kelso, i read your book. i recommend it to everybody. it makes archaeology exciting like a detective story and i recommend it to everybody. quick questions. i have a neighbor whose name is jim rolf and he claims he's a descendant of john rolf, is this possible? second, did you have anything to do with the movie "the new world" and how accurate do you think it is? thank you. >> okay. there are a lot of direct descendants of pocahontas and john rolf. did you say his name is rolf? >> i think he did. >> i think it's possible you're related. now, "the new world" yes, we were all advisers, for that. bly and i were advisers for that. i think it's accurate, the scene, the jamestown they built to me was very accurate. and it gave me for the first time the feeling of -- empathetic feeling of how insecure it was when they were there. now, the events are scrambled, you know, it's not -- it didn't claim to be a documentary. so i think it -- i really enjoyed the movie. >> we are speaking -- >> it was all filmed here in virginia. >> we are speaking liv

kelso. this is a question for you. the martins hundreds site what was discovered by iver knoll hume, how much overlap is there between your project and the project that iver did? did he have any interest in coming to your site and seeing what was going on as well? >> yes, in fact, he was on an advisory board for the first year here. and he kind of pointed to the first place to dig, as a matter of fact, in the beginning. and had quite an impact. how did it relate to martin? it dates after 1619, i believe. i worked on that, too. in a survey years ago with him. and so that existed down river. it's probably six, eight miles away. and it was a particular, we call it particular plantation. the new way of the virginia company was settling virginia. and jamestown was the seat of the government. so that would have been -- there would have been representatives from that area in the first representative assembly. so you know, there was always some kind of connection. then it went on to be a plantation all during the 17th century.

william kelso and that's called in the trenches tour. and that's a little extra and he takes you under the ropes. so you get an up-close and personal look from his perspective. >> how could something from american history and virginia history been lost for hundreds of years? >> that's an interesting question. i think it wasn't lost for probably the first 100. but nobody mentioned -- you know, didn't talk about it. at least any documents that survived, we don't know what's in there. and then there were travelers that came in here and said -- and there was a tremendous erosion on the west end of the island. and they said, i can see remains of the fort being washed into the river. i read that about a week before i started, you know, oh, no. and so then it became just, you know, the story agreed upon. and i think, then, there was also a confederate earthwork here, a large earthen mound was all over most of what we found. the fort site. not right in here, but very close. and so there was no clue on the landscape that this was anything but the

kelso as he explains how he unearthed the original fort. and we visit bly straub in the archaeology lab to help reveal what life was like inside jamestown fort over 400 years ago. >>> i'm bill kelso, i'm the director of the jamestown rediscovery project, archeological project. it's been going on for 18 years. and what i'm going to do is to give you sort of lecturettes at different places about the property, and talk about a little bit about the history of jamestown, a little bit about geography, and a little bit about the history of the project. and then we'll go to each of the sites that are open right now, the trenches, you were promised this is in the trenches, so we're going to get in the trench, at least one of them, and you are on one of the few islands you can be on in the james river. that's one of the reasons it was chosen as the first colony. we're about 35 miles from hampton roads, or the opening to the ocean. the river goes forever into the mountains of virginia and gets different names and different branches. but at richmond, t

. >> this saturday tour the james town colony dig with william kelso. since its rediscover, the colony has yielded 1.5 million artifacts. take the tour at 1:30 p.m. eastern. visit the lab at 2:00. then join in on the conversation with william kelso answering your questions live saturday at 2:30 p.m. eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >>> over the past year, c-span's local content vehicles city tour has taken book tv on the road from tampa to savannah, charleston to knoxville, and last month in oklahoma city. the crews have visited the pl places that define heritage. june 2nd and 3rd, watch for our programming from wichita, kansas, on book tv and american history tv on c-span 2 and 3. >>> the national committee to preserve social security and medicare released a report today on women and social security. it finds the poverty rate for senior women and widows is 50% higher than male retirees 65 and older. the organization has proposed changes to how benefits are c l calculated to address the discrepancy. this is just over an hou

> this saturday on american history tv tour the jamestown colony dig with project director william kelso. the colony yielded more than 1.5 million unique artifacts. take the tour starting at 1:30 p.m. eastern and visit the rediscovery lab at 2 and then join in the conversation with william kelso answering your questions live saturday. >> earlier today the justice department announced a lawsuit against arizona's maricopa county sheriff's office and its current leader. this stems from allegations that the sheriff's office violated constitutional rights of citizens, particularly hispanics courtesy of k tv k in phoenix, this is half an hour. >> good morning. i am tom perez, the assist apt attorney general for civil rights at the united states department of justice. today the department of justice did something it has done only once before in the 18 year history of our civil police reform work. we filed a contested lawsuit to stop skrim to her and unconstitutional law enforcement practices. in our police reform work we have invariably been able to work collaboratively with law enforcement age

