americans. and kind of a rosy view of spiritual practices of native americans. you get this kind of dualism. so actually to the extent that whites paid attention to this spiritual practices of native americans, they saw in a kind of favorable sort of way. it's kind of a strange sort of double thing. attitudes toward native americans exist side by side. >> did your research on the native americans involve any way that the native americans tribe treated each other and their type of warfare? is that looked at or considered? >> yeah, i can talk a little bit more about that. western indians practiced mutilation as a matter of course. within native american culture, this kind of mutilation had a cultural significance and understanding that. when native americans practiced the kind of mutilations that they did against one another on white soldiers, this is the kind of thing that drove white soldiers into a fury. does that address your question? >> can you tell me about the lib a code? >> yeah, what you

they were recruited by the french, brought the americans in , and keep in mind, many of the americans hadn't been out of their hometowns, much less traveled to france, and they were amazed that these drivers, some of them thought they were chinese, but they often wrote about their experiences and how rough it was driving to the front. sure enough, they get there in a few days and the germans have no ideas that the americans are going to attack. they know the americans are in the area. they know they are going to fly over. they can see that more and more as wean troops, doughboys call them, are planning for some kind of american operation, but the germans don't know executive where it is going to take place. the:30 in the morning, artillery kicks off, more than 1000 guns, french guns, 75 millimeter and 150 millimeter, start firing towards the german positions. a few hours later, they call this world war i, most american troops are dropped off. most of them are not in trenches. we usually think about trenches in world war i, but they were mostly out in the open or hunkered down in forme

african-american men did the same.lack men likewise looked to cuba as another opportunity to prove their patriotism, to prove their masculinity. just as they tied their civil war service to a demand for political rights, in 1898 many african-americans hoped that their participation might help turn back the growing tide of disenfranchisement, turn back the growing tide of segregation. the iowa state bystander, a newspaper noted, quote, our fathers labored, fought, and died to perpetuate this country and leave a heritage to us. harkening back to 1863, 65, the paper continued, let us be men and show loyalty and we will be rewarded. now not everyone was on board with this. numbers suggest that most of the 10,000 african-american men who did volunteer for the war were from northern states as opposed to southern states. and much of that might be because of the efforts of men like john mitchell, again right here in richmond, editor of the richmond planet. he insisted that black men should fight only in they did so under black

americans. down tolanders are set reinforce the american army and charleston. they are led by a small unit of baltimore cadets. it blossoms into a full division with several regiments. it is commanded by the great hero, a foreigner. he is remarkable, kind of the schwarzenegger of his day. he is in his late 50's, but he marches alongside men. most of the time he refuses to ride. coffee, and some for lunch, he has a bit of a sandwich. very little to eat. and he is spartan. he commands respect of his fellow marylanders. with generallved ratio dates --general horatio gates, who had been given way more credit than he deserved at the battle of saratoga. confrontides he will cornwallis at camden. it's the summer of 1780 that the two armies face-off, with the marylanders and delaware blues being the linchpin that holds the southern army together. this is the backbone. these are the men there overtime. the militia comes and goes. camden, cornwallis, who is outnumbered, practically destroys the american a

that harms black americans. so my book really -- i wrote this book and the timing is perfect, 2016, my book came out a little over a month ago -- to wake everybody up to say, our don't have to be a conservative like me, but know what you're voting for. has the democratic party delivered on promises to blacks or women? and really liberals in general is what the book is about. that's probably more than you wanted to hear. >> host: 96% of african-americans voted for barack obama. over time 90% african-americans vote for the democratic candidates. >> guest: yes. i think that is a tragedy because the lock, stock and barrel vote, that blacks have given democrats over the last half century has not gotten us, i don't think, the parity with white americans that martin luther king wanted for us to have, and i think in many ways it has kept us -- hate to use analogies about slavery and all these but i feel like it has kept us impoverished as a race ask -- in 1964, daniel patrick moynihan -- i talk about this in the book --

