interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. steve: john mcgreevy, from the university of notre dame, gore but which cannot i figured to go, "catholicism and american freedom," what is the premise behind it and what did you learn? prof. mcgreevy: i want to learn how american ideas of freedom intersected with the catholic global tradition. i learned there were moments of conflict and moments of overlap. in the 19th century, there was conflict over slavery. not many catholics were abolitionists. lots of overlap in efforts to reform the economy. there was overlap in the 50's on ideas about americanization. the intention of issues of sexuality, divorce, a lot of cordial issues -- cultural issues. steve: more than 90 years ago, al smith ran for president. the first catholic on the ticket. why was that significant? prof. mcgreevy: he was an immigrant kid from new york city, irish and german descent. never got beyond eighth-grade. against herbert hoover. by then i think 20's, the catholics are about 25% of the population. they have face

in this interview recorded at the annual american historical association meeting, he talked about shepard's involvement in education and politics. his impact on north carolina, and how he navigated the jim crow era. this is about 20 minutes. >> reginald ellis, professor at florida a&m university, let's talk about this gentleman, the racial politics of james edward shepard. who was he? >> dr. shepard was an individual who was born and raised of a

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. steve: professor benjamin francis-fallon is somebody who studies and teaches this at western carolina university. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? prof. francis-fallon: no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people who saw themselves quite differently in national origin terms.

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. shannon a professor at , the university of new mexico, i'm intrigued by the topic, buying better babies: popular health advice in the early 20th century. why this topic? sharon: i became really interested in the history of

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> professor benjamin francis fallon studies and teaches this. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? >> no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people that saw themselves quite the family -- differently in national origin terms, for example, mexican-americans, puerto ricans, cubans, the whole project if you will is one of trying to bring very different peoples together into some kind of coalition or consensus about what they all stood for and it has been a project that has revealed over the years to be very diverse internally. but that has always been one of the ambitions of the people that are fundamentally alike, they ought to act as one. it has been a distance between the ambition of architects of latino politics and the reality of people with very different origins and experiences. >> let's talk about the history in a moment. generally speaking, if you look at cuban americans, especially in florida, they te

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. steve: professor benjamin francis-fallon is somebody who studies and teaches this at western carolina university. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? prof. francis-fallon: no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people who saw themselves quite differently in national origin terms. for example, mexican-americans, puerto ricans, or cubans. the whole hispanic vote project, if you will, was one of trying to bring very different people s together into some kind of coalition or consensus about what they all stood for, and it has been a project that has over the years been revealed to be very diverse internally. definitely not. but that has always been one of the ambitions of the people who propel hispanic politics, that there should be this unity of , who aree fundamentally so much alike that they ought to act as one. so there has been that distance between the ambition of some architects of latino pol

this 13-minute interview was recorded in chicago at the annual american historical association meeting

this 13-minute interview was recorded in chicago at the annual american historical association meetingsteve: kevin kruse is a professor at princeton university, and he is out with a new book this month, the title "faultlines: the history of america since 1974." what is the premise behind it? kruse: a colleague and i co-taught a course for a couple of years, and a course that we taught was developed on the idea that this period was really a distinct period, something that should be treated as a distinct thing. it is a discrete entity that we need to dig into on its own terms. steve: you have the resignation of nixon in 1974. the first and only appointed president in gerald ford, and the cold war at its peak. kruse: that is right, that is right. it goes into dÉtente at that period but it is in a state of flux. you got the end of the vietnam war taking place over 1973 to 1975, the opec oil crisis. there was a great deal of chaos. it seemed to be a moment that was ripe for making the post-cold war order and think about new trends that came about. steve: what did you learn? prof. kruse: i l

this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. shannon a professor at , the university of new mexico, i'm intrigued by the topic, buying better babies: popular health advice in the early 20th century. why this topic? sharon: i became really interested in the history of pregnancy probably 10 years ago when i first got to graduate school. i started looking at the history of miscarriage because i was becoming of that age where many people around me were having children. every woman i knew who had a miscarriage said i did not know how common it was until i had my own. that is what started my historical bring in thinking how , did we get to this point and did it exist historically? i started to do that project. this project now is sort of a sequel to the first project. i discovered the history of miscarriage -- i stopped right around 1900. there was a lot more to the story. by 1900, we still will were not going to a doctor during pregnancy. i thought it was going to have an earlier. that is why i started looking at the development of p

