the american dream cannot survive without safety and security for individual americans. for all of us. when our children are afraid to attend school, when a husband and wife are afraid to walk to their grocery store. and when society as a whole is being threatened. government. government must meet its responsibility to protect our schools, our streets and our neighborhoods. our contract with america calls for tough punishment for those who prey on society. for too long, washington has refused to get tough. and even when they sound tough, there are always loopholes that benefit the criminals, not the victims. our contract will make the death penalty real. no more analysts appeals. and we will. we will cut the pork in the recently passed crime bill in order to build real prisons. and we. and we will require criminals to serve their sentences, not have them back on the streets to terrorize again and again. and to make criminals more accountable. we will force them to pay full restitution to their victims or their victims families. and to those who commit felonies with guns.

filipino american history is rich. resilience and only powering everyone here at city hall is a part of its history. and a part of why it is important to celebrate. at west bay, our modo is there is no greater wealth than the knowledge of self. know who you are. and we cannot dom that without honoring those who come observe us. these other more then and there 200,000 filipino and filipino americans fought along side the u.s. in westerlied worry 2 denied what was promiseed them until men passd and in 70s and 80sch despite how they were treated they were proud u.s. vet residence who patiently and steadfast low fought for acknowledgment in u.s. history. these other over 30,000 who came to california denied the right to start families and marry interrishlly. instead the elder brothers created vibrant filipino communities like manila town from kaern tow jackson street and tloif for over 50 years. these are also the brave filipino student in thes lye 60s sf state and uc beshg low who joined other students to fight for acknow

i mean, i know many of many of the most popular images of native americans and american culture kind of identify native americans as being like nomadic or not rooted in the landscape, but pretty much everybody here in is agricultural. the corn farmers although they also use a very wide variety of wild and and cultivated plants that we're talking about agricultural towns. um, it's on the most important towns are also have at their center sacred earthworks. so mounds mounds that support council houses at the center which are religious and political and social centers of towns surrounding those areas you have houses made of wood and while end up and then agricultural field stretching along the creeks and the river bottoms. and so you're talking about a very a farming people fairly sedentary people people that that use wide range of other resources, i guess who's saying the landscape, but but who are very much since we're talking about place very much rooted in these specific valleys these river valleys so like that tuckaseegee, where where i work the the little tennessee, so this is a w

define american identity. how do we define american identity? how do we live as christians, the public square, and pursue justice which is good without falling into the trap of christian nationalism. happily we have the american creed of liberty and equality. the constitution and the declaration. our expression of an underlying natural law that is consistent with and rooted in the moral principles of christianity. do democracy, to my mind, is the political of the golden rule. do unto others means reciprocal altruism, which in political terms means political equality as self-governing citizens. i recognize you. you recognize me as co-equal citizens, who work together to govern this grand republic. and so if you want to seek justice, if you want to govern righteously, hold to the constitution, hold the declaration, hold to the rule of law, hold to equality and religious freedom for. all citizens, including for non christians, including for queens, including for progressives and for methodists and everyone in between. now we haven't always done thi

the americans recruited all over the country, including american indians. these are men, the choctaw nation. the sometimes called the original codebreakers. they were in the american military, though they were not american citizens at the time. american indians were not given citizenship until 1924. you may wonder why the people of puerto or american citizens puerto ricans were made. american citizens in 1917. so they could be drafted by right. these are the famous harlem hellfighters, the american was segregated during the first world war. black american soldiers were not allowed to serve in combat units. the commander of this unit a, national guard unit, one of his men in combat. so he turned to the french. the french were perfectly happy to have his men fight for them. and that's why these american soldiers are wearing french. and they were a highly decorated unit in the french army. the major american battle of the first world war was one of the last it took place in this place called, the meuse argonne, between september and november 1918. this battle

