for now i want to argue that the american revolution demonstrated the strength of americans' commitment but also the weakness of its government. it demonstrated the hopelessness of the british counterinsurgency campaign in the face of logistical difficulties and world war. so those are really the main themes that you want to keep in mind in order to -- in order not to pay too much attention to the myths and think about the progress of the revolutionary war. that's a kind of quick tour through the final years of the war. i want to spend the rest of the time just answering your questions and figuring out what else we want to know about the campaign sorry, about westchester county, and its article that we've read by professor kim up at suny albany. his article is entitled the limits of plitization in the american revolution. so what i'd really like to hear is some of your impressions, you know, of what you've learned about the revolutionary war, questions you have about the campaigns i've introduced, and these articles that we've read over the last two sessions. >> i thought it was ironic

it affects the american family. he debt tax says is that these family businesses that have been successful in traded jobs and there came in 80 and the people who run them on their values, the debt tax sucks is is is out of families and into multinational corporations. the newspaper industry is an excellent example. this country was full of small-town newspapers run by people who live in that community and cared about it. the state -- the estate tax took those newspapers and transfer them into a giant conglomerate corporations. people that want to check about growth in jobs, think about how the debt tax destroy businesses and jobs. guest: how i wish the death tax was responsible for all the changes in journalism. the estate tax only affects people at the very top. the right has use that as an issue to make people think it will affect everyone. it only affects the extremely wealthy and it goes back to the founding fathers wish not to have inherited wealth govern political power. host: taxes is our next roundtable discu

go live the american dream. s and applause] america. . >> a century old amusement park that could be lost forever. >> dying on the vine down here. >> our time is over. it's serious. >> a divided family on the verge of a painful split. >> no amusement park in the world has been owned by a family as long as this one. >> the family loyalty has disintegrated. it's fodder for disaster. >> and a reprieve from the governor, but will it be enough? >> the day after labor day amusement park is not open down there. my father is flipping in his grave right now.

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and to think about the way we think about flags an the american revolution. and we claim them as philadelphians and they were born in maryland and we don't hold them against them. james peale and charles wilson peale, the painters of the revolution, and both of whom stood the test. they were not summer soldiers by any means. they struggled there many hard campaigns through the course of the revolution and recorded their impressions of the revolution in many works that have become quite people. the peel family, not just james -- have become quite familiar. the peale family not just james , and charles, on down the line became a dynasty of painters many of washington, almost all of which bear a version of a national standard. their and you can see how the banners are being depicted. a small boy who lived through the revolution, watched his uncles painting away, marching off to war and picking up the brush and palate also made a career for himself. painted 50 versions of this popular orchard of washington often depicting nasa all -- na ssau hall. i don't need a l

he was well-known for the illustration of pirates and early american history. he is still beloved as the progenitor of the so-called brandywine school of art you can see at the brandywine river museum in pennsylvania and the delaware museum of art in wilmington. he had already imagined washington in his tent a few years earlier for this magazine illustration. this must've been going through his mind. he actually did a little character of general washington after visiting the tent. i am able to show you a portion of washington's tent. we are doing the final conservation work on the tent for display in the museum. michelle and i will carefully reveal part of the wall of general washington's tent. what you are seeing -- this is an image that is showing the way the tent will actually be displayed in a museum. it will be in an object theater and the tent will be in its own climate controlled case not unlike the star-spangled banner at the american museum of history. the tent is composed of a roof and a sidewall that hangs from the roof, not unlike a tent you would re

museum of the american revolution. located two blocks from independence hall, the museum is scheduled to open in early 2017. >> the idea for the museum goes back a century when descendents of george washington put up for sale, the tent that housed him in every campaign of the revolution. it was acquired by a minister. that launched a century of collecting. and launch the idea of a museum to tell the entire story of the revolution. the collections of the museum are incomparable. they have no peer. we have objects related to washington which truly are unique, one-of-a-kind. they bring to life his leadership, his incredible role in keeping the continental army together and never wavering from his goal of success. at the same time, we have objects that represent the common footsoldier, the calvary man. we have objects that reflect the role of not just american soldiers but british and french and native american. our collection will enable us to present the entire story of the american revolution to all who come to philadelp