and the mf or can american african-american troops fought externally well. the troops themselves thought extremely well. , the3rd division provisional division had the three 69th, the harlem health ll fighters. they were in any more than than on the other unit in the war. he did keep the army segregated and i think that was a mistake. related to question the training of the officer corps and of the different units and of course the different branches of the army. or evenshing arrived before he arrived in france, that he realized there was a need for performing much of the army in terms of schooling and preparing these forces to be in places like france or an expert edition are force whereas the army had never been that large before. they were facing those unique challenges. in his mind was he working on that already when he arrived in france? because he really didn't know how long the word go. yes he absolutely was. in fact, he established schools almost like universities to train officers in various things such as intelligence and the just supplies, and so

and the notion that average americans, low-income americans, middle-class americans won't be -- receive service in the context of this new rule is also invalid. -- of the greatest expanses expenses they have is the amount of money they invest to customers. the idea somehow they would get rid of millions and millions of customers they already invested huge amounts of money in acquiring i find not only a bad business decision but not logical in the context of the private market the way we understand it. also, the extent they would do that, i believe right now as we speak, there are entrepreneurs and investors sitting in conference rooms all over this country with white boards figuring out new business models that will deliver high-quality, fiduciary-level, nonconflicted financial advice to average americans in an efficient manner that meets the standards of this fiduciary rule. so for all these reasons, i support the rule, i stand in opposition against any efforts to undermine it. this is an important step in dealing with our looming retirement crisis, and it's the proper role of governme

americans.ause] the men and women of puerto rico are americans. and their contribution to to america's defense and most importantly the ideals of the american dream. the ideals of freedom and opportunity and equal rights under the law are remarkable. not just in war, but in peace. and the borinqueneers came back from war and continued to serve and sacrifice for our great nation. we are the greatest nation in the history of the world. but we are imperfect. and the borinqueneers remind us that their journey and ours will never end, as long as we tolerate the imperfection of discrimination and segregation in this country. and i want to thank them for giving us this opportunity to recognize and celebrate their patriotism, their courage, their strength, resilience, and resolve that will make our nation better and continue to make us the greatest nation in the history of the world. god bless you, and god bless our great country. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from

unprecedented numbers of mobilizations of african-americans and mexican-americans. they threw itself completely into the black and brown civil rights movement. the supported demonstrations, they participated. they even demanded that the governor of texas call a special section of the legislature to address civil rights. they got into it as well. i don't have time to go into detail about all of these its eventuald disintegration, but stay tuned, the book will be out in august, available at a bookstore near you. but suffice to say now that these networks that were established between activist andcan their like-minded counterparts remained robust throughout the decade into the 1970's. these are united farmworkers procession. looks rather different to this multiracial lens. the photo on the right shows the states most recognizable militant leader in the black civil rights movement, greeting hispanic farmers. he had just led a group of african-american youth on a march through east texas and was tying it to media mexican-american farmers when they arrived on labor day. .

cross every american driven into the foreign earth, a gold star on an american homes. women learned in bitter tears and heartache that in war, there can be no such thing as a slight falling off in production, as there is no such thing as a slight death. by early 1944, they were falling behind. need for young men was imperative. these young men had come largely from the deferred, fathers, though doing in central industrial work. reclassification was called for. storiesa time when drifted in from the mountains, the jungles, the watery graves. women the country over begin to recognize war for what it was, a grim, unromantic battle to the death. in which every man, woman and child at a stake. is to beerican home preserved, if the jetties of other families are not to be duplicated here, the axis must be brought to its knees. begin army drew fresh recruits. its ranks grew to nearly 18 million. many of these william -- many of these will -- whenever asked why they joined the wrecks of hidden army, these women gave a perennial of reasons. reasons.ety of >> i have a daughter on

how american is that? to want to stay behind, because, you know -- you want to stay with your girlfriend, and just be an american. that is all he ever wanted to do. susan: how did he get arrested? karen: he was on a street corner and san leandro, california, which is a suburb next to oakland in the san francisco bay area, and he was visiting his girlfriend that day on the corner and he went into this kind of corner store to buy some cigarettes and he thinks he was spotted. somebody recognized him. he was on the corner, and all of a sudden the san leandro police showed up and said something to him like, have you seen any short japanese guys around here? and my father said no. then the military police came and that was it. then they took him first to the sam andrew jail -- san leandro jail, and then to oakland. they did not know what to do with him. host: what are the important things to know about fred korematsu. peter: the initial steps were very rudimentary, to say the least. he was put in to the federal

