i work at the american university of afghanistan, and it was a difficult period, before it had its 1st graduate, we invited when people -- it was -- 1st of all, finding those brave professors who would come to afghanistan and they go throughgo through the difficult period are they did not have the right infrastructure to connect, so we knew how difficult it was. and then i left. i want to do my phd and saw in the news the headlines, a uf, the american university of afghanistan graduated its 1st class. too many people that was just a headline. to me it was not headline. it was an emotional moment because i knew how much difficulty went to get to that stage. the same with hospitals. he had to go across the border to go and treat malaria and you have hospitals today the treat -- the separate conjoined twins , treat more complex operations, kidneys, heart transplant, that progress is difficult to get an covering a headline in c. one of the reasons we have so much gloom in the media is because it only covers the war. the unstoppable mess. and i have institutions to maintain that process. mo

for the first time we're hearing from the parents of the american university graduate who wasas stabbed to death on metro's redline just last fourth of july. just this week jazz per expires was he indicted to are the murder of kevin sutherland. the accused killer was in courtr yesterday. here's fox5's bob barnard. jazz per expires just 19 years old was in court here today along with more than a dozen friends of the murder victim v kevin sutherland and his parents visiting from connecticut. he was, if there is any silvervr lining that he went out happy ay probably as he was ever been.ee. kevin sutherland just 24 was stabbed repeat lid on the redline train on the afternoon of last july fourth. the killer also robbing otherthe passengers before running from the train. it happened so quickly that no one was able to even realizeeal what was happening. and where he stabbed kevin was fatal stab wound. > jazz per expires was arrested two days after the attack. he was only indicted by a grand jury just this week. we came down a few months after this happened and we went back and took the ride th

. >>> for the first time we are hearing from the family of the american university graduate killed in a stabbing at the nona station. >> accused of killing 24 year old kevin souter lands last july 4th. fires was captured two days later and indict in the week, today, he was offered a plea deal, maximum 30 years in prison for first degree murder. spiers rejected the deal. after the hearing, we spoke to kevin southerland's parents, who were visiting from connecticut. >> it is frustrating, i wish there was better security, we came back, took the ride that kevin's last ride, and there was a cop on the platform. and he got on the train right ahead of us, you couldn't help but think, you know, why wasn't he there that day, you know. i mean, can't help but ask why. >> fires currently being held without bond. september. we'll hear more from the parents coming up tonight at of. >>> new tonight, metro is getting the words out. we are just few weeks away from some major changes in metro service. starting june 3rd, metro will close at midnight, and that includes weekends. right now, metro rail is

you ask the american university of afghanistan. to many people that was a headline. it was an emotional moment. i knew how much difficulty we went to get to that stage. it's the same with hospitals. when you had to go agree the border just to treat malaria. you have hospitals that treat, that separate conjoined twins and the heart transplant. that progress is very difficult to get and cover in a headline. one of the reasons we have so much is it only covers the war. the progress afghanistan has made over the past 15 years. we are making progress. we will continue to do that. we now have the institution to maintain that progress. we have more educated use than we ever had before. we have more opportunity, more frustrate that we have ever had before. we're building on the legal infrastructure to make sure that everybody has their rights preserved. this would have not been possible if we didn't have the basis to do that. having revolutions and the lead rs changing and all the loyalty switching to a new leader. a lot of institutions had trouble adjusting themselves to the

i worked at the american university of afghanistan. it was a difficult period because we were just building -- this was before the first graduates. first of all, finding the brave professors who would come to afghanistan and go through a difficult period without having infrastructure of the internet to connect with families and we knew how difficult that was. i left and went to get my phd and saw in the news, the headlines said the american university of afghanistan graduated its first class. to many people it was just a headline. to me it wasn't a headline. it was an emotional moment because i knew how much difficulty we had to go through to get to that stage. same with hospitals. when you had to go across the border to treat malaria and you have hospitals today that separate conjoined twins, kidney and heart transplants, that progress is very difficult to cover in a headline and see. i think one of the reasons we have so much glue in the media is because it only covers the war and not the progress afghanistan made and the unstoppablen

