and i've got a page here open to the mark twain. mark twain is sitting with one of the african-american gentleman he was friends with. some of the photos of the destruction of the war after. it really rings it home in avis ral way. >> we have five minutes left so i want to move to a couple other articles. there are two pieces by ralph waldo emerson largely dealing with emancipation. how influential were his writings and speeches on abraham lincoln dealing with >> he registers at a contemporary type. the op ed columnist. the first piece was calling for an emancipation proclamation. it is the demand of civilizat n civilization. all else is intrigue. he had been crusading on this question for a long time. really you can see him -- you feel him writing to an audience of one, trying to stiffen lincoln's spine. after it is issued and emerson writes at the end of that year celebrating its arrival. he says, though, but it better not just be a piece of paper. he needs to stand up and deliver on the promise that is made here. >> and his tone

mark twain used the "n" word 219 times in huck fin. he was one of the 19th superintendent's greatest and a little black kid in the back says gang stag rappers because as far as he's concerned that's the only people that would use it that many times. let's take a look at another slide and see how we go. okay. this is the video that we watched. it is ignore the promotion at the bottom. it is the "n" word, divided we stand where we were giving an opportunity to see any number. >> interpretations of the word. even if weep had no context, we still have controversy, do we not? the controversy basicallying about what? someone help me. why is the controversy about the n word? it's offensive to certain people but not to everybody. okay? we have certain audiences that think they can use it and some who don't think they can use it at all. there are many different definitions for the word. we can't just assume it only has one mean. the idea is that it's primary the one it's most known for is a derogatory term to people of color. yes? so our discus

mark twain used the "n-word" 219 times in huk fin. he was one of 1960s greatest? and little black kid said gangster rappers. as far as he was concerned that was the only person that would use it that way. that's the only way he has connection to t. let's take a look at another slide and see how we go. okay. this is a video that we watched. it is ignore the promotion at the bottom. it is the "n-word", divided we stand. when we were given an opportunity to see any number of interpretations of the word. if we went contemporary versions of how this word is used, we still have controversy, do we not? the controversy basically about what? someone help me. why is the controversy about the "n-word"? >> because it's offensive. >> to certain people but not to everybody, okay? we have certain audiences that think they can use it and others who don't think they can use it at all. the idea is we got a chance to see there are many different definitions for the word. something that everyone has to admit to. we can't assume it only has one meaning. the idea is that its primary, a

for the same mark twain who chuckled over a god-like washington came close to defying ulysses grant. above all, twain marvelled at grant's self-possession, the single quality that comes closest in my opinion to defining washington. but whereas grant seems to have been born with his thermostat set on woe, washington waged a life-long struggle to control his combustible emotions. a warrior of mercurial temperament and grant-like calm, nowhere is this potent combination more explicitly evoked that in the second washington figure created by exhibit designers to introduce a life divided into three distinct parts. last time we tracked an enterprising young colonial into the ohio valley as he mastered the art of surveying and suffered the consequences of his own military inexperience. tonight we encounter washington in middle age. the iconic general astride his mount buskin. and a moment of maximum danger to the cause of american liberty. you wouldn't guess it from the blandly resolute suppression on his face, but the man on horseback is beset by political intrigues and scheming rivals. ridi

i like mark twain.ple you're an early riser, you can sleep till noon. >> right. >> that has worked very well for me, by the way. >> the reports of my death are largely exaggerated by w.c. fields. >> keep going. >> w.c. fields came up with a lot of great ones including ones that sounded perfectly all right until you looked at them and they got past the censor. og ogleby, sounds like a bubble in a bathtub. when you think about where the bubbles come through in the bathtub, it slipped through. and there comes a time in the affairs of men my dear blubber when we must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. >> i like the one they said, somebody said of huey long. huey, he is the south end of a northbound horse. i'm holding up here a book by our friend who is on this program, paul dickson, which is 2,700 and some words of being drunk. of all of the programs we have done here this is probably the most popular, all about euphemisms for drinking and being drunk. paul couldn't be here today or he would

in the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain. also please note that some viewers may find language in this hour-long program offensive. >> good afternoon, class. >> good afternoon. >> today we're in english 102 composition and literature. we're going to start off our discussion talking about the use of the n-word in both harriet -- harriet beacher stole's very famous classic, "uncle tom's cabin" and we'll be talking about mark twain's "huckleberry finn" is correct. there has been recent controversy talking about a publisher who is changing the n-word to slave and they're changing the injun word to indian because a lot of people offended by that. this is not a controversy that just started, this is a controversy that's been going on since day one. these novels came out in the 1860s, and the idea is that since that point in time there's beb been a little bit of controversy. we're going to start with the history, because many times in class, you have to have a sense of literature to understand history. if you don't understand what m

. >> i'm fine quoting mark twain who says history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. there's a lot of rhyming going on between the great depression and the crisis of the financial market. >> reporter: kathleen freedo says we are far from the markers that framed the great depression. conditions that sparked social unrest on the streets. >> i think americans are on a position now to be much more impathetic about the great depression society. >> when we find ourselves in that position where government has betrayed us and business has cheated us. suddenly we're all the victims of all of this it clears a cohesion in the people. >> reporter: if people try to respond to a crisis they turn to the music. >> still to come on a second look, the songs that sparked th >>> welcome back to a second look. tonight we're revisiting the music we rally around for the generations drafted to fight in the war in vietnam the popular sounds of the times reflected the movement. randy shandobil reports. >> ♪ >> reporter: in the 1960s and 70s protests songs filled the air way. protest songs were

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and mark twain's hu huckleber media from facebook, youtube and four square. >>> you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on cspan3, the people and the events that tell the american story. on this presidents day weekend, we're talking about the nation's first ladies. up next actress holly hunter and liam neeson with the words of abraham lincoln. >>> abraham and mary lincoln. she was short, he, a skbrint. -giant. she went to college, he went to one-room schoolhouses, she spoke french and he spoke indiana. she liked the best clothes, he liked the same old clothes. he grew up admiring henry clay, she knew henry clay. the lincoln family hated slavery, the todd family owned slaves, they met in springfield, illinois. >> one d was good enough to spell god, the todds needed two. >> he told me, ms. todd, i want to dance with you in the worst way and that's the way he danced, in the worst way. >> on the issue of poetry and politics, they had nothing in common. whatever you have read or heard before, it was mutual attraction and admiration than never waned. and this in their exa

. >>> when a newspaper once mistakenly printed mark twain's obituary, he gave us that great quote, "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." retired u.s. army sergeant jerry miller can relate to that. he's been declared dead four times. nbc's mark potter has the story of his quest to convince the department of veterans affairs that he's very much alive. >> reporter: even though the department of veterans affairs consider jerry miller a dead man, he's clearly a dead man walking, talking and complaining about how he's been treated. >> i'm not dead, no. i'm sitting right here. i know i'm not dead. >> reporter: for ten years miller served in the u.s. army. he was a staff sergeant and drill instructor and deployed overseas. 57 and retired in palm bay, florida, he depends on his military pension and medical benefits. that's why the three v.a. letters he got starting in 2010 mourning his death and cutting off his benefits were so shocking. they said you were dead. you got them fixed. >> right. >> reporter: then what happened? >> i got another letter saying i was deceased. >> reporter:

foster teaches the class on the history of the "n" word with a focus on uncle tom's cabin and mark twain's huckleberry finn. this is american history tv on c-span three. >>> you're joining us on c-span 3 american history tv every weekend. 48 hours of the people and the events that tell the american story. we're continuing our special look at the nation's first ladies on this presidents' day weekend. and we revisit nancy reagan's 1999 tour of the ronald reagan presidential library. >> mrs. reagan, for somebody who's not been to this library, how do you get here? where is it? >> it's in simi valley, and it sits high on 100 acres. and it's not too far from los angeles. we can leave our house and be here in 45 minutes. it's beautiful. just beautiful. everybody should come and see it. >> one of the things that struck me after being at the ranch was there some similarity here. the winding roads and all that. do you think about that? >> well, ronnie always liked to be high, shining city on the hill. our house in bel air is high. and the ranch is high. this is high. and that always peopled -- he c

. >> there's true and there's true, you know, mark twain talked about lies and statistics and there's a whole other category which i think are political ads which are lies because mike murphy charged was pejoratively true. without the context, it's very misleading. dukak dukakis, that furlow program took place when he was senator. was that cogent as an administrating against him? is that really fair? i think they tend en masse to make the whole product category look pretty sordid, which is politics. >> political media consultants will tell you if you give them a couple of beers in them that they tell a lot more lies are told in positive ads than negative ads. i mean you can't -- i'm a family man, i love my country, i love puppies, i love christmas. those are not the demonstrable statements that can be checked and you can find someone torturing santa claus or something, you're not going to be able to disprove that, the facts are presented in these negative ads and occasionally, you know, maybe more often than not, you have people like john kerry and michael dukakis that are confident w

