just as powerful as american guilds was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion and generosity spurred americans to take action. idea that the united states was the benevolent leader of the free world also converged with religious ideas. the idea the united states needed to be the good samaritans. refugee advocates argued that americans should not admit refugees because americans are good, but because refugees are good for america. one senate resolution from 1975 declared this period of the influx of refugees and exiles can serve to keep us humble, saving us from the sins of arrogance, pride and self- righteousness. i need to tell you the support for refugees really was small compared to the opposition to refugees. despite the lofty ideals and passions advocacy of refugee supporters, in reality, the majority of americans consistently opposed the settlement of southeast asian refugees. and the settlement was by no means a new development in american culture. public opinion polls indicate that consistently throughout the 20th century, a

- americans, are like italian- americans. and he is an italian-american, they are a group once thought of as not quite white but now as thought of is very much white, which would lead in a different direction and help explain the folks that gerry studies. right, so, my question for you is is that a fruitful comparison? should latinos be compared with italian-americans more often than they are in the literature on the subject? especially with reference to politics and voting behavior? >> i missed the one word when you talk about the political scientist and you brought up italian he said absolutely? >> they absolutely are. the new italian-american. >> okay. so is that a fruitful way of thinking about latinos politically? >> >> i'm generally interested in where you would come out with that. >> i would say one of the great things about latino studies, and latino history is that in defining the constituency, we draw or we can draw from a lot of other disciplines such as sociology and medical science. i think he should have given y

of american exceptionalism. that yearning they dry them and like-minded people to trump posture lie fourth celebration at the lincoln memorial. aga narrative is the romper placement for the much national story of the cold war years. it asserts the greatness of america, not as an inspirational actualut as a kind of claim about the -- the story regards all other countries as competitors to vanquish as if the proof of american success lies in the struggle of others. tell us about that paragraph. guest: [laughter] i think older americans who grew up as we did, during the cold war, and learned our history from the books we were taught in public schools, but also in visiting these sites and hearing this great story, they feel as though that story has been tarnished by critics, that people have come and eaten away at it, attacked it, tried to undermine it, and those people are anti-american. in point of fact, dissent and revisionism have been a part of american history since the colonial days. that is annk effective cr

i did in american. yeah and i just heard back again i pushed back a i have said the king of a condo as an african-american so what exactly exactly i mean you know so what are you going to do about it well that's not a real country because i don't think we're talking about hollywood hot you know we're not talking about hollywood is the what is what is structuring this entire conversation how we know this i know what yesterday over say who was murdered a conversation with structure in this conversation african-americans have decided to make make it clear that there's a bigger narrative going on and the reality is that you need people that are in those positions in those roles that would make tweaks like like like a revolt you know he can let me say something with you because we have an ad that. i want to hear from an african-american actor who also was part of this conversation back in 2017 samuel l. jackson spoke on hot 97 of radio station that is a deep deep deep conversation but here's a little a littl

single american in the future. is urgent. i declare a state of emergency on day one. i'm a business person. i spent 30 years looking at business. i know we can solve this and be richer. i know we can create energy cheaper with renewables than with fossil fuels p or we're in iowa. this state has the highest percentage of renewables of any state in the united its of america. anyone out there who thinks warren buffett is so stupid, that he's building windmills in iowa? we can do this and be healthier. we can do it and be richer. of goode net millions paying jobs for people by doing this. afraid.d not be we have to do this. the oil companies do not want us to do it. , i listen to this people talk about the united states and you would think we are nothing but crises and failure. we have the most successful society in the history of the planet. we have a couple of big challenges. we have to break these corporation stranglehold. we have to do it if we will solve the problem. honestly, we need to stabilize the natural worl

american and japanese forces. one thing that was interesting on the american side was the papers of the npr of american training of the npr which is what i was interested in bed -- interested in they are quite scattered in a bunch of different areas five boxes here, five boxes there.'s eyepiece that together to draw together that story. on the japanese side unfortunately, there is less postwar archival material available. i went and spoke to some researcher for defense studies but was not able to get much in the way of archival but they kindly sent me way more oral history than i could ever read but i managed to read some of them and that was a very good resource. that i also utilize. in terms of historical context your second question. what i'm what am i arguing against? i think i am arguing against a couple of things. now his store graphically there is sort of this one story of the u.s. japanese relationship and that is the story that's called the reverse force. for the first couple of years, the u.s. genuinely