>> hearing from the american university graduate stabbed to death on the red lion last july 4th. >> this week jasper spiers was indicted for the murder of kevin southerland. the accused killer was in court today. >> here is fox5's bob barnard. >> jasper spiers just 19 years old, was in court here today, along with more than dozen friends of the murder victim, kevin southerland, his parents visiting from connecticut. >> hitting on all cylinders when this happened. if any silver lining, i tell people that he went out, probably as happy as he's ever been, doing what he wanted to do. >> kevin souter lands just 24 was stabbed repeatedly during a robbery on a red lion train approaching the no, ma'am a metro station on the afternoon of last july 4th. killer robbing other passengers, before running from the train. >> happened so quickly that noun one -- no one was ev happening. and where he stand kevin. >> was fatal stab wounds. >> jasper spiers arrested two days after the attack, only indicted by a grand jury, just this week. >> you know, we came down few months after this happened. and we went

but we also heard today from the american university here in cairo, the student news letter. they're putting out a picture of a student who was an employee of procter & gamble in paris and it was confirmed by procter & gamble as well as here at the american university in cairo that he was an alum of that university. he graduated in 1999 and he too was on his way back home to visit his family here in egypt. so you are starting to learn a lot more about the identity of those. egyptair has also released the image of the pilot and the co-pilot. they have been identified as mohammed said aly as well as mohammed au mhmed masmassem. you can imagine a lot of questions and very little arnsds at this point. >> ayman, thank you. keir simmons joins me live. let's start with that evacuation that happened in terminal one. was that in reaction to yesterday. >> when we've seen across the u.s. an increasing of security, l.a.x. for example, meeting to think about security there and here we saw passengers evacuated from terminal 1 very quickly when they believed that there was a suspect package

the american civil war." he was the ninth president of the university of richmond from 2007 to 2015, and he will be the president of american historians in 2018. she is known for her historical " the role of the intellectual in the old south," and her most recent book, which attracted enormous attention, both for the substance of scholarship and emotional impact and becausesents, she happens to be the president inharvard university, "death the american civil war." to be the first woman president of harvard university. she began her presidency in 2007. earl lewis received his ba from concordia college in morehead, minnesota. he's the author of a wonderful book called "in their own interest," as well as a book he co-authored called "love on trial in american scandal in black and white," which he has done with joe william trotter, the african-american urban experience. he is the sixth president of the andrew w. mellon foundation, which he began in 2013, and we are honored that he will be the president of the organization of american historians in 208 and 2019. -- 2018 and 2019. ed will manage the discussion. i will

the first day i volunteered at that tiny little station, wamu, which was on the campus of the american university, you went off the curb, you couldn't hear the station anymore. [laughter] but i came home, this is 1973. npr got off the ground really in 1970. and so wamu was not even a member of npr at that time. you had to have five full-time employees to be a member of npr, and we did not. i came home from my first day as a volunteer at that station, and john rehm -- honestly, this is so hard to believe way back then -- john rehm said to me, "someday you'll be host of that program." so he dreamed for me. he saw ahead for me in ways i could not see for myself. now, contrast that with what we talked about earlier, the tension, the difficulties in marriage. i mean, it's so complicated. marriage is the hardest job in the world next to parenthood. [laughter] >> that's very true. i have a couple of smaller questions, but since you just spoke about john rehm again, one of the things i wanted to mention is that you talk at the end of the book about missing him more. and so often in our society we think,

former president of the american university in cairo lisa anderson delivers remarks at the center for strategic and international studies, that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. former supreme court justice john paul stevens spoke to students about student rights on campus, following remarks he took questions from the audience. this is 45 minutes. >> thank you very much and good afternoon to everyone. i'm delighted to be here and thank you for this opportunity, this is my first sort of official first official appearance after the inauguration and i couldn't think of a higher honor to do so than to introduce our very distinguished speaker today and also speaking on vitally relevant issue currently unfolding on all of our nation's campuses. born in 1920 in chicago and growing up during the great depression, u.s. supreme court justice john paul stevens overcame early challenges to become the third longest-serving justice in the history of the supreme court. john paul stevens did not allow hardship to slow him down. instead, he excelled in studies at the university of chicago

