that happened at plymouth and also at jamestown 12 years earlier. students of history will recall the colorful interludes at jamestown with such romantic characters as captain john smith and pocahontas, the indian made who saved his life from the anger of an indian chief. so many people pass over the economic fact that a communal economic system was established at jamestown, with a common storehouse and the shares for all. it failed miserably, just as it did at plymouth. at jamestown, the people almost starved under the communal system and as at plymouth, the establishment of private property and individual responsibility, instead of government property and dependence on the common storehouse, started the colony on the road to success. here is what captain john smith wrote in his diary after starvation had been averted at jamestown by the change to private ownership and individual alliance. when our people were fed out of the common storehouse and labored could slumber over his task, he cared not have. presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered,

they did, at jamestown and at plymouth rock.et's look at the plymouth colony. ♪ 101 pilgrims620, from england reached the atlantic coast in the mayflower. their primary purpose in risking the great hazards of an atlantic crossing to land in a primitive land was to gain religious freedom. they had no preconceived ideas about building a nation or a system of economics. by common consent, the colonists' economic system was communal. the property was community property or company property, owned any fact by the colony's government. the people worked together at assigned tasks. they shared and shared alike in the total production of the colony. it works like this. there was a common storehouse. each family brought all its produce of whatever kind to the storehouse. the government of the colony allocated the goods on the basis of equal shares for all. this was the christian spirit of sharing. our forefathers were people a sickly motivated by christian principles. many of them felt they could best progress under this communal economic

students of history will recall the colorful interludes at jamestown.such leading row map particular characters as captain john smith and princess pocahont pocahontas, the indian maid who safed his life from the anger of an indian chief. so many pass over the fact in a a communal system was established at jails taupe with a more store house and equal shares for all. it failed miserably just as it did at plymouth. at james taupe people almost starved under the communal system. and at plymouth the establish men of private property and individual responsibility instead of government property and dependence on a public store house started the colony on the road to success. here's what captain john smith wrote in his diary after the change to private ownership and individual self reliance. when our people were fed out of the common store house and labored together, one man could slum better. the general store must maintain him. even the most honest among them wrote captain smith would hardly make so much true pains in a week under the public ownership and co

and today, some of us still suffer from the effects of the planning in 1607 and jamestown. well -- when the british first came, they were hungry. they did not have any food so they started going out and locating the small indian towns and stealing their corn, stealing their fields of corn. the ones that they did not steal, they destroyed so the indian people that were living there became hungry themselves. as steve mentioned, shortly after the british came, on one of those trips, they went to a town on the james river, just below jamestown, looking for food, and the goal was to take the corn from those people, which they did, and burn what was left. as they were going to jamestown, the children they had captured were thrown into the water. and as the articles read, their heads were blown out, their brains were blown out. they were taking the wife of the king back to jamestown with them. they took her for sure. ran her through with a sword, because they had had enough fighting for one day. they alluded to the fact that she would be burned at the stake. so instead of doing th

not far from jamestown. that was the place where pocahauntis, you know the fable, the fable being that pocahontas saved john smith's life. is that true? not very many people believe it. she was only 10, 11, or 12 years old at that time. it is doubtful that she had the authority as a young indian woman to save the life of the him. for my tribe, we're up the river from where they were at that time. if you follow the york river north and west it divides to two rivers, the same rivers, the same names today. they still reside on a reservation in the 1600s. it was affirmed by the general assembly. one of the oldest in the country. in 1670 the largest concentration of indians in the entire commonwealth of virginia. in 1640s after the second indian uprising in virginia, all of the local three was another reservation there around 1670 or 1690. they eventually moved back to their original place in charles city county. but that reservation that the on the august herman map of 1673. they were able to get a high school e

read, "born standing up," "troubadour," nesteroff's book, "the comedian" and get to the museum in jamestown. it's there because lucille ball's home was there. >> seth: that's fantastic advice so kind of you to pass it along. thank you so much for being here, dan. >> oh, absolutely. >> seth: it's always such a pleasure crystal head onyx is available now. we'll be right back with anya taylor-joy. ♪ we love the new apartment. the natural light is amazing. hardwood floors. there is a bit of a clogging problem. (clog dancing)

