>> saxon, superior. celtic, inferior. jewish, inferior. italian, inferior. anglo-saxon, superior. so that was... that was an idea of the late 19th and early 20th century. we've forgotten about that, so even in the 20th century there was this... not quite a sense of overweening white majority-- stress on the "overweening." so we're... it's... these classifications have always been fluid. they've always been changing, and it's only been useful to speak of this one great big white race in which all the white people are equal since about the second world war. >> hinojosa: you actually want people to think about things like the fact that slavery predated racial... racial definitions of slavery. >> they go together. slavery is time immemorial. it's wherever you have very stark differences of power and money. >> hinojosa: but the image of holding... of having... of white holding white slaves is not one that we... >> this is true. but we also don't think about head shape that much anymore. used to be a big deal. so if you look at normal rockwell's paintings, for instance, the people... th

the drive every few hours to meet the shuttle and arrive in time for the meeting in the old saxon town of torgau. here on april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred five soviet an american troops met and embraced each other as brothers. there's a ventilator became known as. history's full of curious paradoxes and today the descendants of russian soldiers once again reunited with their friends at the river . time. the history but also keep the soul of. the russian coming to the peace to hand it. to. the famous. people to see them. take. the symbol of. the ferry across. as. it's beginning to seem as though everyone in europe has put on a uniform and is heading for. across the water. and the festival. doesn't just. to find the strength to change into dress. uniform. wearing glamorous period clothing the ladies are also invited to a night of swing enjoy music. with a dance floor is just people see the same way their grandparents did. the british band to join basis. i think the music that we play on the music of voters is coming back now because. a lot of people find it here the young peo

now, the anglo-saxons are more accustomed to think in systemic terms what happens if each country is as virtuous as germany is? what happens to global demand then and so on and so forth? aren't these cultural aspect glz they are, indeed. >> but they determine everyday policy, if not politics. >> rose: when you look at th the-- has dealing with this crisis and having it on the front burner perhaps not led to, you know, the end of the euro zone, as some people feared, certainly the membership in part of the euro zone, but may very well have given some momentum to monetary and fiscal and even political union? >> definitely. definitely. the man who found-- founded the concept of the european union in the late 40s and 50s, john monet. >> rose: a frenchman. >> said that the integration of europe will grow through crisis. and he was very right. also in that respect. because you see, when we have a serious crisis like undoubtedly the euro zone crise has been, you either accept the distraction-- this integrate ofigration, in the case of europe-- or you cope with the need to put things straigh

the successors of the roman empire would be the barbarians-- angles, saxons, franks, goths-- third world immigrants, attracted to the fading splendors as to a gold rush. they received the latin language and the christian faith from rome and assimilated roman ideas of government to their own customary law. and there lies the key to the synthesis which will become the western tradition, a synthesis of greco-roman, judeo-christian, and germanic. and that synthesis would be achieved during the long struggles of the dark ages which followed on the fall of the roman empire. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, inc. captio copyright 1989 educational broadcastingcoon annenberg media ♪ world is by movado, makers of the modo museum watch, the watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums thughout the world. addition funding for this program made possible by the financial support of...

driver swap over every few hours to meet the shuttle and arrive in time for the meeting in the old saxon town of torgau. here on april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred five soviet and american troops met and embraced each other as brothers. there's a ventilator became known as. history is full of curious paradoxes and today the descendants of russian soldiers are once again reunited with their friends at the river elbe. but this time the ones in allied uniforms the germans from a military reenactment society it's possible their own grandfathers fought on the eastern front. these men who proudly wear the uniform of the allies. the history but also keep the soul of a common world war two soldier alive. the russian isn't coming to the world peace should be handed throughout the year the division has been working on the restoration of two soviet era vehicles into a motorcycle and their pride and joy the famous gaz. this truck was often used during wartime and now they're showing it off to all of europe. to be alive we want people to see them that's how we can commemorate those who used

scott is still pushing ahead with an illegal voter purge targeting voters who don't have white anglo-saxon names governor scott has also managed to cut out early voting hours and make it a lot harder for independent organizations to register new voters if you think these efforts to restrict it to restrict democracy in the very important battleground states are going to have an impact on the selection and you're flat out wrong right wing war on voting rights is one of the most important issues facing the nation we just weeks to go until the election mike pavin tonio joins me now he's an attorney and host a ring of fire radio pap welcome back howard great to have you with us before i get into this voter suppression stuff just this totally bizarre thing that the huffing have imposed tweeted about last night they they tweeted while romney was on univision it looks like he's bought up forty seven percent of the of all the tanning products in the united states the democratic underground took it today and it made its way all the way to the washington post here are two pictures a minute romney won

you have irish catholics feeling discriminated against by white anglo-saxon protestaprotesta nts. they resent also the republicans in the irish becoming democrat and you have the racial friction between these two groups at the bottom of the hierarchy. at the beginning of the war as i said, new yorkers volunteered by the thousands and they volunteered often as many of you know with a very strong ethnic identification. so they were irish regiments. there were the garibaldi guard, which included not only at times, but hungarians another central europeans. they were polish contingents, german regiments and so on. but by 1862, 63, the war is dragging on with no end in sight. and in 1863, the lincoln administration and congress passed a draft law. prior to this is all volunteers. the draft law of 1863 requires men to register in the north and throughout the north. but it has this clause whereby if you pay $300, you can be exempted from the draft in basically the money goes to pay for a substitute, you poor man going to take her place. promised $300 in 1863 is a phenomenally large amount

