watch in-depth fiction edition with geraldine brooks live sunday, october 7 at noon-3 p.m. eastern on book tv. watch next month with jodey picot. on book tv on c-span2. >> each week, "american artifacts, takes you to museums and other historic places to learn about american history. we go to arlington, virginia, where women aided communities of really -- newly freed slaves. anderson: the museum is --icated to the distinctive to ensuring the distinctive contribution is written into the national narrative. the museum

and watch next month with geraldine brooke. belcher will be the guest in december on book tv. on c-span 2. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our cable partners to showcase the history of flagstaff. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit the city tour. we continue now with the history of flagstaff. >> there was a group of people traveling here through california. they stopped anywhere they could find water. water was very scarce along the way. andwhere we stand today is spins -- antelope springs. here.n see this down it was a natural campsite for the pioneers heading west. so they were camped here on july 4, 1876. and in the baggage they had a flag and they stripped the layings -- stripped the limbs off the tree and had a fourth of july celebration. and so this town that came quite a few years later adopted the name flagstaff. and that is what the monument commemorates. and four of his brothers were grocers in cincinnati. evening, a guy came in the store who had just come back from here. and he told great tales about this wonderful country, how cattl

he sure to watch next month with author geraldine brooks. will be ourmeltzer guest in december. book tv on c-span2. weekend, family, friends, and colleagues of the late senator john mccain continued to honor his life and legacy with a funeral service at washington national cathedral. the day began with the senator's casket departing the u.s. capitol, where it had been lying in state since friday afternoon. from there, it was taken to the vietnam veterans memorial where cindy mccain laid a wreath in honor of her husband's military service before heading to the

eastern and be sure to watch in-depth fiction edition next month with author, gerald -- geraldine brooks. on book tv, on c-span2. historian marks snell talks about his book "gettysburg's other battle. the ordeal of an american shrine during the first world war. the battlefield was used as a world war i training camp in 1917 and 1918, named camp colt. its commander was a young dwight d. eisenhower. mr. snell describes the impact on the battlefield and the community. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> we are at the eisenhower national historic site on camp colt weekend. we are here to commemorate world war i as well as the 100th anniversary of camp colt, which was commanded by colonel eisenhower, here in gettysburg, pennsylvania. our next speaker is mark snell. he retired from the u.s. army in 1993 and has had several assignments as well as careers after that. he taught history at the united states military academy at west point, and he was a lecturer at the royal academy at sandhurst, in the u.k. he was also a professor of

geraldine brooke. c-span two.n this summer, c-span with the help of our partners spent time in alaska. we spoke with republican senator lisa murkowski who has served since 2002. senator lisa murkowski of alaska. there are not too many third-generation alaskans around, is there? sen. murkowski: it's getting to the more and more. we are contributing with a fourth-generation. we have boys who are staying in the state. it is something i am proud of. i love my state, and i love my family's history there. >> what brought your grandparents there? sen. murkowski: the story from my dad's side is that everybody wanted to come up for the gold. he made it to the most southern community, and realized he did not have enough money to get to the goldfield so he stayed there and went to work in a bank where he cashed out the miners when they came in with gold. my mom, her dad was a brand-new attorney and he got a message from one of his buddies saying come to alaska, come to this town. there is only one lawyer, and the

schematic geraldine brooks as our guest on in-depth fiction addiction.i live : program on sunday october 7 at noon eastern. most recent book the secret court. other novels include march, caleb crossing, people of the book in the year of wonders. watch live sunday october 7 from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. watch next month author jodi and brought meltzer. on book tv on c-span2. >> saturday, to retiring members of congress bill schuster pennsylvania and louise gutierrez of illinois talk about their experience in congress. >> coming to the end of my term as chairman of the transportation infrastructure committee. and that was really the driving force and i thought to myself playing sports throughout my days in high school when you're on the starting team will put you on the bench it's not too much fun time to make room for real members. i have no doubt those continue to do good work. >> been here 26 years. i believe that i think the last couple of weeks demonstrate that that i have helped create an immigrant movement in the united states of ame

watch with author jacqueline woodson on sunday, and watch in-depth next month with author geraldine brooks week, american history tv's "real america" shows archival -- >> the new york state commission against discrimination and cysts on five -- insists on five commissioners. not only on enforcement but education of the public. they use every means of communication to make the people aware of the law. for individuals, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin. more and more rich contributions andany religions, races, national origins, such as the scientists -- signs of george washington carver, albert einstein, the critical discovery of professor in rico fermi in the field of atomic silence. best science. for each of the 2000 held down -- overty and despair barred many, -- live in a their hostile world. you.don't like to bother i cannot go home to my wife and children again without a job. things are bad. everywhere i go, it is always the same. sorry, werry, -- >> need experience. >> i have had plenty of experience. mac. cannot use you, you are holding the line. >> discrimination

