my guest is professor heather cox richardson, boston college. welcome professor. >> guest: thanks for. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: how long have you been teaching at boston college? >> guest: this is my fourth year at boston college but i've been teaching since 1987. >> host: what class did you teach? >> guest: politics and economics but pretty much anything they want to throw at me. >> host: what is the most unusual course you have taught? >> guest: a course in the history of comic books in the 1970s. >> host: preparing a second book on comic books? >> guest: no. >> host: why a book about the republican party? >> guest: i'm a scholar of their broken party. i studied economic and i teach in american history so moving into the 20 century the republican party seemed a no-brainer. >> host: when did you have an idea of this particular but? >> guest: i'm going to have to go with 1987. i wrote four books first to really get the 19th century under wraps and i taught again for a couple of decades but it's been in the back of my mind for a l

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my guest is professor heather cox richardson boston college. welcome professor. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: how long have you been teaching at boston college? >> guest: this is my fourth year in boston college but i've been a teacher since 1987. american history 19th century primarily politics and economics are pretty much anything they want to throw at me. >> host: was the most unusual course you have caught? >> guest: comic books. we have a history of comic books so we put on a comic book expedition. a beautiful job. >> host: is their second book? >> guest: no. >> host: why a book about the republican party? >> guest: i studied primarily 19th century politics and economics in if he do that you must understand the republican party but then i also teach in american history so moving into the 20th century the republican party seemed a no-brainer. >> host: went to have the idea for this particular book? >> guest: i'm going to have to go with 1987. i wrote four books first to really get the 19th century under wraps and i taught again

heather cox richardson and life sunday at noon, legal affairs editor at reuters and supreme court biographer. saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, former fbi agent on catching the unit bomber suspect, ted kaczynski. and 100th anniversary of the panama canal. finer television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs at 202, 66, 3400. e-mail us or you can send a tweet at c-span/comments. join us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> angelo codevilla is the author of "to make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations." he makes the argument that the founding fathers made the pursuit of peace the highest objective of america's craft. this is one hour. [applause] >> well, thank you, john. open to the heritage foundation. peace has ever been mankind's desire and yet throughout history, the war has been a common practice. consider the major conflicts of the 20th century in which america has fought, including world war i and world war ii, the korean war, the vietnam war, the iraqi war and the afghan war and the cold war. in the wake of each one came the questio

heather cox richardson. and sunday, joan biskupic.istorians and, authors talk about world war i 100 years later. saturday, former fbi agents on bomberng the uniform suspect. find your schedule at www.c-span.org. call us and let us know what you think about. you can send us a tweet at #comments. cities tour takes american history tv on the road tv" on the road. >> my book is called "the beast in the garden," because it is a book about a large animal that in ancient times or in american history we could have called it a beast, the mountain lion, which is a party and, of boulder, colorado. boulder is a natural place, but in many places it has been altered by human kind, and we knew get a wild animal coming into this artificial landscape them you can cause changes in the behavior of that animal. a mountain lion favored food is venison. they eat about one deer a week. live in the city, the city attracts the deer, so we had a deer herd living in downtown boulder. when the lines move back in the area, they discovered there were deer in town.

saturday, heather cox richardson. upic, supremebisk court biographer. on c-span3 tonight, historians and authors talk about world war i. former fbi agents on catching the unabomber suspect. sunday, the 100th anniversary of the panama canal. find out television schedule at cspan.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> more campaign 2014 coverage now with another debate, one of over 100 we will bring you this campaign season. it is the candidates -- next, it is the candidates to be connecticut's next governor. dan malloy anton fully -- dan malloy and tom foley debated at the university of connecticut. report"k political lists this race as leans democrat. this is ian hour. >> live from the university of connecticut, the hartford current, the connecticut daily newspaper association and uconn bring you the gubernatorial debate. >> good evening, i'm from fox connecticut news. tonight, we are joined for a one-on-one debate weeks ahead of election day. here tonight

my guest is professor heather cox richardson, boston college. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> how long have you been teaching? >> this is my fourth year at boston college, teachings as 1987. >> surpluses do you teach? >> american history 19th century primarily politics and economics the pretty much anything that they wanted the lead me. >> the most unusual course you have taught? >> i taught a course in the history of comic books and the 1970's and my students but mccullough pockets as -- exhibition. it did a beautiful as of. >> a second book and comic books. >> no, although i am writing a book and comic books. >> why a book about the republican party? >> i lost all of the republican party invested permanente and century politics and economics, and if you do they must understand the republican party. but that i also teach spelling is a moving into the tortilla century seemed a no-brainer. >> when did you have the idea for this particular bill? >> i am going to have to go with 1987. i wrote four books first. i taught again for couple deca

