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

. ♪♪ >>> 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

. >> reporter: jennifer steinzer and garrett farber wanted a house to have a backyard and no stairs.hree-story, no backyard abdomen a cat. >> reporter: for $290,000 they were outbid by ten other homes in las vegas. would you say this is your dream home? >> no. >> no, not at all. >> reporter: desperate buyers, record-low interest rates, along with low inventory and cash-rich investors are driving prices up. nationally, 19% higher. cities like kingston, new york, up 35%. boise up 33%. and las vegas up 15%. this 1300-square foot one-bathroom home in tiburon, california, went for more than $2 million. 58% over the asking price. >> if you're putting asking price offers, you're automatically a loser. >> reporter: mike mcgrath paid $45,000 over list price for this home in henderson, nevada. >> he barely got the house. barely. >> reporter: so if you waited another day? >> gone. >> reporter: buyers faced black friday-type lines at open houses. >> i keep can't doing this. >> reporter: after getting outbid on 20 homes in boseman, montana, sean hawksford pleaded for somebody to sell him a home.

. ♪♪ >>> 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

. >> reporter: jennifer steinzer and garrett farber wanted their first house to have a backyard for astairs. >> we got a three-story, no backyard and a cat. >> reporter: for $295,000. they were outbid on ten otherurm home? >> no. >> not at all. >> reporter: desperate buyers record low interest rates, low inventory and cash-rich investors are driving prices up, nationally 19% higher. but cities like kingston, new york, are up 35%, boise up 33% and las vegas up 15%. this 1,300 square foot, one bathroom home in tiburon, california, went for more than $2 million, 58% over the asking price. >> if you're putting asking price offers, you're automatically a loser. >> reporter: mike mcgrath's clients paid 45,000 above list price in henderson, nevada. >> barely got the house. >> reporter: if you waited another day? >> gone. >> look at this. >> reporter: buyers face black friday size lines at open houses. >> i can't keep doing this. >> reporter: after getting outbid on 20 homes in boseman, montana, sean oxford pleaded for someone to sell him a home. >> this guy saw me and had a house for sale. p

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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colleagues non-profits in honor of his daughter francesca, nicknamed beans, for raising money for the dana farber cancer institute? what makes you keep doing this? obviously this is something you continue to do. what makes you keep doing this and would you like to see other business leaders like yourself doing something similar? >> i think it's a responsibility of business owners. we have too many leaders of companies, owners and ceos who unfortunately enrich themselves and forget that there's the back half of that, which is counting your blessings and giving back to people in south florida. i am who i am today largely because of what i experienced growing up in miami. it's made me who i am. and whether it's nashville or miami or a child with cancer, i think at the end of the day i that i'm very blessed and what else am i going to do with money. we don't need more things. we need to solve things for other people. that simple for me. >> that's it, sounds pretty distilled right there. thanks so much, marcus lemonis, we appreciate you taking the time. >> thank you. >>> right now, across much of the

. ♪♪ >>> 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 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 go through the program. so first, let's talk a little bit about what the ap history us history exam will look like this year matt. can you tell us how the pat if the pandemic will affect the again this year? it will affect the exam but much differently than it affected it last year last year. there was a shortened version of the exam that only had a document based question. what's really new this year is that college board is going back to a full length more normal exam with multiple choice. been b

rates up on the dph side the vaccine we have authority in control over you will see that we're doing farber over all with higher rates among black african americans and latinos in particular. next slide. so, as of today, we have adopted the new cdc masking guidance and commensurate with cdc guidelines and the state adopted them so the good news is your vaccinated, outdoor activities with the exception of a crowded event, 300 people or more, can you go without a mask so that's really good noose and hopefully an incentive for people to get vaccinated and people who aren't vaccinated need to maintain masking and social distancing whether they're able to in the areas below. if you are vaccinated, you can gather indoors and small private groups mask off with other fully vaccinated people. that is also an incentive to get vaccinated. so, we have met the yellow tier for the state so we will be moving into the yellow tier, the lowest level of covid-19 tier and san francisco and l.a. are the only counties and state that have moved into this tier and the most populous county to do so we are making ch

rates up on the dph side the vaccine we have authority in control over you will see that we're doing farber over all with higher rates among black african americans and latinos in particular. next slide. so, as of today, we have adopted the new cdc masking guidance and commensurate with cdc guidelines and the state adopted them so the good news is your vaccinated, outdoor activities with the exception of a crowded event, 300 people or more, can you go without a mask so that's really good noose and hopefully an incentive for people to get vaccinated and people who aren't vaccinated need to maintain masking and social distancing whether they're able to in the areas below. if you are vaccinated, you can gather indoors and small private groups mask off with other fully vaccinated people. that is also an incentive to get vaccinated. so, we have met the yellow tier for the state so we will be moving into the yellow tier, the lowest level of covid-19 tier and san francisco and l.a. are the only counties and state that have moved into this tier and the most populous county to do so we are making ch