one thing that was interesting about it on the american side was the papers of the npr are of american training of the npr, which is what i was interested in, are quite scattered in a bunch of different places, there are sort of five boxes here in the national archives, five boxes there, five boxes over there. so i pieced all that together to draw together that story. on the japanese side unfortunately there is less post-war npr archival material available. i went and spoke to some researchers at the national institute for defense studies but wasn't able to get much in the way of archival program. they kindly sent me way more oral histories than i could ever read but i managed to read some of them. that was a good resource that i also utilized to write that chapter. and then in terms of historiographical context, what am i arguing against? i think i'm arguing against a couple of things. now, there is kind of this one story of the u.s./japanese relationship and that's a story that's called the reverse course. for the first couple years the u.s. genuinely cared about democracy and the oc

american people won't accept it. yet, the people of iowa understood that there is something wrong when 87 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. something very wrong with today, 30,000 people a year die because they don't have access to health care. something awful when 500,000 americans go bankrupt because they cannot afford the incredibly high medical bills that they receive when they got out of the hospital. something is very wrong when we spend twice as much per capita on health care as the people of any other country, and yet one in five americans cannot afford the cost of prescription drugs because the pharmaceutical industry rips us off every single day. i said that four years ago and the people of iowa said bernie, you are right. since then, what we have seen is poll after poll that the american people want us to move to a medicare for all single-payer program. [cheering] sen. sanders: that means no deductibles. that means no copayments, no premiums, no out-of-pocket expenses. means freedom of choic

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400 years of african and african-american perseverance in american society. we will stop excising enslavement, oppression from our understanding of the american story, and we would begin to recognize it and also commemorate those individuals who survived a very, very treacherous period in american history. >> professor, author, and dean, cassandra newby-alexander, thank you for being with us. dean newby-alexander: thank [applause] >> to begin our program, please welcome the honorable donnie artech, mayor of the city of hampton. [applause] please take your seats. good morning and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. it is my honor to welcome governor ralph northam and first lady pamela northam, lieutenant governor justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine. u.s. representative bobby scott and representative elaine luria of virginia. representative karen bass of california, and representative william clay of missouri, speaker of the house of delegates burkland cox. bo

the american dream is working again for every american. [applause] vice pres.ence: and i have to tell you, also wages are rising at the fastest pace they have had more than 10 years. more americans are working today than ever before. and i know it is particularly important to the president that wages are rising most rapidly for working families. for blue-collar americans. the truth of the matter is the fastest wage increase for people that are going to work in our factories and plants across the country, in a word, the forgotten men and women of america are forgotten no more. this economy is for everybody. [applause] know, is. pence: you saw that the other day, karen and i slipped away for a little vacation time. it was like two days. but we were sitting on a beach just outside fort myers, florida. i had a ball caps on and sunglasses. las went by both wearing budweiser t-shirts, tattoos on their arm. [applause] fellares. pence: this stopped and said you are vice president pence, aren't ya? i said yes sir, i am. youooked at me and i said, tell the president i ma

. >> good evening my fellow americans. i have asked for this television time to report to you on our most difficult and urgent problem. the war in vietnam. since i took office four months ago, nothing has taken so much of my time and energy as a search for a way to bring lasting peace to vietnam. i know in some ways i should've ended the war immediately after inauguration by ordering our forces home. this would've been in easy thing to do, a popular thing to do. but i would've betrayed my solemn responsibility as president united states if i had done so. i want to end this war. and the american people want to end this war pick the people of south vietnam want to end this war. that we want to end it permanently so that the younger brothers of our soldiers will not have to fight in a future vietnam someplace else in the world the fact that there is no easy way to end the war does not mean that we have no choice but to let the war dragged on with no end in sight. for four years american boys have been fighting and dying in vi

a consensus start, a start with the overwhelming number of americans support. -- of american support. in just a few minutes, the united states senate will have what we call a pro forma session, that is not a session to act. the time is not to simply have silence. the time is not simply for reflection. the time is not for a moment of silence. the time for the senate is to act, the time for the senate in -- and the house and the white house to act. the time is to listen to the american people. i rode home from israel on a plane late sunday night into monday, and the pilot of that plane came back to my seat and said, "i don't know much about politics, i don't get involved in politics," he said, "but something needs to be done. action needs to be taken. -- action needs to be taken." for those children of which debbie spoke of. of the mom, that sister, who lost their lives. the time, senator mcconnell, is to act. bring hr-8 to the floor. now. the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens believe that is a step to make their children, their husbands, their wives, their sisters, their bro

they are like african-americans. they are like italian-americans. they are a group that was once thought of not quite white that is now thought of as very much white which would lead in a different direction that would help explain the folks that jerry studies. is that a fruitful comparison. >> they absolutely are. >> are. the new italian americans. is that a fruitful way of thinking about latins politically. >> i'll try to answer that. >> i'm genuinely interested in where you would come out on this. >> one of the great things about latino studies and latino history in defining the con spi -- constituency we can drop from a will the of other disciplines. i think he should have given you a source for that statement. i would make comparison with african-americans because that follows the trend of actual political science that focuses on latinos. in african-american politics it's linked fate that says african-americans see their life chances as deeply integral and connected to other people in their race. it can apply to at lylatino pol. he makes the ar

life, this bright thread of american society as uniquely american and something that would not easily transfer to his home country. okay. on to our english character, who visited in united states twice in 1921 and 1930 and into 1931. chester ton picked up on the paradox first conformed bid toekville and how american individuals actually led to conformism. they value and even venerate the individual. in this exultation of the individual, however, chester ton noted a curious contradiction, namely that american individuals is the reverse of individuality, something that toekville said, in slightly different terms. chester ton explained this by the habit fostered by the capitalist society where men are trying to compete with each other he said. they are trying to copy each other. they become standardized by the very standard of self. americans were particularly vulnerable to this habit of competing with and thus copying others according to chester ton because they are a very self-conscious people who are intensely sensitive and conscious of criticism. such sensitivity and self-consciousne

the time is to listen to the american people. i rode home from israel on a plane late sunday night into monday and the pilot of that plane came back to my seat and said i don't know much about politics, i don't get involved said, buts, he something needs to be done. action needs to be taken. for those children of which she spoke. sister, whothat lost their lives. time, senator mcconnell, is to act. 8 to the floor. now. the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens believe that is children,make their their husbands, their wives, their sisters, their brothers, their fellow americans safe. that is why we come here today. and that is what we will be demanding tomorrow and tomorrow into tomorrow. the house judiciary committee and they areg back going to address this issue. we have acted, they have acted, and we passed a bill which americans believe is one part of the answer. we are here to urge senator mcconnell to bring that bill to the floor. and urge every senator to listen to those 95% of americansmcconno the floor. who say eve

course on the american lives in the american revolution. which tells the true story about five boys kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the south. toir daring attempt to try bring their captors to justice is being published by simon & schuster in october. thank you once again for joining us this evening and please welcome me in joining dr. rick bell. [applause] bell: thanks to heather, thanks to c-span for covering this. those of you who might have been to the smithsonian before won't be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland native's accent. i was born and raised in england , yet find myself teaching about the american revolution as part of my job, which is a blessing and a curse in an undergraduate classroom, to teach with an accent like this. i am very proud of where i grew up. i often carry in my back pocket a giant british flag -- [laughter] dr. bell: which i might drape around the scenery for c-span to drink in. but i was also naturalized as a u.s. citizen a couple of years ago, something

it is american history.t is very, very important, because those of us who were educated here, we did not get it. i'm not young. well, okay, i'd like to be young, but i went to high school and junior high school here in the '60s. i graduated in '73 in hampton. i attended hampton university. i didn't know dr. ellis, but i wanted to know where will we go to hear your stories that were told today? >> they're recording it right back there. so the one thing i will say is that colonial williamsburg has always done an extraordinary job with archiving. one of the things that we promised each other in our sort of pre-talk was to be as emotionally honest about this as we could, even as we saved some names to protect the innocent and not so. but, you know, it is being digitized. it is an archive. i think it will be shared first with those employees who wanted to see it first. after that, i don't know. that's the one thing i will say, is that they have from photographic records to the videographies and things that were t