they did, both at jamestown and at the mithra. let's look in -- at plymouth rock. look in at the plymouth colony. in december of 1620, 101 pilgrims from england reached the atlantic coast in the mayflower. but to gain religious freedom for themselves. they had no preconceived ideas about building a nation, society, or a system of economics. problemn consent, the is the economic system was communal. the property was community property, or public property, owned in effect by the colony's government. the people worked together at assigned tasks. they shared and shared alike in the total production of the colony. it worked like this. there was a common storehouse. each family brought all its produce at whatever time to the storehouse. the government of the colony allocated the goods on the basis of equal shares for all. this was the christian spirit of sharing. our forefathers were people basically motivated by christian principles. many of them felt that they could live under this communal arrangement and have full freedom also. they thought they had an ideal economic

between that legal tie the pilgrims and settlers at jamestown. one could even say there is commonality of purpose as well. if you look at a charter that is eventually given to the settlers in massachusetts, the first charter of 1629, and you look at the first charter of virginia, for instance, there are commercial purposes mentioned that there, but there are religious purposes as well. these two parallel missions in virginia as well as in new england. reason --scribes the bradford describes the reason they went and this was backed up by later preachers and figures and the reason they went was not to create a tolerant regime or plantation of religious liberty. they went to rule, to create what they considered godly commonwealth. just several years later i will read a line or two from a sermon in 1629 by the reverend samuel willard in which he said i perceive they are mistaken in -- design of our settle, toess was to cure religion to prosperity according to that way which they believe was one of thought. you can verify this by looking at the charte

a little further on, we see an area rich in the beginning of our history, jamestown, where on the new continent, the first permanent english settlement began. not far away, discover yorktown. here when the great corn wallace gave up his sword to washington, america became a nation. here, too, were ended many lives when american patriots fell in our great civil war. good men were lost in that conflict, which gave painful beginning to our modern nation. in washington, there echos lincoln's pledge that they shall not have died in vain, that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. it has not perished, nor has liberty, which thomas jefferson reminds us is a tree whose roots are nourished by the blood of patriots. many have been memorialized beside the potomac. brave soldiers. some are known, some unknown. further along the potomac, a goal of tourists for over four generations, lies peaceful mount vernon, a gentleman's estate, a quiet shrine. it is best described by the man who lived there. no estate in united america is more pleasantly situa

the first thing that you have to do is you've got to go the national comedy museum in erie, in jamestownrom, you know, the greek comedies, aristophanes, "the frogs," all the way through the blue comedy of the '50s. you know, those blue records that women and men were making right through to "saturday night live" and "second city." it is a museum of comedy, and not to be missed and any kid in high school or college that wants to be a writer, a comedy writer, they go there, they're going to get an afternoon course in comedy history. and my motorcycle is there the motorcycle that i rode to "snl" on every four --- each of those four years, i rode down the new york throughway taking my life in my hands on that harley, and they came to me and said, "is there any memorabilia we can get from your time at 'snl'? i said, "the bike that kept me alive for those four years." so that's there and the story's there. the other thing is there's an author called kliph nesteroff, n-e-s-t-r -- -e-r-h-o-f-f. he wrote a book called "the comedians. it's a manual for understanding british and american comedy, th

joining us is larry who is in jamestown, north dakota.e you hearing about hospitals there and what they are seeing? larry: the north dakota state depart the number of hospital beds available and icu beds available, and the entire state is on the verge of running out of hospital beds. if this keeps growing, they may run out of beds by december, even though fewer people are dying andore are recovheing. however,umber of cases of coronavirus is at an all-time record of 74,000. the state's pulation is less than san francisco county, whic ve times here deaths. 14,000 cases compared to 83 people dead in north dakota and 74,000 cases. laura: does it feel as though you are in the middle of a public health emergency, are people taking it seriously? >> we have gone to a lot of the small town here -- towns here. we have been to places inar. a lot of people don' trust it is as serious as it is one person told us, i am young and him, maybe, but i don't think is is serious. as a weather has become colder, more people spend time indoors. people like to g