class on the history of the n-word in american culture and a focus on "uncle tom's cabin" and mark twain's "huckleberry finn." this is american history tv on c-span $3. >> on this president's day c-span3 american history tv we're featuring first ladies. up next first lady michelle obama talking about growing up, her life, and the value of education. she spoke tora at anacostia high school. [ applause ] >> thank you all. thank you so much. first of all, thank you, charity. you did a great job on that introduction. >> love you! >> love you all too. so proud. i want to thank the anacostia senior high school choir for their amazing performances. [ applause ] i also want to thank brandon, annie, and, of course, your valedictorian jordan for their amazing remarks. let's give them a big old hand. i want to acknowledge a couple of other people, malik, donald, and all of the community leaders who have joined you all today to celebrate this morning. let's give them a round of applause as well. [ applause ] i have to tell you it is a privilege for me to be with you. i have been looking forward to thi

-- we met in washington, d.c., when a steve martin -- in 2005 or to adults and six, he won the mark twain award -- it thousand five or 2006. there was a big show. i was one of the presenters. alan was a waiter. no. [laughter] no, alan was a writer. >> i helped larry david wright his speech. >> when we were far away from larry david, he says he wrote his speech. anyway, we like each other. we became friends and saw each other off and on over the next few years at conferences and stuff like that. alan kept saying -- >> we should do something together. >> i did not know what he meant. [laughter] he was very vague. he is kind of in the film-tv world, and people always say they want to do something. i said, ok, let's do something together. but i do not think we would. then he had this idea. >> his daughter played soccer. she was 11 years old. i had three children, all of whom spate -- played sports, little league, whatever. but he was 1,600 miles away from me. i was in new jersey. he was in florida. i can give you his home number later if you wish. [laughter] i said, listen, why don't we make

goes back to will rogers and mark twain so people are always complaining about congress. but when they saw this senate, the civil right act of 1964, the arena in which the vietnam war was most opposed, and ultimately brought to a close, holding richard nixon accountable in watergate, coming up with an energy policy, however difficult it was. they saw it working. >> ira, we are rapidly running out of time. i want to thank you very much for discussing your book. it's "the last great senate: courage and statesmanship in times of crisis." thank you very much for being if us. >> thank you, no. really appreciate it. >> up next, on a recent trip to georgetown university in washington, dc, book tv talked to chandra manning about her book" what this cruel war was over." part of the college series and was recorded at the library on campus. >> i'm now on your screen is professor chandra manning, the author of this book "what this cruel war was over: soldiers, slavery, and the civil war." professor manning, what was your approach to this book? >> guest: the first thing to say about a

his humor was like mark twain's, it came pouring out all the time, and unfortunately transcriptions of his speeches tend to be from the actual type script that he would hand out to reporters, so his improvisation, his witticism, the jokes that he would tell are not there in the transcriptions. but there is so much testimony from people who knew him that he was hilariously funny. when he wanted to be funny on paper as in the long letters he wrote describing his grand tour of europe in 1909 and his participation in king edward viii's funeral. one of the delights of working about him all these years was to write about somebody who was so funny. >> on the three roosevelt books, which one did you enjoy the most and which one was the hardest to write? >> "theodore rex" was the hardest because it was a political story. i do have to struggle when i'm writing about politics. because my nature is to write about events and action and character. i'm not very happy with abstract issues of policy and stuff. so, "rex" was hard to write. but the one i've enjoyed writing most oddly enough has been this

. >> didn't you write they knew more about mark twain? >> russians read more about our supposed most seminal american author. this is no longer true now in russia but was true during the communist period. >> i think you may be right about reading literature and novels, i think the russian culture is steeped on it. their news was totally censored. >> they were restricted. >> the u.s. had freedom of information and we had that. >> things like voa, voice of america, they loved that and the jazz program that we pushed through on voa, it was very tough for them. we had much more access to information than they did. >> did any of you get to know i think we had three black guides? >> sure. >> one was a great buddy of mine, yes. >> they would come up and that is where they didn't want to go to the exhibition, they would ask them aren't you persecuted, have you ever had anyone lynched, all kind of ignorant questions because they didn't have nl. one of their fathers was a doctor. >> one was norris garnett. i can't remember his background. >> went i

history of the "n" word on american literature and culture, with a focus on "uncle tom's cabin" and mark twain's "huckleberry fin." >>> this week on "american artifacts," we visit the center for education and leadership across the street from ford's theatre where john wilkes booth shot president lincoln as he enjoyed "our american cousin," it's the newest addition where visitors can learn about the life, death, and legacy of abraham lincoln. ford's theatre society director talks about the center's purpose and goals. >> we are in the center of education and leadership. directly across the street from historic ford's theatre on 10th street in washington, d.c. behind me is the tower of books, which is a concept that really started about five years ago to visualize and showcase the unending quest to learn more about abraham lincoln. and so this tower of books represents as we all know that abraham lincoln is the most written about figure in world history next to jesus christ. we believe that ford's theatre is the location in washington, d.c. to learn about lincoln and his legacy. it's one of the thi