this has taken popularity amongst north american slaves. he teaches classes on african-american history, the history of racism and the african diaspora. we are honored to have him with us this afternoon and thank you so much. i bring to you dr. tyler parry. [applause] professor parry: how is everybody? thank you so much for coming. it means the world to me to see a good-sized crowd on a topic of history. as a history professor of african american studies, it is always nice to see engage people interested in such an important and compelling topic. as --she suggested, i want to thank the african-american museum for asking me to get this series of lectures for black history month, and as was suggested, i am largely interested in enslaved people, but particularly how they thought, fought, loved and other types of questions. when i was asked to give a talk on the slave owners, particularly the presidents, i had to reorient my thinking on how i approached the research. i have a variety of methods in which i am going to do this. i am going to take

[applause] >> you are watching american history tv -- 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on seas and three. follow us on twitter for information on her schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. top andxt, john university history professor talks about five aristocrats who fled the french revolution in the 1790's and settled in philadelphia. french influence on the then american capital the relationship these men formed with political figures of the early republic. at the annualewed meeting of the organization of american historians in providence, rhode island. this is about 15 minutes. >> your book, when the united states over french, focuses on five french aristocrats. were upper-level aristocrats that ascended from the highest french nobility. all of them were liberals who participated in the early stages of the french revolution and supported until it became too radical and they were forced to flee the country. all of them came to the united talleyrand became the french foreign minister under several regimes and spent a couple of years in the united

americans. the bear river massacre was carried out not by u.s. army troops but by first california regiment, a volunteer regiment. the sand creek massacre in november of 1864 was carried out again not by a regular troops but by the third colorado cavalry, which was enlisted for 100 days only attacked the black kettle settlement in sand creek in its first and only engagement. slaughtered men, women, elderly, children. festooned with the genitalia of men and women on their uniforms. the american civil war was a hard war out of the west of nate i americans. i'll stop there and take whatever questions you have. what are the southern believes versus the western native american believes. >> i see what you mean, what you're getting at. it wasn't so much the spiritual practices that whites notice and objected to. you know, it's a sense of it being savages, is what they picked up on the most. there's a funny duelism in the way in which white americans have regarded nate i americans historical historicall

this was his to fight, his to lose your it he led the american troops ably, and without american warriors, this battle would not have taken place. it is easy to say perhaps the war might have gone on far into 1919 with more significant luncheon. thank you for your time. [applause] mitchell yockelson: i will be happy to take any questions. were the pershing boots that much of an improvement? i have three questions. could you say he invented the military police, or did he reinvented them? and were the americans a signed that section of the front because the terrain was a rugged in case the enemy broke through, they could not advance as far, as fast? mitchell yockelson: i was not sure about your first question, the pershing boots, but as far as the military police, to this of my knowledge, this is the first time military police or used by the american army. of course, a lot of what we have learned was through the british and the french. they had their own law enforcement with them in the military, and they played a significant role. your question brings up another point. when you look at the

we've covered another 20 million americans with health insurance. we've helped more americans afford college, and invested in industries that create good jobs that pay well, like clean energy. and wages are finally rising again. but there will always be more work to do. and this week, my administration took two big steps that will help make sure your hard work is rewarded, and that everybody plays by the same rules. first, we're helping more americans retire with security and dignity. right now, if you go to a retirement advisor for investment advice, some of them don't have to act in your best interest. instead of telling you the best way to save your hard-earned money, these advisors can get backdoor payments from big companies for steering you toward investments that cost more and earn you less. as a result, when you retire, you might be missing out on tens of thousands of dollars because your advisor got paid more to give you bad advice. if that seems wrong, that's because it is. that's why the department of labor just finalized a rule to crack

american citizens, would be moved into internment camps. susan: we see that there were people within the fdr administration who predicted there would be a court challenge. how infected the court case get to the supreme court? was the mechanism? peter: after he was convicted, there was an appeal. the appeal went to the ninth circuit court of appeals, which did not decide the case, it just send it on to the supreme court. the court had already decided in 1943, in the previous cases, but those involved the curfew. the curfew was considered much less of a burden on japanese-americans, after all, it only said you had to be in your home between 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. the interment itself, the exclusion order, was the issue before the court. it is very clear, now, in hindsight, that the court was misled. but the point, i think that is even more important, is that it was clear at the time, there were government officials, including the attorney general, and several of the justice department lawyers who were involved in these cases who said no, we