on "after words", heather cox richardson looks at the beginning of the republican party. interviewing several of the city's tourist site. topics include the war of 1812, not the occupied paris, and henry kissinger on international affairs. forty-eight hour television schedule, visit us at the tv thoughtbooktv.com. >> here is a look at books that are being published this week. leon panetta reflects on his life in public office in worthy fight. and joan miscue good looks at the life of sotomac and then the use of medicine and end-of-life care. and don't wait for the next war, wesley clark weighs in on the united states war on international affairs. and christopher hill accounts his career in outpost. pulitzer prize winner james macpherson recounts the life of the president of the confederacy, jefferson davis. and cornel west examines the 19th and 20th century leaders and edward wilson looks at what the meaning of human existence brings. look at these authors on booktv.org. >> valerie matsumoto sat down to talk about her book "city girls: the nisei social world in los angele

on "after words," heather cox richardson looks at the beginnings of the republican party. booktv visits boulder, colorado, to tour its literary sites, and books about the camp david accords, nazi-occupied paris, the war of 1812 and henry kissinger on international affairs. for more information about this weekend's 48-hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> coming up next on booktv, sister simone campbell, author of "a talking nun on a bus." she talks about the bus tour she and a group of roman catholic nuns launched to talk about the budget proposal. this is a little under ab hour. an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everybody. i want to go ahead and ask us to find a seat. so we can get started. while the 2014 community action partnership annual convention actually technically starts this afternoon with our general opening plenary session at one, we have, actually, a very special guest and a great opportunity for those of us who are here and able to make it here early. it's a great pleasure for me to be a part of introducing a friend of

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and heather cox richardson on party. sunday a at noon on tv's in-depth, supreme court biographer.tonight at 8:00 on "american history tv" on c-span 3, historians and authors talk about world war i 100 years later. saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, former agents on catching the yun bomber suspect. sunday afternoon on american artifacts, the 100th anniversary of the panama canal. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think of the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or you can send us a tweet. join us the conversation, "like" us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> last week candidates for california's 52nd congressional district met for a debate in san diego. democratic incumbent scott peters is being challenged by san diego councilman carl demio. here's a portion of their debate now. >> this is why washington is broken. you get all these special interests who load up this big bill and we crowd out the issues that people agree on. here's an issue that i think everybody agrees on. we need to secure the border. we need to secure the border first. we nee

saturday at 10:00 on book tv author heather cox richardson on the history of the republican party.live sunday at noon on in depth legal affairs editor in charge at reuters and supreme court biographer. tonight at 8:00 on american history tv on c-span 3, historians and authors talk about world war 1, a hundred years later. saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, former fbi agents on catching the unabomber suspect. sunday afternoon on american artifacts at 6:00 p.m. the 100th anniversary of the panama canal. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think. call 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments at c-span.org or send a tweet at c-span # comments. join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. last night a debate between mary fallon and democratic challenger joe dormant, the first and only debate they will hold. this is a portion p of the debate. >> in light of recent natural disasters and school shootings, how do each of you plan to update emergency plans for oklahoma's public school system? >> we want to make sure all facilities including public schools are

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heather cox richardson on the history of the republican party. legal affairs editor in charge at reuters and the supreme court biographer. c-span 3.0, on historians and others talk about woodward 1 -- world war i. former fbi agents on catching the unabomber. sunday afternoon, the 100th anniversary of the panama canal. find our television schedule it c-span.org. call us. e-mail. send us a tweet. join the conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. the chair of the republican national committee, rain spree this, spoke yesterday at george washington university. this is one hour. georgeome to the washington university. i mark kennedy. please to be the director of this the first of foremost school of applied politics in the country and planet. -- we are here because a lot of people have done a lot of hard work. i want to thank the many people who have done that. we are pleased to have our chairman of our board. we are pleased to have the rnc here with us. mike shields, sean spicer, sarah florez. on our side, i want to thank , andbranson a

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on "after words", heather cox richardson looks at the beginnings of the republican party. polder, colorado, to interview several of the literary sites. .. in a german sub sank the british passenger ship lusitania killings 400 people including -- including albert vanderbilt. she appeared on booknotes in 2002. c-span: diana preston, why did you write a book called "lusitania"? >> guest: my interest was really caught. i was researching something else in the docks at liverpool, at the merseyside maritime museum, and i saw this great bronze propeller sitting on the quayside, and i went to have a look at the little label underneath it, and it said this was the propeller of the ship lusitania, sunk in 1915 by a german submarine. d