start saying the american dream, the american dream, the american dream is very alive in other parts of the world which is highlighted by this book is a very powerful stories very powerful anecdotes. i wanted to ask both of you if you have a favorite story from the book that illustrates white america's best kept in perspective? what's my favorite story is how many of you in this room have heard of robert smalls? and should be up. this guy should be on the 20-dollar bill. robert smalls was a slave but he escaped he commandeered a boat pretty freed himself and a bunch of others, came up north convince lincoln to allow blacks to fight in the civil war. then becamee a multi millionair, founded the republican party of south carolina. to top it all off he bought the plantation he was enslaved in. that's like it's only in america incredible story for it is such a story of overcoming. it is such a a story of meeting adversity. it was a lot of fun to try to take the guy like that, his story. this is something a movie it should be made of. >> i agree. doing a lot of the research what are thing

blood on american soil.hat is the quotation from polk war message. she has proclaimed hostility. the two nations are at war. what's polk is saying, he is going to congress, because of the constitution and asking them to declare war on mexico. he is saying, there is already a war, you just have to declare it. you just have to declare. there's already a war. john c calhoun, fellow democrat from south carolina is gonna lead -- what calhoun doesn't like as when he sees the abuse of executive power. his overriding concern is that the executive of the u.s. government might intervene in terms of the institution of slavery, calhoun is from south carolina. that is his overriding concern. any kind of abuse of executive power he is nervous about. primarily, it's the whig party that spikes against the declaration of war, argues against it, what they are going to do is an opposition party. they turn out and up like the federalists, who remember, in the war of 1812, they look treacherous by the end, the tree looked pretty

blood on american soil. so that's that's the the poll quotation from polk's war message american blood on american soil. she is proclaimed hostilities of commits a two nations are at war. so what what polka is saying is it's he's going to congress because of the constitution and asking them to declare war on mexico. and he's saying there's already a war you just have to declare it. you just have to declare but there's already a war troops of clash john c calhoun fellow democrat from south carolina is going to lead opponents of polk during the war. what calhoun doesn't like is what he sees is the abusive executive power and his overriding concern. is that the executive or the us government might intervene in terms terms of the institution of slavery? calhoun was from south carolina. so that's his overriding concern to any kind of abuse of executive power. he's nervous about but primarily it's the whig party who speaks against the declaration of war argues against it, but what they're going to do is in opposit

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the americans recruited all of the country including american indians. these are men for the choctaw nation's, sometimes called the original cold regress. they were in the military even though they were not american citizens at the time. american indians are not given citizenship until 1924. you may wonder why the people of puerto rico are american citizens. they were made american citizens in 1917 so they could be drafted. these are the famous harlem hill fighters. the american army was segregated during the first world war. black american soldiers were not allowed to serve and combat units. the commander of this unit, the national guard unit wanted his man in combat. he turned to the french. the french are perfectly happy to have his men fight for them. and that's why these american soldiers are wearing french helmets. they were a highly decorated -- in the french army. the major american battle of the first world war was fought in the last -- it took place in this place called the news argon between september and november of 1918. -- . we make sure i

exploring the american story.can history tv settings on c-spand find a full schedule on your program guide to watch online anytime at c-span.org/history of the. >> and the director of programs here at freedoms work. we are excited to have you here for this book party which promotes america and perspective written by adam reynolds. special thanks to those joining us online onxc the stream. this covers a lot of ground and we are excited to have this discussion tonight. have been pounding the pavement to spread the message of america but tonight we hear from both of them both on the same stage. before i introduce you to our colleagues, you have pens and papers on your chairs and you can use the questions for the q&a portion of the program tonight. our to help set the stage for the discussion by sharing pulling we have done, pulling we have commissioned on the american dream because it is fundamentally what the book f is about. we worked with scott to find 50% of americans say they feel proud to be an american. 65% sa