african americans and mexican americans were not natural allies or enemies. they were simply different. they practiced different religions sometimes spoke different languages. all sorts of different lines of different. in fact, they were so desperate that just getting them together for a meeting represented a monumental task. where do you hold such meeting in the segregated south? these activists understood that successful coalition depended upon them recognizing these differences. they would agree they would not always agree or get along. they understood what bernice later called the house and the coalition. the coalition is a place where you come together and work together even though you disagree. and in the democratic coalition of texas in the 1960's each of the groups remain separate. they each kept their own houses, their own feeders but they still worked together for a common cause. that's why i have this funnel diagram as the best representation rather than say a pyramid. it was a an acted contingent process or as one member of the coalition process c

lgbt americans are just that, americans. we have before us legislation that will take an approach, the equality act, that will make lgbt part of the civil rights act. 174 sponsors? the house and yet we have not been able to get a hearing. we had a bill, a bill for example to repeal the old do mmp arch law. we couldn't get a hearing in the judiciary committee. the supreme court did it for us. we can't depend on them to rescue us or do our job for us. we should be able to depend on the republican leadership to bring this kind of a subject onto the committee agenda, put it there and allow a discussion and allow a vote. it is time to hold hearings, gather evidence and propose solutions and get a fair hearing. there is no doubt the problem exists. everyone knows you get married on saturday and you get fired on monday after your boss reads it in the newspapers. the equality act will ensure all individuals have the same dignity respect and opportunity they deserve. we should get the ball rolling. this will be the law eventually. th

but not for black americans. entire legal structures were built to prevent african-americans from building economic security through homeownership. legally enforced segregation, restricted deeds, redlining, land contracts so that coming out of the great depression america built a middle class but systematic discrimination kept most african-american families from being part of it. the civil rights movement of the 1960's was also an economic movement. during the 1960's and the 1970's, there was some progress in closing the racial wealth gap, but then during the reagan years of the 1980's, that gap exploded. from 1984 to 2009, the wealth gap between black families and white families tripled. think about what that means. f things weren't already bad enough by then, the crash of 2008 made them worse. the housing collapse destroyed trillions of dollars in family wealth across this country, but the crash hit african-american families like a punch in the gut. because middle-class black families' wealth was disproportiona

mexican americans, african-americans, labor leaders and others were brought together. his remarks are about 20 minutes. >> is a pleasure to have them back. he is assistant professor of history at texas university. -- texas christian university. he received a phd in history from duke university. and he has a forthcoming book. he will discuss his just about to be released book. entitled "blue texas." to be published by the university of north carolina press. professor. [applause] >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. and for having me here again today. it is a real honor. it is especially an honor since the book is not yet out. since -- like some of my esteemed colleagues, it got delayed, it will be out in august. although it deals with the chicano movement. it's a multi-relational study. it is also good to be here and that my work, is a relational multiethnic study. that is an important part of the field and i am glad to be here doing that part. there is my cover, new title. i'm excited about it. i'm going to give a quick overview of the book. focusing on the me

this isn't just an american problem, but there is no american exceptionalism to it, either. it is an international problem. our european allies have responded to the panama papers by initiating new efforts to try to get at this problem of tax abuse. and the truth of the matter is this is just the tip of iceberg with this 11.5 million papers because it's only about abuse in one of a number of secret tax havens. but of course it did not attract universal attention. if you are in beijing today and you were to search for the panama papers on the web, what you would find is, sorry, no relevant material. and there is another place that you will find nothing about the panama papers, and that's in the house ways and means committee and the republican caucus. because they haven't been interested, they have shown constant indifference to problems that are general gwen rated from these tax havens -- generated from the tax havens, from the avoidance, evasion that has been going on with that ought to be the focus of our attention. i stead of real abuse -- instead of real abuse, they focu

i would like to thank the american people. by choosing me, you're have given me the highest honor i could ever receive. in closing, let me say this, i'd love this country, the american people. i love the principles on which this country was founded, and i do not like to see the principles violated and there are millions of people out there just like me that a second tired -- that are sick and tired of it. >> our vice president shall candidate, and his wife. jim stockdale is a hero's hero. recipient of the medal of honor of honor. in addition to that, he is a scholar. he is a retired admiral. suffered as a prisoner of war in vietnam as few people have. he provided leadership that caused our government to award him the medal of honor. in order to receive it, his fellow prisoners had to recommend the ultimate compliment. he is a man of steel. he has been hammered on the forge of brutality. he was able to reach outside himself to provide strength to others. i can't tell you how many pows told me when i came home that they would no

