when they arrive while we can now speak to see me she is head of the egyptology unit at the american university in cairo she joins us now from there professor clearly we've seen the politicians alison force today president sisi is stated to receive the money as well at the museum how is this all being viewed in egypt especially given the cost of all of today's parade and celebrations . well it is pomp and circumstance with you of both tamil and the terrorist but i think in a way people are very proud of what they are seeing although there was great expense i think maybe the returns will be quite good in the long run but it is extremely moving at the same time so having watching that there are those process all the way through these capitals is i think for a lot of egyptians a very emotional time period and i think that. it is done with such. really. but of course not everyone is ever going to be happy about it and. of course what we're seeing this parade take class now lots of people. like lining the streets and huge amounts of lights and dancing and and all of that really this is also about th

tonight at 8:00 eastern on lectures in history, american university professor joseph campbell on the cronkite movement and its effect on public opinion towards the vietnam war. sunday at 2:00 eastern on oral history, a u.s. army veteran effects on his time serving as a clerk during the vietnam war. and sunday at 8:00 eastern on the presidency, a look at new the elected resident's first address to congress with george w. bush in 2001 and president barack obama in 2009. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> booktv on c-span two has top nonfiction books and authors each weekend. tonight, university law professor looks at america's approach to individual rights in help rights went wrong spirit wine obsession with the correct is touring america apart. we will read -- a professor talks about free speech as the free exchange of ideas in his book, why it is okay to speak your mind. sunday at 9:00 eastern on afterwards, in her new book, everyday is a gift, mmr, and like democratic senator tammy duckworth talks about her life and career in the mili

how did young americans respond to the nazi threat two museum historians are joined by a university of michigan doctoral candidate to explore the mindset and actions of american youth in the 1930s and 40s the us holocaust memorial museum provided the video for the program in 40 minutes irish historian, christine. kenneally discusses frederick douglass's time in ireland during an 18-month trip to promote abolitionism abroad in 1845 and 46 and in an hour and 30 minutes on the presidency. susan eisenhower granddaughter of dwight d eisenhower on how ike led the principles behind eisenhower's biggest decisions. good morning, and thank you for joining us for the museum's stay connected facebook live series. i'm your host historian, edna friedberg. every two weeks we discuss holocaust history and its relevance to our lives today. during today's show. we're going to examine the actions and impact that young people in america had in responding to the nazi threat that they were hearing about in europe during the 1930s and 1940s. we have two special guests today. my friend and colleague dr. rebec

they've tried at american university a favorite how much it cost to buying gradients from one to another this is what he told us and you have a listen and then respond at the end of us and thank you. at the beginning of the month of ramadan we wanted to see how inflation is going to affect the lives of people in lebanon so we look at the end there. are 2 shindigs which traces the prices of the main ingredients basic interest in the salad and we discover that actually it increased 210 percent from 220 to 21 when we looked into what could cause a basic standard or basic a start for a family of 5 including for doing this soup and other basic items we actually allies that will cause their family something like weiss or more than the minimum wage for a 2nd to be in the country is that he is challenging and we might actually see even more challenging times in the coming weeks and months. challenger has got a game on understatement yes go ahead mike my comment is that yes i understand and he's the author you're right the devaluation of the lebanese pound made the prices get very high and also l

about that in the next hour or so so we may come that ahead and the egyptology unit at the american university in cairo your insights here on out here thanks for being with us and. thank you. well still ahead from here on out as their families grieve for the victims of friday's train crash in taiwan prosecutors made a construction site near the tunnel. and a changing climate to live in south korea and now that cherry blossom record for the 2nd year running now. we got some subtle changes taking place in the weather across the middle east over the next couple of days we have still got some clouds some rain a little bit of wintry weather there across northern parts of the region the bylaws here those temperatures are starting to notch up at long last so we're getting into the low twenty's there in damascus 22 celsius by rate 80 degrees jerusalem a similar temperature here as well so when she weather moving across took my system northern parts of afghanistan further south it is la sheets right but temperatures starting to fall away here in doha 29 so on in the wake we're into the high thirty's so