kelso, i met you and the curator a couple years ago. my name is jeff. my question is from 1607 to 1699, and i understand a lot of the records burned, but there were quite a number of ships that arrived in jamestown probably 100 or 1,000. is there any detailed book that you used in your research that describes those ships arriving and possibly who was on those ships? during that time period. >> well, to my experience it's scattered in the record. you wouldn't -- there's no comprehensive list that i know of. >> and they're not complete either. yeah, there are some passenger lists, but unfortunately no one's compiled it all. >> yeah, it wouldn't have survived. >> one more comment here, a question from these sacramento, california, hi. >> caller: hi. i had heard that john rolf was the one responsible for bringing tobacco growing in virginia. and i'm just wondering if that was few or not. thanks. >> yes. in fact, we believe that he was inspired by the time he was shipwrecked in bermuda which occurred between 1609 and 1610, he spent ten months in bermuda wher

this saturday on american history tv, tour the jamestown colony dig with project director william kelso. since its 1994 rediscovery, the colony has yielded 1.5 million unique artifacts. take the tour. visit the rediscovery lab at 2:00 with the senior curator, and then join in the conversation with william kelso answering your questions. live saturday at 2:30 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >>> these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. >> the first thing that startled us was the relationship between harry truman and herbert hoover, who were too such personally and politically different men, and who ended up forming this alliance that neither of them would have anticipated, and ended up being enormously productive and formed the foundation of what become a very deep friendship. the letters between them later in their lives about how important they had become to one another are really extraordinary. >> it may be the most exclusive club in the world. co-authors michael duffy and nancy gibbs on the private and

and at that time point bill kelso and another colleague nick lichetti got involved and looked at the field records to see maybe if something had been overlooked, you know, some feature that looked like a palisade wall or a ditch. and sure enough, they kind of saw some things that looked like right-angled features, you know, that looked like they could be part of pali palisades defense . and we presented preservation virginia a plan, that bill worked up, a whole master plan of how we were going to do this. it was supposed to be a ten-year project and here we are going on, 18, i think, because we found the fort, oh, wow! the biggest discovery of our lifetime. we're so close to it that sometimes we forget how significant this is, and probably long after we're dead and gone, people are going to finally get excited about this because it is, you know, in our backyard, and it's not, you know, the sands of egypt or something but it's just as important or as significant as egyptology, you know, work that's going over there. and this was maybe even more important because the documents are so s

>> later today on american history tv, tour the jamestown colony dig with project director william kelso. the colonyas

rediscovery of the colony has yielded more than -- and then join in the conversation with william kelso answering your question. part of american history tv this weekend on cspan 3. >>> now "new york times" columnist paul krugman from his new book on the economy. from washington journal, this is 45 minutes. >> good morning. >> let's start with the title of your book, in surveys economists say we're in a bit of a economic recover, they use the term recession. but you have that dramatic phrase depression "end this depression now." a recession is when things are headed down and a depression is when things are down. we have basically been moving sideways for a couple of years now. it's a terrible situation out there, almost 4 million americans have been out of work for more than a year. so this is an ongoing really bad situation, which has been going on for years, has every prospect of continuing, it's not as bad as the great depression, it's not as bad as the 1930s, but this is a depression, it is a long period of substandard economic performance that's doing a lot of human damage to the c

visits rediscovery lab at 2:00 and then join in the conversation with william kelso and others answeringour questions. live saturday at 2:30 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> in an ten minutes, defense secretary leon panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey brief s reporters at the pentagon. we'll bring it to you here on c-span3 as soon as it gets under way. until then, house speaker john boehner's weekly news briefing from earlier today. he talked about the economy, gas prices, and president obama's announcement yesterday that he supports same-sex marriage. >> good morning, everyone. you know, just last week the american people received another depressing jobs report. just 115,000 americans found work, while three times that. gave many gave us looking for work. wages in the country are flat. and while they've fallen slightly, gas prices are way too high. you know it's graduation season around the country and today half of new college grads are not going to be able to find a job. and between a weak job market, falling home

to claim an impressive victory while dyson fell away badly with a round of seventy six while soren kelsofinished tied for second hispanics one hundred kind of thought it was a problem a lot of trouble. was it was really good you know you play very well we struggle with it is a bit especially yesterday so i just tried to stay calm today to a great. ball very well so you know everything easy even if it wasn't. now moving on to basketball and after losing their previous thirteen games in n.b.a. playoffs the new york knicks finally have a win to celebrate as a magnificent forty one points from carmelo anthony helping beat the miami heat the final score was eighty nine eighty seven i am still lead the series three one could close out victory after home on wednesday when elsewhere the boston celtics are also just one win away from a second round a one hundred one twenty seven thousand nine. hundred dollars for a three one series lead to the l.a. lakers also lead their series by the same scoreline after beating denver largely thanks to two late three pointers on steve plate and herman sessions.