in this interview recorded at the annual american historical association meeting, he talked about shepard's involvement in education and politics. his impact on north carolina, and how he navigated the jim crow era. this is about 20 minutes. >> reginald ellis, professor at florida a&m university, let's talk about this gentleman, the racial politics of james edward shepard. who was he? >> dr. shepard was an individual who was born and raised of a father who was a prominent african-american minister in the state of north carolina, his parents were individuals who actually came out of the institution of slavery and ended up thriving as prominent african-americans in the state of north carolina. dr. shepard goes on to receive an advanced education at what's now charlotte university, and goes on to also become one of the first african-american pharmacists in the state of north carolina. shortly thereafter, he goes on to follow his father's footsteps and tries out the ministry, and travels the world with the international sunday school association, which leads him to his higher calling which ulti

we recorded this 18 minute interview in chicago at the annual american sort -- historical association meeting. >> claire potter is someone who studies and teaches history at the new school. let's talk about the stonewall riots. what happened? prof. potter: stonewall riots. well, one night, when the patrons of the stonewall inn, who were on the margins of the gay community, not who we think of now as being in the center of gay, lesbian, and transgender politics and the police busted the patrons of the stonewall and began to put them in a police car to take them to the station -- a routine bust, really. the kind of thing that happened to lgbt people all over. >> why then? there was no payoff, but what was motivating the police? >> of course the police at not gotten a payoff and they were trying to teach a lesson to the owners. june gardner had died that night. something snapped. the patrons decided they were mad as hell and were not going to take it anymore and would not leave. they would not allow themselves to be arrested. they began throwing themselves. and the cops got inside. they

interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting.

this 12 minute interview was recorded in chicago at the american historical association annual meeting. >> nancy brown, when did aids rise to the national consciousness? >> it first came to public attention in 1981 with a few articles in "the new york times" and other places. there were reports of homosexual men who had some strange types of cancers and pneumonia. in 1982, there were a few more reports and at the end of 1982, there were reports that it had been seen in infants and also there was some discussion about it was in the blood bank. but 1983 was really the big year this was in the headlines and that was the year that the real phobia about aids began, because all of a sudden people understood that it was in the blood bank and women were getting it, hemophiliacs were getting it. there wasn't a sure understanding of how it was . >> so what ised it and what have we learned since the diagnosis first became public in the 1980's? >> that's a big question. aids is a retrovirus and you get it through sexual contact or like blood transfusions or i.v. drug use. it's blood contact to blo

this 12 minute interview was recorded in chicago at the american historical association annual meetingcy brown, when did aids rise to the national consciousness? >> it first came to public attention in 1981 with a few articles in "the new york times" and other places. there were reports of homosexual men who had some strange types of cancers and pneumonia. in 1982, there were a few more reports and at the end of 1982, there were reports that it had been seen in infants and also there was some discussion about it was in the blood bank. 19

we recorded this 18 minute interview in chicago at the annual american sort -- historical associationng. >> claire potter is someone who studies and teaches history at the new school. let's talk about the stonewall riots. what happened?

from the american historical association's annual meeting in chicago, that is wednesday night beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. >>> about two weeks after the spill, the senate commerce committee heard from exxon's chairman as well as the head of the coast guard, who led the government response. senator cliff howling from south carolina was chairman. you will also see questions from community members stevens of alaska and massachusetts senator john kerry. >> ready for me mister chairman? >> yes, we have your statement included in the record in its entirety, and in the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety if you wish, we'll summarize. either way. >> i'll just sort of summarize it. i am here to provide response to questions regarding the exxon valdez oil spill, and to describe our continuing efforts to deal with its consequences. before this, however, i want to express, sincere regret as to what happened, on behalf of the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself. i can't express how sorry we are that this disaster occurred, particularly sympathetic to the

this 12 minute interview was recorded in chicago at the american historical association annual meeting. >> nancy brown, when did aids rise to the national consciousness? >> it first came to public attention in 1981 with a few articles in "the new york times" and other places. there were reports of homosexual men who had some strange types of cancers and pneumonia. 1982, there were a few more reports and at the end of 1982, there were reports that it had been seen in infants and also there was some discussion about it was in the blood bank. but 1983 was really the big year

different particularly with the panel format, even in traditional venues like the american historical association annual meeting. what i want to do is for a couple minutes before we play my video is to talk a little bit about this project i am working on and what i am interested in, and what i'm tried to do here. part of the aim of this project is exploring bradley the political and social unraveling of race in democracy in post- civil right movement america. i am really concerned with the experiences of black men and women who worked with residential administrations, but also the experiences of black women and men who push the democratic party on racial issues through a variety of actions and means. this could be grassroots, upper echelon, but i am particularly interested in african-american pushback as a means of using this as leverage within the democratic party's. in particular, i want to move beyond overt or surface explain nation based on partisanship so as to discuss the nuances of black attitudes, in this case towards william j clinton and the democratic party. and how those attitudes also chang