this credit unions have senior vice presidents to the american university in cairo. they are per particularly people who are not reliant on the former banking system. they're illegal housing communities and settlements are caused a major cities in the arab world. some of them are quite posh. this is not simply the informal slums of the big cities, and that the gated communities that are developing all-around cairo, for example, i think called them legal. health care, childcare, medical assistance, job leads all an exchange among networks of family, friend and neighbor. often cemented by ties of affiliation and again it's that in egypt that has been happening everywhere as well. as it was for some years ago, games, privatization nepotistic privatization, tolerance of drugs, the so-called formal economy and status rackets have all been obstacles for democratization. but to remain at this level of ethical condemnation is inadequate because these things are also survival groups marginalized by the state says those forces maintaining those dates. and i will return to this.

. >>> fox 5 exclusive for the first time we're hearing from the family of the american university graduate stabbed to death on a train at the metro station. jasper spires is accused of killing 24-year-old kevin southerland last jewel 4. he was offered a plea deal, 30 years in prison for first to degree murder. >> if there's any silver lining, i tell people that he went out probably happy as he's ever been doing what he wanted to do. >> spires bond. >> more than 20,000 people you gathered at a candle vigil to honor officers killed in line of duty. 252 fallen officers. the event is part of police week. members of community were invited to take part of a special web cast where they could thank officers by lighting a virtue candle. they offers condolences left behind. >> though there are no words. we must say over and over again to our people, we will always be there for you. you will always be part of our family. we will never forget you or your husband, your wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who died for us in the line of duty. >> the fallen officers names appear on the

i got a masters also from the american university in beirut in 1974. host: and then what? mr. alilzad: a phd from the university of chicago in 1979. host: this man has tremendous connections. you won't recognize him. this is just a clip. it is the only one we could find what you look like and sounded like. it goes back to 1980. he is deceased now. >> there are some parts of the world where a law -- america, andentral there are some parts of the world where we have similar common interests as in the persian gulf. of many allies have been recognized, there is sharing the risks as well as the burdens. it is really reasonable. host: who was he? albertlilzad: that is will stood. he is a great general. he was a professor at the university of chicago. i studied with albert will stood . one encounter can make a huge .ifference in one's life you think getting good grades, studying hard, those are important. they are. sometimes, an event, an incident, and anticipated development can make a big difference in your life. made a bigstetter difference in my life. it was a second or third day

from that to kennedy's peace speech at the american university in june announcing a whole neworianation that was followed up by a nuclear test ban treaty to these peace towards castro. at the same time, kennedy was a pretty pragmatic and tough leader that didn't want cuba to be an issue. and the vietnam plans were delayed until after the 1964 election as well for political purposes. so, i think he's willing to proceed in multiple tracks and whether those included being aware of and condoning assa assassination plots continues until this day and there's a memo that i'm going to skip over for time in which rfk is quoted about opportunities offered around cast re. the dilemma the church faced, hasn't been much, but there's more for people to dig into. but i'm going to try to move on towards the subject of our weekend here. okay. the second subject i want to talk about is another aspect of the community's work undertaken by a subcommittee. the full name is the investigation of the assa assassination of president john f kennedy, performance of the intelligence agencies. by 1975, 12 years aft

former president of the american university in cairo lisa anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. that is live at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> in both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. the influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. >> sunday night on q&a. former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the united nations discusses this journey. >> we saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. but unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. >> a discussion on the book, "the smartest places on earth," looks at innovations and policies and how cities in u.s. and europe revitalized their economy when manufacturing jobs moved overseas. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> morning, everyone. hop

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> turns out, rashad says she was friends with 36-year-old when they were both students at the american university in ca o cairo. he was bliefd to be on the plane with his mom, dad and his wife. rashad doesn't want to speculate about what caused the plane to go down. but she says this. >> no matter how you look at it, it's going to be bad. >> reporter: they leave behind two young daughters, an infant and 4-year-old. >> my heart goes out to them. i don't know what to say. there's nothing that makes up for this. >> he owned a textile business in cairo and was very well-liked. >> very good man. you see the outpour of people talking about him now and speaking of him. this was a nice young family. >> reporter: their extended family, she says, has invited friends and relatives over to honor those they lost. >> the families have already moved to set up prayers and members are already grieving. thoughts are going out to children. >> reporter: rashad says she doesn't know what will happen to the infant and the 4-year-old left behind. but she says egyptian families usually come together and take care of the