i mean, for people who are not japanese-american, this is a very little-known chapter of american history yes, i for choice. it is also a continuum, beginning with the treatment of the tories, and the indians before that after the revolution . irish need not apply, and the summit is him. anti-semitism. the other has always been discriminated against if they came as we needed the labor. they built the country. and they were discriminated against because they were not us , until they were us. and now they are us. as to what happened, they established a war zone along the pacific coast. claiming -- there was great fear reclaiming the japanese, imperial japanese, could invade the west coast. actually, roosevelt knew they did not have the capacity to do that, but he wanted that issue off the boards. and also, so that they were first rounded up and kept usually at racetracks. santa anita had 18,000 inanese-americans held there, as did other racetracks, livestock fair grounds. that is where they put them for four or five months while they built from prisoner war camp plans the relocation centers

not people in my district, but i will say this, i was proud as an american, as an american representative in congress to do what i could to help these americans who were suffering. and all i ask is the same thing for the people in my hometown. people in congress are elected not just to hold the position but to actually do a job, whether it's pass a budget, deal with a major crises. these american citizens in flint, michigan, have a right to have their federal government come to their aid when they are in crisis, when their health is threatened, when the livelihood of the people in this city is threatened, where the future of the children of flint is the ened and yet republican congress turns a blind eye and fails to act. i know for my colleagues who have been enormously helpful in reaching out to the people of flint and many of you have come to flint, i know they're not going to leave flint behind. we need to make sure we have a congress that's as good as its people. we're better than that. we are better than this as a nation. we cannot let the people of flint behind and write off 9,000 c

they called her the beautiful american lady. helped lafayette and her children flee france to safety. together, elizabeth and james monroe saves the lives -- saved their lives. on his next mission to france, a ,ecade later in the this time he went with $9 million from congress to negotiate the path -- purchase of the island of new orleans. that was all he was supposed to do. the farmers westerville appalachians wanted to flow grain down to new orleans for shipment overseas. instead of buying an island, monroe borrowed 6 million more dollars from an english bank on his own signature, and a double the size of the nation. he bought almost one million acres, the largest territory ever acquired by any nation in history from another, peacefully. without a war. one million acres and at a bargain price of two cents an acre. even in those days, the average price for wilderness land was two dollars an acre. this purchase stretched the rockies and gave us the river valley. it was monroe that engineered the louisiana purchase. and as presid

americans. they carry that we on their shoulders for years. that was more important than the money, but sometimes you don't get the government's attention unless you talk about money. susan: your father continued his advocacy until the end of his life. he filed amicus briefs. the korematsu institute was formed. what do you do there? karen: we teach kids, we provide that for teachers for free. we have no elementary, middle -- we have elementary school, high school, middle school lesson plans. we established korematsu day in california. marty brock instituted a legislative bill that governor schwarzenegger later signed in 2010 establishing korematsu day for the state of california in perpetuity on my father's birthday of january 30. susan: do you get any legal advocacy? karen: i do, and on a personal side, especially on issues of civil rights, when i'm asked to support in amicus briefs, i do that as well. susan: we have 10 minutes left. we talked about the implications for today, but let us finish

to the american people. hole else can do that? only this bodies has this power. the house of representatives, the people's house, that's why our founders instilled that power, that authority, that oversight with this body. the american people can't hold anybody accountable. it's us, the legislature and i support his impeachment. i field the that his agency went off the rails and by doing so, to impeach support for high crimes and misdemeanor. this is something that is only been used 19 times. impeachment of a federal official. 200 years.in we don't agree with their political i'd oming. this has been used sparingly and a tool must be used when the time is right to be using it. the american people want to see this done. that resolution was introduced last year and we have yet to see it. what's the holdup? we know the white house will not liftal finger. this white house and administration will not hold anyone accountable why hasn't this house leadership bring this leadership to the house floor. why are you guys

