move was union troops, ammunition and supplies and was often under forces.y confederate at 8 p.m., tulaneversity class aboutaches a playwright august wilson. his contribution to and hisamerican theater pulitzer-prize winning play "fences." p.m., reel america features a 1919 u.s. army film transcontinental motor convoy. how the '81 vehicle started near house and traveled to terrific to assess road conditions. ride, lieutenant dwight eisenhower, led him to sign announcer: that is what is coming up on american history tv. >> a little bit about our speaker. we have scott mingus. i did not know him until i reviewed his bio. consultantentist and in the pulp and paper industry.

tulane, looking at the racial demographics of tulane, we have to consider what that means to us. we are a part of this history. september 20, 1984, the cosby show premieres. we have talked about that in this room. it is one of the first times we have the representation of a black male doctor married to a black female lawyer. and they have five kids who are all successful and professional. they are living life in a way that is not abject poverty, not just a joke, that is not in constant pain. the things that concern the cosby family, we have to consider what their primary concerns are. we have to think about vanessa, who is looking for a boyfriend. it became layered. what black people are was something new because of the cosby show. 1985, bob gill dorf raised $70 million wi for relief in ethiop. he does this with a giant televised concert. 1986, for the first time martin luther king's holiday is officially recognized for the first time. january 28, 1986, the challenger space shuttle explodes, killing seven astronauts. it is one of those things -- i am 50 years old now. and i can r

it appeared it was heading into overtime but tulane's qb faked a knee and jones took it for 18 yards,a shot to win the game in the final seconds. s. >> did you see that catch right in the middle? >> then the run. >> it was a stunning 38-31 victory. very nice. >>> many of us are still paying for the iphones we're carrying around as apple releases a new one today. why people are pumped up for today's release, and details on other upgrades. >>> and halloween is 41 days away. coming up, a new costume inspired by mister rogers. but does it cross the line? >>> we have a crash on northbound 101 and we'll have the details on that coming up. this is a look at highway 24 througlaand we'll talk about that plus what's in store for the weekend, coming up. >>> welcome back. 5:44. happening today, apple's new lineup of phones are available around the world. in some stores, fans are already lined up to buy the new iphone 11. the apple store plans on opening earlier today. >> take a look at the line, not very big this year. usually this is scheduled but there are some fans here like jonathan here, tha

tonight we visit the tulane classroom of professor john ray proctor to earn about play write august wilson his contribution to african-american theater and pla play. here is a preview. perform the narrative of blackness in such a it becomes universal, -- maybee there can be america t the rest of to go you know what, this that hasg of blockness -- blackness that has happened level step gical away it is just a mother and that is a son. look at rose and troy in we are hearing the story of a man and a woman, right? they don't really concern themselves with the white world around them. they are concerned with their lives. process of exposing or deeply personal, showing the specific and personal is an attempt it make did -- to make that universal. > learn more about august wilson tonight at 8:00 p.m. and midnight on lectures and history. the classroom here on american history tv. the manhattan project was a nuclear weapons research and conducted operation during word war two. it was disbanded in 1946 one the war's under. history tv a an veteran talks about the aftermath and impact on the main de

tulane, appearing to be content to go to overtime against houston. look at the fake kneel.the next play, they're alive. over the middle to cleskey, 53 yards to the house. and scoring with three seconds left. tulane coming back to beat houston, 38-31. >>> finally, the yankees can break out the champagne bottles in the bronx. they clinch their first a.l. east title since 2020. they did it with a win over the angels. it was their 100th win of the season. they are a half-game back of the astros for the best record in baseball. some of the pitching issues could present a challenge for the pinstripes moving into the postseason. >> that's good news/bad news for the yankees. domingo herman on administrative leave. i'll show you "the post" front page. he could be unavailable for the postseason. that would be a huge loss for the yanks. enjoy the weekend in gainesville, my friend. thank you. >>> julia, what's coming up? >> coming up after this, we're asking the question, did the president lean on a foreign ally to help his re-election effort? some tantalizing new details about a whist

. >>> college football fans were treated to an incredible finish as tulane rallied from behind as it appeared the game was heading into overtime. but the qb faked a knee and it was taken into for 18 years to win the game in the final seconds. >> what a catch, made it e pul stunning 38-31 victory. almost falls, breaks away. that's exciting. >> incredible play. >>> still ahead, halloween 2019 is just 41 days away. coming up, a new costume inspired by mister rogers may cross the line for some. >>> and developers in the south bay receive a break in fees, and why critics are pushing back. >>> bay area traffic is off to a busy start, especially driving in livermore. we'll go over the crashes we are seeing there. meantime, a look at highway 24, busy but moving at the limit. >>> temperatures are set to warm up. we'll show you how much as we go into the weekend. could be a heck of a roller coaster ride over the next week. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2. today the last two defendants involved in a gun battle will be sentenced. a 30-year-old woman was killed as she tried to shield her childr

. >> for more information to help you get next on lectures in history, tulane university professor john teaches a class about august wilson, and his pulitzer prize winning play"fences." today we will look at august wilson's "fences ." we will look at what his goal was as a playwright. i will repeat some stuff you have heard before. there will be some stuff i talk about with more depth then we talked about last class. atthursday you will look t-bone and weasel.

coming up, the trick play by tulane university which gave them the win. >>> and get ready to roll out the red carpenter because the emmys are being handed out this thursday. we have a special preview. >>> welcome back. america's iconic game show is coming to the bay area. >> yes, it is. do you have what it takes to be the next contestant on wheel of fortune? this weekend in the north bay at the graden resort tonight between 6 and 10:00 p.m., then again tomorrow between 2:00 and >>> several new movies hit theaters today. brad pitt and sylvester stallone both have openings. then we have the big screen adaptation of the british drama, downton abbey. the original cast returns for the first time since the finale. we'll see what to expect from the film. >>> we are just two days away from the 71 emmys, airing here on ktvu fox 2. crews are finishing up the final touches at the l.a. microsoft theater. >> reporter: television's biggest night is happening here on fox for sunday's 71st emmys. the show producers are switching things up, hinting at surprises to come. >> we have added a bunch of dif