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, and americans are native americans. we are going to talk about this next week when we talk about immigration, and this process of how does one become american, right? and we're going to talk about settlement and settlement houses in the progressive era, right? they are different, but they have very similar goals in mind as the boarding schools. right? the boarding schools that are going to be created in the late 19th century, the idea of them -- well i mean richard henry pratt gives us the idea -- kill the indian and save the man -- the idea that by teaching and immersing individuals in, kind of, a white, middle class american culture, you can erase the limitations created by being native american and enter into the modern world. and again, what does it mean to be american? how do you get to that? in 1879, the united states indian industrial school opens in carlisle, pennsylvania. sometimes it's just called the carlisle school. and it's run by richard henry pratt. and richard henry pratt had been the commander at fort m

the americans tried, uh, to find some indirect ways. e.luencing iranian oil production and deliveries of iranian oil through the territory of iraq and through the territory of syria and, in general, have achieved some success in this. that is, there, er, the struggle continues. uh, on the one hand, the american blockade, on the other hand, the attempt. uh, iran this american blockade somehow, apparently since then there have been no major clashes it was, but iran yara is an opponent of sanctions and an opponent of a unipolar world, which to this day is imposed by the economic restrictions of the west. the civil war in yemen has been going on since 2004 , then the rebels. again, the shiites opposed the alliance of the authorities of the us country 5 years later, the battles moved from local places to all regions of the state in the history of the conflict entered as a war of all against all in 2015, the rebels kidnapped the head of the administration of the president of yemen from the sith and occupied the palace until the end of the month,

american? all right who can claim to be an american? that's one of the big questions that's going to kind of? take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. so in upcoming weeks we're going to talk about, you know, immigrants. we're going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. i think this is a good start point. to think about who is claiming american status. and what does that mean? so we're going to build from some of the ideas. we talked about with manifest destiny. from the discussion of political violence and build into these are other things. couple key concepts that we need to deal with first of all a settler colonialism. have you heard that phrase before? i see a couple yeses and a couple knows some heads kind of bobbing every which way, okay when we talk about settler colonialism, let me give you kind of a general definition here. we're talking about colonialism that seeks to replace. the original population colonialism that se

i give you tomatoes of another american president, fuck the first american president of the foundingr, who is at the end of his presidency in his farewell message. talked about how the united states should conduct a careful weigh-in. politics how the united states should not have permanent allies and should not be deceived by some countries that are trying to drag their feuds into the united states. especially on the european continent, this is all already so discarded that it seems to me that few people in the administration in congress remember this story, but here is the story that we all remember, anatoly ivanovich, this is something that is directly related to your expertise and not only to your expertise as an ambassador, but for those uh of our viewers. who does not know your you have a rich and very important career. after all, you were the deputy minister of foreign affairs, and you were the deputy minister of defense, and you dealt a lot with issues of arms limitation and strategic stability. and that's when we look more specifically at the fact that the struggle for world

s. behind white americans. but the country carries a long history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination. for the general public, the most well known, wealthy african americans are athletes, politicians, and entertainers. with but far away from los angeles and its hollywood stars, there's a different black delete and it's on the rise. an upper class that makes up 3 percent of the african american population. this may not seem like much, but it's nearly one and a half 1000000 people sitting really black, excellent period. so how is this new black bush was e fairing? what's the secret to their success? some entrepreneurs are establishing businesses to support black communities. to turn a table and say no longer will we by white, but it's time for us to buy black. others make a conscious effort to stay within the black community and all areas of life. i prefer her to date a person. i want her to date a black person. black excellence isn't limited to athletics and popular music. it's also at home in the world

how defining these american what they perceive as american values that are on the decline. so i don't necessarily think it matters too much how the actual soviet threat was to the people making as long as it was being depicted this you could then argue for support of and then pick your. i think it really could have been anything okay interesting she besides the fact i think someone probably had to come up with that name again right there. yeah right. yeah. that's all i need a word for. i need a word for you. help me out here. me out here. who's got it? i'm on godliness, right? and cleanliness sides that i think it's interesting if they the first three conquest depression murder right. we just put that right next to uncle sam punching a guy from the philippines. right? right. like really close together. yeah. again like, this is such an important point that you were all bringing out today, right? that this mere image in the parallelism, if you will, between soviet and what you're seeing in american books and and how this is kind of playing off each other, telling one thing i