the french and the americans try to take savannah back. that ends up being a disaster although there are some future heroes of the haitian revolution that fight as part of his franco-american alliance. that is an interesting side note. it is a failure and so the british control savanna and they launch their expedition against charleston and 1779. after a grim siege, charleston falls to the british in 1780. 3300 americans surrender. so another big disaster, really disastrous campaign for the americans. but what the british then immediately find out is just because you control the coast does not mean you the back country. clinton leaves for new york city, leaving everything in the command of charles cornwallis. clinton is hoping to be near washington but he is still like it the reinforcement that he needs and so cornwallis is down south in charge of british forces, he once to big victory early on in 1780 at the battle of camden against horatio gates, the hero of saratoga, where there are over 1000 american casualties. the southern part of the

he is a ph.d historian in the american revolution. at the same time, he has been a screenwriter for historical productions and he's created exhibits. so, he's deeply experienced, not just in the history and meaning of the revolution but the material culture, the objects, artifacts, the equipment that were used to bring about the revolution. scott: so, i pulled together a selection of objects from the collection. to give you some of the highlights and also give you an indication of the big storyline we are telling in the museum. the first gallery that you will come into is going to take visitors back to the end of the french and indian war, about 1763. there is a new british monarch the first british foreign in the 18th century, george iii. he is young, very vibrant. he considers himself to be a real patriot king. americans of the future revolutionary generation are extremely patriotic. they have just disappeared in one of the most dramatic victories in modern history and are now part of really the richest, most extensive empire since t

what have the americans done? have one, essentially, by not losing, which is what i said at the outset was going to be there strategy. the americans greatest triumph may have been in 1783. benjamin franklin, john j, john adams were on hand to figure out how to make peace among the various european powers. the european countries all want different things. france and america both want access to the fisheries off of what is now canada, being able to fish in those waters was externally valuable. spain wants the western part of america and gibraltar. they want the united states to be as weak as possible. france wants great britain to be as weak as possible. britain wants the united states to be pretty decently strong to stand up against the french and spanish, but also be a dependent trading partner of the british. what the americans do is they take all of these interests play them off of one another and take advantage of it are people in british politics and also successes against france. ignore the treaty with france

our topic, what happened to the american dream? that is our show. tonight. [cheers and applause] john: the phrase american dream came with a book written in the midst of the depression america is that dream of a land where life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone and for many people the dream has come true but now ayatollah something is wrong. it is no longer accessible is it suffering or alive and well? 75 percent said suffering. is that true? how many of you think is as achievable as it was before? [cheers and applause] how many of you feel not so much? [applause] pray pessimistic. what a man who people say has lived the dream to creative for medical dash many others is called the most powerful man and lost a is. steve when -- steve steve wynn. they like you. [laughter] you are self-made multi billionaire and how did you do that? i am told the town was seedy but you built hotels that were more appealing but i would think a lot of people had that idea. >> ideas are easy but doing it is difficult. john: what was difficult? i am not a billionai

>> the american says had their own end and goals. the money they spent to all those generators and fuel, we could have built. [ inaudible ] twice. ♪ ♪ >>> drank nothank no joining us. welling over $100 billion more than what we paid to get a man to the moon, more than what it costs to rebuild europe after world wore twoworld war ii and much of the money spent has been a colossal waste. the efforts to stands up a country still vulnerable to the pull of forces lie like the taliban was good intentioned but was it a complete failure. jennifer glasse begins our report with the ice cream man of continues therecontinues there are whose dreams are melting away. >> reporter: ice cream mogul is obsessedobsessed with keeping things cold. in a dez certificate city with 100-degree summers that's not easy. >> reporter: he eached his ice cream business fore four years arc he wanted to create as many jobs as possible. the timing seemed right. the americans had just built an industrial park with its own power station. the afghans needed elect dress a

i want to talk with you today about the american dream, about the dream we share.t's powerful history, its current condition, and it's urgent need of rebuilding. our nation was founded on two self evident truths, that all of us are created equal and that we are endowed by our creator with certain rights, to live, to -- to life, to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. and with these words, the american dream began. no fine print, no expiration date. all of us are included. women and men, black people and white people. native americans irish-americans, asian americans, jewish, christian and muslim americans, young and old, rich and poor, workers and business owners, gay, lesbian, and transgendered, and straight americans. all of us are needed. [applause] gov. omalley: in our idea of country, there is no such thing as a spare american. there is, however, a growing gap of injustice in our country today. it is the gap between the strong, just nation that our children need us to be and the nation that we are endangered of becoming. today in america, 70% of us are earni

