obviously a vast archive of material.eally -- [inaudible] learned that -- to suffrage women's exhibit as a woman and as someone who has been -- [inaudible] >> as long as i've been talking about history, which is as long as i can remember, i was really opportunityhave an to put this together for this anniversary. >> wonderful. thanks, corrine. same questions to you. your role, title of your exhibit, a little about your background and history. >> sure. thank you, kelsey, and thank you commission and berkshire conference for allowing us this to talk about our exhibit. the library of congress is shall not be denied, vote." fight for the the first part is words from the amendment itself. conveys one of the principal themes that we wanted to show in exhibit. it kind of dispels the notion that women were granted or given insteadt to vote and hardases the long, struggle, the fight, the years perseverance and and courage and creativity and hope, by generations of women, to achieve that most fundamental participatory democracy, the

lectures and archival film. upcomingedule of c-span.org/history. unfiltered coverage of congress, can the white house, the supreme court public policy events, from the presidential primaries through the impeachment process. now, the federal response to the coronavirus. c-span'satch all of programming on television, on through our free radio app. be part of the conversation through our social media feeds. c-span created by america's table television companies as a and brought to you today by your television provider. announcer: aden mclean is the children,"mussolini's race and elementary education in italy" which focuses on the period between world war i and world war ii. she explains how the fascist state used schools to advance the goals of racial strife, creating a new roman empire. the museum in new orleans stage -- taped this event in february 2019. >> on with tonight's program. "mussolini's children: race & elementary education in fascist italy." it uses the lens of the state mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism i

to look at the archives. and with jokingly exaggeration i felt i was stopped in the middle of the street and read war and peace not get hit by a car. there's just in every kind of come back i felt more vibrant. but at the same time as i said, i went to find my old house and it does gone in that area. is pretty much still struggling terribly. so that's the reality of it. missy into going in the right direction. >> thank you. guest: good morning. i want to say, i know yourself very well. it's a great book is run about our challenges. it is good. david: thank you . guest: you know i'm going to ask you a question about race predict answer the race played an important part in your book. in looking at urban america and structural problems that most urban areas have the united states . do you have any thoughts on why detroit became the most racially polarized urban center in america. to me, i always thought the conflict in the labor movement, the fight over jobs, and the real fight over jobs. but do you mean that. m

the process because we were doing what was called and archival assessment, going through the archives and trying to see what was in the archive and the condition it was in. i was taking photographs of and papers,tifacts documents, stuff like that to showcase to the public who may not be able to go and check those things out. strangely enough, this thing blew up and i wasn't expecting that. i was expecting to get maybe 100 people to follow along and to also maybe find my next job. as time went on, lincoln was not a sexy thing, so i was using facebook. everyone was on facebook. it builds upon, more and more, and i started getting on a couple more plant ones, started reading twitter instagram. i went full-time with this project in april of 2018. so i've been doing it full-time for two years now. and what i wanted to do is to make history accessible, and have what i call friction-free history, no pay to play kind of ring. i also wanted to give a platform to historians. i didn't want it to be me showcasing what i know all the 90-10, wanted to be like i want to have people on who had done h

>> to the and as archive just search national security archive. once you are on the website type on the phase secrets and you will see thousands of what i'm talking about. different blacked out portions it is an object lesson for all of us as citizens when the government says it is secret we should ask questions. >> thank you for joining us on book tv. >> it's a pleasure to be with you . . . . baltimore uprisings fog the death of a freddie gray. interviewed by the distinguished fellow heather mcghee. "after words" is a weekly program of relevant guest hosts interviewing

the wasp archives at texas university is never-ending. i have started using those archives and 96-- 1996 when it had just started and there was one collection of boxes and today it goes on for thousands of the boxes were the material. they have everything. they have research that i need whether it's oral history they've done over the years or the letters and diaries and official documents of the wasp. pictures that they have donated people who donated, but they may have uniforms and banners and shoes and purses and bags you know trunks and anything you need in one of the things they do because they are an archive is they moan material out to libraries or two museums, so if you are museum and want an exhibit about the wasp, contact them and they will loan you those materials and when you are done you send it back, so they take great care of the materials of the wasp story as well as more modern women aviators, they hold the women military aviators archives. they just have so much. if you're interested in doing more research about the wasp,