it eliminates the bloodthirsty, land grabbing invaders that set forth again jamestown may 14th and 16 oh seven. less than three years later, lord delaware ordered the dissemination of the tribe, and by 16 99 nine out of ten at the virginia woodland indians had perished. so the story you told, really resonates with me because forced removal for the chickahominy and other indians occurred in 1646, and the department of education across the states had skillfully, artfully left out that history, so we are surrounded by a culture that is largely ignorant of the tragedies that occurred among the indigenous people, beginning may 14, 1607. >> thank you. [applause] >> we had the same pound with our oklahoma textbooks when i was growing up there was virtually nothing about indian tribes. first you started with the land runs of our lands in 1889. they've improved somewhat but not to the degree that they should. >> what is the status of those cherokee that did not do the because of various reasons either they married a white person and did not do the trail of tears manager standing is, they are n

it out for you, by noon tomorrow, we have winter storm warnings that include sandusky, cleveland, jamestown, new york, erie, pennsylvania, 6 to 12 inches, locally up to 18. and if that's not enough, the cold seeps all the way south, san antonio to tallahassee, david, have freeze warnings. >> it is that time of year, ginger. great to have you on a monday. >>> when we come back here, your money tonight and cyber monday is here. where there are still major deals to be have. >>> and of course, the nfl's covid crisis appears to be worsening tonight. there's late news coming in now. everyone does -- right up here. it happens to all of us. we buy a new home, and we turn into our parents. what i do is help new homeowners overcome this. what is that, an adjustable spanner? good choice, steve. okay, don't forget you're not assisting him. you hired him. if you have nowhere to sit, you have too many. who else reads books about submarines? my dad. yeah. oh, those are -- progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. look at that.

indian tribe and it just really illuminates the bloodthirsty land grabbing invaders that set foot on jamestown on may 14th, 1607, and less than three years later lord delaware ordered the annihilation of the pass pahay tribe and by 1609 nine out of ten of the virginia woodland indians perished. the story that you told really resonates with me because forced removal for the chick hominy and other virginia indians occurred in 1646. and the department of education across the states has skillfully, artfully left out that history. so we're surrounded by dominant culture that's largely ignorant of the tragedies that occurred among the indigenous people, beginning may 14th, 1607. >> thank you. we've had the same problem in our oklahoma textbooks, at least when i was growing up there's virtually nothing about the indian tribes in oklahoma history adversity started with the land runs in our lands in 1889. but they've improved somewhat, but not to the degree that they should. >> what is the status of those cherokees that did not do -- were not, because of various reasons, you know they married a white p

. >> is caste intrinsic to the human experience that is going farther back in jamestown, is there idem moment where there are societies, were societies rather that were a gala tehran and the economic demographic cultural forces corrupted that? >> every country and culture -- i'm not suggesting that all is the same, i am saying there are religious origins and so much of the religions that we see in one of the reasons of the justification that is created here was the story of noah who one of his sons happens to have seen his father and for that reason he has been cursed and is viewed that the africans were the children, this is part of the justification that occurred in a caste system so there is a very long-standing patterns of the humanizing people categorizing people going back to biblical times if that's what you're getting at. >> what is been the most effective strategies for combating caste distinctions that limit justice opportuniti opportunities. >> i think i should probably say that one of the challenges of a caste system in one of the challenges that we face as a country we oft

host: that is ebenezer in jamestown, north dakota.his is david out of monk's corner, south carolina. where are you going? seeer: going to georgia to a daughter and some grandchildren. my grandson tends to be a lawyer. he is very young. couplego teach him a things going on and make predictions that hopefully will stick with him and it might impress him in memory for a long time. not about me, of course, but certain things that are going on. host: such as what? caller: something that happened at the beginning of the prior thenistration, where administration tried to look at the numbers in the economy and claimed success, like at the beginning of 2009. right now, the plan is to get the economy looking as bad as possible at the beginning of biden so he can claim great success for his economic policies now that the vaccine is on the way. i will get him to watch the economy and listen to the stories after and see that there are such things as green -- as grand schemes going on in the press. host: the stock market hit 30,000 for the first ti