and he is from an investor the american university of beirut who came up with the fire to show solid index it is a very simple idea it is a maze and chopped salad of all of these principles a. they've tried at american university a favorite how much it cost into buying gradients from one to another for this is what he told us and you have a listen and then respond at the end of us and thank you. at the beginning of the month of ramadan we wanted to see how inflation is going to affect the lives of people in lebanon so we looked at the end there. and the next which traces the prices of the main ingredients basically just in the salad and we discovered that actually it increased 210 percent from $220.00 to $21.00 when we looked into what could cause a basic standard or basic a start for a family of 5 including for doing this soup and other basic items we actually allies that will cause their family something like wice or more than the minimum wage for sicken to be in the country is that eat as challenging and we might actually see even more challenging times in the coming weeks and mon

of the ways you could get around this strict us immigration laws was to get accepted to an american university and to come on a student visa as a student. tom had tried a number of different universities. he even applied for one of the essay contests, but unfortunately he came in second. i mean we we talked about the pressure on students now to write their admissions essays. imagine what it was like being in europe knowing that this was your chance to escape and to get to the united states so he but he came in second in this in this contest. he worked with a quaker organization the american friends service committee, which was running the largest non-jewish. organization in the united states to kind of help refugees escape nazi europe, so they helped tom and other students match with their universities. finally tom was accepted at mcpherson college a small christian school in rural, kansas. the students at mcpherson helped raise money. they even held a fundraising drive in april 1939 to give tom a scholarship to be able to attend mcpherson was open to accepting refugee students like tom, but t

mississippi in the last years of the civil war, and on electricity which you are ns history, american universityor joseph campbell on the cronkite moment and its affect on public opinion toward the vietnam war. and on sunday, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, on oral histories, david vassar taylor reflects on his time serving as a clerk in the vietnam war and a look at newly elected presidents first addresses to a joint session of congress. with president george w. bush in 2001, and president barack obama in 2009, exploring the american story. watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. 6r7k9s. >>> american tv history, every weekend, documenting america's story, funding for american tv history comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. >>> selected by president george washington in 1789 alexander hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury until january 1795. up next to american history tv, historian and author william hogeland talks about hamilton's economic ideas this. discussion is about 50 minutes. >>> now, while the museum, the gallery of the museum is closed beca

saturday at 8 pm eastern on lectures and history, american university professor joseph ankle on the cronkite moment. its effect on public opinion or the vietnam war. on sunday, by 2 pm eastern on oral histories, u.s. army veteran david nassar taylor reflects on his time serving as a clerk during the vietnam war, and sunday at 8 pm eastern on the presidency, a look at newly elected presidents first addresses to a joint session of congress with president george w. bush in 2001, and president barack obama in 2009. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> american history tv on c-span 3. every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span 3 as a public service. up next, stony brook history professor paul hilton talks about how cholera spread from southeast asia to europe and the americas in the 18 thirties. affecting millions of people including native americans. we talked with him at the organization of american historians annual meeting in sacramento, california, in 2018. >> profess

of course i do i mean i study at the american university of afghanistan it's my last year i'm a senior and i'm in this yes i want to be something i am the 1st graduate in my whole community in my whole district and that would you getting more than 100 people and not all of us would and the international community wants to pull out without any assurance that the people who are left behind will even get education when the guys in my community become hope in the future or we're going to die because of my damn heritage and are going to die because of because women cannot go out and seek maternal margaret mr gear it's something that i feel abandoned and it seemed i don't know if i'm going to be excepted and i'm going to be 3rd in that new afghanistan that is in the meeting right now but of course what needs to happen is of that interim government peace process needs to be put on track and now it is up to the people of afghanistan to ensure that the women are protected it's not just the international community's responsibility. yeah i guess like it's up to the afghan people who have to have