americaweek, reel brings you archival films that provide context for today's public affair issues. ♪arrator: one year ago, the entire world awaited the fateful outcome as the armies of nazi germany lashed out in the counteroffensive in the ardennes. this was the battle of the bulge. the battle that came so dangerously close to crushing allied hopes for victory. this was the 11th hour counter attack on which germany gambled everything, smashed allied equipment littered the roads. the year 1944 was dying. the year 1945 was beginning an atmosphere of doubt and cruel anxiety and hunger and death. ♪ then, coming back from the west, the yanks and british moved forward to the fighting. they had landed in normandy, had slashed their way to german borders, absorbed the roughest punishment the germans could hand out. in central europe, the czechloslovaks and the long enslaved people of the balkans moved against a common enemy. now, with airpower in the lead, they started on the last long drive to victory. ♪ american forces on the west and south of the bulge carved up elite units of the wermach

>> well, as i indicated i started off, of course, with the western archives. and thought the korean war was one that we were not prepared for, did not function very well in combat. got surprised by the chinese and overbuilt our military as a result. what changed my interpretation was really the information in the new communist archives and memoirs. turns out that soviet and chinese generals like to write their memoirs. their population likes to read them. sometimes they remain unpublished for a period of time, but they have written. some of them by the chinese, for -- they have been written. some of them by the chinese, for example, written under house arrest during the cultural revolution. but these documents persuaded me that the degree of commitment and risk demonstrated by leaders in moscow and beijing in their attempt to drive u.s. and allied forces out of korea was in fact a worst-case. , all theultimately - human and financial resources that moscow put into the effort and the chinese sec of icing a total of 900,000 casualties in the war made the worst-c

one of 14 operated by the national archives and records administration. i'm tom sports, director, and we are going to hear from four very thoughtful presentations on herbert humorous humanitarian efforts. we are in the midst of a centennial observance is of hoover's food relief efforts, beginning in 2014 with commission for relief from belgium, 2019 with the american relieve administration efforts and 2021 with russian famine relief. ironically, hoover's relief effort which pre-and posted his presidency affected the lives of more people than his four years as president. perhaps, no one in history, other than norman war lock provided food for so many people in need van hooper hoover. his major humanitarian efforts span a half century, so this conference offers a mere for taste of a much broader topic. we are grateful to c-span for recording in this conference for later broadcast. the hoover presidential foundation provided financial support for the conference and all of today's events at the library museum. their ongoing support makes possible all of the e

according to the national archives, the office of economic opportunity commissioned a series of documentary and training films to record the implementation of the pilot district project, hoping they could be shown and used as a model for other cities. despite investing almost $200,000 in the films, they were never released, but instead sent to a warehouse in maryland. up next on american history tv's real america, three short training films that were recently rediscovered and digitized by the national archives. the pilot district project, the development of community control, is a 15 minute film featuring 32-year-old marion barry. who later became mayor of the district of columbia. mr. barry: this is a people's movement. old people, young people, they all live in the district. it is not fair for the citizens to be left out of the picture. >> down and out place. people be hitting people in the head. mr. barry: i don't think anywhere in america people can take this. what do you think about the police? >> they ain't nothing but pigs, man. they pick me up just because i wasn't in school and shi

ellipsis saturday evening, book tv has taken an opportunity to show you several programs from our archives. featuring a well-known author. tonight this is david mccullough. best-selling book, including biographies of adam countrymen. a history of the flood as well as the construction of the panama canal. up next from 2005,

