so under nixon, american is expanded. 65, americanized, starting in de-americanized. known as aware of their existence. henry kissinger, and henry kissinger'most trusted advisors. own secretary of state, and his secretary of defense do not know about these secret talks. imagine you're the guy in charge and your own president doesn't tell you. really interesting stuff. jesse? student: is there a reason why he did not tell the secretary state? prof. asselin: nixon doesn't trust anyone anything's this is too sensitive. only those he trusts most will be trusted with this. trust anyone anything's this is as he is undertaking the secret diplomacy, nixon also very boldly decides to go after communist sanctuaries and supply lines in laos and cambodia. 1970, the u.s. and south vietnamese army invade cambodia. a year later, the south vietnamese army with american air support invades laos. to nixon, it makes sense. i will go after the supply lines that feed the communist war effort in the south. the thing is, nixon is supposed to be the war, and now he is invading two other coun

our american revolution. guillaume: you see colonel stanton. mitchell: although it is often attributed to pershing, he did not say it. guillaume: lafayette's grave is in a private cemetery. people from lafayette were killed by the guillotine and put there. mitchell: can you translate this for us? they are on their way to the front, is that what it says? guillaume: yes, it's as american troops on their way to the front. we see soldiers leaving the main towns and heading to the northeast of france. mitchell: this would have been probably early autumn 1917? guillaume: probably. they arrived to the barracks and the kitchen. this is looking like east of france already. at the beginning, american soldiers are closed by the frontline. we don't speak about true big offensive in 1917. they were training to get more and more experience because then they would face germans that have three years of experience. [indiscernible] sammies was the nicknames that the french gave to the americans because of uncle sam. this is a

a 100% american and a 100% organic. - grown american means exactly what it sounds like.st country in the world where the streams are clean, where the air is pure. we have some of the best soil in the world. just good, rich, organic, black dirt. grown american superfood was developed to capture the goodness in natural, whole foods and that's exactly what it is. - our products really go from being a fresh crop out in the field at van drunen family farms into our processing facility in a matter of hours. - grown in america means beat quality. the best service, the best price. this is part of our job, farmers and processors, to get the best product to the customer as we can. - what means the most to me about grown american superfood isn't just that it's organic, but it's organic grown in this country. it's still hard to get home in time to chop, and clean, and cook vegetables for my kids. that's what's great about the grown american superfood is i can sneak healthy, organic vegetables into foods that they already like. this is some macaroni and cheese that i made for the gir

includes the 1950's, working-class americans, and black americans, all tied into sears roebuck. show less text -- what is the premise of the book and what has research been like? >> the premise of the book looks set the immigration of the department stores by employees and workers. they have touted consumption as a means of realizing democracy. unlike >> you are allowed to -- you are not allowed to eat the lunch counter. or eat at a restaurant or a --ter -- a beauty it shows up in the department sure and allows them to workplace and consumer discrimination in the 20th fact -- 20 century. >> shopping today is so .ifferent in amazon explain the importance of the sears company. the 1950's were right after world war ii, so we are in this postwar economic boom. there is a heightened amount of consumption. americans are buying homes, furnishing, clothing, cars, at unprecedented levels. the department stores are still in their age of, they are in a golden age, i would say, meaning that these are lavish palaces of consumption of tremendous size. they are places to be and to be seen. for

certainly, the american plan was implemented in u.s.territors and really anywhere the -- territories and anywhere the u.s. had power. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> did everyone hear that? >> imposing decency. it's a really great book, really important book. >> and we're going to end over here. >> hi, thanks. it's been wonderful hearing you. very interesting story. i just wanted to comment because i worked in public health for 30 years, but i also was so intrigued by what you talked about, because i didn't become an academic, but i did my dissertation on the history of a boston hospital, and it reminded me -- i got to look at all this great stuff, and i looked at the early records of the outdoor department. >> 1910. >> outpatient department. and the biggest diagnosis was stds, which isn't surprising. you know, i think a lot of this is sort of a complex interplay of forces. waves of southern eastern european influences and people of other backgrounds. eleanor roosevelt because she and many upper class women, you know, they started nursi