older americans grew up on the american story and it's magic now grieve for a loss of american exceptionalism. that yearning may drive them waand like-minded younger people to attend july 4 celebrations at the lincoln memorial. he andaga narrative is a replacement for the more gently drawn natural story of the cold war years . it reinforces the greatness of america not as an aspirational tail but as a kind of factual claim about the nation . a status was lost, stolen in fact by a politically correct crowd of disbelievers and it's this. superiority and the cold war message, the m aga story regards all the other countries as competitors to vanquish as if superiority lies in the conquest of others.. >> guest: i think older americans who grew up as we did during the cold war and learned our history from the books that we were taught in public schools but also in visiting these sites and hearing this great story, they feel as though that story has been tarnished by critics, that people have come away at it, acted, tried undermining and that those people are and american. in point of fact, dissent

an american. i always say to americans when i take them to omaha beach particularly where the bedford boys were slaughtered. i say there is no place where any american can go on the planet where you will feel more proud to be an american. than omaha beach. that's the finest hour, the best moment in history was when you kicked the brits out, the second best, june 6th, 1944 where you gave american lives over 90 oh on omaha beach on one beach where you gave many american lives, 20,000 americans killed in the battle of normandy, you gave american lives, the old world came to liber eight the -- the new world came to liber eight the old where american sacrifice their lives so the others could enjoy freedom so i could grow up in freedom. without going on too long i want to stress one thing. i do this with people i take to the beaches in normandy. i say by 1944 by june 6th, 1944 american -- americans were in no danger of being invaded. american freedom was assured. the americans who served in the european

he's inspired black americans and he's still beloved among black americans.ly trying to get at, you know, with my work is... we, i think, we too often want to exclude or include people, typically ourselves, from whether they are ever expressing racist ideas or whether they're ever supporting policies that actually create more racial inequity. and i think what we need to do as humanity, talking about these racial issues, is define terms. define what a racist idea is and whoever says that idea, call it racist. define what a racist is, and whoever acts that way, call them racist. that's essentially what i'm seeking to do and it doesn't really matter who the person is, nor does it matter how much i admire them. if they say something that suggests there's something wrong with a racial group, not an individual, but a racial group, then that is a problem. how do you reach out to white america with your message about anti—racism and the need to be proactively engaged with it? well, i think first and foremost, i think many white americans, one of the reasons why they

explore our nation's past on american history tv. every weekend on c-span3. >>> in the late 1850s americans generally trusted their congressmen but they did not trust congress as an institution, nor did congressmen trust each other. by 1860 many congressmen were routinely armed, not because they were eager to kill their opponents but out of fear their opponents might kill them. >> yale history professor and author joanne freeman will be our guest on in depth sunday from noon to 2:00 p.m. eastern. her latest book is "field of blood." her other titles are "essential hamilton," hamilton writings and affairs of honor. join her live conversation with phone calls, tweets and facebook questions. at 9:00 p.m. on after words in his lateststest book "the moral majority" ben howell discusses whether evangelicals are choosing political power over chris shall values. >> i think the lesser evil argument is tempting but dangerous. i think it contributes to keeping a system in place that takes accountability out of the system. and i think it also is

americans were in no danger of being invaded. american freedom was assured. the americans who served in the europe theater who laid down their lives, who stepped out of landing craft, who jumped out of c-47s on june 6th, 1944, they laid down their lives for europeans, not in terms of importance, in terms of freedom for americans. they laid down their lives for europeans. it was an act of greatal truism. i think it's the greatest acto f offof altruism in history. >> now a caller from west virginia. >> caller: hello. i would like to say, today being memorial day, i am so proud of all the people that served. i'm a veteran myself, vita ma'am -- vietnam veteran. my father was in the sixth army rangers. and they actually made a move about him 15 years ago called "the great raid." my mom lost two of her brothers, one in germany and one in the death march. if not for all those people and those that served in world war ii we wouldn't be here today. today being memorial day. i am happy that my family served. all the people that served, it makes me really feel good toda