to c-span by the korean war legacy foundation conducted this oral history with an archive of hundreds of interviews and photos. you can visit their website at korean war legacy.org. this is american this is the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war. >> next, the national museum of civil war medicine hosts an online discussion with the tattooed historian about civil war soldiers nutrition and hygiene. minutes, and author discusses the world war ii alliance between winston churchill and the leaders of european nations who fled to london following the nazi occupation. , on:00 p.m. eastern lectures in history, a university of texas at austin professor teaches an online class about president ronald reagan and the end of the cold war. >> thank you all for tuning in. we are here with the tattooed historian. my great friend. a little bit in before we dive into the topic which is hygiene and nutrition. tell us a little bit about who you are, what you bring to the history table. i think you bring a unique perspective and some great ideas. >> thank you. , started out as a historian and

ammunition capacity is a repeating theme in the archives. it was a stated policy that if you needed more punch to punch through armor the first choice of action is to increase velocity and only if that wasn't good enough would he then move to a larger caliber because this meant with a larger caliber you could carry fewer rounds, had a slower rate of fire, the chances are the round was less accurate because it was slower. ammunition was a huge thing, you will see it come up time and time again in the archives. however, by the middle of 1942, summer of 1942 ordinance branch the designers managed to stuff the 76 into an m4 turret. they sent it to aberdeen proving ground and it passed all the tests. technically fit, didn't break the tank when it fired, it generally hit what it was aiming at. fantastic. and there was a rush. they wanted 1,000 of these things to partake in the invasion of north africa. by 1942, summer of '42 the biggest nastiest thing the germans had was pan zer 4 which the 75 millimeter sherman was quite capable of dealing with.

like we do today, the presidential archives. when he left office, all those letters, all those documents were taken by him and i was talking to george just yesterday about, you know, how much volume of paper still exists and they're trying to give those to the museum and institutions like princeton to preserve and definitely keep those, but it's a lot of information. >> where are the bulk of his papers now? >> they're at princeton. >> what's their princeton connection? what happened in their lives that brought them to princeton? >> so princeton was the actual place that grover and francis retired to and i never will forget the story, it's a great story, susan, but i've been told this many, many times, grover did not like woodrow wilson and at the time woodrow wilson was the president at that time and he did not allow his children or woodrow wilson's children to play together because there was a little bit of a rift. they did not play together. but that's the connection. he actually retired to princeton. >> we're talking about th

now we are approaching the african-american archives museum. twortunately, it closed years ago because of a mold problem. system,ed in the hvac moved to the walls and ceilings. they had to close it and moved artifacts down to the is em of the history of mobile. they are under lock and key there. makingy has committed to it ada compliant. inside.e restored the they are going to come to the community to see if we want to continue with african-american heritage is em, or maybe a cultural museum. -- museum, or maybe a cultural museum. when i was growing up, this was the davis avenue public library. this was the only library african-american could go in. even though we have always been 47% to 50% of the population and mobile, there were four or five other libraries, but this was the only one, regardless of where you live, if you were black, that you could go in. what we didn't know was that when we got the books, they were the only books from the main public library. we made them an eight out of the lemons that we had. no one ever told me that i cou

sometimes works like mine are accused of being pessimistic, so i'd like to say i didn't go into the archive looking for trouble. [laughter] but i found some very fascinating, interesting letters and claims and i thought they were worth discussing, and it kind of contextualizes and changes the conversation that we have about the civil war, and i am good with that. i'm ok with that. if you accuse me of being a pessimist, ok, that's fine. i will go ahead and proceed with my talk. my work on enslaved women during the civil war is largely concentrated in washington, d.c. archival sources not only show the way that freed women responded to the war, but sources show how decisions made in washington map onto the experiences of african american women more broadly throughout the chesapeake. i offer some yet -- vignettes some of which appears , in my forthcoming book, and others i examined more recently during a trip to these archives here in december. each vignette reveals african-american women as a whole did not respond homogenously to the conditions war brought. they confronted different challenge

this half hour documentary is courtesy of the archives of michigan. watch american history tv tonight and over the weekend on c-span3. >>> as we continue our battleground series of the interviews part of c-span campaign 2020 our focus, florida and joining us from miami is marc caputo who covers political for politico.com. give us the landscape in the state right now. >> there is a few you have to consider. one is the broader victim. coronavirus and protests. both are gripping the state. especially coronavirus. now this is president trump's home adopted state as newly adopted state but that doesn't seem to make much of a different in the polls. he currently, when you look at the surveys is losing badly. i think the average showed almost eight points. it is an astonishing margin and bigger than hillary clinton was at this point. having covered a number of close races in florida going back to the 2000 predial election that decided the presidency by 537 votes after 37 days of recounting i always get suspicious or weary of polls showing a big blowout out a

