there was -- the shooting in charlestown a number of years ago, that .. that killer learned he was doing web searches entree von mar tip and went down the rabbit hold of white nationalism and self radicalized these are some of the issues we will have to review and, yes, congress has a role .. so does civil society, so does the media, this is an opportunity for us to folk focus on what unites us and not what divides snriews congressman what role does president trump play in this? you heard your former colleague beto o'rourke say he invites and tolerates racism. >> i think divisive rhetoric is not the way to go. i think he denounced these attacks and has an opportunity to be the unite never chief and i hope that's the way to go but we can't just focus on just one person or just one entity. this is a problem that has many sources and we need to be talking about all of those sources in ways that every element of society can work on on dealing with this challenge. >> garrett: you are land commission fore george p bush called this white terrorism and says it pr

brown's death, rust had an inscription carved into it that said captain john brown executed at charlestown, virginia. when brown's body arrived in new york city, pt barnum offered $100 for his clothing and his pike. the hoppers gave william lloyd garrison one of brown's 12 original pikes and the pacifists prized it. he noted that virginia's motto asserted the slave's right to kill his owner and he said if you look closely at virginia's state seal, it showed man conquering his oppressor by wielding, guess what, a pike. thomas russell, a massachusetts judge who sheltered brown after he fled from kansas visited brown in jail and carried home a pike. he received a pike. all the prominent abolitionists are getting their hands on pikes as well. they were convinced it could spark war against slavery that he advocated touring john brown's body across the north and mary brown refused. visions of white northerners freeing black southerners through bloodshed were called harpers ferry but also anticipated the civil war. standing before brown's casket phillips predicted the harpers ferry raid, a short

a philadelphia abolitionist escorted mary brown to and from charlestown. he received a pike and gave it to wendell phillips. all the prominent abolitionists are getting pikes as well. when virginia slave holder mailed phillips a lock of brown's hair to flaunt the raid's failure phillips cherished it as a sacred relic. phillips was so convinced that the relics could spark war against slavery that he advocated touring john brown's body across the north and mary brown refused. vision of white northerner freeing black southerners blue bloodshed recalled harpers ferry but anticipated the civil where. standing before the casket wendell phillips predicted that the harpers ferry raid though a short-term failure would kill slavery in the end. and he said that most americans who kind of disparage brown thinking he was insane for taking on this raid and dying at the outset said that they didn't have a good perspective on history. they said it was just like how their ancestors regretted joseph warren's death at the battle of bunker hill. like warren, brown sealed the

john: john from charlestown, west virginia. you talk about kind of the big, broad questions of the 19th century about what is the future of government, what is the future of labor. and of course the civil war in the united states offers an answer to that question. but what was the reaction on the global stage, if any, to reconstruction in the united states as counterrevolution? what reaction did that get? prof. zimmerman: one thing i would say is that european powers widely admired the united states for taking formerly enslaved labor and using it, -- and keeping it racially subordinated to produce profitable crops. i wrote about that process in west africa, but it was also widely admired around the world. it was seen -- the ways that the post-emancipation u.s. south might look backwards in many sensibilities look modern and advanced too many european colonial powers. this is how to establish white supremacy and advance capitalism, again. i mean, it was a horrible model. when i say model, i do not mean good. but it was very infl

she is also the co-author of a number of other important works, including the charlestown syllabus, readings on race, racism, and racial violence. she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled east united with best, black women, japan, and visions of afro-asian solidarity, also under contract with the university of pennsylvania press. next we have the professor of history at m.i.t. in the foreign editor for modern american history. he is the author of the prize-winning book "uncle sam wants you: world war i and the making of the modern american citizen, which came out with oxford, and the hotly anticipated and seriously "bound by war: how the united states and philippines build the first specifics century." he is also co-curator of the volunteers, americans during for one, a public history initiative commemorating the centennial of the first world war, and he has done a number of other public history initiatives, including appearing on the history detectives and who do you think you are. are inearch interests the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern u.s. has thre