next on american history tv, english professor barbara lewis, university of massachusetts boston, explores the time in which phillis wheatley lived. she talks about boston's treatment of slaves, and phillis wheatley's standing in her master's household. the boston public library and boston literary district cohosted this event. it is about 50 minutes. >> good evening. welcome to the boston public library's commonwealth salon where the presentation -- for the presentation remembering phillis wheatley by barbara lewis. i have the pleasure of introducing barbara lewis. dr. lewis heads the william at thetrotter institute university of massachusetts boston where she is also an associate professor of english. she is a francophone scholar as well as a cultural historian who has published on lynching in film, photography and drama and the black arts movement. she currently blogs and is affiliated with the massachusetts foundation for the humanities and sits on the advisory board of central square theater. before dr. lewis takes the stage, i am going to ask you all if you would not mind turning off

next on american history tv, english professor barbara lewis, university of massachusetts boston, exploreshe time in which phillis wheatley lived. she talks about boston's treatment of slaves, and phillis wheatley's standing in her master's household. the boston public library and boston literary district cohosted this event. it is about 50 minutes. >> good evening. welcome to the boston public library's commonwealth salon where the presentation -- for the presentation remembering phillis wheatley by barbara lewis.

but after the boston tea party, britain cracked down on massachusetts by closing the port of boston and then taking away self-government in massachusetts. people in concorde rose up like everybody else. they did so because one of the enforcement provisions was that there would be no town meeting without the governor's consent except for the annual meeting to elect local officials. they lost local autonomy. that's at the very moment that the fountains of having autonomy in the family, controlling their own destinies at home was itself being lost but the town of lincoln which was once part of concorde whichbecame separate in 1754 , lexington which is every concorde, in lexington especially from afar and what lexington town meeting said after the stamp act and everything thereafter issomething like this . our forefathers sacrificed blood and treasure to create here for us free from oppression in england a land of liberty and to pass on to us a legacy that is our duty to preserve and pass on to our children unbroken. so that is a claim, it's not just about liberty, it's about identity.we gi

massachusetts, on booktv. located 20 miles west of boston and a population of about 17,000. it's here at the towns old northbridge were some of the first shots of the american revolution required in april 1775 sparking the battle of concord. and it is a were literary revolution begins in the mid-1830s with ralph waldo emerson and his contemporaries. >> when emerson took pen to write this philosophy down, it really set off a series of conversations and devotees they really wanted to subscribe to what emerson was saying. and so when he writes here and he is living here, others start to trickle into concord at the same time. so we have margaret fuller coming in, thoreau wanders in, the olcott family wanders into they are all mingling here. emerson is loosely at the core of that. >> with help of our comcast cable partners for the next 20 minutes will learn about concord literary history as well as its role in the american revolution. we began our special feature at the old man, thelma ralph waldo emerson penses essay "nature" laying the foundation for the transcendental movement

boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. one of these punishments was a series of acts called the "intolerable acts." you brought in the real governor, now a british officer, had the closing of the port of boston, and the massachusetts government was shut down. that mean any town in the colony, they were not allowed to meet. so this was an affront for how people have been governing themselves for at least a hundred years. so, you have a series of responses which take place. amongst those responses which took place was the reactivation of the militia system. it was a community effort. 60 were called to come out. many companies would form. they were required to turn out at a moments notice, hence the term minutemen. you have these minute companies preparing for something. general thomas gage was aware of the growing tensions here in the colony. he was also aware of armaments that were starting to be collected run the colony, as well. some armaments were stolen and secretive out of boston. brass cannon was of particular interest

ralph waldo emerson was born in 1803 in boston, massachusetts. a local boy, he spent his life in the city but for a brief time came over around 12 and continued to visit the property throughout his life, in 1834, ezra ripley was here becoming elderly and healthcare for him for a brief period of time. emerson, even though he was born a city boy, it was a home for him. in 1834, puts himself in the upstairs study, the first draft of nature, in a brief period, overlapped with ezra. -- became briefly for a nine-month period, where it overlapped with ezra. this early vision, with people who lived and worked in this room including with emerson who sat at a chair like this one. the original of the emerson chair is over at the concorde museum and wonderful collaboration last year, the reservation and north bennet street school came together to reproduce the emerson chair that visitors could sit in the chair where emerson looked at -- emerson wrote nature and looked at themselves over the landscape. one thing people always notice if they have seen the orig

after the boston tea party when britain crackdown on massachusetts by closing the port of boston and then taking away right to self government massachusetts people in concord rose up like everyone else and they did so because the-- one of the enforcement provisions was they would be no town meeting without the governor's conference except for the annual meeting to elect local officials no town meeting meant they had lost local economy at the very moment that the problems of having autonomy in the family controlling their own destiny at home, but the town of lincoln, which was once part of concord which was separate in 1784 of a lexington-- there were minutemen from the start and what lexington said to the stamp act and everything after something like this, our forefathers sacrificed blood and treasure to create here for us freedom of oppression in england. a land of liberty to pass onto us a legacy that is our duty to preserve and pass on to our children unbroken. so, there is a claim, it isn't just about liberty. it's about identity. are we going to be true sons and daughters of thes

