brian: middlebury college is where? prof.nger: middlebury college is in the green mountains of vermont, the champlain valley. in some sense, you can explain the reaction because it is almost a bubble within a bubble. every liberal arts campus is of -- is a bit of a bubble. it's in vermont which is the home of ben & jerry's and bernie sanders and the only state in the union with the smallest percentage of voters who voted for donald trump. the context is important to understand what transpired. brian: how many students? prof. stanger: 2350, so fairly small. brian: i found the number $63,000 online but said that is what tuition and room and board cost for a year. prof. stanger: we make a real effort to try and make the experience available to as many bright, capable, young people as possible. there are significant numbers of students at middlebury on full financial aid, but an even greater number paid that enormous amount. that is quite extraordinary. brian: where did you get your education? prof. stanger: i got my education in

. >> middlebury college, he ended the professor that invited him. they were literally assaulted by the protesters who thought it was so important to stop what was supposed to be a debate he was going to be a debate between the perspective and a leftist center perspective and they don't want that to happen. don't you think you are driving people towards them. the different idea from the root of so much of this. >> how are these groups are far on ththat arefar on the french? >> extremely small. many of these we are talking about dozens of people may be hundreds of thousands nationwide and they are -- they feed each other because the far right shows up and then the far left and then they throw things at each other. the media shows up. the news is things that happen. but the challenge to the media is contextualizing them and not making these things seem like they are happening more often than they actually are. but they are happening. there was violence against a journalist and explicitly right of center journalist. but because he is critical of these a

professor allison stanger, what is the now fairly famous middle barry protest -- middle barry -- middleburyrotest? prof. stanger: what happened do you mean? the story has been retold many times. a student group invited charles murray, rather controversial figure, libertarian scholar, to campus. and because they knew he was controversial,

announcer: middlebury college political science professor allison stanger talks about the physicallyattacked. after the appearance of an author charles murray on campus. >> you left that room and what happened? >> the fact is i do really remember much of it. i cannot even tell you what door we went out. thewe were taken out of hall and confronted this mob of angry people rate some of whom were wearing masks -- angry people. some were merrick wearing masks their target was charles murray. announcer: sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span q&a. host: this morning on washington by chrise are joined perino & stirewalt, fox news channel's. one half of "perino and stirewalt: i'll tell you what." host: for someone who might not be into podcasting, how do you describe your podcast?

. >> a middlebury college professor talks about being attacked after an appearance of charlesr on --n campus. >> you went where and what happened? >> i don't really remember much of it. i could not tell you what door , but we were taken out of the hall in front of this mob of angry people, some of whom were in masks, and they were shoving and jostling. their target was charles murray. >> tonight on q&a. >> american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend featuring archival films and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. here is a clip from a recent program. >> diane nash is born into a middle-class family in chicago. historians,ith her, scholars, journalists, she said she didn't truly understand what segregation was because coming from where she was it wasn't until she enrolled at this university that she realized how impactful segregation was on the and ononal experience the lived experience of students. thebecame a member of freedom riders and was also one of the most prominent student leaders of the civil rights movement. while in tennessee as a student, she organize

. >> middlebury college alison stanger talks about being physically attacked in 2017 after an appearance by author charles murray on campus. >> at the end of your discussion with charles murray, you left that room and went where and what happened? >> the fact of the matter is that i don't really remember much of it. i couldn't even tell you what door we went out. but we were taken out of the hall and confronted this mob of angry people, some of who were in masks. they were shoveling and jostling. their target was charles murray. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> american history tv continues now with professor earl hess on the tactics, terrain and trenches in the 1864 atlanta campaign. he is the author of kennesaw mountain, sherman, johnson and the atlanta campaign. this was part of the gettysburg college civil war institute's annual summer conference. it's an hour. >> it's my pleasure this afternoon to introduce earl hess. earl is the stewart w. mccullen chair at lincoln memorial in tennessee. 20 books, a long

he's a graduate of princeton university and also studied at university of tokyo middlebury college -- go panthers -- the intensive japanese program. the army war college, and marc, when i was at the national war college, rbb does at the jim thorpe they have athletics but not that i'm still bitter about that. and just if it was enough to be envious of, he speaks korean, japanese and vietnamese. we are very honored to have mr. knapper provide opening remarks. he will not be taking questions and answers but he will be able to provide opening remarks to us. marc, please. [applause] >> thanks very much, bruce come for the really warm, generous introduction. it reminds me the old joke about wishing my parents were here to hear that. my dad what a smile to my mom would have believed everything you just said, but thank you. it really is an honor to be here and i apologize for the surprise nature, the final judge of my being able to join this today. i appreciate your forbearance and again for allowing me to speak. it's really great to be here with so many people who are committed to building s

middlebury college professor physically being attacked in 2017 after an answer author charles murray.you left that room and went what happened? >> the fact is i don't really much of it. i couldn't tell you what door we went out. but we were taken out fof the confronted with this mob of angry people some who masks and shoving and jostling. their target was charles murray. sunday night 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. 17 minutes st 16 to we'll take your calls on campaign 2020. the an talk about any of candidates. then we will go to des moines of speeches rage and meet and greet from the iowa state fair. to call.the numbers 202-748-80 202-748-8001. 202-748-8000. independents 202-748-8002. here is a little bit of of any rom the iowa state fair that kicked off yesterday with candidates. here is joe biden talking to the crowd. >> we are in a position where we lso have one of the best educated publics if we ins have in them. in them.invest there isn't any countries that can compete with us if we invest people. if we invest in who we are and remember who we are. th