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it's courtesy of the archives of michigan. watch american history tv tonight and over the weekend on espn c-span3. >>> next, south carolina congressman james clyburn discusses the death of george floyd and president trump's response to the recent protests. this event with mr. clyburn who serves as the white house majority w.h.i.p. was hosted by "the washington post" and held by video conference. >>> welcome to this special "washington post" live. i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer for

there were striking images throughout the archives of horse caravans, camel caravans, mixed caravans, oxen. camels, though, survived longer than the horses. horses died early and in large numbers. camels proved to be a a hardier sort. at that time, up into the lower volga and north. so, when the food arrives, remember that petrograd kitchen i showed you earlier? it looks neat and clean and sort of urban. this is more typical of the type of kitchen that the a.r.a. was serving in, in the villages. i love this photo. this is a different kitchen i am about to show you. this is an exterior shot, and here is an interior shot here. look at this girls face in the middle here. striking photograph. briefly, but it has to be mentioned, the a.r.a. for its first time in its existence, conducted a medical program in russia. the conditions demanded it. simply, russian medicine could not handle the medical emergency or medical famine, as the americans called it. an important part of that program was an inoculation drive of both adults and children. so the adults, there are the kids right there. brave

i first came to the national archives have a century ago as a graduate student working on the territorial politics of wyoming. i encountered gracious and well informed experts in the sources that i was seeking and their goal seem to be to make my work and research as productive and rewarding as possible the working atmosphere of the archives was congenial, stimulating and fun. a friend of mine, the distinguished historian of the election of 1896, hall williams and i, would work at library in congress until 5:00 in the afternoon when they closed, have a bite to eat and we could come over to national archives, which was open until 8:00. we made the most of every single day. whenever i returned, as i did during the next decade, ahead the same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities, the clichÉs about lazy government employees repeated ad nauseam by unknowing politicians had no validity within these walls. instead i became convinced as a ms. sure most historians would share, that the national arc

american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend, and all of our programs are archived on our website at c-span.org/history. you can watch lectures and college classrooms, archival films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs at c-span.org/history. is c-span.org/history. >> matt atkinson has worked as a ranger at the gettysburg and vicksburg national military parks. he compares the two 1863 campaigns as turning points in the civil war and explores why gettysburg looms larger in historical memory than western theater battles such as vicksburg. this talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog in 2018. >> i am happy to introduce my good friend, matt atkinson. matt has an undergrad degree from the university of mississippi and a masters degree from the university of louisiana says they which matt beat alabama one time.

in the national archives, there's a huge treasure trove of letters that went back about forth between local employees, state directors, federal directors, saying this is how you need to approach the ex-slave narratives. these are the guidelines you should follow. these are the objectives and correspondence coming back from southern state directors, disputing their own representations of black history or putting forth your own vision of slavery. so, it's kind of this contest and battle that you can see play out in all these letters and correspondence that went back and forth between federal and state directors. one of the main sources i looked at were the ex-slave narratives themselves. and that was really trying to read them in a new way, in ways that scholars hadn't specifically looked at, specifically seeing them as a type of oral performance. the fact that ex-slaves themselves were invested in the stories that they had to tell. they definitely wanted to document their own individual life histories and their experiences, both during slavery and very often after slavery, as they beca

with a motto of archive activism.y that i mean we find old materials that have been forgotten, sealed, or basically eleted and use those materials to talk about gay civil rights and the ongoing struggle for gay civil equality. host: we will show you both films in their entirety in a couple of minutes. one is seven minutes. the other is 12 minutes. here on c-span 3's american history tv and real america. -- reel america. your connection to the films is what? mr. francis: we were honored to be chosen by lilli vincenz, the creator of these films -- the producer, the director. she chose us to bring together all of her archives, 10,000 items, including these films, and donate them to the library of congress, and that is what we did. they belong to the american people thanks to the generosity of lilli vincenz. host: where is she now? mr. francis: lilli vincenz is still with us but not well enough to do interviews like this, so i'm honored to pinch-hit for her. host: you brought a prop. for those of us old enough to remember