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boston, massachusetts. gerald on the democrats line. caller: don't cut me off. you are mr. cut me off. are $106 billion they talking about putting on the border is unnecessary. it was just for the selection and donald trump. this man has no idea what he is doing. this all caps on has no idea. i live down in albany, georgia for seven years. i took my kids out to the pecan farms. they had these burlap sacks. for seven hours, i went home that night, my whole body was sore. i'm not saying it is a job just for them. that stop is tough. and it was pecans. they are picking fruits and grapes and apples and oranges. that is a hard job, too. they are good people. donald trump says that you are this and that. go back toe ask you, the $1.6 billion. why do you think it is unnecessary? ,aller: why would you do that when we have a system in place called e-verify that has been working good? guest: i appreciate the question. e-verify works when people come into this question legally. when you don't come in legally -- again, nobody will argue against legal immigration and the numbers congres

on thursday we will be at the historical society of boston massachusetts where mark schneider will recount the life of former massachusetts representative gary stein, the first openly gay member of congress. that's a look at some of the events book td will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on tv on c-span2. >>. >> author alan all the is our guest on book td, his latest book year it is, if i understood you, what i have this look on my face? my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating , mister alda, i read your book. >> and i hope you can help me understand this, the couple of themes that run through your book. number one, it's the. why is that theme of your book. >> i found as i study this subject which i've been doing for decades now that really seriously, it's a couple years while i was writing the book i found empathy coming up more and more and i began to realize the things i have learned that came to the essential were good communication often boiled down to empathy.but i first i wasn't cra

. >> host: boston, massachusetts. gerald, democrat light. >> caller: don't cut me off.n ty that. [inaudible]necessar it was hyped it was just c election for donald trump. this man has no idea what he is doing. his cabinet has no idea what they are doing. i live down in albany, georgia for seven years and i took.p sa. [inaudible] we have burlap sacks and i did that for six-seven hours and my whole body was sore. those immigrants didn't know they were doing. that stuff is tough. that was pecans. there picking grapes and apples and all this. that's hard not to do. they are good people. donald trump said on june 13t june 13th, he is ridiculous. >> host: gerald, go back to the 1.6 billion why is it unnecessary. >> caller: is unnecessary because why would you do that when we have a system in place to e-verify. >> host: i'll leave it there. >> guest: no, i appreciate the question but e-verify works when we come into the country legally. when you don't come into the country legally, no one will argue against legal immigration and the numbers that conference. from my perspective from a la

the ibm vice president of threat intelligence, caleb barlow, great to have you live from boston, massachusettsing us. coming up, a hack into the latest initial coin offering raises more questions about cryptocurrencies. we will discuss what is behind the digital currency selloff. a quick programming note, erik schatzker interviews barry diller. catch that conversation this tuesday at 1:00 eastern. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: bitcoin investors have been on a wild ride this year with a digital currency more than doubling before plummeting last week into what is labeled a bear market. a third oft losing its value since june. now we are going to discuss what is driving the fluctuations in the market for cryptocurrencies with lily katz who covers the cryptocurrencies for bloomberg news. talk us through it. it is interesting with bitcoin, there was real buildup toward the end of the week where we could see bitcoin 2. remind us. >> after last month, bitcoin surged to an all-time high of around $3000. in the last couple of weeks, it has lost around of its market one third value. in the last week, i

. ♪ >>> since its days as a battleground in the american revolution, boston, massachusetts, has becomewn as the city of neighborhoods with deep-rooted loyalties running through its diverse communities. but when certain bostonians take territorial pride a little bit too far, they could wind up in the suffolk county jail. >> there are approximately 180 or so street gangs within boston. just neighborhood street gangs that, you know, they're all comprised of a couple of blocks, sometimes a project, sometimes an entire neighborhood certainly. in almost every case, every group has some sort of serious feud with at least four to five other groups within the city of boston. >> and over the past ten years, the structure of those gangs has changed, and that's at a serious impact on the jail. >> such as it was, there was a bit of a code about what you did and what you didn't do. and that seems to have gone by the wayside. and what that translates into is some of this wild west mentality and sort of shooting for any slight, real or imagined. >> that's just how it is. a bank robber robs banks. a nu