these are in the collection of the museum of the american revolution. the flag and the pistols descended in the family from mulenberg's eldest son and in his will he evens refers to these as the brass barrelled pistols he carried through the american revolution. the flag had been framed for a many year and there was a great example of the work that goes on here at the conservation lab. this is the appearance when it came out of the frame. you can imagine lisa menardi and linda and i were in the room and all we knew what was we saw through the glass. no one was sure what was behind there. was it the center of the flag that had been cut out and framed? could we have imagined that there, folded up behind a piece of card bardboard was an entire grand division color from the continental army. you can see what the conservator conservators are always concerned about, and that's the effect of light exposure and probably in half a century or so what the difference is in the fading that's taken place over that period of time. so this is the reverse of the flag. yo

the last person to begin in or native americans, 1924. after white males, black males females, and the last was native americans, 1924. 1879 on>> american history tv is featuring omaha nebraska. our staff traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about omaha and other stops on c-span.org/cities to tour. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv, 40 at hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information are scheduled upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. >> american artifex takes you to museums and historic places. we traveled to philadelphia to learn about the museum of the american revolution located two blocks from independent hall. it is scheduled to open in early 2017. >> this is the first newspaper printing of the declaration of independence. many will have seen the large broadsides printed, posted up in public places, this is probably the way many colonial americans fir

they were the ones for african-americans actions being there and the african-american veterans say a lot of the white veterans were not pleased with things like the rebel yell and the way confederates behaved. they were at the reunion, but they really weren't on board with the idea that it was a lovefest. really, they were very -- they gave a totally different story. you would get none of this if you had read, as i read, "the washington post." "the new york age" had a different take. prof. varon: as powerful as the reconciliationist narrative was and lost cause narrative was there is a counter argument present and we shouldn't imagine it get swept away because it is never entirely swept away. we alluded to be divisions among african-americans and i'm picking up on the seams of david's book. we have been indebted to his paradigm as we talked about this. douglass is passed as the premier exponent of the expansion is married and dubois as this -- has this relationship with booker t. washington. maybe what you would call an african-american version of reconciliationism. i know you have wo

the american dream has been at the expense of the american negro. when james baldwin took to the podium to speak in favor of this proposition at the cambridge union in february 1965, he noted that the evening's question was hideously loaded. how was it hideous and in what way was it load snd to begin with baldwin began with whether he and william f. buckley could debate at all. for baldwin sparring appeared unlikely. much less like anything like conversation or democratic deliberation. because the proposition was un unintelligible. accordingly baldwin gave up the pretense of converseing with the enemy and fashioned himself not for the first time as a kind of jeremiah. whether baldwin's performance is best described as prophetic there's no doubt it carried the day. not only did he win the debate by a wide margin, but he earned a rare standing ovation from the cambridge audience. what precisely baldwin won, however, is more difficult to assess. indeed one of the striking features of the debate is the degree to which elements of buckley's argument point

that's the real american dream. i believe it began with the declaration of independence because it had a profound statement. the only countries and histories on anonymous zabul. here is a spiritual principle. every human being, not ever been in north america. every human being is born with certain rights to life liberty and pursuit of happiness. thus to not come from our government. they don't come from the law. those rights come from your creator. we are going to have a government that the purpose is to protect those rights not to decide them or grant them and the only power we give the government is the power they need to protect the rights. those are words we grow numb to it. how is the reason why everything else i describe to you as possible because from that slowed political freedoms absolutely. from that also flawed economic freedom and liberty. the system of free enterprise. if you look at my background the son of an immigrant bartender inmate who never made a lot of money, never lived in a mansion, didn't hur

go live the american dream. [cheers and applause] >> marines, having no way to defend themselves. >> it is ridiculous for them to check their weapons at the dor. >> they should be able to protect themselves. >> breaking news tonight, the death toll in theen

and "by the way, i'm half american." highlights that to the american public. again, he is proud of his american heritage. during the war itself, he highlighted to the british public how important the united states could be in the war. in a speech that he gave in september 19 70, 1 of the lines and the speech is say hey, how is america going to win the war? a, how is britain going to win the war against germany? a. the letter a. airplanes and america. if you want to understand winston churchill's strategy in the second world war, keep this in mind. there is continuity. churchill understands and any conflict with germany, either imperial germany or nazi germany, britain will need the united states to prevail in such a war. there you see churchill -- i like this photograph, because it shows him making a point. you see how one hand is being hammered into the other hand. i also like that hat. [laughter] very much the style of the first world war. well, behind the scenes, what churchill was saying publicly behind the same thing. this is admiral sims. he was the presi

