. that's in my state alone. we know a lot in the commonwealth about the benefits of trade. more than half a million kentucky jobs are already related to international trade. and we know that that kinds of jobs typically pay more than other jobs. kentuckians also know that a lot of rhetoric on the other side on this issue doesn't always stand the test of fact and scrutiny as president obama put it. the 7,000 workers at the toyota plant in georgetown, kentucky, might agree. following the trade agreement we recently enacted with south korea, they're now working hard to export camries -- camrys made in kentucky to korean consumers. given the overh

and they tell me they love the american musicals. there is a memory, there's a cultural affinity, that they are not afraid of that. they may be afraid of other spects, but that one i don't believe that they are afraid of. >> on this side of the it straits of florida, is there an idea that cubans cling to the revolution, have less affection than they do when you talk to itself. >> in my experience cubans are proud of the two good things that the revolution did, which was extending the public health services and educational systems, to all levels of cuban society. that is about it. they are not proud of the political system. they'd like to see the return of democracy. they'd like to see the return of free fellow of ideas, commerce and travel. you know, it's a mixed bag. >> right now those ferry companies are lining up to shuttle people from key west. yourself? >> i - before i tell you that, i will tell you that i had an aunt who was older, lived in the united states, and was part of the generation that was afraid of airplanes, she used

many will then fight the americans who arrive. seeing the americans as invaders. this is the story of american intervention. self-motivated for interests of self-interested purposes but confronting this complexity of a demand for intervention and opposition at the same time. we will see this story in the philippines as well. they are attempting targets for the united states when the united states goes to war with spain. the proximity to china, to this big market in china. the ability to get into that market is what motivates many americans to think about the philippines. here are the islands. the united states intervenes in the philippines because of its potential use for the united states as a staging ground for asia and it is the center of the spanish fleet in asia. once they go to war with spain the u.s. naval fleet under admiral george dewey attacks the spanish. he have left the philippines and let the united states in charge. the american plan was to take manila. everyone seem and noah? use manila as a base, and let the filipinos rule themselves. it doesn't w

he is an american soldier, and as an american soldier, he belongs to everybody.ho wrote to me of her brother, private class stephen dennis gave his life in 2004. she said remember him not as 1253rd war casualty, but the 6'7" inch burst of light he was on the world. these sons and daughters, these brothers and sisters, who lay down their lives for us, they belong to us all. they are our children too. we benefit from their life, their positive influence on the world, and it is our duty, our eternal obligation to be there for them too. to make sure our troops always have what they need to carry out the mission, to make sure we care for all those who have served. to make sure we honor all those who we have lost. to make sure that we keep faith with our military families. to make sure we never stop searching for those who are missing, or trying to bring home our prisoners of war. we are greatful for the families of our pow mias. this may be the first memorial day since the end of our war in afghanistan, but we are acutely aware that our men women in uniform still stan

born japanese-american, u.s. citizens, but also some family members of those american citizens, whose citizenship was japanese. but because of the family connections and actual family members they already had in the states, decided to migrate from japan to america. that's when the diversification of american survivors group started. it obviously started to include not only u.s.-born survivors of the bomb, but also japan-born but now u.s. immigrant survivors of the bomb. later on, they came together. it took them a long time to sort of come to america. it varied. >> there was a propensity of japanese-americans who had been in the internment camps, not to talk about their experiences. not even with their families, their children, later on. what about the people who -- the japanese-americans who had been in hiroshima and nagasaki, when they came back to the united states, did they talk about what they experienced? >> i think the answer to that is largely no. because actually, one practical reason why they remained s

eastern on american history tv on c-span3. as a complement to the series c-span's new book is now available, "first lady's: presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women." providing lively stories of these fascinating women creating illuminating, entertaining, and it firing rate. it is available as a hardcover or as an e-book through your favorite bookstore or online look seller. >> american history tv, a look at the role of the u.s. supreme court during reconstruction. the university of maryland history professor michael ross lectures on the tensions between president andrew johnson and the republican dominated congress. the short-lived period of southern black legislatures and how hate groups, such as the ku klux klan, used the 14 amendment to promote white supremacy full stop the series is part one of four on reconstruction hosted by the supreme court historical society for stop the is introduced by supreme court justice anthony kennedy. this is just under one hour. [applause] justice kennedy: thank you a