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jacqueline woodson life today from noon to 3 pm eastern and be sure to watch in depth next month with geraldine brooks and november with jody to go and brad notes or will be our guest in december on book tv on c-span2. >> the king has a problem in cleveland. carl stokes does not want him to come to cleveland, he wants to win and he thinks that king will alienate the few whites that he needs to get so you will not find any pictures of carl stokes with martha think, even though he came to cleveland every week during the summer of 1967. this is not written about in the history books. i'm surprised when i read most of the biographies, legal and was what it was all about for him. it was all about movingcivil rights and black power . and in a lot of ways, martin luther king and malcom x moved toward each other at the end of their lives. both of them were 39 years old when they were killed. it's hard to believe how much influence they had in this world but you had malcom x moving toward human rights and martin luther king moving toward more aggressive black power. at the same time, cleveland is the center of

and watch next month with geraldine brooke. belcher will be the guest in december on book tv. on c-span 2. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our cable partners to showcase the history of flagstaff. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit the city tour. we continue now with the history of flagstaff.

geraldine brooks of gaston in-depth fiction edition. on sunday. m with her most recent brooke -- book. other works include march, caleb's crossing, people of the book, and the year of wonders. watch in-depth fiction edition with geraldine brooks live today from noon to 3:00 eastern on book tv. bichon sure to watch in-depth fiction edition next month with author jodi picot and brad meltzer in december. on book tv on c-span2. >> every president would confirm that experience. i will tell this guy off. they go in there. there is something about the office itself and the respect that all americans, have for the office. were you just don't feel like blowing out of the president or taking him on the way you told your colleagues you would do. was he was in china he called back to run the cia. something he did not want to do. to be honest, running the cia was curricular. i think we should take him at his word that he remembered his father saying if the president of the united states asks you to do something the answer is yes. that sentiment embodies his ent

geraldine brooks is our guest on in-depth fiction addition. the live call-in program on sunday, october 7. the secret court. the other novels include march, caleb's crossing, people of the book live on sunday october 7 from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. and brad melcher will be our guest in november. my husband and i have both served at the pentagon i left the pentagon to go down to paris island. he retired as a lieutenant governor as well. the year he retired as the happen and he started hearing from his contacts because he just retired that my name was being brought up for the equivalent of the ceo of the fortune 500 company. in charge of the whole marine corps. give this little bitty lieutenant colonel. it was being talked about by name in the meetings. what we recognize very early on. this was there. conducting his own test to see how well men and women could perform with each other. so we knew he did not want women to go into these roles. and as we were showing that they could shoot and run and be tough and strong he was showing t

watch in-depth addition with author geraldine brooks, life sunday october 7 from noon to 7:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. be sure to watch next month with jodi pickard and also. c-span2. >> well good evening. i'm charlie copeland, the president of the intercollegiate studies institute. in a minute you will hear from

the book watch in-depth fiction addition with author geraldine brooks live sunday from noon until 3:00 p.m. on book tv and be sure to watch in-depth fiction edition .ith author jodi picot on book tv on c-span2. weekend on american history tv on c-span3, tonight, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, brandeis university professor abigail cooper talks about african-americans during the reconstruction period. sunday at four clock p.m. eastern on

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> pulitzer prize winning author geraldine brooks as a guest on "in depth" fiction edition, our live call-in program on sunday october 7 seventh at noon eastn with her most recent book. watch live sunday october 7 at noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv, and be sure to watch "in depth" fiction edition next month with author jodi picot and brad meltzer will be our guest in december on booktv on c-span two. >> good afternoon. welcome to our panel called from the border, people and politics. i'm maryellen fullterton, i'm the interim dean at brooklyn law school for many years i have been a scholar of international refugee law and immigration law. so you can imagine how much i'm looking forward to this panel and how much i enjoyed reading all three of the books that we will have a chance to talk about today. the authors, at the issues of people, borders, politics from multiple perspectives. we had photojournalist on our panel. we had a sociologist on our panel, a creative nonfiction writer on our panel in the course are also many other things. i think the

eastern area watch a recession next month with author geraldine brooke. c-span two.n this summer, c-span with the help of our partners spent time in alaska. we spoke with republican senator lisa murkowski who has served since 2002. senator lisa murkowski of alaska. there are not too many third-generation alaskans around, is there? sen. murkowski: it's getting to the more and more. we are contributing with a fourth-generation. we

pulitzer prize-winning author geraldine brooks is our guest on our in depth program. 's other novels include march, caleb's crossing, people of the book, and the year of wonders. live sunday, october 7, from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on book tv and be sure to watch in-depth fiction edition next month with author jodi picot. book tv, c-span2. >> last night president trump was campaigning in wheeling, west virginia are several republican candidates who were campaigning to run in november. ♪

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> pulitzer prize winning author geraldine brooks as a guest on "in depth" fiction edition, our live call-in program on sunday october 7 seventh at noon eastn with her most recent book. watch live sunday october 7 at noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv, and be sure to watch "in depth" fiction edition next

pulitzer prize-winning author geraldine brooks is our guest on in-depth fiction addition on sunday, october 7 at noon eastern with her most recent book. her other novels include "march, co "people of the book, go and "year of wonders." watch on book tv and be sure to watch in-depth action addition picot.h with author jocdi book tv on c-span2. on the, a discussion relationship between reporters and their sources. georgetown university's free speech project and columbia's night first amendment institute hosted government officials. topics included classified information, whistleblower's, and congressional oversight. this is 90 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> that evening, everyone. good evening, thank you for being here. i'm vice president and chief of staff here at georgetown university. on behalf of the office of the president i would like to welcome everyone here tonight. we have gathered this evening for what i know w

author geraldine brooks, life sunday october 7 from noon to 7:00 p.m. eastern on book tv. be sure to watch next month with jodi pickard and also. c-span2. >> well good evening. i'm charlie copeland, the president of the intercollegiate studies institute. in a minute you will hear from the president of the trinity forum and i'm honored that we are jointly hosting this program this evening. members of the isi community believe in a simple, simple axiom and that is think, live free, think, live free. the trinity forum believes that the distraction in civility, polarization and pathology in our age stems from the lack of spiritual and character formation in leaders. there are few opportunities to grapple with, reflect on and discuss fully what matters most. in other words, both organizations believe deeply that an informed citizenry, that informed leaders, are well read, intellectually curious, and deep thinking. at isi, we build grow and maintain a community of college related constituents, students, faculty, our alumni, who want to discuss and engage in the big ideas. what m

pulitzer prize-winning author geraldine brooks is our guest on in-depth: fiction addiction -- edition. "theher most recent book secret court." brooks, livene sunday, october 7 from noon until 3:00 eastern. be sure to watch next month with author jodi pico and brad meltzer. on book tv on c-span two. >> as your primary source for campaign 2018, we take a look at recent debates from across the country, starting with arizona's governor's rate. that is followed by tim kaine facing corey stewart in virginia. we will show you the u.s. senate race in tennessee between republican representative marsha blackburn and former democratic governor the reticent. arizona governor doug ducey is seeking a second term this november against democratic challenger david garcia. the two met tuesday for a debate that focused on education, border security, and infrastructure. from tucson, this is an hour. ♪ >> welcome to the gubernatorial debate presented by arizona public media, cage azz, and arizona daily star. good evening. we will spend the next hour with the 2018 candidates for arizona governments. good e

brooks is geraldine our guest on in-depth fiction edition. that is sunday, october 7 at noon eastern with her most recent book. the other novels include people of the book, and the year of wonders. watch the in-depth fiction edition live today from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on book tv. be sure to watch in-depth fiction edition next month with jody piko. c-span2.n book tv on the c-span buses traveling across the country. we recently stopped in des moines, iowa. novemberorward to the term elections, we asked which party should control congress and why? >> i feel the democratic party should control congress next year. administration, it would definitely be a good idea to check on that administration. some of the policies being done i do not fully agree with, and although i will not agree with everything, i feel having one arey in the position they right now is not getting a lot done. if we had abest check on this current administration. also, i would like to see both parties getting back to civility. it seems all we do is spend the time talking, ba

he sure to watch next month with author geraldine brooks. will be ourmeltzer guest in december. book tv on c-span2. weekend, family, friends, and colleagues of the late senator john mccain continued to honor his life and legacy with a funeral service at washington national cathedral. the day began with the senator's casket departing the u.s. capitol, where it had been lying in state since friday afternoon. from there, it was taken to the vietnam veterans memorial where cindy mccain laid a wreath in honor of her husband's military service before heading to the cathedral. includedat the service senator mccain's daughter megan, former senator joe lieberman, former secretary of state henry kissinger, and former president george w. bush and barack obama. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [footsteps in unison] [no audio] [no audio]