it is interesting if you think about the 50s and the 60s american politics and american news society. in the south in the 50s and 60s it was mostly looking at the civil rights movement and especially the white opposition to civil rights that we saw in the 50s and early 1960s. especially television begins to focus more on the civil rights movement in birmingham. you start to see an ugly side of america. and how whites were treating african-americans. highlighting the jim crow laws in the south. as legal jim crow ends in the 1960s we get this renewed interest in the south and southern influences begin to seep into american society. something we also see to this day. southern rock becomes popular. the band leonard skinner, the song sweet home alabama which is an answer to neil young song, southern man which is very critical song about white southerners and the opposition to civil rights. lynyrd skynyrd is the answer to that. the southern man doesn't need neil young around anymore. sort of praising alabama and george wallace. other bands like the marshall tucker brand. you also had countr

and all african-americans. this is a community that is often cozying up to their white relatives in hopes of hitting certain privileges and there's a crucial break in the reconstruction period that i detailed that i think it's important for us to reckon with both the heroic and more tragic aspects of brown identity and history in the city. thank you. >> my name is walter and i am a member of st. mark's church. for a lot of people i'm the very image of what you would expect if you do the same marks, light skin, gray hair and all of that. i'm herb around fellowship society the senate and also a hollow a descendent. i don't know if i'm a descendent of richard holly the first black cop, that i don't know. i'm also a middleton family descendent and not through slavery but a marriage between a confederate soldier in the 1880s to a formerly enslaved women. anyway there's a lot going on here. one of the things that's interesting and we had henry louis gates here back in april i believe it was but one of the things that

you're watching american history tv. >> each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next, we visit the american museum of culture and history in richmond to look at 400 years of african-american history. curator karen sherry focuses on the period of 1619-the civil war. sharing stories about individuals who led slave revolts and participated in john brown's raid on harpers ferry. karen: welcome to the virginia museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia. and welcome to our latest special exhibition that is titled "determine, the 400-year struggle for black equality." it is part of the statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia. and fundamentally shaped the course of american history. it is called american evolution 2019. and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. and in particular, determined commemorates the 1619 arrival of the africans in virginia. it looks at the ensuing 400 years and traces the legacy of slavery in virginia

. >> each week american artefacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. history the museum of and culture enrichment to look at their exhibit on 400 years of african-american history. this is the second of a two-part tour. the virginiak to history of museum and culture. we are standing in the middle of the exhibition entitled "determined." this section explores the period from the end of the civil war after the civil war, which ended slavery in the united states, through 1950. this was a period that witnessed both progress and backlash. blackthe civil war virginians and americans embraced new opportunities. on one hand, black lives flourished under the new promises afforded by freedom in american society. black people suffer from backlash from the white establishment. at the same time that we see the incess, we also see regress the form of disenfranchisement and legal s segregation in the forms of american society. we will look at a few stories that exemplify push and pull dynamic. the section starts with reconstruction and key legislative amendments tha

we know as the american army. there were a lot of kind of residual structures from the civil war. there was a secretary of war and a commanding general or, you know, this sort of military position that was kind of the same, sort of on the same level as the secretary of war. created all kinds of weird policy. so he changed that to make the secretary of the army secretary of war and placed the secretary of defense in charge and just really streamlined the system. and the system that root put in place was one that was larger and more robust, more prepared as a baseline but then also could expand very rapidly in times of war. so that's what i meant by that sort of compromise between the hamiltonian and the jacksonian ideals. and, but i think that then that intersects with this moralistic impulse that comes out of the spanish-american war where, you know, american power is a good thing. and so we should have more of it, right? it's sort of there's almost this logical fallacy that starts to emerge where you say, well, y

back in the days there were american banks that used to accept slaves as a form of payment and insurance companies made their profit by specializing in slave policies even some universities were found by people who made their fortune through employing slaves floundered years ago the 1st slave ships iraq in virginia marking the beginning of slave trade and labor in the united states ultimately the capital stored in slaves exceeded the combined value of the nation's railroads and factories which lead some historians to argue that slavery was indispensable for the development of the american economy at the time one of them is dr william starkey he does research about race in the south at the university of north carolina at chapel hill very clearly there are some roots of american economic wealth that definitely originated on the plantation and through the institution of slavery but also slavery was actually really innovative to the american capitalist system in terms of developing financial networks in terms of accounting practices scientific marriage meant to increase worker productivity a