i worked at the american university of afghanistan. and it was a difficult period because we were just building -- this was before it had its first graduates. we invited -- when people -- it was -- first of all, finding those brave professors who would come to afghanistan and go through a difficult period where they didn't have the right infrastructure, the internet to connect to their families. so we knew how difficult it was building that. and then i left. i went to do my phd and i saw in the news the headline said auf, the american university of afghanistan graduated its first class. now, to many people, that was just a headline. to me, that wasn't a headline. it was an emotional moment because i knew how much difficulty we went through to get to that stage. it's the same with hospitals. when you had to go across the border to go -- just to treat malaria and you have hospitals today treat -- that separate conjoined twins, tweet more complex operations, kidneys and heart transplants. that progress is very difficult to cover in a head

the university of beirut. a bachelors. brian: what year did you graduate from there? mr. khalilzad: 1972. i got a masters also from the american university in beirut in 1974. brian: and then what? mr. khalilzad: a phd from the university of chicago in 1979. brian: this man has tremendous connections. you will recognize him. this is just a clip. it is the only one we could find what you look like and sounded like. it goes back to 1980. he is deceased now. [video clip] >> there are some parts of the world where a law -- in asia, in central america, and so on. but there are some parts of the world where we have similar common interests as in the persian gulf. they are more direct landmasses ban our own. in such cases, of many allies have been recognized, there is sharing the risks as well as the burdens. it is really reasonable. brian: who was he? [end video clip] mr. khalilzad: that is albert wohlstetter. professor. one of our great nuclear strategists and a general. he was a professor at the university of chicago. i studied with albert wohlstetter. it happened accidentally. sometimes one encounter can make a huge difference in

those. >> host: government professor from claremont college the founders of the idea that national university constitutes american mind is the name of the book

. >> host: george thomas, government professor, the founders and the idea of a national university constituting the american mind. this is book tv on c-span. >> when i tune into it on the weekend usually its authors sharing their new releases. >> watching nonfiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers. >> you could have a longer conversation delve into the subjects. >> book tv weekends, they bring you offer after author after author with the work of fascinating people. >> i love the tv and i am a c-span fan. >> book tv tapes around the country all year long. 's look at some of the events we are covering this week. tuesday at politics and prose bookstore in washington, former state department official on america's role in the world since 911. least in the nation's capital wednesday with the former administrator of the white house office of information and regulatory affairs examining what "star wars" movies can teach us about presidential politics, economics and the lot. thursday, founder and editor of national affairs with his plan for a more united and prosperous america from the

i work at the american university of afghanistan. it was a difficult period because we were just building. this is before it has its first graduate. we have invited people. finding those professors who would come. they have the internet to connect to their family. we knew how difficult it was building that. i left. i saw in the news, the headline said auf, the american university of afghanistan graduated its first class. to many people that was a headline. to me, that wasn't a headline. it was an emotional moment. because i knew how much difficulty we went to get to that stage. it's the same with hospitals. when you had to go across the porder just to treat malaria and you have hospitals today that treat that separate conjoined twins, that treat more complex operations, kidneys, the heart. transplants. that progress is very difficult to get and cover in a headline. one of the reasons we have so much gloom in the media is because it only covers the war. not the progress afghanistan had maze in the past 15 years. we are making progress.

professor from claremont college the founders of the idea that national university constitutes american mind is the name of the book >> to have profound implications today around the world we see that every we're around the world it comes from the stakes policy errors is that they can be corrected that is why we wrote the book and refocus on three big reforms obviously other things have to be done but you have to have priorities so we prioritize health care and a new tax code and getting the monetary system back on track for the first time in half a century. >> in your new book who are the donors that you talk about? >> talks about the voters of seven key counties in key states the republicans won in 2004 the where they lost in 2012 so places like florida or virginia or ohio or north carolina and new hampshire colorado the republicans actually have it yet but because some of those changes they had a pretty good opportunity but to find out who they are because that key theory is the reason why republicans win more state elections win more state elections cannot presidential elections the

