on lectures in history professor david farber teaches a class on the 1960s vietnam anti-war movement and how in his view it helped expand the nation's democratic process american history tv recorded the class in 2010 at temple university in philadelphia. professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas we will help our students this morning by going over the high school advancement placement us history exam with us this morning our jason stacy and matthew ellington co-authors of fabric of a nation gentleman. good morning. good morning, jesse. good morning, jesse. so this morning we're gonna have high school students only calling in and we're gonna help them prepare for that ap us history exam. i want to remind all of our students out there to tweet your questions using the hashtag ap. ush cram and these fine gentlemen here will help us

david farber is professor of modern american history at the university of kansas.. he was one of those amazingly wealthy new yorkers who helped create modern american corporations. he was the force behind general motors, the dupont company, and then in 1928 he got an itch in his fingers to start building skyscrapers. and then what did he do, he built the empire state? why did he build the empire state? it was built as much as anything to best his close friend, walter chrysler, who was putting up another massive and still famous skyscraper. the new york elites were looking for one more challenge, little knowing that they were starting a building craze just as the great depression was taking off. at the time the building craze happened, these huge buildings popped up, the depression occurred. the history of the empire state building after that in my mind is very much connected to hollywood and the movies, king kong. did that make it really iconic and famous? if it hadn't been for that film, would it have been what it is today? i think you're right. a little over a ye

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. ♪♪ >>> on lectures in history, professor david farber teaches a class on the 1960s vietnam anti-wart and how it helped expand the nation's democratic

. ♪♪ >>> professor david farber teaches a class on the 1960s vietnam anti-war movement and how, in hislped demonstrate the democratic process. temple university in philadelphia. professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas. >> so we've been talking these last few weeks out loud about a few core issues tt

. ♪♪ >>> on lectures in history, professor david farber teaches a class on the 1960s vietnam anti-warementment and how it helped expand the nation's democratic process. american history tv recorded the class in 2010 at temple university in philadelphia. professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas. >> so we've been talking these last few weeks out loud about a few core issues that have in many ways given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. we've been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the united states in the '60s era. we've been pondering what democratic practice could and should look like in the united states, and then very pertinent to what we'll do today, what role the united states should play internationally. what role should the united states play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s. so we've gotten to the point in this class where we've reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the united states in vietnam. and the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid