>> harvard says the daa speaks for themselves.vard says asianmerican now make up about 22% of admitted students, that is 6% of the u.s. population. harvard is saying thatthey want to build a diverse class, that when they're educating future leader, they want to make sure there is a lot of diversity on campus so people are experiencing people from different backounds. so they point to a decision in 1978where is t supreme court pointed to harvard as the model in higher education when considering race and race can be one factor among many to decidet which studeno admit. >> reporter: edward blum is this man who has brought ny cases that very overtly try to chip away affirmative action in education. set's say he wins this case. what's youe about what the impact on affirmative action more broadly could be? >> a lot of people in higher ed, a lot of leaders think this is a backdoor tact on the cooperation cooperatio-- in the consideration of race. one leader said this case goes to the heart oo whwe are as a society and we're debating the

did a lot of great things for harvard, no question. but he decided that the three grow students as -- negro students as they were called at the time really should not live in the houses because they wouldn't be comfortable there. so they should board elsewhere in the city. this was a huge battle. it was in all the newspapers. he was finally overruled by the harvard corporation on that. but that, the scars in that battle lingered as civil rights activists looked toward harvard in the 1920s. that didn't involve him was he was a graduate student and wouldn't have lived there anyway, but that was part of harvard's history that was very current at the time. this gentleman right here, and then we'll come over here. >> i've got a couple of inside baseball questions. one is what effect did carter's work with franklin frazier have on dewey's decision to hire her as an investigator? >> and what's the second question? i'll be happy to answer them both, but i just want to hear them both. >> the second question is the prosecution of jimmy hines beg

and into the presidency. >> host: so he goes harvard. is well-respect thread. >> guest: an odd duck at harvard but a he wants to be an ornithologist and collects dead birds and their na this room and when he first comps he is kind of a prig. the is also different from the other kid. speak numbers class, interrupts the professor. those were the times when you just were a b student and that's what you were supposed to do but he worked hard and did very well. the interesting this once the gets out of harvard heeds up at the age of 23 running for the state legislature because, again, somebody comes to him and says, maybe you'd be a good candidate because your father had been well-known. a philanthropist, his father. and once he started going around, leading people from the working class, meeting people in the other part of he district -- he's in the silk stocking district and there's also tenements in this district but he began to feel at ease with them and he lost that sense of privilege the had before. he became a natural politician. >> ho

we hear a lot about the dorm room and the early days at harvard from facebook. but i want to hear about your background and you are a doctor and a teacher and you have done a lot to try and help the world before the chan zuckerberg initiative. was there a moment or an adult from those roles that you see your superhero origin story? so i just think it is crazy that i am here today. the reason why is that he just goes back so far. i grew up as children of chinese and vietnamese refugees who came to this country with nothing, but the good luck of having being sponsored out of the refugee camps by the catholic church, and we arrived in boston, where they had nothing but faith in the educational system, and that things would be okay. i went through k -12 in public school were my only direction for my family was work hard and you will do well. there was not much more detail after that. but i got lucky and i had teachers who took me under their wing, and made sure that i knew what the sat was, and that i knew how to apply to college, and that i had a mentor even go so

then he said, i know go back to harvard to becoming a vacation, don't the harvard get to. don't let them make you hate me. so always that feeling toward that larger world that he easily could have been -- he was the smartest. >> is young man that did people think that somebody his father was a state legislator, not particularly well educated that a he would be president of the united states? was anyone's dream for lyndon johnson? >> well yes. that's was interesting. once he gets into politics he's an absolute natural. and when he was young, he was a real new deal congressman. he wanted to do for people what would help. and he meets fdr for the first time when fdr was president. and he is a real -- i was going to say something i cannot stand television. he was a natural storyteller. can make up things for example. let's say things that way. [laughter] he knows fdr is going fishing. he knows nothing about fishing. and he starts saying how much he loves fishing. anyway, they get along terrifically. and fdr tells somebody, just met this amazing young congressman. you know, he

it held julie and at harvard fit stone, the dean of harvard law school. justice kagan has been the dean of the law school, and surely can tell us that teams are called to serve on unusual committee assignments, but nothing ever as unusual as this. between june 1918, and the army just that november, the three men traveled around the united states interrogating every single object or whois station at military camp. the interrogations was often no more than a few minutes long, and they carried out their obligation to see about the sincerity of the men they each interviewed. much depended on the boards to sue. the innocent face the choice of donning a uniform and embarking for france, or awaiting an army court-martial with the power to imprison or even execute the guilty. the board members including stone, gave them a consensus or is a question about their scripture believe in the soundness of their knowledge of religious principles, and they would often suggest that pacifism was unable to defend mothers and sisters from german invaders which was sure to arri

upon arriving at harvard by the legendary dean of harvard graduate school because he had gone to howard university when i first came across it i thought that this would only happen to the howard students at that have gone to amherst and nevertheless he was quite upset about this and he couldn't afford it. she didn't have the money. he tried several ways to get around the requirement to. he arrived after the episode many of you may know about so when they developed a system in harvard there's no question that he decided that a baby we shouldn't live in the houses because they wouldn't be comfortable there. this is a huge battle in all of the newspapers it was finally overruled by the corporation but they linger. it was a part that was very current at the time. this gentle man and then we both come over here. >> second question the prosecution of jimmy hines i'm wondering whether they had a role. those are my two questions. >> the first one first if there was a riot and they appointed a commission i have no idea if it is true that is what is often written about it. there are some accounts

and also to the harvard bookstore inviting me back the last time i was supposed to be here i canceled at the last minute with my family and they said don't worry we will reschedule and now three years later i am here. [laughter] it is a pleasure maybe you know, me better for my fiction but this was a book rolling around in my head for a long time. so in a sense talking backward. so with that historical moment that gave rise to it so look at the 19 thirties. there was a war that black gangs of harlem were wiped out or subjugated the harlem mattered because it was the most lucrative territory in the country for organized crime because that was played by more people in harlem so it was a big deal but that numbers game in other ways does not cry from civic reform because it was time to get serious about the mob and investigate. but the district attorney in new york at the time was in the pocket of the mob with no intention to do any types of investigation so the runaway they said they want us special prosecutor to organ --dash to prosecute organized crime they eventually gave in and at th

she then served as the dean of harvard law school. . she was then nominated and confirmed as solicitor general of the united states and been appointed to the supreme court. she has been a supporter of pro bono and public service throughout her career. we are lucky to have her today as the aba celebrates the 10th anniversary of the -- of pro bono. we are very grateful that justice kagan has taken time out of her busy schedule to be with us and that she has agreed to serve as the honorary chair for the10th anniversary of national celebration of pro bono. please join me in welcoming associate justice taken. [applause] elena kagan: thank you. it is always great to be here. way.and i go back a long it is always good to reunite. and happy 10th birthday. even happiern: because you are here and we are able to have this chat. faculty,tudents, volunteers, leaders. gan: who started this idea, 10 years ago? is he here? in his absence, good idea. [laughter] justice, youn: have spent time in the public and private sectors. most of your work has been

she received her jd at harvard. she has had the honor and privilege of clerking for judge abner mitka on the u.s. court of appeals, and then for justice thurgood marshall. after briefly practicing at a law firm, she became a law professor at the university of chicago law school, and later at harvard. she then served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. after this time in washington, she served as the dean of harvard law school. she was then nominated and confirmed as solicitor general of the united states and been appointed to the supreme court. she has been a supporter of pro bono and public service throughout her career. we are lucky to have her today -- we are happy to welcome her today as the aba celebrates the 10th anniversary of pro bono. we are very grateful that justice kagan has taken time out of her busy schedule to be with us and that she has agreed to serve as the honorary chair for the 10th anniversary of the national celebration of pro bono. please join me in welcoming associate ju

to fight for harvard.ay that asians get to harvard? why is it okay that white people get to harvard? i understand his point fully, but playing up things like an alcoholic or absentee father and a lack of food and shelter, what does that approach say about the best way to get black students into colleges like yours? >> well, first of all, i mean, that's an evasion of the question being posed to mr. landry. it seems to me that what he's doing is he's playing on a kind of soft bigotry where the idea of educating african-american children, craig, is often thought of as a philanthropic enterprise, as a charitable gift, and he's playing on that sentiment, and to the extent to which he's doing so, he's participating in what is generally a way which applicants across the country try to game the system. they're trying to figure out how to get their kids to stand out in these large applicant pools to these very elite spaces that have very low admission rates, even though they have extraordinary numbers of folks appl

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and as their relationship deepened, both of the harvard law grads decided to make career moves. determined to pursue his passion. barack turned down a good offer from sidly and austin. >> when he came to me and said i love you guys and the work. and i'd be happy. but i can't take the job. i said why. he said i think i'm going to go into politics. he said i'm taking michelle with me. i said you no good rotten worthless piece of -- hold it. we're getting married. i said that's different. >> a year later in the fall of 1992, michelle became michelle obama. in a ceremony presided by the couples pastor. reverend jeremiah wright jr. who would stir up controversy for the obamas in the years ahead. she launched a new career in public service. in the mayors office and a chapter of a mentoring organization called public allies. >> you can go back to her work there. in chicago. where she was really started and ran a program that was all about mentoring and introducing young people to public service. >> it was during this time that barack won a seat in the illinois state senate. but it didn

he then won a scholarship to harvard university where he spent five use and got his master's and ph d. in english literature in one thousand nine hundred eighty three. and . after harvard dr edward saeed joined columbia university in new york city as a member of the faculty of english and comparative literature he stayed until his death in two thousand and three. columbia is one of the top eight ivy league universities in the u.s. where many leading politicians economists and public figures have graduated. columbia also helped to launch. into the refined world of academia and literary criticism. no not yet as a middle east specialist in the west or public supporter of the palestinian calls. this day a place where i'm sitting right now used to be edward sage office his secretary used to sit in one of the rooms you know down this down this hall and the room that you see here almost everything is as it was where when he was here you know the the book of this book this glass bookcase this desk was edward said that chair was edwards and this was their server an office with a lot of history

we are so pleased to host her here in harvard square tonight. please join me in welcoming, jill lepore. [applause] >> hi. [applause] thank you. [applause] >> that was more applause than wonder woman peter good start to the evening! thank you everybody for coming out. it is really an honor to speak to you tonight. it is also a thrill to talk about the book in my hometown. the great city of cambridge. it is going to be one of my goals this evening not to say these two words again. supreme court. [laughter] off-limits for the rest of the evening! what i want to do is, in the short time that we have this evening, try to give you a glimpse of why i decided to write a book that would cover the sweep of american history. and that is really a question about scope. what i really want to do, the reason i wanted to write this long book that covers centuries, is because i was so frustrated by what i think of as the prison of the present. we also trapped in a moment by moment, second by second news cycle, the ever shrinking and accelerating experience of bre

for and then we go to harvard in the u.s. royal must fall harvard law school and what those students were protesting about was this here you see. this place carrying the sheaves they eventually managed to get rid of that shield and then they continued to actually look at some of the injustices in the micro aggressions that were happening to people of color at harvard and that continues on. must. the thing that connects these there are many other universities around the world who are using you as an example what's like. i can't exactly point out because. you know as we we have the privilege of taking the show internationally right now but we definitely weren't like the architects of the four of the movement but it's it's a great thing that a movement in south africa was able to influence so many other universities i remember when the shutdown happened and we also had a lot of universities supporting us shutting down their universities because they're supporting for african universities in shutting down so it's incredible also

but then, with the urging and the help of the president of harvard university and the dean of harvard business school, they recruited michael jensen to be a professor there and then it was on the agenda. now it wasn't just created by jensen. there's all this stuff that we know about the rjr nabisco stuff. there's a very good article that was in the "wall street journal," mentions of shareholder value only starts around 1985. but then it really takes off and becomes a dominant ideology, and it comes out of neoclassical economics, which i call the theory of the market economy, and it basically is an argument that of all the participants in the corporation, only shareholders take risk. everybody else gets a guaranteed return. why? you get a guaranteed return because it's all determined by the market. okay, but that's false. we, as taxpayers, when we pay money that goes into infrastructure and knowledge that companies use f , if we do get a decent tax rate or the companies don't make money, we don't get our tax revenues as households back through the government. if they then use a politic

didn't matter as harvard beat eale 45- in th 135th dylan is h with a check on the weather. that's how you greet me every time. >> don't tell everybody that, they think i'm nice. we have a clipper system moving through the region. it's snowing in chicagond cleveland. we have lake enhancement with lighter snow showers so that will be around this morning if you want to stay inside and wait until that passes. i'm sure that will help with driving you have to do. this storm system will quily move tohe east through the day today bringing snow to upstate new york, there's really not a lot with it. and as weo into sunday night we'll see spotty snow showers across central and northern new england so we could see some trouble on the roads as this moves on monday it looks like a line of rain as this develops into a cold front. snowfall totals, not looking at much. some higherou elevations pick up closer to three inches. here's aou peek out window. >> out our window we have sunshine and cloud cover. those temperatures are in the 30s right now. 29 in manassas, but everybody coming into t