i did in american. yeah and i just heard back again i pushed back a i haven't said the king of account as an african-american so what exactly exactly i mean you know so what are you going to do about it well that's not a real country because i don't think we're talking about hollywood hot you know we're not talking about hollywood is the what is what is structuring this entire conversation how we know this i know what yesterday officers who started a connotation were structuring this conversation african-americans have decided to make make it clear that there's a bigger narrative going on and the reality is that you need people that are in those positions in those roles that would make tweaks like like like a revolt. let me say something with you because we have an ad that. i want to hear from an african-american actor who was i was part of this conversation back in 2017 samuel l. jackson spoke on hot 97 of radio station it's a deep deep deep conversation but here's a little a little slice of it so you

we continue to cover the frank lamere native american presidential forum, the first native american form major presidential candidates held in sioux city, iowa, monday and tuesday. lewisturn to stephen questioning democratic presidential candididate julian castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development. >> the sovereignty of indian tribes has increasingly come under attack. most notably, the not indian adoption industry has continued to attack the constitutionality of the indian child welfare act and spread misinformation about by perpetuating negative and racist stereotypypes of indian families and tribal communititi. as president, what would you propose as the potential solulution to not only protect , but to broadly preserved and strengthened trouble sovereignty. >> i know there's a very shameful history behind whyhy it was necessary the first place. that we never want to go back to. in fact, she you pointnted out n your question, we only want to strengthen iqa. number one, i would make sure supportks know that i the indian child welfare act as president and go out ther

. >>> this is a special edition of american history tv, a sample of history programs that airton american history tv. lectures, artifacts, the civil war, oral histories, the presidentsy, and special event coverage about our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. >>> a former u.s. army psychiatrist and a retired u.s. marine lieutenant colonel who both served in vietnam now join historians to discuss the problem of low morale in the final years of vietnam and the war. part of manpower and morale after tet. it's an hour and 20 minutes. >> i'd like to welcome everybody back. my name is charles bowery from washington, d.c. i'd like to start off by thanking beth and the ku center for military war and society centers for hosting this and thanks to our colleagues for their ongoing collaboration in this and other events surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. the u.s. army has more than 500 historians, museum professionals and archivists around the world to do their best to ensure the critical perspective and thinking skills are leveraged throughout the arm

and american political life. i don't just mean in terms of the parties, but recognition civil rights, access to property. >> it's largely lacking, and i think there's individual books and the bread-and-butter of the history of the field for a long time. it's to the community studies. and we will talk about books in a minute. i think in those places historians have looked at someone like for whom it was important to register a latino voter in los angeles. that the store if it gets told. is not part of a much longer history of the involvement of latinos in the partisan politics. i think that is one major direction in the field of latino history that will move in soon. as it does so, i think the story of latino political history and its involvement in history will come together more. >> it reinforces some of that. i am reminded of two things. he was speaking through political activists. they demanded that mexican- americans would proudly organize themselves as a distinctive minority block. as the italians in new yor

all stop with the american dream the american dream is very the american dream the dream american dream is the icelandic group which is to try to provide for your children to have at least as good if not a better life in the air and to do harm in the world that's what the american dream is. everywhere he goes people come out in droves richard ford's books have won him millions of fans around the globe maybe he's right and we all do have the same dream but what exactly is that dream. richard ford is one of the great american story tellers a master at observing the world around him his novels are populated by characters that have become part of the world literature and when it comes to his homeland ford likes to tell it like it is dispelling the myths and legends. this is the place he calls home maine in the north east of the u.s. 40 lives here with christina his wife of more than 15 years their house is located far from the big cities which have never been a draw for them in maine ford is surrounded by lakes and forests where he can go hunting. but most of all here he finds the peace and