an american strike on the homeland of japan so soon after pearl harbor provided americans with a muchded boost in morale. although the raid resulted in only minor damage, it had a profound impact on japanese strategy, causing concern about attacks on japan than they otherwise would have been. they commemorated the 30th anniversary just last month. ladies and gentlemen, three b 25 mitchell commerce, two of the be 25's, one of them actually a marine corps pbj-1. in june of 1942, as the japanese and american navies converged on a tiny volcanic island in the middle of the pacific, the sta ke was set for a dramatic shift in momentum. caps off to japanese plans by cryptographers who had broken japanese naval codes, pby catalina's were deployed from midway to search hundreds of miles of ocean for enemy ships. one of them found a japanese fleet steaming toward midway and radioed the information to american military planners. this, ladies and gentlemen, is the pby pby catalina. from three u.s. carriers wildcat fighters flew escorts for bombers, but problems and bad luck plagued americans as th

i'm chinese, chinese american specifically. aalead helped me not only accept my culture but embrace that i'm living in america. alead taught me leadership skills which i apply being involved in the local student organizations at my university. and currently i'm a part of a startup group called ican enter college ate collegiate chinese american network. through alead i have a lifelong relationship with my mentor and many others. >> so this group has really made all the difference for you? >> i believe so. i think that programs like these really do help youth develop as a human being and professionally. it just teaches you a lot of life skills that i think without alead i wouldn't have known before. before alead, i wasn't particularly passionate about anything. but after joining alead, i think i've become really interested in asian-american politics. i help people more like donate to organizations. i help at the soup kitchen whenever i can. >> you're making a big impact. >> thank you. >> you've got a big dinner on the 3rd of june

[applause] >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of american history on c-span3. follow us on twitter. for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. all weekend long american history tv features fort lauderdale florida. in 1945, flight 19 left the naval station in fort lauderdale on a training mission and disappeared. the disappearance prompted one of the largest air and sea searches in history and fueled the myth of the bermuda triangle. together with partners, the city tour staff visits sites exploring the rich history of a fort lauderdale. learn more about fort lauderdale all weekend here on american history tv. >> today we are in the original downtown fort lauderdale and it was here, many years ago 1896 that is when the railroad came. and then the people came. this is a historical family -- historical property. this was designed for archives. this is the king -- home. and we also have the schoolhouse which

the first is american strength.his is an idea that stems from a simple truth, that the world is at its safest when america is at its strongest. when america has the mightiest army and navy and air force, and marine corps and coast guard and intelligence community, the result is more peace, not more conflicts. to ensure our strength never falters we must always plan ahead. it takes forethought to design and many years to build capabilities we may need at a moments notice. to restore american strength, my first priority will be to adequately fund the military. this will be a priority even in times of peace and stability. although the world today is neither peaceful and are stable. we need to undo the damage caused by this sequester, which is why i have endorsed at the national defense panels recommendations that we return as soon as possible to secretary gates' fiscal year 2012 budget baseline. adequately funding the military will allow us not only to grow forces but also to modernize them, which in turn will allow le

. >>> recently, american history tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. louis, missouri. we spoke to professors and students about their research. >> naoko wake, an assistant professor at michigan state university. tell us about your research with japanese americans in hee roiro hiroshima and nagasaki. >> i am doing research on those born in the states but happen to be in either hiroshima or nagasaki in 1945, at the end of world war ii, when the bomb was dropped on the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. their numbers are not huge but substantial. there were somewhere between 20,000 to 30,000 asian-americans. mostly japanese americans, second generations but third generations as well who were in hiroshima. hiroshima as a prefecture is the area in japan at the time who had sent the largest number of japanese immigrants to america before the world war ii started. so in the 19 teens, 20s and 30s. out of those 20,000 to 30,000 people, there were about 3,000 people, japanese americans, who survived the bomb in hiroshima. later on decided to come to america.

native americans irish-americans, asian americans, latino americans, jewish, christian, and muslim, young and old, rich and poor gay, lesbian, transgender, and street americans. all of us are needed. [applause] gov. omalley: in our idea of country, there is no such thing as a spare american. of injustice in our country today. it is the gap between the strong, just nation that our children need us to be and the nation that we are endangered of becoming. today in america, 70% of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago. this is the first time that that has happened on this side of world war ii. today in america, family-owned businesses and farms are struggling to compete with ever larger concentrations of corporate power. 50 years ago, the largest employer was gm and the average gm employee could send his kid to college on two weeks wages. today in america, with dreams of college and a decent paying job at a decent retirement slipping beyond the reach of so many, the american dream seems for so many of us to be hanging by a thread. yet, for america -- the final thread that