. >>> boston, massachusetts, is by any standard a world class city, but ever since its colonial days, some have called it a fighting town. and located in the heart of the city is a place for anyone who does their fighting outside a ring. >> step inside, gentlemen. back to the wall, please. >> more than 12,000 people a year pass through the doors of boston's suffolk county jail. though the jail also holds inmates who have already been convicted and are serving short sentences, most arrive here having only been accused of a crime. if they don't make bail they will stay until their cases are resolved. for some, that time could be measured in months, if not years. >> two to five, one in restraints. >> we're not necessarily housing people, very violent crimes with people with completely non-violent crimes but it's a maximum security facility. if you're one of the nonviolent ones, it's definitely something that you need to get used to. >> with an average daily population of 2,700 male and female inmates, someone reaches their boiling point virtually every day of the week. >> on the ground!

and joining us from boston, massachusetts evan greer, the , campaign director of fight for the future. she is helping organize wednesday's day of action to save net neutrality. evan, let's begin with you. talk about this nationwide wednesday, what it is all about, what specifically you are targeting. >> this is a moment for everyone, whether you are in ordinary -- internet user with a few hundred instagram fans or a major website with hundreds of thousands of daily visitors, to harness the power of the web to distend this profoundly democratizing technology that has given more of us a voice than ever before. we need to stop companies like comcast and verizon from being able to control what we can see and do online. forprotect this platform freedom of expression and social change. , couldommissioner copps you go over for our listeners and viewers the importance of this title two decision that the new chairman of the fcc seeks to overturn? theell, first of all, network is so vital to economic andrtunity and innovation especially to democracy. i think evan said it well. this is a tool of

. >> boston's big 4th of july celebration massachusetts state police are coordinating security from anration center from an undisclosed location. they have hundreds of cameras and using a tethered drone to get an aerial view of the crowds. >>> the stars and stripes were flying high over atlanta for a 4th of july tradition. the peach tree road race. the 10 k race went off without incident and they said that humidity was their biggest challenge. the world's largest 10 k race now in its 28 and year. >>> americans spend big on the 4th of july and it's not just for cookouts but everything from hats to fireworks, americans cannot seem to get enough of the red, white and blue. mary maloney has the break down. >> reporter: americans are patriotic, in terms of what we buy. according to the national retail fred ration, 65% of people own an american flag and stars and stripes on t-shirts bathing suits or shoes and they expect 58% to buy more items that is why wal-mart and target sell everything from plates to pillows with the red white and blue. 162 million people will take part in a cookout or p

next, on the presidency, the massachusetts historical society in boston host a discussion about john quincy adams 's and views on slavery with readings from his own writings. matthew mason talks about the book, "john quincy adams and the politics of slavery." selections from the diary. this is about an hour. >> a remarkable historical study ofd an academic the late

boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. that included a series of acts called the "intolerable acts." so, you have the bringing in of a british governor, the closing of the port of boston, and the boston government was shut down. speopleant that any town in the colony, they were not allowed to me. so, you have a series of responses which take place. whicht those responses took place was the reactivation of the militia effort. that meant that men sitting is old to 26 result were required to show up for training and practice. then, there was the minutemen reform which had younger men that were better equipped and expected to turn up in an minute's notice, hence the name. so, you have these minute training and preparing for something. so, they were aware of armaments being collected around the colony as well. canyon of ass particular incident which made its way out here to concord, the home of colonel james barrett where most of this was stored. because of tension rising, thomas gage wanted in april to sees these arms and armam

next, on the presidency, the massachusetts historical society in boston host a discussion about john quincy adams 's and views on slavery with readings from his own writings. matthew mason talks about the book, "john quincy adams and the politics of slavery." selections from the diary. this is about an hour. >> a remarkable historical study ofd an academic the late 18th century. that on the 69 year diary john quincy adams kept. matthew mason is here to talk about his book, john quincy adams and the politics of slavery did --. this book was recently hailed by the washington times is a great read and an informative reality check on issues that affect us even now. matthew mason is an associate professor of history at brigham young university. he holds a phd in history from the university of maryland and has been at the you why you since 2003. -- has been a brigham young since 2003. ,e has many publications including a political biography of edward everett. he has co-edited several volumes. david walstreisser is a distinguished professor. he is hey -- a historian of early 19th-century am

boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. one of these punishments included a series of act's, called the "intolerable acts." so, you have the bringing in of a british governor, the closing of the port of boston, and the boston government was shut down. in essence what that meant was any town in the colony, they were not allowed to meet. this was an affront to how people have been governing themselves for almost 100 years. you have a series of responses that take place, among those responses, the reactivation of the militia system. an offshoot, something called the minute companies are formed. equippedhey are better are required to turn out at a moments notice. you have these militia and minute companies preparing for something. was aware of the growing tensions in the colony. he was also aware of armaments collect around the colony as well. some are stolen and secretive out of boston. and for breast cancer in particular interest that he wants to reclaim. the home of colonel james baird would be a place where some of them are

massachusetts, on booktv. located 20 miles west of boston and a population of about 17,000.t's here at the towns old northbridge were some of the first shots of the american revolution required in april 1775 sparking the battle of concord. and it is a were literary revolution begins in the mid-1830s with ralph waldo emerson and his contemporaries.