the long-lost 1607 fort was rediscovered in 1994 by william kelso director of the archaeology project. we'll meet senior curator bly straw who explains life in the colony while showing us some of the 1.5 million artifacts collected at the site. join us saturday may 12th beginning at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >>> each week "american history tv's" "american artifacts" takes viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums, and historic sites. in 1215, a group of noblemen confronted the king of england demanding that their rights be recognized, written down and confirmed by royal seal. king john agreed, binding himself and his heirs to the magna carta or the great charter, granting fundamental legal rights to the noblemen, including trial by jury, habeas corpus and no taxation without representation. the 1297 version is still a law on the books in england and wales and that version was the first to apply these rights to all english free men. the charter was later cited in the writings of some of the founding fathers as they sought the same political writes leading up to the american revolution. i

the long lost 1607 fort was rediscovered in 1994 by william kelso the director of the archaeological project. we'll hear his story and take a tour of the dig. we'll also meet senior curator blithe straw who describes life in the colony while showing us some of the 1.5 million artifacts collected at the site. join us saturday, may 12th beginning at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> so we're very proud today to have c-span in the state of oklahoma to show off our great state, and we're certainly looking forward to working with cox communication and c-span and doing all that we can to highlight some of the wonderful tradition, culture, and history, and the great progress that we have made. >> with the help of our cox communications cable partners, we take you to oklahoma city on american history tv. coming up in the next 90 minutes, we visit various sites in and around this capital city that help tell the story of its rich history and culture. in a moment, revisit the april day in 1995 that changed a city and the nation. >> you would hear their voices and so that left a lasting impression, of cours

was discovered in 1994 by william kelso, director of the jamestown rediscovery archaeological project. we'll hear his story and take a tour of the dig. we'll meet senior kurator blythe straw. join us saturday may 12th, beginning at 1:30 p.m. eastern. > coming up, dr. ira rutkow discusses how the civil war changed clinical surgery. he is an author of "bleeding blue and gray," "civil war surgery" and "the evolution of new york medicine." the new york academy of medicine hosted this 50-minute discussion. please note, there are graphic photographs shown during the program and some viewers might find this discurbing. turbing. >>> thank you for coming. i'm getting over a cold. if i have a coughing jag, you will understand the reason why. i appreciate the opportunity to be here. chris has already taken away my third slide. i will start with number two. i want to thank the academy for inviting me. it is always a pleasure to come back here. arlene schoenher deserves many thanks. i spent multiple months working in the rear room library. this is a unique place, a wonderful institution. i look fo

and then join in the conversation with william kelso, answering your questions, live at 2:30 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >>> the organization of american historians and the national council on public history recently held their annual meeting in milwaukee, wisconsin. american history tv spoke with several of this year's attendees. next, jessica lepler of the university new hampshire discusses the panic of 1837 and other economic crises, and explain how they relate to the 2008 financial crisis. this is about a half hour. >> american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians in milwaukee. and we are joined by two historians who will be speaking about economic crisis, and american history. jessica lepler teaches history at the university of new hampshire, and alice o'connor, a historian, at the university of california santa barbara. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> let's start early in history with the panic of 1837, professor lepler. what was that panic of 1837? >> well, the panic of 1837 w

and join the conversation with william kelso like that to 30 p.m. eastern. this is on c-span3. >> "washington journal" continues. host: a portion of america stuttering for this exam will be thankful to see this teacher on the screen. also joining us this morning is a teacher at the same school. the reason they're here is for the cram for the exam, the ap exam which takes place when? guest: tuesday may 15 the. host: for students facing the exam, what will they be facing? guest: 60 multiple choice questions and 45 -- in 44 of minutes followed by four as the questions. host: what is the point? guest: the point of the exam is to be a good psittacism but to test your partisanship, your ability to think as a citizen and to write as a citizen. you get college credit if you pass it. host: what are the topics? guest: there is a conceptual separation of power, federalism, the 3 inches of government, public opinion, political socialization. host: here is a sample question. especially for those of you who are studying. this is an american political parties. the question

. >> this saturday, tour the jamestown colony dig with william kelso. the colony has yielded more than one and a half million unique artifacts. take the tour starting at 1:30 p.m. eastern. visit the rediscovery lab at 2 with senior curator and then join in the conversation answering your questions live saturday at 2:30 be p.m. eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> the partnership for public service in washington, d.c. hosted a discussion tuesday focusing on the government work force and its services to the public. four administration officials, the secretaries of health and human services, transportation, and homeland security, and the gsa's acting administrator were on hand to participate. this is public service recognition week. it's just over an hour. >> good morning, everybody. my name is max, i'm the president of the partnership for public service, and we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to making government more effective by focusing on people. and it's truly a great pleasure to welcome all of you here

. >> later today, to were the jamestown dig with kelso.s yielded more than 1.5 unique artifacts. take the two were starting at 1:30 p.m. eastern. this of the -- visit the laboratory and join in on the conversation, like it to 30 eastern p.m. part of our "american history tv" on c- span3. [no audio] >> just a reminder, on monday, we will be bringing you another commencement address from obama. he will be speaking at barnard college in new york city. our coverage will start at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. -- >> before we start, i would like to ask everybody to please take a minute to silence or cell phones or blackberries. i want to thank all of you for attending today's press conference. today, we are announcing a new strategy to preserve the nation the's smallest post offices. the plan provides a framework for us to achieve significant cost savings to help return the postal service to financial stability. participating in this morning to techie event are our postmaster general and ceo and our chief operating officer, megan brennan. yo