she went to harvard, and was supervising editor of the law review. marshall for justice on this court. work at thet to connelly before teaching at the university of chicago. she became associate counsel to president clinton in 1995 and later deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. this was at a time when we were actually burning through our budget deficit and going towards a balanced budget. she was nominated for the d.c. circuit by president clinton. politics caused that nomination to lapse. that has been known to happen from time to time. a young appellate litigator known as john roberts got that seat. she went to harvard in 1999 where she began teaching and became dean of that formidable institution in four years. six years after that, in 2009, she was nominated by president obama as the 45th solicitor general of the u.s.. the first woman to hold that job. it was one year after that she was nominated and confirmed to this court. we have been honored to have justice kagan on this court for a little over eight years. please join me in

she gave a talk at harvard bookstore to promote the book. this runs an hour. >> clare: good evening. i'm claire and on behalf of harvard bookstore thank you for joining us for an event with maryanne wolf, to discuss her new boom "reader come home" "reader come home: the reading brain in a digital world." i'd like to a moment to let you know about upcoming events. for the rest of august in-store new fiction purchases will be 15% off every friday for members of our frequent buyer program. next paned 13. we'll welcome jack caves and his new boom "the gulf: the making of an american sea." roy scranton will be in discussion with andrew bacevich in "we're doomed now what: essays on war and climate change," both events begin at 7:00 p.m. and are at the bookstore. our fall event season is start to kick off. we'll join authors like debra harkness, john kerry, and many others. you can learn more about these and upcoming events on our website, harvard.com. after the talk we'll have questions from the audience. we're pleased to have book tv here to tape

no, faang isn't all their creation i figured out amazon, but facebook, like i said went to harvard.were a freshman, you gt a book, it was called the facebook and it had everyone's picture in it. facebook is a derivation of facebook my youngest got sick of facebook early on probably because i got on it. then she went to instagram, which facebook cleverly made it so you didn't know it was part of something that older people had discovered i didn't think the ads worked until we were inundated with red hot chil lee peppers does everyone else dream that their ad is just a link? it seems that only mark zuckerberg has the forethought to care about the user experience how about chipotle the kids love the fresh and organic chipotle salads, still do they're vegetarians. my youngest returned early on after that food sickening incident, the only difference is she did takeout because she didn't want to be seen inside because she thought people would say wow, what is she doing inside, it's chipotle. nothing's perfect. their picks, they will do. what if the picks themselves aren't any good? what i

theology, rational theology has become dominant at harvard college by the early 1700s. harvard has been founded as the first american college, founded almost exclusively for training. in pastors in the 16 30's. by the early 1700s, it had become captured by christian rational,but this non-puritan type of theology. new englanders start a new college as a more conservative alternative that will go more towards. 10 ties to theology. that was yale. they were the conservative bible 1700s, so the early we could have an alternative to harvard. almost all the colonial colleges were founded in the colonial period. colleges founded as for the training of pastors and almost nobody else went to college. no women went to college and almost no men went to college in those days. if you did go to college, it was almost always to become a pastor. rise iny saw as a immorality, more modern philosophy and ideology. with catholic france nativein and their their -- their native american allies. they go through a couple generations of imperial war the britishain and colonies, and then either f

i think it's now 58 years ago that i went into harvard hall at harvard university for the first course ever took in russian history. and it was a rather young assistant professor who taught that course by the name of jim billington. and i have to say i think for both of us all of that kind of got out of hand over time. [laughter] both of our careers, in one way or another, ended up being associated with what has happened to the part of the world that we can call eurasia or russia or soviet union or soviet union/war saw pact. whatever you want to call it, it was this part of the world that was, in a sense, the defining part of the world in many ways for the way americans for the last half of the 20th century sort of approached our world responsibilities and the way we looked at the world. and so my introduction at that time from jim billington was about as good as you could get. and it served me well through a career. but i want to talk a little bit about jim as librarian and policy developer, maker, implementer and guide. a lot's been said about the library here, but i would simply mak