i don't know that they identify necessarily as, "we are american," but they definitely want american citizenship, and they want a better child... a better life for their children. >> hinojosa: but some of their children are being sent back, even though they're born here. >> that's one fascinating thing. >> hinojosa: this was heartbreaking. so these fujianese families who come, some of them will... and who are working seven days a week in the chinese restaurants that we're all eating from. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: they will have babies born here. >> so they're american citizens. >> hinojosa: they're american citizens. but then they'll send them back to be... >> because they're too busy, yeah. they're too busy to raise their own children. so you have these kids who are sent back to be raised by grandpa and grandma. and then they get kind of shipped back to america when they're, like, ready for school. but they don't know their parents, right? their parents are almost virtual strangers. and in many cases, there's a lot of heartache and a lot of sort of family issues. and so social workers

what is attractive to americans? washington is attractive to americans. so we have these objects that show washington both in a in ang context -- both mourning context, but as a decorative motif on objects. the 19th century, we have what i think is one of the most trysting things about -- most interesting things about this time. period. the creation of imagery of the founding fathers relating to the revolution that continues to this day. when we think of george washington, we immediately get a picture in our heads. that picture was created at this point in time in the 19th century. -- we have aalking section called the cult of the founders. dies, and aston the 19th century moves on, people are looking for images, personalities relating to the revolution, they are remembering people, people are starting to die who were directly involved. that includes the founders, but not just the founders. the men and the women who helped when the revolution -- they are starting to die. people are looking beyond washington for images. what we find, what i find interestin

we have african-american president.and that's never going to happen. we have made a lot of progress. we have progress to make. we have k. often learn thousand make that progress in the present by taking the example of people in the past as you know as well as i do and to appeal to our better -- robinson. we'll be%pog watching tonight. thanks for coming in. watters onx(s deck. teachers and violent students. that is next. allergies distracting you? when your symptoms start... doctors recommend taking ...non-drowsy claritin every day of your allergy season. claritin provides po non-drowsy 24 hour relief... for fewer interruptions from the amazing things you do every day. live claritin clear. is our partnership with habitat for humanity. pg&e is committed to clean energy and part of that commitment our mission is to build homes, community and hope. our homeowners are low-income families, so the ability for them to have lower energy cost is wonderful. we have been able to provide about 600 families with solar on their home

native american policy? >> native american population [ inaudible ] as we all know, living in oklahoma fighting for the confederacy owned slads. at the war's end, they accept them into cherokee society as equals. about ten years ago, cherokee society then kind of threw him back out. so i mean, the liberty policy is kind of the 1%. others speaking today will have better answers when it comes to discussing native american policy. . >> would you comment on the experience of the blacks in the far west? >> let me rephrase your question and my answer. because whether it's 1865 or 1945, middle class white guys want to go home when they have businesses and farms and jobs and woois to go back home to. before that 140,000 slaves might have spouses to go home to, but they don't have farms, they don't have jobs. and so disproportionately, they're the ones who stay in the military. the occupying force, both before and after the military construction act is disproportionately black. a lot of guys stay in the u.s. army. th

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>> in terms of how many americans died? history, in american the most lethal battle for americans? >> gettysburg? jennifer: gettysburg is a good example. >> people would generally say antietam. jennifer: the bloodiest day is antietam. anybody have a gas? euess. ? when you don't know something, where do you go? do not lie to me. i know what you go. [laughter] the most lethal american battle? i.ber one, world war i will bet nobody has heard of the offensive, i'm what you say that is a safe bet for most people right there. battle from september until the last day of the war, 47 days, 1.2 million men involved. killed, 100,000 stragglers on the field. this is the most lethal battle in american history. nobody knows about it. why is that? why is that? i think those are really good questions, right? it is why we remember certain things and why we do not remember other things. and i think for a lot of people even at the time, they did not want to dwell on this. because the questions you can ask, why did so many of these men have to die? it raises uncomfortable questions about american lead

civil war as an american iliad. and by that, i mean to say, it is an episode in american history that we have certain stories that we tell ourselves that come out of the war, the -- they kind of have a mythic resonance for us. in the same way there are the details in homer. what it tells us about being a human being, and i think the people that are interested in the american civil war often approach it as a kind of american iliad. and i will give you an example of this. i started doing a column for civil war magazine called the american illiad. one of my first was on the relationship between american lincoln and maccallum. i am sure most of you know something about this relationship. it is passed into our culture, to such an extent that during the iraq war period there were over 100 references to the lincoln and maccallum relationship, usually in the course of condemning a general that was not doing very well. or extolling a general who was doing well, and so on. well, in my column, i talked about this relationship