the media. american university professor patricia aufderheide teaches about documentaries and says some ideas shoulde suppressed. she defends the decision to stop "vaxxed" in part because she claims it's scientifically inaccurate - though it should be pointed out she hasn't seen it. mr. de niro: i think the movie is something that people should see. who gets to decide what's accurate and what should be shown? prof. aufderheide: so is this the "i'm not a scientist" argument? sharyl: i'm just asking the question. prof. aufderheide: the answer is that we, we expect to learn something from the considered process of science, and, at some point, we believe that we actually know things. we believe, based on science, that climate change is real and every time that we think about it. sharyl: well, people don't agree on that point, but -- prof. aufderheide: they don't agree because they don't accept that science is a process of learning things. libby: that doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. that's a very closed and narrow way of thinking about things. sharyl: libby handros is among the award-winning fil

these credit unions have senior vice presidents of the american university in cairo operating in them. they're not for poor people. they're very everyone. particularly people who are not reliant on the formal banking system. illegal and quasi-legal housing communities and settlements circle all of the major cities of the arab world. some of them are quite posh. this is not simply the informal slums of the big cities but the gated communities that are developing all around cairo, for example, i think it's fair to call them quasi-legal. health care, childcare, legal assistance, job leads, are all bartered and exchanged among networks of family and friend and neighbor. often cemented by ties of ethnic affiliation of religious conviction. and, again, if that's happening in egypt, it's been happening everywhere as well. as the lebanese sociologist put it years ago, gangs, nepotistic privatizations, trafficking and influence, tolerance of drugs, militia corruption, the so-called formal economy and rackets have all been obstacles to democratization says he. to remain at this level of ethical

he graduated the top of his >> at high school and went on to ohio state university and became the first african-american naval aviator. -- his class at high school and went on to ohio state university and became the first african-american naval aviator. of the museum, we highlight more recent conflicts. you can see how the military has evolved over time. we focus on operation desert .torm and the war on terrorism we show those from the area who fell honorably. it is important to tell the story of soldiers who were not butys granted equal rights, they stood tall and said, i want to fight for my country and they saw the bigger picture. i really appreciate the fact that we can see how the military has evolved over time. thegh those soldiers at time did not know what the end result would be, our museum shows what it is, equal opportunity in the military. their sacrifices were not in vain. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi. the city was known for its lumber and railroad industries 19th century. c-span'city tour staff recently visited sites showcasing the history. learn

the constitution was formed in order to protect those rights and whether you're liberal, conservative. that is an idea that every american should rally around. but that is not what is taught in the american universities. not at all. >> yes. >> terry miller of the heritage foundation. congratulations, kim, on a fantastic book. >> thank you, terry. >> seems one of the points of vulnerability for the other side or illiberal liberals, might be a place where radical individual intersects with stealth thinkins groupthink. coo you elaborate a little bit how that happens? >> i have been asked, i doing a number of radio interviews, i get questioned over and over what do we do next? i say one, they're overreaching. they're going too far. these excesses are too offensive to liberal ones. talking about universities, using subpoenas by attorney general to go after climate change.. these are excesses if you will. this is embarassment. and, perhaps not to thene president but it is embarassment to most americans. so i think that, this is why i wrote the book. i wanted to say, this is where we should engage. we should be having the fight in the american public domain on this issue.. that it is not just that they are

particularly ambass dor who as you may know is the trustee of the american university in cairo. i have lots of things that i could talked abas they were doing my fair well parties at auc they remarked that probably that it probably would not happen again that a president of auc served under four different presidents of the republic. and i think that's probably true. but what i want to do is really a much larger kind of big picture reflection on where the middle east is today and how we really need to be thinking i think in somewhat new ways about the region itself and about the kinds of challenges that it presents to us in the united states, to its own government, to its own people. it's a very complicated time in the region, as you all undoubtedly know fofment so i think it's important to take an opportunity like this to step back a little and reflect on what i actually think might be called multiple inflection points. so the title is this series the middle east at an inflection point i think speaks to an interesting moment but it also suggest that is we should be thinking that