stanford, harvard, brown. they dropped their rotc programs because of their opposition -- because of the school's opposition to the war. somebody had to make up that need as we ramped up the needs for junior officers in vietnam. west point, i think they almost tripled their class size, but that would be four years before those men in those days could become -- could become combat leaders. so officer candidate schools had to make up the difference. as i said earlier, they closed virtually all -- well, all of the non-combat arms officer candidate schools. so if you wanted to be in a non-combat arm, you still had to go to infantry armor or artillery officer candidate school. so when i -- when i went back to -- actually when i was writing my doctoral dissertation back in 2004 i started doing research. there was a line in a rand report called strategic lessons learned in vietnam that essentially said that there were a lot of bad junior officers, and that's what motivated me to write that particular book. so i start

he went to harvard.you think, he could just -- someone could hire him and they could adjust his status and that would be fine. he can't. as people who couldn't even go to college and are here but once he is legalized my guess is he will end up voting like many people in film and doing those things and there's an incredible diversity of people and we shouldn't lose sight of that. >> i really mentioned one of the people i wrote about, there's another one in the book, sam park, a state representative in georgia who because he grew up in the south, and his family voted republican, he voted republican, many vietnamese americans are republicans so asian americans and other people of color vote along individual, social, and economic interests. to the extent that immigration is a big issue, first of all we say immigration. it means so many things. it means the immigrant experience, immigration policy. many people who became legalized in 1984 under president reagan's bill and feel allied with the republican party

. >> host: you had an experience about your decision now you at harvard divinity school and the path that led you to go to harvard after living in the observatory for a little while with my parents i had studied creative writing in school so wanted to put energy into history i moved to los angeles worked at united talent agency for a year and that was a great experience it definitely shows you the ins and outs of the agency you see every level. that was an important year for me because it forced me to be on my own and away from my family across the country and three time zones away. >> you probably had a lot of friends there? . >> yes. absolutely and that helps you grow also if they don't agree with your family is politics it was on my heart for a couple years after college to possibly to go back to school to study geology i do not know why i thought it was an interest over the years i kept thinking about it looking at a couple programs last year so i got to harvard divinity school so i was thrilled about that because it is such a diverse place so many different religions and focusin

i was on the faculty at the harvard kennedy school of government. the dean recruited me because there were not many republicans who were there. another way to do it would be to deliberatelye to recruit students. i hate to keep using personal examples, but the attorney general mentioned when i went to law school i went to new york university. when i went in 1962, almost everybody was from the bronx and queens. they were trying to find ways to get kids from all over the country. they created scholarships based upon judicial districts. they got hillbillies like me, or swedes from minnesota, or people from all over the country and began to diversify the student body at nyu and they felt it made it a richer place. speakers, faculty members, students just to make sure that you are not constantly exposed to one point of view. mr. rosenstein: the concept of limited powers in our federal government. at the same time, we have a vast federal government with many powers, departments, including education. one with which you are very familiar. what do you think t

it doesn't matter whether i have gone to harvard or yale or oxford. that doesn't matter. what matters is that you are filled with the holy spirit, and that you are supportive of the work of god. so, farmers who don't go to college, for sure. occasionally, native americans who were converted. occasionally, slaves. start standing up in the meeting and saying, i have a word from god for you. and pastors like james davenport will say, listen to this brother, listen to this sister. she has something to say to us that is from the lord. there are no social settings anywhere else in colonial america where you will see women, slaves, native americans standing up and addressing, even in a somewhat authoritative way, white men. you just don't see it. it doesn't happen anywhere else but these kind of revival meetings. you can understand the critics say this is crazy. y'all are nuts. this is socially disruptive. ok, moving out from beyond just the simple religious message, this is socially disruptive. and the critics say this is just a bunch of frenzy. it's what they would call enthus