own american government.ng worse? whether the american dream becomes a lie or an ongoing truth that our children can enjoy, that our children can live, that our children can build upon is really up to you and to me. it is up to all of us. not about wall street. it is not about the big banks. it is not even about big money. it is about us. it is about whether together we, the people, still have the will to become great americans. [applause] gov. omalley: i believe that we do. my decision is made. now, you will all have a vital choice to make next year for the good of your families and for the good of the country that you love and the country do you carry in your hearts. it is a choice that people will ask you about for years to come. so, when a child with the world of learning ahead asks you who you voted for, i what you to be able to tell that child, i voted for you. when you see a dad sweating through another long shifts in order to give his daughter a better future, i want you to be able to tell that dad, i

american pharoah just turned it into his race. >> impressive win by american pharoah in the preakness i like this one even better than his race in the derby. he did go so wide and lost so much ground at churchill downs but this to me was super impressive. >> if you average up the number of hits between the two races it's 32 between the two, so i don't think he had to hit him at all. >> well, bob baffert has done it again and as american pharoah goes back to the stable after this resounding victory in the preakness, he'll head on to belmont park. and bob and bodie and jill will be there too. it should be quite a celebration tonight. and for the zayats, want to see how them party and celebrate they know how to do it. victor espinoza celebrates another victory in a triple crown race. ♪ ♪ after more than a century of developing some of the world's most crashworthy vehicles, mercedes-benz is leading an entirely new era in safety technology: cars that intuitively know how to help avoid crashes... altogether. it is technology of the future that could one day make accidents a thing... of the

at the time of the american revolution, about 1/6 of the american population formally belong to two a church. by the 1860's, that is up to one third. it doubles. you can argue whether that is inaccurate marker of religious engagement. it probably isn't one -- stephen: let me interrupt you. that is kind of surprising, isn't it? 162 one third -- 1/6 two one third, that's very low? david: the standards for church membership were quite high. what it took to qualify as a member of the congregation could be quite different. also, all the people in the areas that would allow for church membership. that is not to say that one third of americans out of themselves as religious or had a relationship with god or reporting on a regular basis, but this is just the measure of former -- formal church membership. another way is to look at specific congregations specific denominations. for instance, the baptists have about 60,000 members in the 1790's to about 400,000 by 1820's, and the 1840's, that doubles again. it is a denomination growing at a very rapid rate. and that is something we should also t

taxi company is separate from american dispatch the company itself can be american cab running under someone else's capture you can have 28 cabs but provide a radio to service the entire city you need to do something to service the entire city saw have you had to revoke other permits under the regulations. >> we have a not we try to work with people. >> can you stayed how many have been on probation and gotten off probation. >> we have a company their placed an probation we give them 90 days they come back and we say we've created voucher account their coming back with their plan and stated here's the voucher account showing you the lawyer firms and hospitals to improve their contracts they'll like to join in with another dispatch to grow so thankful asked us for permission to move forward and they've signed on with i think they've been signed on with fly whole but done something different we place others on probation and but we may place them back on we have a smaller company that picked up and fell behind we ended up placing them back on their radio is not up to pawar and another c

he would say it's the struggle to protect the american way of life without damaging the american wayf life. and he would point out ways that some of the measures that we took in putting together what he called the homeland security state have actually imperiled prospects for the american way of life, for american liberty for longer than the end of this century. he would say there's been much more damage done by measures here at home than could ever be done by isis abroad. john do you have something to say about senate. >> i think you're right that is certainly what jim argues in his new book, and to an extent he has a point. but in every war we have fought, there have been violations of american civil liberties our freedoms as a people have been restricted. this is true during the american civil war both world wars, and certainly very true during this very unusual war against stateless enemy this war against radical islamic extremism. that said, the threat is, i think, more real than jim contends in his book. the threat of the islamic state in particular, so al qaeda 1.0 was bin lade

the american mirage as it were? >> the american mirage. maybe that one is not accurate and i really find it difficult to talk about 1.4 billion people sitting in an urban area with a highly educated chinese who has been educated in a few western countries versus the farmers out in the rice fields. i don't want to get into that one. all i'm saying is i am an american. i've got the history here. my brother was shot in vietnam. we buried my dad in 1994. he had asian steel in his body. this was preventable. it could have been prevented if i -- we had a more accurate view of which way china was going. that's it, that's my only case. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> james bradley will be upstairs to sign the "the china mirage" at the signing table in just a few minutes. thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] >> jesse was born in charles town in 1859. he was a local boy if you will. he was born with a slight defect in his right eye. as i looked really wide and because of that people made fun of him quite a bit. his family his school