go live the american dream. plause]orrow -- tomorrow national ice cream day. >> bye, everybody. >>> security beefed up across the nation. after a deadly attack in the heartland rattles the nation. this lone wolf not only delivering a terrible emotional cost to the victims' families and their community. someone here says these hits could have a widespread impact on our economy. hi everyone. this is "bulls & bears." and the "bulls & bears" this week gary b. smith, jonas max faris, john mayfield with lisa booth and chuck rocha. we see lone wolves across the country. you say that could have a huge economic impact on the

he was well-known for the illustration of tyrants and early american history. he is still beloved as the progenitor of the so-called brandywine school of art you can see at the brandywine river museum in pennsylvania and the delaware museum of art in wilmington. he had already imagined washington and his tent a few years earlier for this magazine illustration. this must've been going through his mind. he actually did a little caricature of general washington after visiting the tent. i enabled assure you a portion of washington's tent. we are doing the final conservation work on the tent to prepare it for display in the museum of the american revolution. michelle and i will carefully reveal part of the wall of general washington's tent. what you are seeing -- this is an image that is showing the way the tent will actually be displayed in a museum. it will be in an object theater . the tent will be in its own climate controlled case not unlike the star-spangled banner at the american museum of history. the tent is composed of a roof and a sidewall that hangs from

the word 1812, the mexican-american war, the m montreux dr., the spanish-american war. these are interspersed with a series of revolutions. the transportation revolution, the communications revolution. each in their own way, made off both a nation from sea to shining sea. this is not to suggest that a discussion about independence disappears from the scholarship of the early 19 century. it be services in the struggle -- it resurfaces. while the subjects vary, what they share is a stage largely restricted to the continental u.s. what is important to north american history, such a framework suggests, occurred at home and not abroad, and on land, rather than at sea. atlantic history has not done much to bridge the gap, once you get past 1783. despite some important recent advances, the field still favors the 18th and 19th centuries. a tendency to continue to see the world through imperial eyes. what historian allison gaines has described as "old wine in new bottles." it also encourages an artificial divide that assumes the separation from these markets after independence. t

he is the chair of the american conservative union. span viewers will be mostly familiar with the organization from the annual cpac convention that we have been introducing for years. let me introduce our two reporters who will be questioning him. sean sullivan is at "the washington post." pete schroeder is at "the hill." sean, i think you are at first. sean sullivan: thank you, mr. chairman. matt schlapp: matt. sean sullivan: if you like. i want to move to a candidate who is making a lot of news this week, donald trump. he said some pretty controversial things about mexican immigrants. he said they bring drugs, crime, and rapists. he has actuallly got himself in some problems with his business dealings because of it. do you agree or disagree with his comments? do you think they were harmful to the republican race and the republican field? matt schlapp: i think the comments are slightly different from what you just said. i heard him on the radio saying today that what he was talking about is illegal immigrants. that is an incredibly imp

that is the american way. if i had the honor to lead this country, let me tell you some of the things i would do right away to get oppressive government off the backs of americans. today, there is one former member of congress lobbying for every member and the first thing i would do is say, if you ever served one day in congress you will never be a lobbyist. there will be a lifetime ban on members of congress. [applause] mr. pataki: i would repeal oppressive laws like obama care and end common core. i would eliminate excessive taxes that crushed small businesses. [applause] mr. pataki: i would throw out an incomprehensible tax code written by lawyers at the direction of lobbyists in the interests of the powerful, and replace it with a simple, lower rate that is fairer to all of us. [applause] mr. pataki: i would lower taxes on manufacturers to the lowest in the developed world so that factories and jobs could spring up across america. and shrink the size of the federal workforce, starting with the bureaucrats o

second of the museum of the american revolution, we visit the highland collection. >> i am scott stevenson. i'm in charge of the team developing exhibitions and programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. this is about a century or fish a century old print we have been working on the project since five years. we expect to open in 2017. we want a place to show up these wonderful and amazing original object from the revolutionary era. for a general view where looking at firearms, they tend to look alike that this is a significant fees, one that really speaks to the power of the ideas that were animating the men and women who made the country and particularly the men who served under arms. if you look at these pieces of continental currency, you will notice the designs. these have been selected under the direction of benjamin franklin from a book of ancient symbology. there is an image of a beaver chewing on nature he -- chewing on a tree. this will not be a conflict that's one overnight, that persistence will be rewarded -- the fee so me and is the continent