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. at y see in is campan 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 indicted

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he participated in the american revolution. he went back to france to lead some of the noble reforms pit he presided over the constituent assembly. he was a charming guy. he was said to be the dance partner at -- he charmed the women in philadelphia. was a travel raider and intellectual. he later became a senator in france. egypt and the on middle east. he became an influential figure out of -- influential figure under napoleon. wealthieste of the aristocrats. theseticipated in all reforms in the french revolution. he came to the united states and he was sort of moody. he wrote a lot. he wrote eight volumes on his travels and he kept the diary when he was in philadelphia. his own moodiness and sadness have been exiled in the last was -- in the constituent assembly along with them in the early stages of the french revolution. he opened a book store in philadelphia, which became the center of french social life in philadelphia. >> did these men know one another or did they come >> they had been political allies and they all came

weekend on american history tv. we will show extended segments of the 1975 hearings that investigated cia, fbi, irs and nsa intelligence activities. the church committee, 40 years later, next weekend, saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern time on the on american history tv on c-span3. announcer: coming up next, a panel discussion titled "worst president ever." it explores some of the least popular, at least successful and most forgotten presidents in american history. the three historians of first discuss what makes a president the worst and then they'd offer nominees for the title. this panel is part of the 2016 organization of american historians annual meeting held this year in providence, rhode island. it is 90 minutes. host: welcome to the oah 2016 , and welcome to the plenary panel, "worst president ever." i am claire potter, professor of history and director of the digital humanities initiative at the new school and i want to let those in the audience, who are tweeting know that the tag for o

more than 12 million americans out of work. highest rate of unemployment since the great depression of the 1930s. the tax cut did not give the economy the supply side kick that had been promised. business got steadily worse. factories closed. layoffs, bankruptcies. the federal deficit skyrocketed. >> inflation had been brought under control and quickly a remarkable accomplishment but at a terrible cost. >> reagan was trying hard to kill inflation as fast as he could. that was working. the problem was interest rates were going up to 18%. it's like chemotherapy for the economy. it kills a lot of other things along the way. >> the government can live with high unemployment to curb inflation. that seems to be a very high price for us to have to pay. >> supposed to be the land of opportunity. it's not anymore. it's the land for the rich and the poor can go to hell. >> i think we're going to have some hard times for the next few months while we had predicted as you know a stagnant economy none of us had predicted the stepping over in

this led a lot of americans who were respectable middle-class americans who could've been your neighbors, i had a student earlier today and said my grandfather was a member of the birch society. it was not uncommon. so there were many advocates for the birch birch society. the question i wanted to get to in my book was who was john birch. here we have robert welch pointing to his picture. i wanted to try to understand why his name was used after his death posthumously. was he really a hero and a martyr rush mark was he an anti- communists? would john birch have been a member of the john birch society and what does all of this tell us about u.s. china relations? he was one of seven children. he was the eldest of seven children. he was born in india where his parents were missionaries for three years. he grew up in new jersey which was mother's home and moved to georgia when he was a teenager which was his father's home. he graduated from mercer university, a baptist institution, in 1939. he was a bright young man at the head of his class, nominated to be a rhodes scholar candidate. but he

and american wounded became american dead.f a sudden, the war was rising. ♪ the government regrets to inform -- [crying] >> what is the matter? >> for every american cross driven into the foreign earth, a gold star hung in an american home. bitter tears and heartache, that in war, there is no such thing as a slight falling off in production. because there is no such thing as a slight death. early 1944, the draft soldiers were falling behind. the demand of four men for the new invasion forces were imperative. these young men have become ,argely deferred, the fathers those doing essential industrial work. reclassification was called for. the areaat a time when was written with jungles, the watery graves. women the country over began to recognize war for what it was. a gram, unromantic battle to the death. in which every man, women, and child have a stake. if the american home is to be preserved, if other families and tortured lands are not "get it here, the axis must be brought to its knees. the hidden army grew fresh recruits.