she was the 1st african-american to win literatures ultimate prize the nobel in 1903 breaking barriers along the way when i think there can a call for writing. has got to be the nobel prize but what toni morrison really did was create space to discuss racism sexual abuse injustice and love through the experiences of african-americans she became a global cultural icon and an inspiration to every would be writer the reason she turned to writing rather than reading and editing is that she saw a literary landscape that had a gap that wasn't telling a story that she wanted herself to read she shared with us lives that had not been previously shared morrison was the ultimate working single mom while raising 2 sons and working as a book editor and professor she published 11 novels 8 books of essays and a series of children's books she won the pulitzer prize in 1988 for beloved a novel about a mother's decision to kill her child so that she would not be enslaved morrison was a bestselling author many times over but as she noted in a recent documentary her work was also feared this is the colle

perseverance in american society. that we will stop excising enslavement, oppression from our understanding of the american story, and we would begin to recognize it and also commemorate those individuals who survived a very, very treacherous period in american history. host: professor, author, and dean, cassandra newby-alexander, thank you for being with us. dean newby-alexander: thank you. [applause]

and unemployment for african-americans, hispanic americans, and asian americans have all reached thetes ever recorded. [cheering] pres. trump: while republicans are working every day to build up our country, the rage filled democrat party is trying to tear america apart. [booing] the democrat party is now being led by four left-wing extremists who reject everything that we hold dear. [booing] no one has paid a higher price for the far left, destructive agenda than americans living in our nation's inner cities. they have paid a dear price. you see what is happening. you see our inner cities. we've spent billions and billions and billions of four years and years and years, and it has stolen money and it has wasted money, and it is a shame. [booing] for decades, these communities have been run exclusively by democrat politicians. one-party been total control of the inner cities. for a hundred years, it has been one-party control, and look at it. we can name one after another but i won't do that. because i do not want to be controversial. [laughter] we want no: controversy. [cheering] pr

also lived on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> american history tv continues with a discussion on world war ii field rationing including innovations that led to modern-day processed food. learned about government policies that address labor shortages and food rationing on the home front, held by friends of the national world war ii memorial, this is 45 minutes. >>> i am pleased to welcome karen to give her presentation. the first one was national instead of local. we are excited to have her back. she will be talking about food provisions and how that can be an awesome thing to do an activity with. please help me in welcoming karen. >>> good morning everyone. i hope everyone has had a good week so far. this morning i'm going to talk to about rationing in world war ii. we all know that teenagers and most of his work with teenagers have large appetite. i have one at home with an incredibly large appetite. i like to try and engage kids with the topic that not only fits their appetite but also increases their appetite for learning. i find that food is often times in engaging topic. nap

has had on american culture. it was brought to american shores by the captive africans. it into having a profound impact on american music and other cultural forms. this fiddle is meant to represent the beginning of the influence of african culture on the development and creation of a unique and mixed american culture. he also had some interpretive text asking the question of whether he was indentured or enslaved. and there is a lot of confusion about the status of early africans and people of african descent in the virginia colony. and part of the reason for that confusion is that british law had not yet developed a codified system for slavery. sometimes people of african -- int and early virginia early virginia were described as servants and described in the same way that white indentured servants who came here from this isand europe somewhere between four years and seven years were they were bonded to labor for that amount of time after they completed their service. they were free. there was a system of indent

in other words, he saw this positive trait of american life, this bright thread of american society, as uniquely american and as something that would not easily transfer to his home country. okay. on to our english visitor, g.k. chesterton who visited the united states twice in 1921 and then again in 1930 and into 1931. chesterton picked up on the individuals and conformism paradox first articulated by tocquville and extended his insight by attempting to show how american individualism actually led to conformism. americans according to chesterton value and even venerate the individual, in this exultation of the individual, however, chesterton noted a curious contradiction. namely, that american individualism is the reverse of individuality. something that tocquville said in slightly different terms. chesterton explained this contradiction by pointing to the competitive habits fostered by the practices of a capitalist society. where men are trying to compete with each other, he said, they are trying to copy each other. they become standardized by the very standard of self. americans w

there are many more american adaptations. in 1829, the utopian activist robert owen wrote a declaration of mental independence designed to free americans from private property, from organized and the tierney, ladies and gentlemen, of monogamous marriage. [laughter] tyranny of the monogamous marriage. [laughter] prof. bell: that same year, george henry evans authored the working man's declaration of independence, which did except the what you think it did. the list goes on and on. if we skip forward, in 1970, african-american church leaders published the black declaration of independence. here is a quick excerpt. the history of the treatment of black people in the united states is a history having in direct object the establishment and maintenance of racist tyranny over this people. to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. the united states has abated compliance to laws the most wholesome and necessary for our children's education. the united states has caused us to be isolated in the most dilapidated and unhel