lest the cultural fissures that enable the american plan to take root continue to shape the american experience for those most vulnerable. please join me in welcoming scott stern. [applause] >> i. thank you all so much for being here. i can't see you but i can hear you and it sounds like there are a lot of you. you so much for that, way too generous introduction. thank you everyone for setting this up. thank you to the carnegie library of pittsburgh and thanks to all of you are taking time out to come here and talk about this. i'm going to tell you about the trials of nina mccall and begin by talking about how i heard about the story, i came to research and write it and i'll spend most of my time talking about the book itself. the stories it tells, what i hope readers will get out of it and why i think it's important. i want to begin by addressing something about which i feel uncomfortable. this is a book about the american plan, a program of systematic oppression of women in these women's resistance to that oppression feels weird to begin by talking about myself. a man living decade

eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, we take you to 1988. when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gloorbach delivered new year's day missiles. president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house, and general secretary gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes. >> good evening. this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union, as it is all around the world, this is a season of hope and expectation, a time for family to gather, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america, too. at this time of year, americans travel across the country in their cars, by train or by airplane, to be together with their families. many americans, of course, came to the united states from other countries, and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. most of us celebrate christmas or hanukah, and as

american trade. it has been many decades that american presidents have not been a deal with all sourcing and globalization and the loss of american manufacturing jobs. i do hear that argument quite a bit, including from farmers in the midwest who are also being .it by these tariffs but a lot of farmers have said we are willing to give the president some leeway. we think that this is a negotiating tactic, and if he is able to fix trade with china and some of these big foreign markets, it will be worth it. i think the question is how long does this take to resolve? is there a resolution at the end , and what are the goals of the trump administration? how quickly can they wrap this up and get the pain over with for ordinary manufacturers and farmers? host: one group may be not giving president leeway on this, some republican senators. a symbolic vote yesterday on the president's trade practices. one of the people who spoke was pat toomey of pennsylvania, republican. here is some of the argument leading

means to support american industries, american jobs, and american companies, but the waters are far more money than they were for many years in the automobile industry, and this car is a great example of that. it was built by american workers working in the united states, so any less american than a chrysler built in canada or a ford built in mexico? there is no easy answer to that question. it's something we continue to struggle with. it is important to realize the definition of what an american car is. it evolves over time just as vehicles have evolved over time. that's something that we try to talk about here at the henry ford museum of american innovation. yes, this is about cars, but it's not just about the cars themselves and the technology, it's more about cars and social forces. you is how thell car has evolved over the last 120 years and changed to meet our needs. cars have gotten larger, faster, more colorful, more luxurious, you name it. but we are also trying to tell the story of how we have changed to meet the cars needs. because we have changed where we live, how we live, h

prominent lawyers with ties to the american cause who had successfully represented an american in the months leading up to alan's rival in habeas proceedings and had invoked the habeas corpus act, a had taken on his case. the administration knew this. they knew the lawyers would invoke the english habeas corpus act. because allen as an american was considered a traitor and by that, a subject of the crown, he could claim the protection of the english habeas corpus act and demand his release if he wasn't tried. trying him would raise a number of complicated issues. because there were people in england who were sympathetic to the american cause. rather than have to deal with that legal framework, the easy solution was to put them back on the ship and send him back to the americas where the english habeas corpus act didn't apply. they can be held as the equivalent as prisoner of war. as the war unfolded, more and more american prisoners are brought to english shores and that solution can't be the way that they handle it going forward any longer. so what does parliament do? they take a his

we on the american side are determined to try. you see, we have a vision of a world safe from the threat of nuclear war and indeed all war. such a world would have far fewer missiles and other weapons. today, both america and the soviet union have an opportunity to develop a defensive shield against ballistic missiles, a defensive shield that will threaten no one. for the sake of a safer peace, i am committed to pursuing the possibility that technology offers. the general secretary and i also anticipate continuing our talks about other issues of deep concern to our peoples. for example, the expansion of contact between our peoples and more information flowing across our borders. expanding contacts and information will require decisions about life at home that will have an impact on relations abroad. this is also true in the area of human rights. as you know, we americans are concerned about human rights, including freedoms of speech, press, worship, and travel. we will never forget that a wise man has said that violence does not l