. >> firefighters from across boston battled an eight alarm fire early today in waltham, massachusetts. w apartment complex under construction went up in flames. officials say there were several explosions. five buildings collapsed. there were no injuries. the cause is under investigation. it's been an extremely busy wildfire season in the west. more than four and a half million acres have burned in the u.s. so far this year. that is up nearly 60% from last year when 2.8 million acres were destroyed by late july. more fires broke out this weekend. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: firefighters pulled water lines into backyards and launched an aerial assault to protect homes from fast moving flames in highland, california. >> it started. >> reporter: homeowners hosed down their property as the blaze rolled down the foothills of the san bernardino mountains. >> there he goes making that drop. >> reporter: it's at least the third fire to target this area east of los angeles in the last month. acveral wildfires erupted across the west on saturday. including one in washington and anoth

and you get a content that is the same content of kids getting in washington dc or boston or cambridge, massachusettsy're getting it on a 2g signal in black and white in a rural, library and classroom. that is the thing that government of labor haven't figured out to do yet. the private sector has figured out how to do it and the ngos have been more aggressive in adopting curriculum and technology into their practice. this is one of the reasons why i think this has potential, not just for an incremental change but for a leapfrog change. >> and other important element this might want to bring the private sector in very quickly there will be questions. it's better than what we have. it brings incentive and to measure things to developing what is currently underway where eventually. [inaudible] it might seem very obvious but it does bring very quickly the measurement of something that helps bring the discussion to a new level because it's evidenced been created and that's what's happening and starting to happen in the library in case. >> you bring up evidence and i have two questions. the first is acros

i was stuck on a tarmac in boston, massachusetts.me a moment of personal privilege, that i would like to say something about our chairman. is that all right? i thought of two passages found when i thought about what i would say to introduce leon w. russell. if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you and you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too. if you can wait and not be tired or being lied about, don't deal in line or being hated, don't give way to hating and yet don't look too good, nor too wide. if you can still keep your virtue or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch. if these are folds nor enemies or friends hurt you, but all men count you among their friends. these are the words that i believe epitomize our chairman. the challenge in christ says, parents were killed in an automobile accident and he was thrust into leadership role of caring for his brothers. but with steely determination and grit, leon w. russell accepted this week c

boston and we all know that the f.b.i. for twenty years steadfastly steadfastly denied that whitey bulger the brother of a high ranking massachusetts politician the speaker of the house formally was in fact a f.b.i. informant and that f.b.i. informant had been given a free pass to to kill people here in boston and elsewhere and in florida it was a complete debacle so there's not a lot of love lost between the f.b.i. and local law enforcement in boston anyhow but what i really believe is that. tamarins and i have clearly had a relationship with and you can't even say for sure if it was the f.b.i. the cia if it was apartment homeland security drug enforcement squad what we do know for sure is that tomlinson i was on two separate tamil terror watch lists you mentioned in the intro that the f.s.b. the the much maligned f.s.b. warned americans not once but twice in march of two thousand and eleven the f.b.i. in boston received a letter v. via its legal attache in moscow say look we've intercepted some text messages between tantalums and ivan a canadian citizen who join the jihad named william plotnikov we have concern that this guy who

among them, newton, massachusetts, near my old stomping grounds near boston. i partnered with "women's health" magazine to give my thoughts on the best time to travel there. for newton, i'd recommend visiting between june and october. the weather is just about out indoors and outdoors. typical summertime weather in new england. for tips, pick up the july/august issue of "women's health" magazine. >> cool. >> i like you on "women's health." you belong there. healthy woman. >> i'll take that. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, is adele finished with touring? is she done? why her fans are dreading the worst this morning. that's coming up in "pop star." >>> plus, making sure you and your family stay if you're using fireworks for the fourth of july. an important "rossen reports" update. >>> first, these messages. infinity paint from hgtv home update. >>> first, these messages. by sherwin-williams has complete one-coat coverage. and it's also stain resistant. how stain resistant? this stain resistant. and it s al