it forces our eyes to the totrality of violence american politics and american history. how does that change the story we tell about u.s. history? i think that is very contrary to the story americans like to tell themselves and we do not always tell self comforting stories as a story and about the nation but it seems like a particularly disruptive move to put violence at the center of the story. like that is what i am trying to do in my work and it toincredibly hard to do, flip the script a little bit in terms of how we understand violence and how we have been told, i think, these romantic stories about the underground railroad or about the civil rights movement that feel very nostalgic and sweet. they are stories you can tell the kids. rosa parks refused to give up her seat. yay! is very light, ga harriet tubman rescued the slaves and she did it without hurting anyone. you can package them so well. what i try to do is tell the flee, a lotorder to of times you had to fight. i tell a story about a man running away from slavery and this man was pursuing him and he was, lik

enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv begins now with historians examining the morale of u.s. soldiers during the last two years of the vietnam war. this discussion was part of an all-day conference titled "manpower and morale after tet." taking place at the university of kansas, this is about 50 minutes. >> i wanted to also start by setting the stage a little bit. we called this manpower morale after tet. and that suggests by titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than manpower and morale in the u.s. war in vietnam, that something changed. and in the months and the years that followed the 1968 tet offensive, the u.s. media documented a growing crisis. frequent stories of desertion, of drug use, combat, challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities, most infamous of which was the massacre. and internal military documents tell much the same story. so in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we suggested that things were different in the period before 1968. so as we start talking about post

there's no african-american history. or teachers have said we wish we could teach african-american history but we don't know where to fine it. there's no excuse any more. there's absolutely no excuse any more. this is where african-american history resides and all it takes is a couple of clicks on the internet to get to it. but anyway, let me talk about the main topic tonight and the main topic, of course is -- let's see let me pull it up. the main topic, of course, is the african-american west and in particular slavery in the west and in particular how kansas relates to all of that. now one of the reasons i like coming to kansas city, besides the jazz and the barbecue and yes i'll partake of both later. one reason i like coming to kansas city because i consider kansas city kind of the jumping off place or the starting point for western history. not just african-american western history but for western history in general and, of course, there are two places as you can see on the screen. you guys have a monitor over there

we are reawakening american pride, american competence, and american greatness. we are america first. [applause] pres. trump: it is about time, too. it is about time, wouldn't you say? we hear america first? you did not used to hear that too much, right? you did not used to hear it at all. you hear it a lot now. i hope you do not get sick of it. i do not think you will. not this group. not too many people in this country will feel that way. we are respected again as a nation. we are respected again. we are restoring the fundamental principles that government -- the first obligation, the highest loyalty is to our citizens. loyalty to our citizens really is the first obligation. no longer will we sacrifice america's interest to any foreign power. in all things, we are putting our country first. we are saying, let's say "make america great again," but we are almost there, "make america great again." we may have to switch it. you know what we're going to switch it to? huh? yeah? that is right. i will not say it to you, because this is not a campaign speech. [laughter

working with our cable affiliates as we explore the american story. >>> saturday on american historyp.m. eastern on real america, the 1970 film "communists on campus." >> yes, we are communists. their mission proudly proclaimed the violent overthrow of the democratic system. yet, our nation seems unbelieving, even unconcerned. >> sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on oral histories, woodstock co-creator arnie cornfecor cornfeld details how the festival came together. >> i said, suppose we have hendricks and job lplin, all th people. how many will come? >> he said 50,000. >> i said, 100,000. my wife said, there will be more than 300,000. just like that. i swear to god, i looked off that terrace, and i actually saw that field. when i'm interviewed in the movie everyone says, were you spaced out? of course i was spaced out. i was looking at a dream that came true. >> at 6:00 on american artifacts, virginia museum of history and culture on the exhibit on 400 years of african-american history. >> we were not content with their lot. they wanted to resist their enslavement, and they tried