american artifacts" a tour of the ellis island immigration museum and 7:00 p.m., david blight and annette gordon reed talk about recent debates over removing historical monday ults. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer held a news conference to discuss negotiations between congress and president trump on additional economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic. here's that news conference now.

annette gordon reed is author of her book. tim teaches at nyu and a cnn presidential historian. ofessor reed, let me ask you whether -- are you hopeful that this time it's different or that this time is bigger than some of the past cases? when you look back at history, do you feel like there have been many of these moments where there is a kind of attempt to reckon with the past, and then it dissipates? >> well, yes. there have been those moments. i'm hopeful about this moment, you're absolutely right. there is something different about this. polls show that large numbers of americans think that there should be some reckoning, some sort of change in attitudes about policing, change in attitudes about voter suppression, all of those kinds of things. i'm a hopeful person generally. i have to be. but i do know that unless concrete actions follow that hope, follow the sort of starts that have been made, then we will fall back into the problems that we've seen for so many years. >> tim, what strikes me as possibly one of the most hopeful aspects is that there has not been a kind of wh

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it is an honor to introduce today's panelists, annette gordon reed. professor of law and history at harvard university. and david blight, professor of history and director of the ablution of slavery at yell universe these three. professors are pulitzer prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. they have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nation's continued failure to fully confront the implications of its own history. professor gordon reed's most recent book, co-authored with peter own of is most blessed of , the patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. professor blight's is frederick douglass, prophet of freedom. both of these colors are notable for the way we remember and honor those people as complicated. whether we are thinking about frederick douglass or thomas jefferson. we are going to have roughly 35 minutes of moderated discussion, after which there will be questions from the audience. i apologize in advance that given th

american artifacts" a tour of the ellis island immigration museum and 7:00 p.m., david blight and annette gordon reed talk about recent debates over removing historical monday ults. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer held a news conference to discuss negotiations between congress and president trump on additional economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic. here's that news conference now. >> good morning, everyone. in anticipation of seeing a proposal finally from the other side of the aisle and other side of pennsylvania avenue, i invited the distinguished leader in the democratic leader in the senate to join us today to have some observation we thought we would have in hand we'll see. we come together on a day that marks for the 18th straight week the 18th straight week more than 1 million people have filed for unemployment claims. we come at a time where we predict we will reach 4 million cases in our country. what's important about that is the steam roller

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it is an honor to introduce today's panelists, annette gordon reed. blight, he studies slavery and abolition. these professors are pulitzer prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. they have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nation's continued failure to fully confront the implications of its own history. mostssor gordon reed's is most blessed of the patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. frederickblight's is douglas's profit of freedom. notablethese colors are for the way we remember and honor those people as complicated. whether we are thinking about frederick douglass or thomas jefferson. have roughly 35 minutes of moderated discussion, after which there will be audience.from the i apologize in advance that given the number of people, we will not be able to address most of the questions that we get. we will do our best. thus get started. get started. let's start with the meaning and implications of her memory inveterate sta

american artifacts" a tour of the ellis island immigration museum and 7:00 p.m., david blight and annette gordon reedalk about recent debates over removing historical monday ults. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer held a news conference to discuss negotiations between congress and president trump on additional economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

historians david blight and annette gordon reed talk about recent debates over removing historical monuments. exploring the american story. tvch on american history today on c-span3. >> >> this is a live picture from the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama. we are waiting for representative john lewis's procession, as his body is carried across the bridge for one last time. with65, lewis walked there martin luther king jr. and others. there were calls to rename the bridge in honor of representative lewis. live coverage here on c-span. [train sounds] [train sounds] [indistinct conversations] [natural sound] [indistinct conversations] ♪ >> and those who are so lucky to share john's warmth and love. thent to begin by thanking lewis family. thank you for sharing john with the world. thank you for accompanying john in selma one last time. even more importantly, thank you for sharing him over and over again. our nation is better off because of john robert lewis. my life is better. selma is better. the nation in the world are better because of john robert lewis. we continue to benefit from his l