. >> american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend and in our archives at c-span.org/history.ou can watch lectures from college classrooms, tours of historic sites, films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs. at c-span.org/history. in 1960, four african-american students sat down at a segregated woolworth's lunch counter in greensboro, north carolina, launching a movement that would spread to other cities. viewerracy parker takes questions about protests against segregation at that time. first, a look at 1960 greensboro from the documentary. [video clip] storen we walked into the , we wanted to prove that we were customers. we made sure to get receipts. we browsed around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we were and what we were about to do. we mulled around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we work and what we were ab

all of our video is archived. that is c-span.org/history.pan's daily unfiltered coverage of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic with briefings from the white house, congress, and governors from across the country plus join in the conversation on our live call-in program, washington journal. if you missed any of our live coverage watch anytime on-demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> david reynolds is coeditor of the kremlin letters, stalin's wartime correspondence with churchill and roosevelt. he talks about the messages sent between these allied leaders in world war ii and explains how they used the communication to build relationships with one another and advance wartime goals without extensive bureaucratic interference. the national world war ii museum hosted this event in january, 2020. >> tonight, it is my privilege to introduce the speaker dr. david reynolds. one of the united kingdom's most distinguished scholars, but that is probably selling him short. he is a man of global stature. a fellow of christ college, cambri

she chose us to bring together all of her archive, some 10,000 items including these films and donatehem to the library of congress and that's what we did. they now belong to the american people thanks to the generosity of lilli vincenz. >> where is she now? >> she is still with us, but not well enough to do interviews like this so i'm honored to pinch hit for her. >> you brought along a prop, this is an rca 16-millimeter projector. millennials may say what is that? >> millennials may think it's a weird science fair of some kind and it's a 16 millimeter vintage rca projector that belonged to lilli and lilli would use this projector to show the two films you're going to show today and she would show the films to groups and individuals and independent film festivals and she would charge $15 a rental, but the importance of this projector as a symbol is the fact that it shows what a community operation this whole thing was. there was no cnn. there was no cable television. there were no documentary film producers. there were no friendly networks. there was nothing. there was no oprah or an

for more information about their archive of hundreds of interviews with war veterans, video clips andphotos, you can visit their website at koreanwarlegacy.org. this is american history tv, exploring our past every weekend on c-span3. this is the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war on june 25, 1948. -- 1950. american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend and all of our programs are archived on our website at c-span.org/history. you can watch lectures and college classrooms, tours of historic sites, archival films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs. that is c-span.org/history. >> next on the presidency, an encore presentation from c-span series "first ladies: influence and image." we will look back on the life and times of dolley madison. she served alongside the fourth president, james madison. ♪ >> dolley was both socially adept and politically savvy.

the story and part of is sitting at the national archives are eight or nine other archives and went on going through documents which is exciting for me but not necessarily for people watching me do it. see once our cameras followed do when you went to vietnam for your researcher why did you take people with you that were important to the story in the book? >> guest: that's a good question. acids unfolding and it happens to me a lot, i realize the fortuitous nest of something either as it's happening or after-the-fact but not before. [laughter] i brought clarke welch along because i know he was an essential character in the book. we had been talking over the course of that year end a half he made it clear to me that he was ready to go back. he wanted to go back. and so i was first going to go and october 2001. but when september 11 happened i was covering that for the "washington post" so we waited until january. in any case clarke wanted to go with me and i knew that would be invaluable. consuelo allen came along. she is the daughter of terry allen junior was another major character in

