author james nolan looks at observations made by four notable foreign visitors during different times of u.s. history. he focuses on their thoughts regarding the relationship between individuality and conformity in america and considers the relevance of their analysis today. mr. nolan's author of "what they saw in america, alexis de tocqueville, max weber, gk chesterton, and so you could to -- sayyid qutb." good evening, and thank you for being with us tonight. i would like to say hello to those watching the

james: i will wait. >> now we will do our book drawing for dr. nolan's book, "what they saw in america." if you would, please. james: here we go. sid. all right. i don't think i can read your last name. >> feel free to come up. james: i will sign it so you can't sell it on ebay. >> i wouldn't want to. i want to read it. james: >> enjoy. thank you very much. james: [applause] >> thank you all very much. great talk. we ask that you all would be safe going home and that you would join us again in the fall as we resume our public lecture series next year. thank you and have a safe drive home. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: "american history .v" is on c-span3 every weekend there are archives on the website at c-span.org/history. you can watch classroom sites,s, tours of our archival films and view schedules of upcoming programs. >> before we move on to the supreme court, i wa

season, not only do we see hate speech on the internet, anne thompson did great work for us but james nolan -- >> brian, quick question here, how have you found or what are some of the theories behind why ideology or change in ideology has led to more action, not only rhetorical action but also in this case leading to shootings as well as physical violence? >> great question. i think there was several but let's look at one. let's look at this fellow's social media forensic footprint and that will tell us a lot. hate speech on the internet, it's been segregating, self-segregating to these platforms like gab and elsewhere where they have more freedom if you will to express vitriol. so we're seeing not only increase in regard to hate speech on the internet in the united states and europe as well but how it's manifested is now in a fragments social media universe. >> brian levin, stand by, malcolm nance stand by and jim cavanaugh. we're going to take a short break. we're looking at live pictures on the left-hand side in poway, california. this as they redirect traffic from a crime scene they're