mark twain wrote a story called the terrible catastrophe in which he got the characters in his story into such a fix they could only, they couldn't get out of it. and he finally said in the last sentence of that short story, i've got us in such a mess nobody can solve it. if you can help, try. well, that is where we are today. we are in a state where democracy is not working. it is not solving our problems that we've created. the economy has stopped working for everyday men and women. newest studies show without any doubt that however you slice and dice the numbers, 40% of the income between 1979 and 2007 went to the upper one percent of the population. so all of these issues which are not receiving any serious political attention, are festering, growing, and you know we take our existence for granted after 200 some odd years, but we shouldn't. every republic has gone through cycles of monarchy, anarchism, and oligarchy, and there is nothing that, unless we take control of our destiny, there is nothing to keep us from following what our founders, madison and jefferson, felt was the a

of the "next" word in american literature and culture, with a focus on "uncle tom's cabin" and mark twain's "huckleberry finn." this is american history tv on c-span3. >>> there's a new website for american history tv where you can find our schedules and preview our upcoming programs. watch featured video from our regular weekly series, as well as access our history tweets, history in the news, and social media from facebook, youtube, twitter, and foursquare. follow american history tv every weekend on c-span3 and online at c-span.org/history. >> welcome to american history tv on c-span3, where all weekend, everywhere weekend, we're featuring the people and the events that tell the american story. we're marking this presidents' day weekend with the nation's first ladies. up next from our c-span's white house documentary, a tour with laura bush. >> where are we? >> this is what's called the west sitting hall. we're sitting right by the big fan window that i think people associate with the living quarters for movies that they've seen of the white house. this is where we really live. these are

>> mark twain once said. do the right thing. it would gratify some people and astonish the rest. i kept telling my fellow freshmen, let's astonish washington and do what we said we would do. we did. we voted to repeal obamacare. we pledged -- we need to do that every month at a minimum. can we do that again? why not do it again. [ applause ] >> that's an issue where we're winning on. why don't we talk about it more. do the right thing. and what i think bothers me the most is folks that go home and say hey, we're going to do this thing, but then they don't follow through. you know, the pledge to america, which is what all republicans were under said we would cut $100 billion. $100 billion. that's a good start out of a $1.4 trillion deficit. the end result of what we finally passed as a budget is we cut about $1 for every american. that's not good enough. it's not good enough to say i tried. you got to keep trying. we got to keep fighting, because this is not about the election. it's not about the next election. it's about the next generation. and that's what we ought to focus on.

. >> they share mark twain's view of the book of mormon which in 1861 he described it as chloroform in print. that is what many of these people believe. that is why there is a problem. how do you win anybody when you can't win the party? >> santorum is moving in the polls, we'll have that later, martin bashir, joy-an reid, great to have you tonight. >>> sean hannity says it was bush era enhanced interrogation techniques that got osama bin laden. he's wrong! again. stay tuned. >> up next, bill o riley says this network doesn't work with facts. >>> the big fine i, terry o'neill of the national organization for women on the class between the catholic church and white house over contraception. don't forget to tweet us using #edshow. stay tuned, we're right back. >> well, sean hannity is blowing smoke about president obama in his role in the killing of osama bin laden. last night on the show, i challenged hannity to explain this quote. >> the president will say we got bin laden, putting that aside. >> the public gives him credit for that. >> the public does give him credit for it but it wou

will farrell's getting a mark twain prize.o i'm going to give him a speech for that. >> smith: oh, great. >> shannon: he's -- he and i are so really close. he is the best. and then i'm writing a comedy movie for women. i can't -- it's -- the deal is not officially done, so i can't say what it is, but it's going great and -- >> smith: well, and, given the success of bridesmaids; i think we can accept the fact that women do go see comedy movies and that their movies targeting women as opposed to men are perfectly fine, right? >> shannon: exactly. >> smith: we can accept that. >> shannon: oh, my god, yeah. >> smith: but the point of all this is to say that you haven't stopped. you're not, you're not retired, you're not you know -- like when you go off that program, some people seem to not be as active in show business, but you continue >> shannon: it's hard. oh, that's so nice. >> smith: to be, yeah. >> shannon: and actually you know what's funny, my life has changed because i have kids and my life really is centered around them,

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