sitting on my table upstairs ,hat i have looked at the cover stephen hopkins, the man who escaped jamestown or something like that. he is an interesting character. on the expedition to virginia and almost got executed. it is assumed by many that he might have been one of the ones who told his fellow passengers in ae mayflower that being place with no clear authorization or legal authority can lead to problems, and therefore, we should do something, contributing to the mayflower compact. but yeah, he plays an important role in the history of the colony. dr. minkema: thank you. another -- let's see, question from kyle. can you both speak a little bit about the condition of the original in your script and what it was like working with it and how much you could work with the original? i'm interested in the process of .reating this new addition -- edition. dr. bremer: i will let you take that entirely because you had physical contact with the manuscript. it is in the state library. dr. minkema: the library of massachusetts by the green. it is one of their prized possessions. they recently had it

had become massasoit's best friends, and steven hopkins, a stranger who appears to have been in jamestown prior to boarding the "mayflower" and had experience with the native americans. squanto is still alive and he goes with them walking the hard-packed native trails that criss-crossed new england at this time. it's about a 45 mile walk from plymouth. they head out and there's no horses yet, so they're walking these trails. they've just left the settlement when they come across a group of native americans who have been collecting lobsters in plymouth harbor and they begin to talk. as they conversed with their new companions, the englishmen learned that to walk across the land in southern new england was to travel in time. all along this narrow, hard-packed trail were circular foot deep holes in the ground that had been dug where any remarkable act had occurred. it was each person's responsibility to maintain the holes and inform fellow travelers what had once happened at that particular place so that many things of great antiquity are fresh in memory. winslow and hopkins began to see the

first of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. so, today, we are discussing david's pulitzer prize winner book, "polio: an american story." you all received questions that i posted and i'm really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course that's when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. before starting, though, i just want to mention one thing in light of what we were talking about in terms of dust bowl art. i was reading the new york review of poobooks and there is review of a novel that woody guthrie wrote, a novel called "house of earth. "doesn't get a very good review. but obviously, he gets some atten

all but given up ever seeing those documents again before he could a former police officer turned jamestown criminal defense attorney got word that the documents had been found never gone to the church we didn't know anybody at the church. my wife was just moved in because of that he decided to offer sentences charles b smith and his wife mary offered a $500 reward plus confidential consultation, the person who found them could safely return them without being worried about having the police be called toward this being a trap, although now whether warren the books are back home and as for the good samaritan who returned them the reward money is now going towards what the church has long worked to do love the fact that the person who found these documents and took that reward money. is is doing that same thing work that goes towards hope and any time you can take money out of pocket think it's the community that's a good a good day for people kay recede. >>and he has a sense of humor the smiths say they donate to various projects anonymously but they had to share their identities this time t

massasoit friend among the pilgrims, and stephen hawkins, a stranger who appears to have been in jamestown prior to boarding the mayflower and had some experience with native americans. at this point, squanto is still alive. he goes with them, walking the hardpacked native trails that crisscross new england at this time. about 45-mile walk from plymouth. they head out. there's no horses yet in plymouth colony, so they had just left the settlement when they come across a group of native americans who had been collecting lobsters in plymouth harbor. they began to talk. as they conversed with their new companions, the english learned that to walk across the land in southern new england was to travel in time. all along, this narrow hardpacked trail, work circular, foot--- were circular, foot-deep holes that occurred were anything remarkable had occurred. it was to inform fellow travelers what had happened in that place so many things of great antiquity are fresh in memory. winslow and hopkins began to see that they were traversing a mythic land where a sense of community extended far into the

first of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown, responses to fires,