the remainder to the university. [applause] >> she is giving usm $100,000. [laughter] >> she gave $100,000 to the university in 1995. she doesn't it with a reference to african-american students and that round of financial -- and that were not of financial means. the first award was given in the mid-90's, who was a hattiesburg resident. mrs. mccarty made her donation in 1995 and almost instantly became a national celebrity or sorts, which was confusing to her. she did not understand that she had done anything special. she was a woman of great faith. faith was important to her. work was important to her. she was living out the values of her faith in making this gift. when people started giving her attention for it, she did not understand it. of course, everyone else understood that this is not how most people lived their lives. most people don't do things, save every penny that they have earned and give it away so that others can thrive. >> it ended up with people calling from washington for her to come. the amazing thing for me was, miss mccarty wanted to go, but she did not want to fly. dr. lucas came to me and asked me if i would mind being her companion for these

the japanese surrender. most americans don't know that. fernando: moving beyond the classroom discussion, this american university professor takes students each year to visit hiroshima and nagasaki. eric singer has made the trip three times. eric singer: if you want to understand the impact of war on human beings, then you have to interact with the human beings that war impacted. peter kuznick: shimu hiro-san in nagasaki talks about seeing her mother's corpse and going over there and touching it and having it -- having it dissolve before her eyes. you see stories [choke] about family members who commit suicide. fernando: on peace day, lanterns are used to symbolize the lives of those who perished after jumping into the river to escape the blast. eric singer: when you watch all of these colored lanterns washing out to sea, the symbolism of that really got me. i just see horror. fernando: kuznick says that horror will not disappear if the arms race escalates, if the race has a finish line that could end all life on earth. peter kuznick: fallible human beings should not have the power to push the button and give the orders that will end all life

. >> the lawsuit american university helped heldeld commencement this afternoon they got a chance to re from u.s. attorney general loretta lynch, she offered advice to the new crop of lawyers. >> you've made the choice to truly live your hot to and to champion what matters. you are the dream, you are the one who still say you want to become a lawyer to help you are the once who say i wantt to make a difference and you ara the once when you are askede about your goal you still say, i want to change the world. don't ever lose that. >> american university presented lynch with a honorary doctor of law degree. president obama is in vietnam for tonight. his first time. he's the third sitting president to visit vietnam. the president holds three days of meetings with leaders. he wants to roll back an arms against hanoi he wants to help protect itself. later in the week the president will attend the g7 summit japan and make a visit to hiroshima.is >>> a game changer likely deaf, he was reportedly killed in a us drone strike over the weekends. ma that targeted in afghanistan. we hear more from

in his address, he explained the importance of a university to american space program. "opportunity goes where the best people go and the best people go where education goes, to make eyes more attractive to technical and scientific able across the country and further develop the people we have here, through academic research in alabama must be improved." at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the research institute, he envisioned, dr. von braun stated, "if our state could produce the number one football team in the nation, we could just as surely establish the nation's is number one education center for space and rocket technology if we put our mind to it." well, uah is not number one quite yet but the campus is fifth in federally funded in nautical engineering. when compared to similar sized universities, we're the number one research expenditure in the nation. a tier one university, ranking it among the top 4% of public universities in the nation. several sources, including the brookings institution, have pointed out that you a age graduates on average are the best paid gr

the admission of an african-american students of the university. by halftime, they convinced the governor to even speak. he said just three senses. he said i love mississippi, i love her people, our customs. i love and respect our heritage. the crowd went wild because they knew exactly what he meant. one smallwas just moment in a struggle of civil rights that inflamed this entire country. but often burned hotter right here in mississippi. the state were a 14 euro boy named emmett till lesbian and murder. evers wasar assassinated. where freedom riders over florida jails were gunshots and bring out here on your campus. , killing young people and littering one of your dorms with what holds still seen today. bullet holes still seen today. it was against that backdrop, that one day in october of 1967, something truly extraordinary happened in the stadium. , legal and political pressures have been mounting for the state to be segregated. and that fall, the state finally announced that for the first teamsto black teens -- would get to play in the stadium.