previous years, many americans myself included have spoken out against the crazy idea that americans can somehow lead from behind. today america decided to simply give in. on the florida night, the president treated that in order to build a brighter future we cannot remain exclusively focused on the past, close quote. fair enough. but let's talk about the future. what do we want from it and out what caused? the cost of the future that president trump once the sacrificing of american moral leadership on the global stage? walking away from the idea that 7.5 billion have been greeted with dignity. walking away from the idea that america fundamentally announces to the world that we believe everybody has the right to free speech, press, religion. the government might decide that because the government's job is to serve the people that is preserving these rights which come from nature and nature's god. .. named today was vladimir putin. instead our president decided to advance a fake moral equivalency that plays right into the hands of vladimir putin's bloody hands. everyone in this body s

americans should not be complacent. the vast majority want to see it in place but there is an active movement here now personified by judge cavanaugh potential elevation to the bench and we have to be vigilant. vice president pens remark that he wants roe overturned was a reminder that they have promised to appoint strict constitutionalist to the supreme court who would consign roe v wade to the ashy book history unquote. those are the words of the vice president. justice cavanaugh has also written some troubling things about environmental protections, consumer protections, common sense gun safety law, all of which should be safely examined by this senate before we have any hearings. there's documents, e-mails, writing, they need to be thoroughly examined, particularly his more recent writings about executive authorities. he argued that a president should not be subject to an investigation while in office. that a president should be about criminal and civil indictment. they go so far as to say they need not enforce the

american friendship is welcomed and american businesses recognized for ingenuity, reliability and honesty. today no country does more two-way trade in the indo-pacific than the united states. in southeast asia, the u.s. is the single largest form of investment larger than china, japan and the european union. open amount of the indo-pacific today and it's dotted with u.s. and efforts to build self-reliant business institutions and promote private sector growth. the philippines, there was a business that helped the country return into a crucial part of the semiconductor semi chain. in malaysia general electric invested in a sales and service center, and today, 1300 employees in the country from kuala lumpur. i want them and their leaders to know that america stands ready as we always do for partners around the region, to deepen government, people to people ties based on our shared democratic values, i'll travel there in the week ahead. chevron was the first company ever branded oil expiration rights in thailand and in 1973, they discovered the first hydrocarbons in thai waters. this gave bi

mihiel was a major success for the americans. they overtook all of their objectives on the first today. they had the germans on the run. as you pointed out, the better continued for another four days as more of a cleanup. guillaume: it was around 15,000 prisoners captured. the germans were surrounded in their own pocket. that is the landscape. barbed wire. the germans had heavy trenches. still very visible now. very deep ones. mitchell: where did the germans fall back to? guillaume: they had to fortify the line called the mihiel line. that was like 13 miles away from the front line. that is where they retreated, finally. almost until the end of the war, because the frontline stabilized september 16. the major movement for the americans would be to move there. mitchell: by the 13th, the second day of the battle, it was mostly in american hands. guillaume: you can see how the germans are surrounded. it is great to see the landscape 100 years ago. mitchell: right, it does not look much different today. guillaume: exactly. the enemy

americans are better off. i've heard from small businesses, slike shredx in griffin georgia, custom bodyworks, and emmitt manufacturing in la grage. they're all making investment, expanding, being more productive. most importantly, they're hire manager people and they're investing in their people with higher wages and better training. and the families are doing better throughout our district. but these businesses are doing more than simply investing in their people and in their businesses. they're investing in their communities. so our communities are become manager helpful. all of this is the result of a tax reform bill, better regulatory environment, and a changing attitude and education that ensures that people pursue their talents and not just a degree. but they are involved in making sure that they are able to make a living in viable careers for a long period of time. it's not just the economy that's making us more secure. we've invested heavily in our military and we have fully funded our men and women s

the american people cannot afford either. for every american who cares about women's health, about protections for people with pre-existing conditions, about civil rights come a labor rights, lgbtq writes, environmental rights, now is the time to fight. now. now is the time for american people to make their voices heard loudly, clearly from one end of this country to the other . now is the time to demand a justice who will protect our health care, not strike it down. now is the time to demand a justice who recognizes a woman's personal liberty, her right to make her own health care choices . instead of one who will put the government between a woman and her doctor. for thehe time to fight freedoms and rights all americans deserve. that is what is at stake with this supreme court nomination. knew if president trump picked his nominee from the list that was written by special interest federal's list society and heritage foundation they would be overturned -- be prepared to strike down the health care law and overturn roe. those