. >>> coming up on c-span 3, harvard law school hosting a discussion with judges on tough cases, then, a look at startups and the future of funding in silicon valley, followed by a debate on guns in self-defense, and the work on the zuckerberg initiative. >>> judges and legal experts talking about the new book tough cases, featuring the viewpoints that several judges grappling with hard cases, the book includes the case concerning the right to die and cases involving the death penalty. insanity please, and the effective mandatory minimum sentences. this is one hour. >>> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to our book talk, my name is jocelyn kennedy i am the executive director here at the harvard law school library, i want to thank you all for joining us today for a great discussion on tough cases. that judges have to decide. before we begin i would like to think the dean's office for providing lunch and please see that you have lunch during the discussion. we want to let you know that copies of today's book are available outside of the room, so after the talk please feel free to purcha

i got into harvard. got the big firm position.ck. >> still a law student at harvard. >> first year. >> you are going to be his mentor. late for the first meeting. >> late. is he trying? >> you were not overly impressed in the beginning. >> i wasn't. i had suspicions when a bunch of white folks faun over a black man. they think he is wonderful. in walks barack obama. barack obama has always walked like barack obama. he's got all the time in the world. dude, you're cute, but in my mind, i was like -- >> not interested? >> off limits. not even not interested. i'm not going toidate one of the few black soeshts. how tacky. >> by july her resolve to begin romance began to falter. >> he was like you're crazy. i like you and you like me. we should date. he was not playing games. when we stopped for ice cream, he played it real smooth. he just leaned in for a kiss. that really was it. from that kiss on, we were -- was love. he was my man. >> now for the first time, michelle is open up about parts of their marriage she held deeply private f

reporter: the winner is stanford this year, followed quickly by , then comes harvard, mit's sloan, and booth school. guy: you have been doing this survey for a long time now. you measure a number of different factors. what was it that made stanford come out on top this year? guy: this year we changed everything up and modernized the rankings completely. we visited with schools, surveyed students and alumni, and also recruiters at business schools to learn what was most important to them. that led to the factors that led to our ranking this year. it is completely different. we came up with these indexes. one was compensation, one was networking and then learning and entrepreneurship. all of those became the foundation of our rankings this year. stanford came out in each of those indexes, number one in three of them and pretty high in the fourth one. vonnie: the marginal cost of going to stanford or harvard, did you get the marginal return as folks go to something that is 20 or 30 on the list? caleb: that is a really good question. what we did this year is we created a tool more than a r

both of my parents i graduate degrees from harvard. i was a very hard-working student in high school. i think all of that helped. i went there for four years of undergrad and eight years of grad school. after i got the phd, i stayed in taught. it is the kind of place you can get comfortable, maybe even too comfortable. in the summer of 1997, i had an extraordinary opportunity to work for the government. i had been studying political history for a while. i never quite so myself working in politics. i have volunteered as a young person. i had voted for both republicans and democrats earlier in my life. but in 1997, the clinton white house offered me a job as a speechwriter. so i left harvard. i became a speechwriter for almost four years. it was thrilling to be in washington and see politics in all of its messy glory. i think it helps my history writing, too. sympathy for people , who madeuren mistakes, but was always in the arena fighting hard for what he believed in. foroved the ball forward what's democracy is. representational govern

. >> you went to harvard. >> it wasn't that loyal i wasn't good enough to play sports at nebraska i would not have gone to harvard. >> they knew i would not play lincoln everybody needs to be in love with where they are from the center of the world for seven and a half billion people 320 million americans if you cannot find love where you are from it's hard to transfer your love to bigger and broader communities. >> host: that's a good synopsis but tell me about your family how did you arrive in nebraska? . >> we landed from europe fifth-generation nebraska and my family came directly from germany and prussia and other parts came to southern illinois than one generation later resettled in nebraska and they came because of the homestead act they were farmers wanted to get land to build the future and build communities. >> your grandparents? we my guess to sound hyper german we have crabs and the sasse people competing to see how heavily accented their german ancestry. >> host: you grew up with both sides of your family? . >> yes over a range of 40 miles all grandparents grip on the farm my

so we can have an alternative to harvard. okay? almost all the colonial american colleges, the ivy league schools, most of them were founded in the colonial period and they are almost all founded as colleges for the training of pastors. and almost nobody else went to college. no women went to college. almost no men went to college in those days. if you were a man who went to college it was almost always in the colonial period to become a pastor. okay? so what they saw as a rise in immorality, enlightenment thought, more modern kind of philosophy and theology. then a third reason for this sense of crisis is ongoing war with catholic france and spain and their native american allies. starting in the 169 0s, the colonies, especially new england, go through a couple of generations of imperial war between britain and the british colonies and either frns or spain. and in new england the main issue is fighting against the b there. if you think about it. england and france are fighting in the same time period, too, but the english channel