misty copeland is the first african/american woman to be the principal dancer at the american ballet tre and she was a voice for diversity long before this milestone. >> take a bow. [applause] misty cope land is used to applause but this is historic, the 32-year-old balarina was promoted to the highest rank of the american ballet theatre becoming the first african/american principal dancer in the company 75 year history. >> i'm just so honored, so extremely honored to be a principal dancer, to be an african/american and to be in this position. >> reporter: copeland's promotion came with the lead in swan lake and another historic achievement to her repitoir. >> it's the beginning. >> reporter: coming at the age of 13 a late start, she was told by many of her detractors. that struggle documented in this commercial for under armor that racked up 8 million views on youtube. >> dear candidate, thank you for your application to our ballet academy. unfortunately you have not been accepted. >> reporter: since that time copeland has soared silencing his critics and joined at 17 and was an solo

. >> on history bookshelf coming here from the country's best-known american history writers of the past decade and to wash these programs anytime, visit our website. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> next, ut texas at austin professor talks about american expansion of power and the late 19 century and the beginning of a new american foreign-policy. he describes the 1893 world's fair in chicago and the expansion of the u.s. navy navy as ways america began to build an international presence. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> today we are going to talk about america's emergence as a global power. the transformation that occurred in the u.s. in the late 19th century, transformations that changed the country from being one country distant from the center of international conflict and activities into becoming a central actor. not the most dominant, most powerful. a country to be reckoned with. one way to think about this is the u.s. goes from being a continental power after the civil war to being a power now with international range it did n

we are the inheritors of the american spirit of the american dream. the american century. you our planes flown the blood of men and women who refused to accept the burdens of the last -- of the past or resign their ways to the old ways to doing things. the verdict of our time will be written by those who have not yet been born. let them ride that we did our part. but in the early years of the century we turned the corner on the past. we elected new leaders for new time. we adopted policies that encouraged americans to invest in the products of tomorrow, manufacture them and tell them throughout the world. we design higher education that a lot letter middle-class to perform the great work and leave them great rewards of the century. time has brought us to this doorstep of the future. whether we turn the knob and push over step across the threshold of the new age whether we embrace the century with its challenges and opportunities, its dangers, is a decision that is ours alone to make. i say we have lingered long enough. i invite you to step forward with me together. thank yo

that was part of the american idea. he founders of the country have incredibly spirited sometimes quite person debates but it together for the good of the country. >> you know, i think i very much much agree and think your exactly right. we are a nation that was formed by men and women who were fleeing religious oppression and seeking to establish aa land where every one of us could seek out the lord god almighty. each of us may do this differently. both of us live in a land where we can worship god according to the dictates of our conscience. part of the american ideal one of the most revolutionary aspects was the understanding reflected in that portion that you quoted, all men are created equal and endowed by there creator with certain unalienable rights. for most of history and women have been told your rights come from government. the revolutionary idea that it is god almighty that gives you the right to enough to put inherent in what it means to be human being, that inverted sovereignty is made clear that sovereignt

the history of the american delegates is the history of american action in the world when i tried tohoover alternative on the world stage of the 20th century. thank you very much. [applause] dr. proctor: on. again, thank you for organizing this. it's a pleasure to be back here. i should confess that i'm a european historian. i say that a little easily -- i think a little uneasily with the others in the group, i have an imposter. but i got interested in the crb when i was doing a book on belgian women who worked for produce intelligence as spies. there are all of these interesting belgian intelligence networks that were operating along with underground newspapers and some of the things that just talks about in his book. i picked a few gibsons work, he was the secretary of the american legation in brussels. i wanted to see what he had to say about some of the women i was looking at. i ran across the story of the crb while i was reading this book. i filed it away and decided i would check that out. tenures later i'm still collecting material on this and working on it. in the autumn of 1

it affects the american family. what the debt tax says is that these family businesses that have been successful in traded jobs and there came in 80 and the people who run them on their values, the debt tax sucks is is is out of families and into multinational corporations. the newspaper industry is an excellent example. this country was full of small-town newspapers run by people who live in that community and cared about it. the state -- the estate tax took those newspapers and transfer them into a giant conglomerate corporations. people that want to check about growth in jobs, think about how the debt tax destroy businesses and jobs. guest: how i wish the death tax was responsible for all the changes in journalism. the estate tax only affects people at the very top. the right has use that as an issue to make people think it will affect everyone. it only affects the extremely wealthy and it goes back to the founding fathers wish not to have inherited wealth govern political power. host: taxes is our next roundtable