is what american democracy is supposed to be about. what most people think is majority should rule. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. but everybody gets a vote, not a situation in which billionaires can spend unlimited sums of money to support candidates who represent their interests. but that is in fact what goes on right now. and many americans may think, well, that was a decision made by congress, made by the president. not so. that disastrous decision, which is undermining american democracy, came about by a 5-4 vote of the united states supreme court in the citizens united case. that is what a supreme court decision can do. it can undermine american democracy and create a situation where the very wealthiest people in this country can buy politicians and influence legislation. mr. president, several years ago the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act, but the court also ruled that the medicaid expansion, as part of the affordable care act, had to be optional for states. i'm on the health, educat

this is american history tv, only on american history -- only on c-span3. next on lectures in history, texas a&m repressor lori and -- aboutne foote talks shakespearean performances, and shows. she talks about the high literacy rate in the united novelsand the rise of and ladies journals. her classes about 45 minutes. our topic for today is popular culture. we have been talking about a -- the social changes in the united states in 1840's. we're going to look at how popular culture reflected some of the conflicts that go on in american society over these social changes. we are going to be surprised to see that theater and what people read becomes a point of conflict over issues of this. last class. we talked about this red of gentility through culture. when need to pause and remind ourselves of what that was. if i say vernacular gentility, what do i mean by that? max. >> it is the spread of a more common style of gentility and the american middle class that was originally taken from the aristocratic courts over in europe. prof. foote: so it is an aristocrati

the american people know that the men and women of ice are american heroes.ou are doing an important job, often a dangerous job and you are doing it for them. they have both the support and the respect and the resources that you deserve to do the job you have been called to do. the american people support you and they know how important your mission is. press,ave seen in the the heroes of ice are being attacked and demon i'd -- demonized for the work you do at an unprecedented rate in recent weeks. ice has been targeted with protests across the country in the public square and social media and for many of you, at your homes. #abolishice has taken its place on the internet. ban, no wachant, no at no border at all protests around the country. ice officers and leadership have had personal information shared on social media and threats to them and their families have followed. let me be clear, the american people have every right to engage in peaceful protest, but these threats against ice officers and their families must stop. they must stop now. the sad fact is

, so african-americans are the first group of people in american history to have entire states create anti-immigration laws against them, to create boundary laws against them. illinois's the first. then came indiana. i think this is really important for us to remember today. this was a difficult book for me to read -- to write and still to read, but to write because every single one of these communities deserves a book. every single one of these families deserves a book. this is basically an entire field; right? and so this was hard to write because i felt like a lot of the time i was skimming. i actually wrestled a bit with my editor because i wanted to have lots and lots and lots of families and he said that's going to be confusing and he was probably right, so i had to get it down to about five families. i'm going to read you a little excerpt about charles greer who home steaded on the frontier before indiana state hood and became later in life extremely successful underground railroad agents risking their farm and their family to do that work. they were also immensely wealthy farm

. 3.5 million americans have been lifted off stamps. that is because they are able to go out and get a job, and they are going to love their jobs. 95% of american manufacturers are optimistic about the company's outlook, and that is the highest level also in history. that is an old survey and then time. a long manufacturing wages are expected to rise at the fastest rate in over 17 years. business and consumer confidence has reached historic ties -- highs. so far this year, american experts are up -- exports are up nearly 20%. i have only been here a little more than a year and a half erie over the same period when i took office, we have become a net exporter of natural gas for the first time since 1957. we have gotten rid of tremendous amounts of regulations which allows us to do things. we still have tremendous regulations on clean air, clean water, and the environment. it is important to me and important to everybody. we had unnecessary regulations hurting our economy and our country. we have eliminated a record number of job killing

we of the americans. outhey are ok with hanging in the mountains until we are gone. >> it's like vietnam, because the public will start asking the same questions again of the administration. why are we there and what are we accomplishing? >> [indiscernible] hope that is going well. it is much more vested when you have something to lose. prof. faulker: we will talk more about that in the next class. great. so, go ahead. just like vietnam, the come also like the of military come the american people don't want to hear the word stalemate on the news. they wanted to be over with because their sons and daughters are going over there. they don't want here stalemate. they want to hear we have one or met what we accomplished and now are coming home. prof. faulker: that's right. that's it. the one thing the american public long-standing stalemate, but yet, isn't that where we stood? aren't we in the process of standing there now? we have taken the gloves off apparently with her new strategy, right? >> we are in a s

