i didn't want jesse owens to be thrown aside. i didn't want people to forget about tommie smith, even though there is a 50th anniversary of the medal stand protest, i didn't want lebron james, colin kaepernick, eric reed to be the face of a historical movement and that is what african-american male protest is. it is an historical movement. >> thank you for speaking with us. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> university of minnesota history professor katharine gerbner talks about protestant christians and quakers, and their relationship to slavery in 17th century barbados. she is the author of "christian slavery, conversion and race in the protestant world." national society of colonial dames of america hosted the event. to theome all of you museum. how many are visiting for the first time tonight? .ood, it is great the proportion of new visitors-ish shrinking which means we are getting the word out there and that is really exciting. you all have heard and for those regulars i will u

later, jesse owen -- dmawbl. [inaudible] in the mid 19th century. booktv continues now.'s a look at former soldier bowe bergdahl. >> thank you all for coming out tonight. my name jeff martin with magic city books. we are very excited to have you here in tulsa, oklahoma. we're excited to have our friends from c-span and booktv with us as well tonight to cover this really fascinating story that we're going to dive into a bit. i want to tell you a couple things coming up. we have our literary fest happening very soon, all kinds of stuff planned for the spring and into the summer. you can see that on magiccitybooks.com. we won't go through the whole letny of events, but as you know, we do a lot of stuff, and we h

go back to jesse owens against adolph hitler.is is proof -- >> greg: that's not politics. >> juan: this is politics. ali and vietnam. if you don't -- >> greg: not in the same breath. >> juan: sports is part of our american culture. it's a leading indicator of who we are and where we're going. >> jessie: you have to cover it in a balanced way. not through insult. >> juan: it's the same thing with dunkin' donuts. i don't think they care anything about politics either conservative or liberal. they care ant selling coffee. they see howard schultz is running for president. they're saying hey, we're not running for anything. come buy our coffee. that's what they care about. if you want to cover sports and america, you have to realize, hey, half of the boston red sox that are black and latino won't go near the trump white house. >> jessie: you don't want rachel madow covering sports for you. >> juan: you can't say to smart people that we don't want to hear what you think. in other words be, pro trump. >> emily: with businesses, you can

later, jesse owen -- dmawbl. [inaudible] in the mid 19th century. booktv continues now. he's a look at former soldier bowe bergdahl. >> thank you all for coming out tonight. my name jeff martin with magic city books. we are very excited to have you here in tulsa, oklahoma. we're excited to have our friends from c-span and booktv with us as well tonight to cover this really fascinating story that we're going to dive into a bit. i want to tell you a couple things coming up. we have our literary fest happening very soon, all kinds of stuff planned for the spring and into the summer. you can see that on magiccitybooks.com. we won't go through the whole letny of events, but as you know, we do a lot of stuff, and we have a big, fun, varied roster coming up. is so stay tuned on. that how many of you are familiar with the odyssey of bowe bergdahl and had heard some of this through the news over the years? yeah? it's something that, you know, over the last decade, we're nearly a decade since this story first began. it's kind of been a little bit everywhere. i kind of, of course,

i didn't want jesse owens to be thrown aside. i didn't want people to forget about tommie smith, even though there is a 50th anniversary of the medal stand protest, i didn't want lebron james, colin kaepernick, eric reed to be the face of a historical movement and that is what african-american male protest is. it is an historical movement. >> thank you for speaking with us. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> university of minnesota history professor katharine gerbner talks about protestant christians and quakers, and their relationship to slavery in 17th century barbados. she is the author of "christian slavery, conversion and race in the protestant world." national society of colonial dames of america hosted the event. to theome all of you museum. how many are visiting for the first time tonight? .ood, it is great the proportion of new visitors-ish shrinking which means we are getting the word out there and that is really exciting. you all have heard and for those regulars i will u

i think actually where jesse owens competed to go to the olympics. because of title nine, there is no track team at northwestern now in that stadium. you could say that's a great thing. you know, wrestling teams have -- whatever, doesn't make money, those fall by the wayside. i guess the principle of unintended consequences. we meant to lift up, you know, the women's crew or what have you to this level, but things change. well, the question is, do you want all these changes? there are consequences. there are ripples that go all along. seems like northwestern, a big ten school, ought to have a track team. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. eden, i'd like to tap into your experience in the marine corps and your experience deploying with the marine corps. if the draft was extended to women, how would that affect logistical requirements such as training and equipping if there were mass numbers of women that came into a military service, you can speak from the marine corps, how would you envision that affecting those requirements and do you have any thoughts

jesse morgan . just morgan owens is a scholar, educator and writer with 18 years experience teaching and practicing participatory writing pedagogy's. he received her ba in photojournalism and creative writing from loyola university and her doctorate in american from new york university. she is the author of the book girl in black and white, the story of mary mildred williams which traces the influence of photography in the campaign to abolish slavery in the us.her research in photography and abolition has been supported by an and ew, national endowment for the humanities grant and a residency at the newhouse center for the humanities for western college. she currently is the dean of studies and director of curriculum at bard college. in addition to her academic work in photography, jesse shoots professionally with the award-winning team. originally from monroe louisiana, jesse leads new orleans with her family. please join me in welcoming jesse. two library, and in baltimore. thank you. >> how are you? i'm going to do a little 19th-centurypowerpoint, there are very many of us . is that in the way o

coming up at 8:00 this morning, jesse morgan owens talking about "girl in black-and-white." "the vanishing congress." then, the gaithersburg book festival in maryland later this morning. you can see all the details on www.c-span.org. melanie and ventura, california -- in ventura, california is next. news that is your watch. watchhed the hearings -- the hearings. i don't think the news is all that off. there's many organizations. --bc, i wouldn't watch fox there's quite a few agencies that have proof, that have backing, that have information on the mueller report. we now have a dictatorship. i'm very concerned about this. host: how much do you engage online about the news? how much time do you spend on twitter or facebook sharing news stories, engaging others? day.r: 2-3 hours a 6-7.d to spend i had a heart attack over trump being president. so, i had to slow it down. host: have you ever changed your opinion after engaging with someone online about it? caller: i keep an open mind about things. it's really hard when you see it happening live. you know what i'm saying? middle-o