i am from the gibbons collection of african american literature at the university of minnesota, and i researched african-american history. i would love to hear a little aboutre from all of you the tension you feel between the proposition of african-american history as american history, and the declaration, the statement ist african-american history american history, which still seems to be, when i hear it, it seems a political act in enough of itself, in the face of so many distortions we are still navigating. you've talked about how you work, but where those points of tension, terms of you feel about it? it, everythink about major event, every major turning point and development in the american experience is either involved -- has involved african-americans as actors, or as an issue. sense, you cannot write american history without writing about african-american history. but the point was trying to make earlier, there is also another side to that. while all american history is african-american history, the reverse is not true. aspects of the african-american experience that have to b

i work at the american university of afghanistan. it was a difficult pd

the remainder to the university. [applause] >> miss mccarty gave 100 $50,000 to the university in 1995 in designated it with a preference for african-americans didn't and people not of financial means couldn't attend the university otherwise. the first award was given in the mid-90's to a harrisburg resident and that continues on today. she made her donation in 1995 and almost instantly became a national celebrity of sorts, was a little confusing to her. she didn't understand that she had done anything special. she was a woman of rate faith. work was important to her. she was really just living out the values of her faith in making this gift. when people started giving her attention for it, there was a little bit she didn't understand. everyone else understood that this is not how most people live their lives. most people don't do things, save every penny they've earned and give it away so other people can thrive. >> it ended up with people calling from washington, all over the country for her to come . the amazing thing for me was miss mccarty wanted to go but dr.did not want to fly and lucas came to me and asked me if i mind being her comp

the vast majority of americans. >> the diagram says 90% of americans support universal background checks. it is wrong because the circle should overlap and nearly completely with 93 and 90% and it represents that americans should be much longer than the other since there are many more americans than there are gun owner americans. >> so if that is wrong, here is what i guess should be correct. this was a diagram made by the team at vox. they have a web site vox.com. >> you know they made a mistake but the arrow was actually not in their favor, right? the correct diagram proves the point better. i don't think anyone can accuse them of trying toed shade the truth. >> a lot of diagrams going on. >> maybe it was a tweet with words. >> stand in front of the camera and speak your mind. >> or not. >> four on 2 will be right back. >>> a florida scuba diver got separated from his boat and finds himself miles from shore and being circled by a shark. >> randy was wearing a gopro while spare fishing sunday morning off of the coast of florida. he says he was under water for 30 minutes when he came back

the top of his class. he went on to ohio state university. he became the first african-american naval aviator. story is very tragic. he was in for chili killed in action during the korean conflict. unfortunately killed in action during the korean conflict. you can see how the military has evolved over time. we focus on operation desert storm, the global war on terrorism, and we end with hattiesburg, where we show those who are from this area who have served honorably in the united states armed forces. show thatrtant to though they were not granted equal rights, they won it to fight for their country. they saw the bigger picture. we can see how the military has evolved over time. also the soldiers at the time, they did not know what the end result would be. our museum shows what the end result would be and equal opportunity in the military for the soldiers. so their sacrifices were not in vain. >> our cities toward staff recently traveled to hattiesburg, mississippi to learn about its rich history. learn more about hattiesburg and other stops on the tour at www.c-span.org/citiestour. you are wa

to my immediate left is the darlene come board of trustees -- darling come board of trustees professor at northwestern university. and the director executive of the american historical association. and jackie jones, a professor of southern history at the university of texas at austin. by the associate professor of history and african-american history on george town and stephanie schopp, professor of history at ohio state university. let me start. given what we have heard over the last two days and what we know as part of our experience over the last three decades, what is the best way to think about the question of african american history as american history? all.ank you for this wonderful reunion. it's a great pleasure. my one word would have been "everything." -- doe in the words everything. we have been doing everything. the fantastic papers you have heard, they don't fall under one rubric. they don't take one set of methodologies. they don't examine one set of questions or one group of people. they do everything. i think that's the beauty of what we have accomplished in the last 30 years. i am listed first because i have some images to show you, whic