unemployment rates for americans, african-americans, hispanics, asians.mericans, all of us, lowest ever. these are the lowest levels for african-americans, for spanish, and for asians ever recorded. inc. of that. ever recorded. recently reached the 65-year low. we think that is the lowest level ever. in two weeks or three weeks it will be the lowest in history. pretty bad when you say the lowest and 65 years and i say, that is not as good as history but pretty short time from now it will be. manufacturing is expected to grow the fastest rate in more than 17 years and 95% of american manufacturers -- which is what i love, american manufacturers -- are optimistic about the future. the highest level ever recorded. 95%. we have achieved in the last 18 isths something that entirely unprecedented. for decades, the united states allowed other countries to steal our jobs, close our factories, and plunder our wealth. what was happening was horrible. i used to talk about it for 20 years in the private sector. i said, how did they let this happen? little did i know

are american heroes. are doing an important, dangerous job. you are doing it for them. i want to promise you we will continue to work to make sure this agency has both the support, the respect, and the resources that you deserve to do the job that you have been called to do. the american people support you. because they know how important your mission is. but, as we all have seen in the press lately, the heroes of ice are being attacked and demonized for the work that you do at an unprecedented rate in recent weeks. ice has been targeted with protests across the country not only on the job but in the public square and on social media, and for many of you even your homes. hashtag "abolish ice" has taken its place. those in leadership have had their personal information familiesnd threats to have been made. clear, theery american people have every right to engage in peaceful protest, but these threats against ice officers and families must stop and they must stop now. the sad fact is it is not just the expr

hashtag proud american.em throughout the morning and we are honored to have those so send them in. donald trump reminding all of us what it means to be an american this independence day by paying tribute to our nation's heroes but those on the left are marking the day with resistance and protest. garrett 10 he lives in washington dc, another reason to be a proud american because you have the right to protest. >> reporter: one of the many things that makes our country wonderful. donald trump has a lot to say, a salute to serviceman in west virginia, he talked about the west virginia senate pick and democrats criticizing ice but on the eve of independence day he spent most of the time praising our country's heroes and freedoms, pluto and women who defend them and make it possible. >> we reminded how blessed we are to be american and to live in this land of our great heroes, you. >> reporter: on his way to the dinner he tweeted tomorrow families across the nation will gather to celebrate 4 july. as we do we thi

allied forces, american forces or whatever. and my dad said that he contributed a lot to the exposure and deaths of the soldiers himself, because after the war was over, there were men that were in good shape and he had them out washing trucks all night and everything else, and there was no need in this. do you know anything about pershing and what he did a? >> i don't know anything specific about his -- i guess his allocation of manpower for issues such as washing trucks. i do know kind of pershing's philosophy for fighting at the front versus the british and the french at the time is, again, the u.s. is emphasizing this idea of open warfare. they're looking primarily at what's happened in europe. and marshall brings this up a little bit later as he reflects on the war as well, that the early phases of world war i, it was very much more about movement. but by the time the u.s. gets involved in it, it is essentially a stalemate. so pershing's ideas, to an extent that this battle or this emphasis more towards open warfare actual

time and again, judge kavanaugh has sided with the wealthy instead of the ordinary americans. he has sided with electric power utilities and chemical companies over protecting clean-air and fighting climate change. he argued that the consumer financial financial protection bureau which has save consumers billions of dollars from the greed and illegal behavior of wall street and financial institutions, he argued that bureau was unconstitutional. because it structured not giving up power to the president. he has argued against net neutrality, he dissented in an osha case, arguing that see world should not be fined for the deaths of one of the whale trainers because the trainer should have accepted the risk of death as a routine part of the job. mr. president, well nobody can predict the future, we can take a hard look at judge kavanaugh's record and extrapolate from his decisions what kind of supreme court justice he will be. i think the evidence is overwhelming, he will be part of the 5 - for majority which has had decision after decision against the needs of working people, ag