reng d r, s staff whe they understand the anglo-saxon values.alks like that in this day and age? but the president, to everyone, is an example of an american exceptionalism and his entire family. you know what? look, thiss mitt romney, once again, he has gone so far to the right to the extreme. he has played -- he's so deep in that base that just dislikes nt --li the president obama so much. now, notice something here. and i guarantee you, even if you played the clip longer, he never says what the president said. in fact, fact checkers have shown that over and over. oh, i forgot. they don't care about facts. >> that's my point. creatinghis energy and to some degree isffec wou lo a tac that october 2008, 16% of republicans said president obama is a muslim. in july of 22, 3 of mu. thest it's doubled. more republicans, twice as many, believe the president is a muslim today than they did four years ago, even though i might underscore, there is aolutely nothing wrong with being a muslim. >> nothing. >> that's true, although ty feckse. the more you po

this is a time in american history, and we're talking now about the '20s and '30s, when white, anglo-saxon protestants talked of an anti-semitic vocabulary, and certainly this was part of his society and he shared it with them. when i also think that he--because he failed out of harvard law school, he always, i think, felt that harvard had been one of the places where he had first met jewish people and that they were more competitive than he. and that, also, was something that came up in his years in the new deal with jerome frank and some of the really sharp minds of the new deal. these people were jewish. and i think stevenson resented that. c-span: this sentence--'there the casual nudist, stevenson, who often wanted to, quote, "escape myself," unquote, shocked several women by throwing off his clothes and plunging naked into the soft caribbean sea.' >> guest: i know, it's wonderful. his son, borden--i had a wonderful interview with his son, borden stevenson. and borden stevenson told me the same thing about his father, that when they would go out west, these three boys with their father

bottom of new york city society racism, irish catholics feeling discriminated against by white anglo-saxon protestants. they resent often republicans in the irish are becoming democrat and you have the racial friction between these two groups at the bottom of the hierarchy. at the beginning of the war as i said, knee-jerk response or whether thousands they volunteered often as many of you know, with a very strong ethnic identification. so there i wish regiments the garibaldi park, which is not only at times, but hungarians and other central europeans fear the polish contingents come a german regiments of that one. but by a 262 can 63 the war is dragging on with no end in sight. and in 1863 come the lincoln administration and congress passed a draft law. .. class legislation and seen as you know part of the rich man's war in a poor man's fight part of the mote tow that became common in new york and other cities. of july 1864, when the draft law is implemented all of these background resentments explode. the largely irish working class in new york seeing this is as republican plot against th

. >> caller: i just wonder if the queen acknowledges that the base of her bloodline is anglo-saxon? basically german. >> well, it definitely, she's not, she has a lot of german heritage. there's no doubt about that. her family began with george the i who was descended from so for the electorate of hanover and kim of an 18th century. and it continued when queen victoria married, married prince albert from germany. but there obviously is an english restraint that goes through it as well. her mother, the queen mother, was from the strathmore family, and english scottish family, so it's a mix but you're right, there is a significant german lineage there. it was a problem actually write around the time of, right before world war i when the family name was very germanic. her grandfather, king george v, changed the names of all the people so all the members of the royal family so they were less germanic. other names were replaced for their german counterparts. >> next question. another one from the audience. >> thank you so much for coming. i would like to a something related to you doing

. >> caller: >> i just wondered if the queen acknowledges that the base of her bloodline is anglo-saxon, basically german? >> guest: well, definitely -- she has a lot of german heritage no doubt about that. her family began with george the first who was descended from sophie of hanover and came over in the 18th-century. it was continued, queen victoria married prince albert from germany. but obviously there is an english strain that coaster it as well. her mother, queen elizabeth, the queen mother, from the staff or family. english scottish family. so it is a mix, but you're right. there is a significant german meat -- lineage. it was a problem, actually, right around the time -- right before world war one when the family name was very germanic. it was bad and burke commander grandfather, king george the fifth tasted, change the names of all the people so that all of the members of the royal family said that they were less dramatic. bentsen byrd became batman. other names were replaced with german counterparts. >> the next question. >> i would like to ask something related to you during

rufus saxon the commander of the union troops. illustrate the stories. >> reporter: somehow we remember the stories better when they're told with melody. take away. we'll continue to show you part what's going on here and will be going on over the next four days. the magpie singers entertaining us this morning and over the weekend. if you plan to i blur kids out bring your kids out, a specialist will talk about hands on history in archeology. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: so you got quite the setup here. tell me what we're looking at. >> we have original museum artifacts. we ask the children to guess what was this thing used for during the civil war? so things that may look similar today were around during the civil war and let's see if the kids can guess what they have in front of them. >> reporter: who wants to go first? >> maybe like pictures, like today they have cameras that you can look at old pictures. might be used like that. >> good guess. >> the answer sunday the flip chart. >> they had 3-d in the civil war

the big difference with europe and the way they've made policy decision and what we saw in the anglo saxon. there were people that could take proactive decision. they tended to be coincidence because they weren't aware of what was happening. they thought it was a liquidity crisis. in the european case, basically all they can do is be reactive. even if they're reacting quite quickly, they're reacting to stuff that's already happened. what we really need to worry about is what's yet to happen. and the condition of european banks is uniformly precarious. there is no obvious strong area in europe at all. >> at all? >> at all. not germany, not france, not italy, not spain. there isn't an obvious strong banking area among the majors. even some of the noneurozone countries, like the scandinavian countries are in the same spot. there's nothing strong we can use to lynch pin or anchor this to. >> stick around. let's remind you what has happened in the last half-hour here. germany's constitutional court has announced it will let the government ratify the pact. any increase in exposure to the bailout