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not only because of american media, but i believe partly because of american media. i will start with an example that summarizes this problem well. last year, researchers at the university of southern california released a report on latino representation in top grossing fills -- films. across 1300 top grossing films from 2007 to 2019, 3 .5 percent of lead roles went to hispanic or latino actors or actresses. fits -- this marks the invisibility in american society. in more than 40% of these films, keep in mind these are box office winners most americans see, there were no latino characters at all. a whole community that represents almost 20% of the country did not even exist in those films. i have argued this kind of invisibility helps create a void in narrative, a black hole or stereotypes and bigotry can fester. when we look at films where latinos were represented, this becomes especially clear. in 100 top grossing films from 2019, nearly 40% of top build latino and hispanic characters were depicted as criminals or ex-convicts. 40%. think about what that means for a

if i believe if we keep the faith and the american people and the ideals of the american family, and keep faith in one another and the goodness of this country, and trust him who has ever guided this great experiment in freedom, i know the best days for the greatest nation on earth. [applause] thank you for the welcome tonight. god bless you all. [applause] >> we have three microphones, one in the center aisle and one in each corner of the balcony. as you all line-up, i'm going to start with a question. i may come back at the end with a question, but we want to get two yours as quickly as possible. mr. vice president, one of the reasons i came back to georgetown to launch this institute is because of my concern about the polarization in our country, which is about as bad as i have ever seen it in my career. i remember right after you and -- or during the campaign when you and president trump were running, that there was a lot of feeling that people on my side, people on the left, people in cities, the elites were being dismissive of the concerns of a lot of people in the heartland. a

real money out of the pockets of american families. things like banking overdraft fees, credit card late fees, hidden booking fees, termination charges from stopping you to switching cable or internet plans due to a better deal. companies use complicated algorithms to hide fees that hurt consumers that hurt them. remember when we talk in the beginning about the study done, that if a average family got $400 charges in bills in a month, they can pay that. they would have to sell something or borrow the money. it adds up to more than $400 for a lot of families. you heard me say it before, my dad used to talk about it. how much are your monthly bills, how much do you have to pay for necessities, is there enough left over to have a little breathing room? we are making progress from bringing down the cost of families. the price of gasoline continues to fall. it is now down for the third week in a row. it is down $1.35 from the beginning of the summer. the decade before the pandemic we were averaging three dollars and $.35. during the pandemi

that american hegemony is not a benevolent hegemony, as has been said by, uh, american liberal democratss, in fact, making the science of linealism and here is the reaction with the likely reaction of the united states to this decision of custody only proves this neo-colonial nature of american hegemony. see how bloomberg writes the white house has already asked the united states department of energy to look into banning united states exports of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products. well, of course, the goal is to weaken. uh, rising prices uh inside the united states but how will this affect other countries, including european countries, who are now just praying for american lng supplies and other petroleum products from the united states, the same bloomberg writes that the uk has already announced. europe is just in for a catastrophe, if the biden administration really leads, uh, such a ban ivan alekseevich here is a benevolent hegemon for you. i did not ask, yes, you do not slip me, yes, please, american benevolent hegemony. and you are absolutely true. you are correct in sayi

invasion of latin american nations. so rather than opposing militarism or intervention in general they opposed american intervention against the nazi specifically. they fought roosevelt's attempts tose challenge hitler whose goas as they saw them take comments and, anglo-saxon domination. and hitler's method. now of these four american hearst was the most enthusiastic about fascism. at least in the early 1930s he hired hitler and other nazi officials to write self-serving propaganda for his newspapers and he paid them generously. after meeting hitler in berlin in 1934 hearst was enthusiastic about the way hitler restored character encouraged to germany. here it hitler is an extraordinary man. his enormous energy, marvelous faculty for dramatic oratory great organizing ability. hearst also did business with the nazis but he made a deal with the official german music company, film company the german newsreel insurgent hearst newsreel films in the films they showed in germany. and in return hearst inserted german go segmen