he couldn't say that yet to his american cousins. so he said that what the british needed was american ships, planes, tanks and other weapons. up to that point in december, the british had been able to pay for american weapons and transport them through dangerous waters on their own ships and this policy was known as cash and carry, but now churchill wrote, the moment approaches when we shall no longer be able to pay cash for shipping and other supplies. the bottom line is that the leader of the world's greatest empire was begging the american president for help. fdr's closest aide harry hopkins had joined him on that cruise and hopkins watched the president sitting alone in his deck chair reading and reading churchill's letter and brooding silently and hopkins wrote one evening fdr's mood suddenly changed. in a matter of days while sailing in the caribbean, the president had come up with one of the most consequential policies of the entire war. a commitment to supply the british army, navy and air force with all the tools of war the

so when you talk about in general the protectionist approach to the american economy does not lead to economic benefit it might protect some jobs but it will lose far more jobs in the medium to long term it might protect some small portion of the american industrial base but a larger part of the american industrial base whether it's automotive whether it's steel whether it's services that base will be eroded and that base will suffer losses if not sooner that at some point during the trumpet ministrations first term or at the see what's what for the grain has to say for economic advisor to the president of the european commission for the trumpets of the tariffs on china are aimed at stopping the unfair transfers of american technology and intellectual property to china and about protecting jobs given what you've you've just heard there is trump going to protect u.s. jobs by starting a trade war with china and of course he's not he may protect a few jobs in a few protected industries but overall protectionism is going to cost more american jobs than it creates and you can see that alre

i would go to weddings with some friends and we dance on american music and i spoke american english and i wrote english phrases on the streets. but when al shabaab came, everything that i was doing became a crime, a sin, and they whipped me so bad for going with a girl to the beach. and they had called me on the phone to give me a really a warning about my nickname. they say are you the one they called american, they asked me drop it, and that's what they were doing. they give you warning first, and the second time they shoot you. i wish i can leave at the time. somalia was -- the borders were closed. i couldn't go to kenya. i could not cross the ocean. the pirates were at the time active on the ocean. i wish i could leave in 2006 when al shabaab came. but leaving somalia was in my mind every minute of those days. and, yes, i had -- that's when i actually decided to leave somalia. but it took me years to do that, up until 2011. >> so abdi, you then became one of the lucky ones. you won a diverse lottery for a greencard, for a permission, a visa into the united states. that must have

americans saved and budgeted. there was a tremendous interest in household budgeting during the 1920s. they traded and bartered. they traded eggs for a homemade dress, they bartered and traded services amongst each other, sometimes they resorted to stealing. and they went to secondhand stores. they purchased things on the black market. so these are a few of the ways that americans tried to stretch their dollars. it didn't work entirely. there's only so far you could stretch something. americans begin to look for ways to increase their purchasing power, they moved away from trying to:troll -- control price . they took care of the other set up equation which was purchasing power. we tried to get paid more, ford paid five dollars a day which was twice the wages of all other automobile factories, in the 1920s ford changed the wage to six dollars. after the stock market crashed in the economy was in decline, for -- ford raised his wages to seven dollars per day. they laid off workers but those who -- those who are luck

army film documents the american operation. announcer: on september 12, 1918, under the command of general john j pershing, that u.s. army launched the first independent offense of of world war i. >> this was formed in september of 1914. -- mitchell: it is september 1918. the americans are about to undertake the first independent action against the enemies there because that was formed in september of 1914. is that correct? guillaume: that is correct. the germans had a big offensive and surrounded the town. mitchell: there is pershing at his headquarters. this would have been in leenee. this was a surprise attack against the germans who were vacating the area. guillaume: we see a bulge around this town of st mihiel which is west of that map. you see the landscape. part of the offense of his starting from the big plain and had to reach plateaus that you can see in the distance. this was for five heavy days. mitchell: i think that was a naval railway gun. guillaume: exactly, that is. that is probably samyiel already. mitchell: th