i think everyone who has been part of it, our host, and the national archive and the nixon foundation for stimulating these conversations. >> can i add one more thing. welfare reform. the welfare reform that president bill clinton eventually passed was essentially richard nixon's hr one welfare form in 1961. >> and there you have it. [applause] [laughter] >> you are watching american history tv, covering history c-span style with event coverage, eyewitness accounts archival films, lectures in college classrooms, and visits to museums. all weekend every weekend on c-span3. week, american history tv real america brings you archival films that provide context for today's public affairs issues. >> the allied fifth army sweeps forward on the road to rome. and swift, staggering blows, general marks clarks forces, within less than four weeks, have closed into the very outskirts of the city. the army battle equipment as

and it was, my return and it's actually my question to why is this, that they return to the archives, and then discovered the role of herbert humor herbert who or how it played in helping them recover. i'm not a historian, i'm had a lot of research about him, but i found him because i wanted to be able to answer this question. why are poor children doing so much better. i knew a little bit about it but, i need to get the numbers to see how this is working out. this is a similar graph for hikes, and i'm going to move on. so i used a lot of statistics, i also used qualitative sources. this is one example for me what's been so fun about my research, is the ability i've had to mix qualitative and quantitative sources and see where they actually meet this is from, a book published in 1919 and she said that for the second year of the war the effects of blockade shield themselves very clearly, but school doctors nurses all agreed that there are no serious results to be seen in the children. this was, as municipal doctor in china's rights, mainly due to self sacrifice of the parents, especial

this is on unknown authors from our archives. for more information, visit booktv.org. her second program guide. host: our guest is heather mcdonald. manhattan institute for policy institution. here to talk to us about policing the process following the death of george floyd. good morning. when we books is called the war. the extensively on this issue on policing police brutality and studies on that pretty let's go back a bit. you have described in the past the death of eric varner in the book. number of years ago as a heartbreaking tragedy. review the debts year of george floyd. and one just recently, aubrey in georgia. heather: well, george floyd arrests, absolutely appalling that all evidence is agonizing to watch the video. and i think absolutely the whole country condemns this. and it's appropriate the charges work cross very quickly. we need to investigate the rest of the officers. the anger that arrested is understandable however it is not rep. of leasing in this country. we need to work and separately on tactical training with officers. with de-escalation, tacti

. ♪ tveach week american history "reel america" brings you archival films that provide context for today'sublic affairs issues. ♪ >> this is korea, a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea, the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. in the south, the united states and united nations strove to establish an independent democratic republic. theyears ago, as seoul capital of korea, a commission supervised free election south of the 38th parallel and the republic of korea, a was born. its president was sigmund reid. in may, 1950, the citizens of this young republic went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government onto their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in free elections, the north korean communist leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. and this was their target -- a partly mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peace loving citizens of the republic of korea. ♪ attack by the north korean communists came sudd

styleng history c-span event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures, and visits to museumsall weekend, every weekend on c-span3. announcer: "dissenting at the supreme court" is a lecture series hosted by the supreme court historical society. next on american history tv, university of arkansas law killenbeck is introduced by justice stephen breyer, then discusses the dissenting opinions delivered in cases between 1810 and 1927. >> good evening. i am from atlanta. i currently serve as president of the supreme court historical society. i am pleased to welcome you to the first lecture in this year's silverman series. this year we are examining dissents, not majority opinions, different aspects thereof. you have been warned about your

mes was a journey that took to nine different countries, to well over 50 archives, working and iultiple languages ultimately had to decide to shrink it to the size of a book. that too took a while. now i will have to talk about it for a very short time. so hopefully some of the things i have to say will remain unexplained i can respond to when you have questions. the origins of this book really date back to the 1990's. you may remember that in the early 1990's, something happened. overcome the soviet union collapsed, we were told that it was the end of history and we were going to live in a much better world, but it was also a time when genocide came back. in 1992, the first genocide in europe since world war ii started happening in the former yugoslavia. in 1994, there was a genocide in rwanda, which was the fastest genocide in history. about 800,000 people were killed in 10 weeks, mostly with machetes and fire, actual fire, not firearms. it was a moment in which we sort of felt that we had come to a better place and at the same time genocides returned. it was a time in which the holoc