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the american revolution, the seminal event in american history, right there with the civil war is, somethingthat we should have a better grasp of, how it started, how it was fought, and how we won, because it was a very tenuous battle up until the very end. and privateers who have been forgotten in history deserve to be heralded with all the others. the pantheon of people that we focus on and the american revolution. and i think part of the reason probably getting this a little bit later, part of the reason that people have forgotten about privateers is a lot of people of assumed that privateering is legalized piracy and there's something that's not very salubrious it well while in the earlier centuries many privateers like sir francis drake and a lot of the privateers that i talk about in my book black flags blue waters actually were nothing but pirates. they had letters. marque but they were pirates. a great example of that is in the late 1600s, there many england was war with france during king war and england out a lot of privateers to battle france in the american the colonial governors

notably the word american. america encompasses north america, south america, people in latin america take issue understandably with u.s. sentence referring to ourselves as american we co-opted that phrase. what does history mean? who is in charge of fashioning it whose interpretation of the past we focus on? in the meantime today's lecture is going to be a chance to connect a lot of the dots but we spent learning together everything from the salem witch trials 21619 to gender, religion and war. to use our reading in particular the trio's book silent past in a production history which you are finishing up this week and next, to think about the history of colonial america and how that history is created, and memorialize but not just in site academic circles and books but out in the public. two ways in which the concept of colonial history are popularized in these ways are the subjects of state trent lecture. it would be myths and monuments. i'm going to start sharing my screen. i began the so far so good, we're a

the more americans, the better. if you have a goal for how many people and how low you want to drive --, the answer is no. we are not setting targets, we are focused on driving data down and getting more people vaccinated. this is a very simple go -- goal which is more vaccinations and less desecrated >> do you think what the president says thing the pandemic is over has contributed to the lack of vaccination for this new vaccine? dr. jha: lets me be very clear about this. the majority of american adults go out and get the flu shot every fall. they do not do this because the president says we have a flu pandemic but because we understand -- they understand the best way to protect themselves in the fall and winter is to get the flu vaccine. in the same way, i think a majority of americans understand we are still in a situation where covid is around and affecting a lot of people. we are obviously way better than where we were and the best way to protect themselves is to get the covid vaccine. >> to follow up on a topi

the american treatment of the civilian population helped create an image of the americans as an in an undisciplined and unprincipled people. this experience the way also helps explain why the german troops initially saw themselves as the liberators rather than occupiers, and they were confused just when the people did not treat them accordingly. but what became known as the great fire new york in september 17, shortly after arrival of the british and has some troops reinforced the germans views of the americans as vengeful fanatics. the fire consumed as many as a quarter. the city's buildings. the hessians were convinced that it had said by the rebels and their guard at this event is powerful evidence for the irrational determination to destroy their own country rather than letting it thrive under british rule. the has an officer in leo's view to hold was shocked that quote evil and disobeyed and rebels were deliberately what he described as their blessed land and habitations. another officer wrote the evil sentiments of this nation are indescribable as he surveyed the destruction of

americans tend to think of the u.s. as being founded on principles like the declaration of independence, and that is true, of course. but it also is a physical thing, and it's a homeland that is made out of other peoples homelands. it's a territory that is made out of other people's territories, and you can only forget the second part of that if you -- as americans often do, if you find america as the wilderness or empty or this open land that is simply available for europeans as they show up. those two things are not -- those two definitions of something like removal, they cannot be reconciled, they can only be held -- in the violation of american principles but also the foundation of the country. yeah, the political landscape of the united states, the united states as a territory would have to look very different if things like removal did not take place. >> one of the things that we often hear about today that i guess is not necessarily about commemoration but certainly one of the ways in which mainstream american cu