the americans decide for a quick victory and had three goals.be the germans in europe, pivot and defeat japan and come home. that their goal was going to evolve over the course of 9043 which is a subplot in the book as the americans realized the meaning of roosevelt's rendezvous with destiny and come to grips with being a permanent presence in the world. the allies needed agreement on a defined goal they needed a strategy to do it in the concentration to implement the strategy and they needed a supreme commander. summer of 1943 that was agreed and in the absence of a plan for an attack across the channel the people could agree would work it was easy to resist the american option so the third dynamic going on within the alliance is creating the plan and they were trying to do that within they had agreed to set up a planning team in london to develop and interestingly cross channel attack was the third of three tasks and they were priority tasked and first was the develop a feint that would draw them toward the sky so we could reduce them second,

watching american history tv. to join the conversation like us on facebook at c-span history. >>> historians discuss defining quality and the declaration of independence. the talk about the views and interpretations of w eb the voice, frederick douglas and thomas jefferson as well as the perspective of 18th-century african-american and women. the american antiquarian society and the freedoms way heritage association cohosted this event. it's about one hour and 40 minutes. >>> good evening. my name is alan dunlap. on the president of american antiquarian society appeared is my great pleasure to welcome you all to antiquarian hall. which is bit of a construction site and process. but we are very pleased that we could get the chaos out of the way in order to have tonight program. it's titled holding of these truths, panel discussion about the declaration of independence. tonight our program is being filmed by c-span and later during question-and-answer period, we will bring the microphone here to the file and if you

so african-americans are the first group of people in american history to have entire states create anti-immigration laws against them, to create brian laws against them -- boundary laws again them. illinois the first and then came indiana. it's important to remember today. this is a difficult book for know read -- to write and still read but to write because every single one of these communities deserves a book. every single one of these families deserves a book. this is basically an entire field so it was hard to write because i felt like i was skimming. he wrestled with the yesterday stores because wanted to have lots of families and he said that would be confusing and he was probably right. so whittled it down to five families so i'll read you a little excerpt about charles and which -- isiah greer who became later in life extremely successful underground railroad agents, risking their firm and they're family to -- their farm and their family to do that work and also immensely wealthy farmers. but they had to start somewhere. and first they had to clear their land. so i'll start with that little

it is actually the oldest african-american resort community founded by african americans.t was founded as a place where african-americans could buy a plot of land for $25, build a cabin, and that is where they would come in the summer and spend their vacations. i went up there the first time when i was just six months old, so it goes way back in history. everyone from duke ellington, zora neale hurston, langston hughes, count basie all come there and stay there because they could not stay in hotels in denver during that period of history. so over time, after desegregation, a lot of the african-american institutions fell into disrepair and were sold off into different parts. and now we have developed a wonderful program that serves our community in so many different ways. 6000 inner-city kids every summer come to the ranch. we also give to about 200-300 wounded veterans every year. in the winter, though, when the ranch is pretty much shut down, one of the things that we identified -- my wife identified this -- that there are programs, one is called together we rise that we

we should -- asian american or native american. we should be able to participate in the democratic process. on march 7, 1965, i gave a little blood on the edmund pettus bridge for the right to vote. before the voting rights act of 1965 was passed, some people had jelly the number of beans in a jar and all across america today when people go out to attempt to vote, they stand in long, immoveable lines. that's not right. it's not fair. and it's not just. we can do better and we must do better. we have a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate to empower all of the american people, not just a select few. we must do what is right, what is fair, and what is just. today our democracy is under attack by forces within and forces abroad. we need to fix it and fix it now. for these reasons and -- i'm proud to sponsor h.r. 12, the voter empowerment act, with my friends and my colleagues. t.s.a. good bill, a necessary bill, and a patriotic bill to protect and to preserve our voting system. i urge each and every one of you to support the prev

today was aer f terrible day for the american brand, the american people and all of our allies. we do not negotiate from a position of strength. we acted from apo position of weakness. as a result vladimir putin walked away with a win.y he's walking away with an undeserved legitimacy. we tookd a loss today when we backed away from our standing commitment to principles, american leadership and basic reality. today the press asked the president of the united states who he believed on the subject of russian information operation in the u.s. in 2016. the men andvehe in women of the u.s. intelligence agency or vladimir putin, a member of theur russian intelligence community. a thug, turned russian desperate.ho the choice was between peopled who are risking their lives on behalf of our freedom and people who go around the world. taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how did he answer? he answered he didn't see any reason why element would have interfered in the election. makele no mistake he has a reason. the reason is clearch g to all those who h