white settler violence is what became -- and what -- in what became the united states began in 1607, jamestown, and continued in the violent march across the continent to the 1890's, at which time all indigenous people were under lockdown on scattered reservations, on a land-based 1% of the former 100% of the continent. that long intergenerational struggle, violent struggle to take the land is why descendents of those mostly anglo and scotch irish settlers today believed believe they are the authentic lords of the united states and should govern, a kind of blood right. today, they make up the majority of gun horders, the majority of the republican party's elected representatives and officials, and the majority of trump's supporters. obviously, not all descendents, including myself, of these old settlers are of this type. in fact, most of us have come -- who have come from that and turned against it are far more militant than anyone else who is fighting racism, white supremacy, and gun violence. what is it that brought these people back to power? i say back to power because at the end of world

our correspondent larry madawo joins us now from jamestown, north dakota. absolutely, and it was a controversial decision that health ca re controversial decision that health care workers would have to show up and work when they are falling sick. and the reason is because the hospitaljust don't have enough health care workers. the military has sent in extra help here. there's hundreds of travelling nurses who have come into the state to try and deal with the surgeon cases, and yet they're still struggling. the health ca re they're still struggling. the health care system here canjust not deal with the surge. there's only 42 hospitals in the whole state, six of them are large ones, but many of the 36 hospitals cannot deal with the numberof 36 hospitals cannot deal with the number of cases that they are seeing. we just went to one where even the chapel has been turned into a patient room. obviously testing has been a failure as it has in many countries in europe as well. from the things that you have seen there in north dakota, how do you think they are going

they are not taught that half a century before english-speaking colonies were settled in jamestown, virginia, spanish was already being spoken in the settlement established in st. augustine florida. or that bernardo day galvez, a spanish colonel of the louisiana regiment in new orleans, thwarted every british advance in the air at helping the army of general george washington when the american revolutionary war. night our children taught that the origins of latino presence in the united states have little to do with economic migration as many would believe today, and more to do with american expansion with integrated hispanic occupied territories. these are but a fraction of the numerous examples of galleries and exhibitions a smithsonian national museum for the american latino could house millions of visitors from all over the world to learn about. and if there's anything this recent election has taught us, it is that both democrats and republicans have lots to learn about who the latinos and latinas living in this country are. we are not a monolithic community. some of us have ancestors wh

next up, a caller from jamestown, north carolina. welcome. caller: thank you so much. think c-span is the best forums in america for us to share opinions. if i may elect to make three points. i think for president-elect joe biden, tackling the covid pandemic is first and foremost. talking about evidence-based solutions, it is countries like south korea, japan and taiwan, if they could tackle the problem, we need to do the same. to, if i may, i would like talk about the shibboleth of misinformation that we are covid-19, where people are saying it is only responsible for 6% of mortality. if we make an analogy very quickly to h.i.v., when a patient is diagnosed with h.i.v., the patient dies usually or has died of opportunistic infections such as lymphoma, tb, and other opportunistic infections. when a person gets infected with covid, they are going to die of brain hemorrhages, kidney failure, heart failure, clots in the system. so let's get rid of the shibboleth of, you know, that covid-19 is like the flu. the next point very quickly, is that the rejoining of the paris cl

weecently extended that prografor a longer period of time and added an additional service area in jamestown, north data as well. i have to say our health care facility, our v.a., veterans health care facility in fargo is second to none. they do a tremendous job, and i talk to veterans that go there not only from north dakota but from much of minnesota. sometimes we hea these stories and have great concern about veterans facilities where they're not doing a good job and we need to address that. i can say that our fargo, north dakota v.a. health facility is tops. and the veterans i talk to on a regular basis tell me that. we're very appreciative of all the health care providers that workhere and do a very good job for our veters. so we need to continu to provide at type of care as well. also i join with senator sinema and sator sullivan in introducing the reded unemployment for veterans ofll ages act which enables veterans regardless o when they served access to the vocational habilitation and employment benefits that makes sense, particularly durg this pandemic. wee seen the challenges of un