we bring those $2.2 trillion back, invest them in american jobs, create american factories here, andwould have those jobs, and we would have that sense that we are rebuilding america, we are industrialized and, we are creating the excitement about the 21st century. the other important part is, we all know that in the 21st century it is not just having companies willing to invest and small businesses willing to get started, ready to get started. it is having an educated workforce. right now, our educational system, particularly in low income, inner-city, minority communities is an embarrassment and a moral disgrace to this country. we need to have schools that work and teachers who can teach, and right now, in many inner cities in this country, we have schools where we know that those teachers can't teach and the schools can't educate, and yet we are telling those parents generally minority parents, that we are going to require your kid to go to a school we know cannot teach that child. when we think about the jobs and opportunity in the 21st century we know education matters. all we

almost 40 years ago i was writing a book about harry truman who told me the american president of american presidency is the greatest office ever created by the mind of man. i. i agree but it takes a man with political talent to make this arrangement work when it is considered a co- mingled arrangement. that is why that is why an awful lot of presidents have not been able to do it. i hope readers will find enlightenment as well as wisdom in this exploration of the fundamental differences between jefferson and washington. they remain crucial to the happiness and prosperity of the united states. thank you for listening. [applause] [applause] >> if there are questions i will take a few. >> i want to ask you how you recount jefferson's change of mind buying louisiana and even though the embargo is not a great idea why the exercise of presidential power? how did he suddenly decide this isn't so bad? >> every man in congress came to him and said if you don't buy this as fast as possible i don't know what we will happen. we might have to string you up. he was absolutely overwhelmed. yet even afte

blood on american soil. this was a lie. everyone knew it was a lie. the wig party, the opposition party, lincoln's party, everybody in congress new the land where the soldiers had been sent where the army was occupying him always been considered mexican land. a lot of congressmen write privately to each other after polk makes the statement that the idea this is american soil blood was shed on is dubious. the fact is everyone lines up in favor of his declaration of war. you cannot really call it a declaration of war. he says the war is already going on, let's send support to the troops. the whigs are afraid of looking unpatriotic. all but 14 members of congress vote in favor of declaring war against mexico. that is how the war start. the mexican war is short, 20 months total. only 16 of those are actual fighting. as you will hear today, the war was not sure enough for the american people. it was marked by a number of stunning military successes by the united states, such as the battle of buena vista where 500

that's one of the advantages that we as native americans, if you will, american indians, have a history that, if we keep up on it, you know, and we know what has happened over the years, it's something that as an actor, we can use those kinds of feelings that have been generated over the years into the performances that we provide for film when we come to a historical person like geronimo. >> hinojosa: and there were members of geronimo's family who were on the set. >> oh, absolutely, yes. >> hinojosa: and so you had to really zero in on... >> it's difficult. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> it's difficult to work up a persona for a character when you have people who are, like you say, direct relatives of, and people who... you know, there was a wide range of feelings about geronimo. i mean, he was not the loved person or the totally hated person, but he was both and in between, you know? so how do you put together a persona for a man who has lived in that kind of a strata? and the answer for me was simply as real as possible, and for dealing with whatever particular scene was going on, whatever e

japanese-americans were integrated back into the american community relatively quickly. as the country moved away from the precipitating event, the persecution got better gradually. what you see in this campaign is the opposite. we have one successful terrorist attack on u.s. soil 11 years ago, get if you look at such -- things never get better. never or the abuses curtailed. even further away from the 9/11 attack, things continue to worsen. you see far more fbi raids and arrests where the fbi creates and funds and conceals a plot that it tricks young muslims into joining, then they trumpet that they have dismantled the plot. then they put them in prison for decades, far more so now than 10 years ago. when you look at the form of material prosecutions, they are far more remote connections to his designated terrorist groups, literally 20 two-year-old muslim americans who upload youtube videos critical of u.s. foreign policy are being indicted based on the grounds of the youtube video encouraging support for terrorist group, done in coordination with them, therefore being