aron american female nurses they originally we wanted in the army nurse corps.. that is compareed to the nearly estimate -- estimated 8,000 african-american female nurses who were prepared and had the appropriate degrees for servings a nurse in the u.s. army. flip side of this, of course, is you also have nearly 2,000 male nurses who were trained and had degrees ready for service who also continued to try to push the military to change particularly the army to change the way in which it accepted nurses. this, of course, was met with -- with an outright negative as it came to male nrses. regardless -- about concerns -- regarding nursing shortages they persisted throughout the war and as a result by the time we get to late 1944, in 1945, grumbles started to become quite public about what to do concerning ors inning shortages. it gets so bad by january 6th 1945, is part of his public announcement to congress president roosevelt announced his support for legislation to expand the selective services act of 1940 to include for the first time the drafting of female nurs

too many americans are still struggling. in 2016, 12.3% of american households were food insecure. the supplemental nutrition assistance program or snap provides crucial assistance to tens of millions of americans. almost half of whom are children. and over 80% of snap households are living at or below the poverty line. further more, it's important to acknowledge that the snap program is responsible for many long-term benefits. studies have shown that access to snap by pregnant women leads to healthier babies and girls who had access to snap as children were 18% more likely to graduate from high school. that's why i'm continually frustrated that majority blames our budget deficit on low income families, seniors and victims of hunger. especially when the cbo has estimated that the republican tax bill will explode the deficit by 1.9 trillion dollars over ten years. that's why i'm offering an amendment that rejects this resolution's deep cuts to snap. 157 billion dollars over ten years. whether it's the trump administration's budget, the farm bill, or this committee's budget, it's obv

at that point, italian-americans, german-americans. after the integrated, they found integrated troops were as were more effective than the all white troops. people said when you are in that same foxhole, when your life is at stake, when you have to put your life in the hands of some of the else, it does not matter what the color of their skin is or whether they are white working class. that was -- there were lots of positive examples. in my own classroom, i have tried. i'm not try to say it is easy. i think it takes a lot of structure and leadership. admittedly, it is not a class about abortion or death penalty, but i teach a class called international business transactions that is well known for being the most diverse, both racially, ethnically but i have a large number of conservatives in my class. i lay the ground rule. i say we are going to have this conversation. if somebody says something in a is not the way you would say it, for just this class, do not assume immediately because the person is a bigot.bia biracist i don't want t

these incredible american heroes will soon lay at rest on sacred american soil. even during the campaign, people would come up to me it's a long time ago many decades ago. oftentimes they were older. in some cases, they were younger. great-grandfathers. my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father they asked if i could do something about it. i'd look at them, i'd say, "we don't get along too well with that country." they said, "whatever you can do." and it's something that was very important to me. many people have asked that. i've asked the vice president and others to just pay a special tribute and they will do that. so we honor the sacred memory of every incredible american patriot who fought and died in that war. in everything we do, in every action we take, we are fighting for loyal, hardworking, patriotic citizens of our blessed nation. we're making our country great again. we're respected again all over the world. our military will soon be stronger than it's ever been, by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobody makes equ

you are working on a book that includes the 1950's, working-class americans and black americans. all tied into sears roebuck and company. what is -- what is the research been like? traci: it looks at department stores. i focused on department stores because they have touted consumption as a means of realizing democracy. places, department stores allow anyone, black, white, regardless of age or gender to enter and buy.

in american occupied okinawa, both american and okinawa women turned out to be quite enthusiastic in terms of the participation in cold war internationalism. so against the backdrop of okinawa's vibrant transformation into the so-called keystone of the pacific, american and okinawa women engaged in a series of ferment and domestic activities to cultivate women to women relationship. people to people relation at the time. americanof a milken -- military occupies -- ranging from cooking demonstrations to also fashion shows. invitedvited ok now -- okinawa women. american home economists, you can see the first one on your left. they were dispatched from michigan state university. [inaudible] --ond the university hanoi also became very important. 1961, hawaii also became involved in the occupation. quite a few okinawa traveled from okinawa to hawaii to receive training in industrial sewing, commercial dining, cosmetology, and tourism and hospitality, under the supervision of an american woman who had previously served as home economist in the philippines. so, during the occupation, women'