and american university professor joseph campbell on public opinion towards the vietnam war.sunday, u.s. army veteran david bass or taylor reflects on his time serving as a clerk in the vietnam war. on sunday, the presidency, he look at newly elected president's first addresses to a joint session of congress. with president george w. bush in 2001 and president barack obama and president barack obama in 2009. explore the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span3. collects next, a house hearing on children's internet safety. during the coronavirus pandemic including questions on advertising to kids and attending school online. held by an energy and commerce subcommittee. this is two hours and 50 minutes. >> again, good morning and welcome to our hearing.

americans in the early 19th century. mister baker, members of the cherokee nation also discusses his own families voluntarily moved to oklahoma. this is an all day conference hosted by the university of oklahoma, center for the study of american indian law and policy and preservation. >> now it gives me great pleasure to introduce jack baker. he is a former member of the tribal council of the cherokee nation. he served for 11 years representing those cherokee citizens resigning outside of the cherokee nation. he's a national president of the trail of tears in association. he is also the current president of the oklahoma historical society and serves on and on -- a member of other boards. he has an extensive research, cherokee research for more than 50 years and has authored various articles and edited various books on cherokee history. i can say that he continued his research even yesterday at the library of virginia. it gives me great pleasure to introduce jack baker. [applause] >> thank you, elizabeth. it's an honor to be part of the symposium. but i come before you as a citizen that the united states and also a citizen of the cherokee nation. i'm an eighth generation oklahoma b

companies funneled all sorts of money to what are called we're academics psychiatry's a prestigious american university harvard stanford johns options and those academic psychiatry's began working for the drug companies as consultants serving as their speakers advisors that center you would start with a clinical study of the drug but who is designing the study the pharmaceutical companies they know how to design it to make their drugs look good that's step one who then analyzes the data well their own people doing it's done by the drug companies themselves. 3rd then who writes the papers it's actually ghostwriters hired by the drug companies to write up the study. they've now present this study to the people that they want to be the big names of the study and then those thought leaders basically sign off on the ghost written papers and they become quote the authors of the published paper. the former editors of the medical journals like jama and new england journal of medicine and b.m.j. british medical journal they've all said that they basically we became vehicles for story laundering it was a corrupt

robert watson is distinguished professor of american studies at lynn university and senior fellow at the florida joint center for citizenship. is the author of numerous books on history and politics including the ghost ship of brooklyn the nazi titanic and america's first crisis the war of 1812 and is the editor of two encyclopedias the american presidents and american first ladies. professor watson has served on the board of the harry truman foundation the calvin coolidge memorial foundation and the george mcgovern library and center for public service. professor watson has also served as a visiting scholar with many organizations including the truman presidential library gerald ford presidential museum, illinois, holocaust, museum and us military academy at west point. now let's hear from robert watson. thank you for joining us today. hello everyone. i'm robert watson. i'm here to talk about my latest book george washington's final battle the epic struggle to build a capital city and a nation so virtually any american school child knows that george washington was heroic and stoic.

organize a new election of stalled well in lawrence is professor of political science at the american university he's also a former u.s. diplomat and regional security officer in west africa he says somalia is in desperate need of international mediation. camp for some of its 1st one may have won elections since 1980 and it was negotiations were down over a number of issues mostly just about the conduct of the elections the president was accused of stature and is back we go like election borenstein and other issues and there's also the. power distribution she's between the provinces and the president to the fight made provinces so all of this broke down and that led to an exploration both parliaments and the presidents man the february in this new law passed by the lower house of parliament called the people's parliament on it for 14 and that led to all kinds of reactions including one commander of the front line saying if you will resign from power well you know international this seems to be a joke retsinas consequences that declaration. and the whole thing could sort of fall apart like a hous