that is something the american people are focused on. e brought up his obamacare amendment as a smokescreen because it is intended to fail but what he didn't bring up is my amendment to end the congressional exemption from obamacare the court deal harry reid cut with president obama to exempt members of congress. we have to live under the same rules as everyone else, majority leader doesn't want to vote on that because he doesn't want to end the cronyism for members of congress anymore and end the cronyism for giant corporations. to enrich themselves at the expense of the american people? there are a host of priorities that the voters whoy did you and me, madam president i ask you to think about when you were running for the senate not long ago do you recall any of your constituents ever saying we want the export-import bank? they want other things, they have other priorities than those are not the priorities of republican leadership. sadly today we have government of the lobbyists by the lobbyists and for the lobbyists. that is not how t

the middle east. it's only an american decision. because, either way, the prices can be very, very high, and it's not for me to make the decision. this is an american decision, it must be taken by americans, and i will not say anything about your political system and what's happening. i hear it's a wonderful system, but i -- >> rose: sometimes sometimes not. >> i hear that. >> rose: but at the same time you have to argue with the passion you do, you say this is the most interesting thing you've read in a long time. >> absolutely. >> rose: because it is what for you? >> it's a brilliant document. as i said, i think it's of dramatic consequences. and what's so striking about it look, if you come from mars and you read this document, you think that iran is one of the leading seven, eight powers in the world. the iranians have managed to change, and their diplomatic brilliancy is uncomprehensible. they manage to turn the process around in a way it's like a totally legitimate discussion between the seven powers or eight powers and them, a

and the americans were able to fight them back. it of a stroke of luck. the garrison the regiment that was holding the north half of the village and the lines to the north had just come into the line that night. literally the early morning hours of the planned attack. they had relieved a regiment that had held the line for some time, so they were entirely unfamiliar with a lot of their positions. but the regiment that was relieved then marched back to rest position. not the regiment, i'm sorry but the battalion that was relieved marched back to rest positions about eight miles away. and they arrived there around 8 a.m. and around 8 8:20, 8:30, they get orders to go back to the front because the americans have attacked. so they turn around, and they have to march back to the line to -- because they're told they're going to counterattack. so when they arrive around 1:00 in the early afternoon, they have not slept for over a day and they have marched 16 hours with no food, no breakfast and little water. and these are the troops that th

>> guest: well, he's an interesting american because he's the least american, in a way, of the revolutionary leaders. he spent most of his adult life, the last years of his life, the last 33 years of his life, abroad and really didn't know a lot of americans. when he comes back here to die all of his friends have either died away or they've become loyalists. so he doesn't have a lot of contacts here. he's a very interesting figure because of that, because he's so european in his background and the least american, although he's become the most folksy of the revolutionary leaders, and that's my story, i think. c-span: and when's your book going to be finished? >> guest: well, i'm almost done, but i don't know when it'll be completed. we're coming up to the 300th anniversary of franklin's birth the first founder to have 300 years. he was born in 1706, and so in 2006, we're going to have his anniversary. c-span: so at the end of a semester, one of your students come up to you and says, "professor wood, the following happened to me over the last semester," what's the best thing they can say to yo

keep up with the latest history news. each week, american history tv possible real america brings you archival films that tell the story of the 20th century. 50 years ago on july 20 8, 1965, president lyndon johnson held a white house press conference on the reasons for u.s. involvement in the vietnam war. the president announced u.s. forces would increase from 75,000 to 125000 and this would make it necessary to increase the draft call from 17,000 to 35,000 month. this program is from the collections of the lbj library. >> my fellow americans, not long ago, i received a letter from a woman in the midwest. she wrote -- year mr. president in my humble way, i am writing to you about the crisis in vietnam. i have a son who is now in vietnam. my husband served in world war ii. our country was at war. but now, this time, they did something i don't understand. why? i have tried to answer that question. dozens of times and more in practically every state in this union, i have discussed it fully in baltimore in april, in washington in may, in san fr