you ask the american university of afghanistan. to many people that was a headline. it was an emotional moment. i knew how much difficulty we went to get to that stage. it's the same with hospitals. when you had to go agree the border just to treat malaria. you have hospitals that treat, that separate conjoined twins and the heart transplant. that progress is very difficult to get and cover in a headline. one of the reasons we have so much is it only covers the war. the progress afghanistan has made over the past 15 years. we are making progress. we will continue to do that. we now have the institution to maintain that progress. we have more educated use than we ever had before. we have more opportunity, more frustrate that we have ever had before. we're building on the legal infrastructure to make sure that everybody has their rights preserved. this would have not been possible if we didn't have the basis to do that. having revolutions and the lead rs changing and all the loyalty switching to a new leader. a lot of institutions had trouble adjusting themselves to the

his discussion of the category of african american religion judith wise and nfield of princeton universityho will discuss sites and sources for the study for the african american religious past. the lineup was a little different, but we have a panel of very feisty rebels here. they decided that it didn't make a lot of sense to have the order that i had placed them in, and i agree with them totally. the lesson there is to always ask your panelists what they think, don't assume that you know. the third presenter will be -- let me just indicate -- professor wiesenthal -- weisenfeld will be followed by a professor addresses bible politics of the black freedom struggle. and last but certainly not least anthea butler, associate professor of african studies at the university of pennsylvania. she will discuss african american religion outside of the black church, rethinking the framework. we will start with professor gla ude. [applause] prof. glaude: thank you, sister edna. welcome to morning service. [laughter] thank you for inviting me to this conversation. i have learned a lot. it has been a lo

the political correctness of universities is harming students to a certain degree. we have two american warning the consequences of being too politically correct will be abysmal for all of us. >> colleges always exposed students to challenging and uncomfortable ideas. fact that to university boards and administrations now bowf to pressure groups and shield students from these ideas through safe spaces, code words, and trigger warnings is in my ♪ amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. sleep number beds with sleepiq technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. it's the semi-annual sale! save $500 on the memorial day special edition mattress with sleepiq technology. know better sleep. only at a sleep number store. you premium like clockwork. month after month. year after year. then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch. yeah... surprise... your insurance company tells you to pay up again. why pay for insurance if you have to pay even more for using it? if you have liberty mutual deductible fund™, you could pay no deductible at all. sign up to immediate

the political correctness of universities is harming students to a certain degree. we have two americanillionaires warning the consequences of being too politically correct will be abysmal for all of us. >> colleges always exposed students to challenging and uncomfortable ideas. fact that to university boards and administrations now bowf to pressure groups and shield students from these ideas through safe spaces, code words, and trigger warnings is in my view a terrible mistake. ♪ in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in buffalo, where the largest solar gigafactory in the western hemisphere will soon energize the world. and in syracuse, where imagination is in production. let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today - at business.ny.gov approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball ro

. >> for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to c-span.org. tv,ext on american history author and wilfrid laurier universityrofessor darren mulloy talks about the john birch society, a conservative advocacy group organized in the late 1930's. -- latent -- late 1950's. c-span tv interviewed mulloy in organization of american historians in providence, rhode island. this is about 10 minutes. >> what is the john birch society? prof. mulloy: the john birch society is a conservative political organization formed in 1958 in indianapolis, and has its headquarters in massachusetts. it was very prominent in the 1960's in particular. >> what was the purpose behind the john birch society? prof. mulloy: they were an anti-communist organization. they opposed and feared that communism would subvert the united states. more broadly, they opposed collectivism of all times, so they were opposed to many manifestations of the welfare state. they opposed what they saw as excessive governmental interference in the economy. they opposed the civil rights movement. in terms of foreign policy, they wanted the united states to take a

the form of a question as possible. this gentleman here. >> thank you. i am with american university. when i went to high school i went to a private catholic high school so the debates around free speech don't quite match the same that i was wondering if a personal experience i've had with censorship, honda with player to public schools. i was the editor of the school newspaper's op-ed section and i was planning on publishing an editorial opposing the administration's position on homosexuality and they demanded a review of the article before publishing it. and ultimately they took several months of the review in telling leftist school coincidentally. i suppose my question when it comes to school sponsors beach, is the administration has the ability to review what students want to use dns corners paper in a public school? >> absolutely in a public school they can say we are reviewing everything before it comes out. they can censor it by eliminating the article altogether, forcing you to rewrite it, take parts out in the case that created the doctrine was about a school newspaper that wa