philip brenner professor emeritus in the school of international service at the american university in washington d.c. philip is also the co-author of cuba liberate a 500 year quest for independence in have an a cube or we're joined by ambassador carlos right he's the former cuban ambassador to the european union and in. miami john suarez executive director of the center for a free cuba welcome to all if i could start with carlos so does the change in leadership ambassador carlos mean a greater chance now of political change in the country. well i think it's you have to understand that this change in leadership has been going on for more than 10 years since the old castro to go over us president the 1st secretary of the queue in communist party he announced there would be a transition from what i call a generational differences general power there have been changes in a number of things for example the there is a new hue and constitution that was approved in 2019 which changed the system towards a more collective leadership kind of system but it remains basically the socialist type of

national defense university and also in kabul victoria funtown professor of he said he's at the american university of afghanistan welcome to you or welcome to inside story david or ocean washington d.c. let me start with you because this is where this decision has come from president biden rejecting the pentagon's push to remain until afghan forces are able to assert themselves against the taliban why has he done this and in your view is this a good or bad decision. well i think it's a bad decision and i think that that's shared across the board washington post which has been severely pro biden has said it's a disastrous decision so i don't think this is just the military view i think that's shared across the board why has he done it well he's done it because quite frankly americans are weary of the war and the idea is that if the afghan government would have developed the capability to stand on its own 2 feet it's had enough time to do it i see a surge in the are in afghanistan when my son was 6 months old in 2002 he has a beard now you know and that that is a pretty common detail people are just

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people might think it popped up last summer, no this has been in development, concurred american universityrts in 1960s, and has been moving through, a long process. justin. in response to what i said lack week, people say what can we do about it. you see the corporations that control so much of our economy. how can we stand up to this? you have a practical answer. >> i have a great idea that is simple. let's vote. let's vote the bums out. i'm not talking about voting out swamp in dc, not political votes. every publicly traded company 24 sets of important votes, every year. first is for corporate directors. second is for sharehold proposal, you are mad at coca-cola good, if you are investor, vote the whole board out. not just the ceo, if you are mad at delta, vote, ed bastion out. what happens at annual corporate meetings is shameful. we have equivalent of a purple state election that goes blue every year because left coalitis their organization together and their money to don't. as you mentioned, politics is downstream from culture that what lift knows, that is what right ignores, i'm glad

of time let's bring in william laurance he's a professor of international relations at the american university is also a former u.s. diplomat joining us from washington d.c. thanks so much for your time with us what do you think is the message behind this attack on the. after u.s. troop withdrawal from the country. it's clear that there are going to be continued attacks all the way up the kill the u.s. to departure and this is probably the 1st of them there was some speculation that the taliban are not perpetrate attacks during withdrawal to accelerate the draw and make sure that the us he sits timetable and there's an argument that maybe that could lead to some reduction of attacks but i actually believe the opposite i believe that because the taliban are really not had in the game the sorts of concessions that there is no peace deal yet that this reinforces the taliban and other groups message that they forced the americans out and they're winning and so that is actually an incentive for more attacks so by the clearing an unconditional sort of withdrawal by the u.s. has the u.s. now lost con

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dr salima ikram, professor of egyptology at the american university in cairo, has been explaining why being transported to the new national museum of egyptian civilisation, hoping that it will be a better environment for them to be stored. just to let you know, there is of course a curse, egypt's mummies historically have been associated with superstition and foreboding, once they are uncovered or moved, and of course there have been a number of disasters, events that have been recorded in egypt, but at the moment, this is a grand event for the entire country, hoping that the mummies will help to attract tourism back to the country, attract tourism back to the country, a major source of ink can for egypt. —— source of income. earlier on resort then being transported on these golden vehicles in the shape of boats. you can see a further parade taking place at the moment, they are actually arriving, i believe, and they are going to be met by the president of egypt, who is going to welcome them to their new home, and there he is. this is seen as a huge mark of respect because these are, o