the leader. he was in american custody. al baghdadi has shown his face publicly once last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. followers. >> r but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as believe it or not, a man that can be trusted. >> abu bakir was someone who could keep them quiet. there are 24 camps. he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasn't considered from everything we know now a high level detainee and he was allowed to lead prayers. he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam islam. those inmates were jihadists. or former baathists. henchmen of saddam or simply common criminals. >> it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionable. >> put them altogether in the baking heat of southern iraq with al baghdadi a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror. it was a recipe for isis. >> they are meeting. they were playing soccer together. they were strategizing together. >> one thing is clear, al baghdadi w

north vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the united states. only americans do that. >> the term "silent majority" clicked with middle america because they were never represented on television, and they didn't feel like they were represented in washington and didn't really have a voice. >> president nixon proudly displayed 52,000 telegrams from persons who supported him. >> it is time for the great silent majority just to stand up and be counted. >> at that point he went to 68% approval. >> it gave him the room he needed to maneuver. >> good evening, my fellow americans. tonight american and south vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnam. this is not an invasion of cambodia. >> nixon's conviction is that what you've got to do is cut off the supplies that the north vietnamese are funneling into the south to the viet-kong, and the way to do it is to take out the ho chi minh trail, the route they're using through cambodia. >> you don't quite realize that cambodia is its own country, in fact, a cou

they want to fight the americans. that's their dream. the ultimate fight against the americans. that's what they want. what they hope. >> they want to fight the americans on their own turf. isis has a different cream. osama bin laden wanted to perpetrate large scale terror attacks against the west. isis may do this but to further the aim at building a state. you cannot understand isis without going back to the signature moment. the most spectacular attack. 19 al qaeda operatives hijack four planes and knock down two sky strainers and crash into the pend gon and kill almost 3,000 people. >> the people who knock these buildings down will hear all of us soon. at that moment the american government searched for a mitting response to this attack. at that moment the seats were planted. it would take years and untold numbers of dead before they would get al qaeda. you can see it is horrifying with the american response to the creation of the islamic state. that line begins 18 months after september 11th. the united states invades iraq. >> my fellow citizens, this hour american and coal

the finalists as americans today. the collection has really been put together over the last century. it started with the acquisition of the tent that caused -- that housed george washington. >> we will very carefully revealed part of the wall of the tent. what you are seeing, this is an image that is showing the way the tent will actually displayed in the museum. it will be in an object theater it will be in its own climate controlled case, not unlike star-spangled banner museum of american history. the tent is composed of a roof and a sidewall that haynes from the roof that hangs from the roof. in a lot of ways it is a very contemporary style of tent. what you are seeing laid out here is the linen wall of that tend. this is what was known as a soft cloth. this is the bottom of the wall that hangs down. that would fall to the inside of the tent to try to keep raymond dirt and critters from coming inside the tent very easily. then there would have been a line of little iron hooks and eyes along the top of that wall. as

>> from washington, the mclaughlin group, the american original. for over three decades, the sharpest minds, best sources, hardest talk. >> issue one. n.s.a.? [speaking in other language] >> the n.s.a. can't seem to get a break. on tuesday wikileaks, the organization that leaked tens of thousands of u.s. diplomatic cables in 2010, released new documents that, it says, come from the u.s. national security agency, also known as the n.s.a. the documents suggest that the n.s.a. spied on the phone calls of three french presidents. jacques chirac, nicolas sarkozy, and current president francois hollande. it also suggests that the n.s.a. was able to spy on phone calls by many other officials in the french government. wikileaks says the documents prove the n.s.a. gained access to sensitive french negotiations on issues including the european union's future. the french government summoned the u.s. ambassador to paris for an explanation but u.s. officials aren't unduly concerned. they believe that france won't really be outraged about these revelations. why?

are the americans and unmembers that joined the south korea people with valor to reject gratification and create an example for future generations and eternity to those virtues and to that purpose we dictate this historic monument thank you (clapping.) >> thank you, judge cop and the judge mentioned i was a captain in the marin korean i would be remiss in i looked at technology the president here of the general in the marine corp. and the board member of the foundation michael u s generally of the club on memorial street donald reed is a treasurer of the memorial foundation and the personal donor of over a quarter of a million dollars to this million he'll be reading a message florida senator dianne feinstein remarks she prepared because her business in washington prevented here from being here today please welcome my guest. >> thank you jerry good morning ladies and gentlemen i'd like to acknowledge first secretary schmitz and also judge cop former judge and mayor ed lee it pleased me very much to make those comments on the on behalf of senator feinstein she would today, we celebrate