flying and spent a great deal of time one of the bicycle and print shops and in the wright brothers archives at wright state university this pittsburgh native also spent many a day at marietta college and nights at the lafayette hotel on the banks of the river. he did that working on his new book which you are all holding i think everybody has got one, the pioneers he said it best himself a grip on the ohio river in pittsburgh where ther story begins so it's in my bloodstream to. a two-time pulitzer prize winner to national book awards and recipient of the presidential medal of freedom. for over 50 years he has informed us and inspired us and introduced us to fascinating characters to bring new insight in introspective for understanding of historical figures we thought we already knew and he told us more about. we are delighted to have him today it has been said you could have the character of david mccullough writing history as effortlessly as if he was telling a good after dinner antidote once referencing his apparently unquenchable enthusiasm for research that makes his book so compelling

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that wrapped up a look at programs from archives, you can watch any of these programs or any of his other appearances on book tv or c-span by going to our archives, booktv.org and search his name. join us next saturday night as we look at programs with historian david macola. >> hello and welcome to the tours ann arbor addition, it's my honor to be here this evening when the one and only in the two wonderful cohost, before we began to get into official introduction, i would be remiss not to acknowledge the pain that our nation is feeling amidst the loss of black lives at the hands of our nation law enforcement into the black folks watching, your lives matter, my white pms, we must do better. for those looking to make a difference to her friends who i didn't apply in the meantime drag me in honor of silence of breonna taylor, georg george fld to many others. >> thank you. if we could talk a little bit about the great work that we do in the programming for pride month. >> hi everyone i'm joe schock, the director of ann arbor pride, i

and this is at a time when you can look, i mean, you can go to the archives of the l.a. press, and you can find dozens of articles talking about the pompadours that the young women were fond of wearing. and articles talking about how in their hairdos like this, they hid weapons. tire irons. knives. chains. bricks. in their hair. and when they came across sailors or soldiers in the streets of l.a. when they were walking with their zoot boyfriends, they could reach into their hair and hand the weapon to their boyfriend so they can fight the sailors and

punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it available to the public in the future. >> president breslin: the san francisco health board will now come to order. madam secretary, roll call, please. >> clerk: agenda item 2, roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: president breslin, we have a

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in private it is clear, in the archives in london and washington, they understood. when churchill is writing his memoirs, one of the fascinating parts was where he did not, didn't feel himself in a position to be candid about what happened. on that he just sat on his hands because you could not upset that alliance. and that is part of the moral problems of leadership. it is not good versus evil. it is saying this is really evil but there is even greater people we are fighting. as a historian, i am a monday morning quarterback. i can always say this is what they should have done better. if i am asked how would i do it, how would i face these problems, it is not so easy. that is what i would say. ok. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> you are watching american history tv with event coverage, archival films and lectures in college classrooms. on weekend, every weekend, c-span three. each week, real america bri

so now we are approaching the african-american archives museum. unfortunately it closed two years ago because of a mold problem, m-o-l-d, and it started in the h vac system, to the walls and ceilings, they had to close it and moved the artifacts to the history of mobile so they're under lock and key there. the city has committed to, right now making it ada compliant and they have restored the inside and then they're going to come to the community to see if we want to continue with the african-american heritage museum or maybe a cultural museum. that's open for discussion in the future. when i was growing up, this was the davis avenue public library, the only library that african-americans could go in, even though we've always been 47 to 50% of the population in mobile and there were four or five other libraries, this was the only one, regardless of where you lived, if you were black that you could go in. what we did know when we got new books they were the old books from the main public library. we made lemonade out of lemons that we had. only thi

individual history of world war ii participants throughout the war, put that package together through archival documents, and create a unique, customized biography to help your family connect to world war ii. we're proud of that one. another part is tonight, meet the author. we are exceptionally lucky to have connections to help bring the world's most foremost authors an interesting presented to come to this stage and talk to us. let me start by our usual tradition. do we have any world war ii veterans or homefront workers with us tonight? please rise. [applause] martin: and veterans of any other eras? [applause] martin: thank you all, and i hope you'll indulge me while i think my favorite veteran, my wife sarah, like hope is working from home. many of you been that have been to these meet the author events. this has been a great milestone. illustrious an important speaker series. for the first time, we have a sponsor and we're very grateful to welcome the straight foundation from houston. we want to certainly thank the straight foundation, and we hope they'll continue that relationship for ma