asia and also he is a distinguished professor at the school of international service at the american university of washington d.c. in thailand we have phil robertson deputy director of human rights watch he's asia division and the jakarta we have evan laksamana research into these years center for strategic and international studies that's a think tank with close ties to the government welcome to you all evan can i come to you 1st they've come up with 5 bullet points what's your reading of what we think they're doing. i think it shows that we have the beginning of a foundation so work for the next steps this is not the end all we still have a lot of work to do to actually implementing those commitments as stated in the 5 bullet points but compared to the skepticism over the past week that the group will fail to deliver anything that there will not be any consensus i think skeptics are wrong but of course at this point we have the commitment now it's our job to figure out how to effectively implemented that commitment phil robertson in bangkok does this mean that we might see young son suchi in

let's speak to professor allan lichtman, a presidential historian at the american university in washingtonbered? ., ., , remembered? one of the greatest seconds, remembered? one of the greatest seconds. maybe — remembered? one of the greatest seconds, maybe the _ remembered? one of the greatest seconds, maybe the greatest - seconds, maybe the greatest seconds, maybe the greatest second in american history. he was a important liberal senator from minnesota, appointed when humphrey became vice president. of course he was second to of course he was second to jimmy carter asjimmy carter's jimmy carter as jimmy carter's vice jimmy carter asjimmy carter's vice president and much to his cheek when he was second to ronald reagan when reagan defeated him in a landslide in 1984. —— chagrin. he will also be remembered for having the first female running mate and for transforming the vice presidency. following up... nobody more than an attack dog for lyndonjohnson or who was frozen out of the kennedy circle. it was walter mondale who foreshadowed the next group of really subsequent vice presidents lik

william lawrence is with us now from washington here is a professor of political science at the american university in former u.s. diplomat and regional security officer in west africa a pleasure to have you with us so let's start with well the source of all the problems i guess the fact that there is a political impasse that the leader has been sort of re-installed again i mean it's understandable that people would be upset about that where's the impasse come from . well goes all the way back when and if it can't for some not its 1st one may 1 salute elections since the 1960 adults negotiations to write down over a number of issues mostly just about the conduct of the elections the president was accused of stature and his stack reelect election board sent and other issues and there's also. a power distribution between the provinces and the president actually 2 of the 5 made provinces so all of this broke down and that led to an exploration of parliament and the presidents many soon be wary and this new law passed by the lower house of parliament called the people's parliament on it more 14th and t

i've been speaking to dr salima ikram, who is professor of egyptology at the american university in cairoemphasises national pride, we are seeing the last kings of egypt travelling through their capital city and it gives everyone a chance to pay their respects, but also it's important in terms of the economic future of egypt because this is related to tourism and hopefully once coronavirus is over the faroes will be a draw for more tourists to come and visit egypt and also raise awareness for the egyptians that they too can learn more about the history in this new museum. why have they been moved from one place to another? the reason is that, several years ago, a plan was made at this new museum of egyptian civilisation which would host them in a better environment, more climate—controlled, more space, and with a new concept behind the display so the mummies would have more individual cases, a space for their history as well, artefacts that were found with them, their coffins as well as any objects, plus information, so the ct scans as well as the x—rays which would be accessible to the v

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we hear the story of the early members of the society of women geographers and in two hours american university professor joseph campbell teaches a class about what's known as the 1968 cronkite moment arguing that the impact of walter cronkite's comments regarding the war in vietnam has been vastly overstated and is merely a media myth. todays event. we're very fortunate to have dr. laura june davis as a speaker tonight. she's an assistant professor of history as well as culture of women's studies at southern, utah university. she's got degrees from cornell, texas a&m george mason and the university of georgia. and right now she's working on a book fascinating book about sabotage irregular naval warfare and masculinity during the civil war. and of course that's what tonight's talk is going to draw upon. i think that's all i need to say. so now i want to encourage you all to join me and giving a warm welcome to dr. davis to the virtual podium over to you. thank you. thank you. thank you all for joining me on a friday afternoon or evening depending on what time zone you're in. i want to give a sp