there were somewhere between 20 to 30,000 asian-americans, mostly japanese americans, second generation, but third generations as well who were in japan because actually hiroshima is the area in japan of the time who had the largest number of japanese immigrants to america before the world war ii started. so in the 1910s 20s and 30s. so out of those 20 to 30,000 people there were about 3,000 people japanese americans who survived the bomb in hiroshima and then on their own decided to come to america beginning in 1947 because america is obviously where this were born and grew up. so their history is very fascinating although it's been relatively little known. and what's fascinating is that it really changes our perception of survivors as japanese citizens or people loyal to japan as an empire in that time in that they were victors and victims at the same time. >> japanese americans in hiroshima and nagasaki nagasaki why were they there? >> there were a few reasons why they were there. one thing i like to emphasize is that theists what many immigrants do, go back and forth because they ma

i think you are getting rid of american exceptionalism as an american construct. there's a whole united dates, 13 colonies, all the way through civil war, and you have to come to grips with the fact that you did not have a national citizenship, the citizenships came from the state -- there's a whole united states. you can no longer pretend that free blacks in the south were citizens. they were not. you even have got to come to accept something that -- i read white nationalists in the 1970's and 1980's and 1990's, and some of them became members of the republican party, and they say they were fools. they did not swallow the enlightenment until they joined the republican party, and they are right. the republican party in the south is what brought american exceptionalism to the south, but yet, the more you engage with the struggle called american history, the more you get away from that last generation or tin of generations of scholars, the more you are on a new terrain, and you don't know what will come out of it. you really don't. and yet, if you do not go down tha

the american embassy compound in saigon. the former american embassy here in what is now called ho chi minh city as torn down years ago. it wasn't until 1995 after diplomatic relations were finally restored that a new consulate was opened here on the same grounds as the u.s' dramatic exit from what the vietnamese call "the american war". >> the reason i stayed behind was that i was there in the beginning-- 1962 and covered it through the intervening years. so i felt i had to stay behind to see what would happen to saigon when the communists arrived. >> reporter: peter arnett, earned a pulitzer prize for his vietnam reporting for the associated press. >> the caravelle hotel is where all the news networks had their offices and we used to come up here. >> reporter: he and other western journalists have come back to a much different ho chi minh city for the 40th anniversary of the fall of what they knew as saigon in 1975. many of these veteran journalists thought the eventual takeover of vietnam was inevitable. after the north v

but as the american left. the twilight of american socialism was an eventful time. with a diminished party linked to the civil rights movement with largely the foundation laid over the course of the generation, resident of the brotherhood and the 1963 march on washington for freedom. yes, the character is profoundly transformed when it was taken over at the and of the 1950s and it ultimately led to the socialist party in 1942 and a the fractured into three separate and highly disparate organizations, social democrats identifying with the red ring of the democratic party and democratic socialists of america originally called the socialist organizing committee identifying with the left-wing and with the socialist party usa identifying as a radical left. each of the three groups peaked in the 1970s and sharply declined thereafter band it was known as a bitter enemy of the new left even though they were largely responsible or the creation of that in the late 1950s and early 1960s. many became a core component in t

this as an american journalist is on trial in iran one of four americans believed to be detained or missing in iran. his family members will speak before congress on tuesday. ed royce joins me now, the chairman of the house foreign relations committee. let's begin with this. let's begin with the taliban five. you've said they are a great risk to this country. you have said that four of the five of them have ties to al qaeda. what should happen to them? >> well the director of national intelligence says if they're released there's an 80% chance that one comes back into the fight and 90% chance for the other four. if we look at their background as senior commanders and deputy ministers of defense, of security of intelligence for the taliban. some with ties to al qaeda as well. i think in a situation like this they should not have been released. that's the bottom line. i think you begin to negotiate with terrorists it's a bad precedent. and in this case that's what the administration did. >> the former head of u.s. forces in afghanistan has said he doesn't expect these five to go back into an

these were some of the only professional jobs for african-american women in the city of topeka.hat was going to be lost once the schools were integrated in while there was support for the idea of integration there was also resistance, especially from the teachers and the local chapter who feared the loss of these institutions and the loss of those jobs. that was not unwarranted. when the middle school integrated a few years before, thereafter american teachers who lost their job. there was a tension between what would be gained, full access to neighborhood schools, where it is african-american children lived, but also a sense of loss of what would happen to these teachers in these institutions. the museum was very much designed to tell the broader story of the struggle for civil rights and american history. the roots go back to slavery in the united states. you will be greeted by a park ranger and the focal or the -- or beginning point was a 25 minute series of films, set up as a dialogue between a young woman an older man, which basically traces the struggle of civil rights