that have the kenya national archive and a lot of information i got from there. i really knew a lot of the background. if you just had a conversation cold with leo you wouldn't understand a word he said but i knew where he was going and i knew a lot of the beginnings of the stories and so yes i could piece it together and it filled in 100 holes for me in terms of the politics and obama seniors personal life. >> host: last question. you went to the house that president obama stayed at. where was it and we are going to show the video. you were really excited about that. >> guest: that's one of the moments when we started this interview i am right here. this is an incredible place to see and get to and impossible to find just out of the blue. it is in what's called the obama compound in a little teeny village or compound and ken dubay probably an hour and a half from the city of consumer and it's just another one of those small cuts really. it now has an upslope but i'm told it's not just rolled mud and we spent two nights there when he was visiting the area and tha

. >> starting now it's our summer series features programs with well-known authors from our archives. tonight best-selling historian margaret macmillan talks about the lead up to world war i and ways in her favorite historical subjects. but first, in 2007 she appeared on c-span interview program q&a to discuss the relationship between resident richard nixon and chinese communist leader mao à this week on q&a, our guest is margaret macmillan. author of "nixon and mao: the week that changed the world". >> margaret macmillan, woody deep Ãbwhat did you think "nixon and mao" would sell? >> of course i was thinking of sales but i also thought it was a good subject. i love the good juicy stories in history i thought, here you have two extraordinary personalities with great flaws and great talents. i thought he was also very interesting moment that ended that long period between the united states and china and started something else. i thought for my next book i wanted to do something manageable but has a good really strong story to it.>> who did you rely on in that moment of meeting was like

this and otherh american history programs on our website, where all of our video is archived.c-span.org/history. >> historian margaret mcmillan is the author of paris, 1919. six months that changed the world. she examines the 1919 paris peace conference, which sought to hammer out a peace conference for world war i. the difficulties in reaching an agreement that satisfied all participating nations and adequately punished germany for its wartime actions. the national world war i newseum and memorial in kansas city hosted the talk as part of their annual symposium last november. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. what a day. really a terrific event we have had so far and thank you for being with us. i know there is a lot of excitement, as there ought be about this evening's conversation, so thank you for taking time to be here.

susan: this is our last dip into the archives and a bit of an apology.his is the earliest clip we have of you in our video archives. malcolm: oh, my goodness. [video clip] susan: i wanted to show you and folks watching a little bit of this from 1996. this is about personal history. what is this about? malcolm: my piece was about, a very good example of what i was talking about. my piece is about west indian, my family, which is half west indian, and talks about what the success in america. what does it mean? tell us about racism. [end of video clip] susan: i wanted to show that, not because the clip was particularly poignant -- malcolm: times have changed. [laughs] susan: a bit to talk about your parents, a little bit more. in your acknowledgements, you tell us two things, first of all, that your mother taught you how to write, and you lost your father when this was being produced. will you talk about the contributions each of them has made to you as a person? malcolm: well, my parents, they were on the surface very different. my father was a mathematici

you can watch archival films, college lectures, and discussions on the programs.ww.c-span.org/history. >> up next on the presidency, we hear about richard nixon's reforms of native american government policies that led to the restoration of indian lands and inaugurated a new era of self-government. his administration is credited with being one of the most pro-indian of the 20th century. and that was a time of increasing indian activism, including the occupation of san francisco's alcatraz island by native americans. declaring they were reclaiming their land. we will also hear about the native american college football coach who may have inspired the young richard nixon's thinking on indian affairs. featured speakers including former administration officials that helped craft and enact these new policies. this 2012 video was presented by the richard nixon foundation. >> president nixon's administration is regarded as one of the most pro-indian of the 20th century and one that restored lands to tribes and ushered in a new era of self-government. native americans fou