. >> for more information to help you get next on lectures in history, tulane university professor john teaches a class about august wilson, and his pulitzer prize winning play"fences." today we will look at august wilson's "fences ." we will look at what his goal was as a playwright. i will repeat some stuff you have heard before. there will be some stuff i talk about with more depth then we talked about last class. atthursday you will look t-bone and weasel. i will give you a quick pop quiz. we will bee easy as done discussing it but we will be taking it. you will also have the pop quiz for t-bone and weasel. let's start with august wilson. august wilson was born frederick april 27, 1945. his mother's name was daisy wilson. she was a cleaning lady. frederick's name was august kittle. race is always one of the things we are discussing as we look at these plays. his father, frederick august baker, hes a german is white or european. his mother is a black woman named daisy. she is a cleaning lady. we are talking about a mixed relationship. his mixed identity is a part of what he is workin

. >> here to talk about education and campaign 2020, the economics department chair at tulane university fell at brookings institution focusing on education. thank you for being here. the director mccabe center for education, educational freedom. thank you as well for being here. let's begin. the campaigns and how much attention they are giving education and you think it's enough? >> it's more attention than probably have been timid education especially a primary conversation. is itro enough? i think it would be coming up in all the debates. i think the questions is what are they talking about and why are they talking about it? what's different this time around, usually education is a state and local issue. why is it going up to? there are a few reasons. one is education has been in an important issue at this time around the state are getting squeezed physically so they're having a hard time paying the bills and sase cuts in k-12 education, cuts in higher education. the kinds of issues the broader problems the democrats a focus on now inequality by race and income which is growing inequa

at tulane university. i will not read his bio to you here, but many of us have read his book, "u.s. foreign policy and the shah," published in 1991 in addition to his articles. , john is our second presenter, he is the associate director of the middle east center at the university of pennsylvania. he also has a very long list of publications, but i would alert you to one that is forthcoming titled "iran and america: a history" and you will be able to pick that up when it is published in a year or so. with that, i will turn the floor over to the professor. >> thank you, matt, and dane and the national history center for inviting me. i am going to give a sketch of u.s. policy toward iran since the revolution 40 years ago. the u.s. has shifted a lot, and sort of cycled back and forth between different approaches toward iran. to simplify things, i would say u.s. policy toward iran has cycled through three main postures toward iran in the 40 years since the revolution. first, a posture of engagement in which th

tulane entered university in new orleans. and also has an element from my hometown university, university of denver. he is the author and i only have a copy because the book was published in may, the author of the founding myth which as he pointed out to me, and i took notes, as blurbs from two prominent law professors risky and jeffrey stone. the said skiing out a me 2019. so once again i am voidable them strictly as i can to the time. i will tell you to one and then stop please and so that went out further ado, and more please begin. and more: and more: thank you again especially to gary for providing us to participate. it's an honor to be here. there are two common answers that often given to the questions in america have a christian founding. on the inside, from the 19th century up to the present day, if people author who say of course it did. not only did it, but bert virtually all of the founding his work men and they were trying to create an explicitly christian nation. these authors often times lack academic and crede

there was one ststudy out of tulane university that said a hundred and eighty years. the top two hundred. tunisians farms in the latete and early erara we're eir completely controlled by the two families or worse had profit schemes from the two families. so it was it was the corruption on top of the economic success. which led to his downfall. how much of the ban on the network has remained. i wonder in the corridors of power in june this year. well this is many layers to that i think that the widest network with your about two million members of his party and that was the way. in which you can get a job in the tunisian economy andnd p political posits and economic favors. and those networks are alive and well in your body in some of the political parties and they played a role in the municipal elections in twowo thousand eighteen. a and when you look at the sort of old establishment parties and thehere were bunches attitudes there they are but a sort of as you. go up through the layers most of his. ministers ex ministers abandoned him. many somehow cleaned theirir re

i taught for eight years tulane university annoy our orleans, he was a magnet, from tulane and also as an element from my hometown university. the university of denver. he is the author and i only have a copy because the book was published in may, the author of the founding myth [laughter] which he pointed out to me and i took no, a blurb from two prominent law professors. as i said, this came out of me 2019. once again i'm going to hold them strictly as i can to the time and i would tell you to one and then stop please. and so that went out further ado and more, please begin. [applause] and more. thank you very much. thank you for inviting us to participate here it is an honor to be here. so there are two common answers that are often given to did america have a christian founding. on the one hand, they say of course it did but not a legitimate of course all of the founders were godly men and they were trying to create a christian nation. in these others often times lack academic and credentials, they sometimes misused rotations and sometimes use quotations they cannot be verified. an

after two weeks to prepare for the college footbal treated to an incredible finish last night as tulane rallied and tied their game with houston. the quarterback fakes a knee and jones took it in for 18 yards, setting up a shot to win the game in the final seconds. >> very loud as they pulled off the stunning 38-31 victory. >>> climate change protests being held around the world today. we'll tell you about the largest ones starting shortly e and new iphones different from last year's model? and how the lines have formed overnight. first, a live look over the bay this morning with the sun rising. n ri cooper! did you eat all of your treats? ♪ help! i need somebody ♪ help! not just anybody ♪ help! you know i need someone did you eat all of your treats? ♪ help! i need somebody ♪ help! not just anybody ♪ help! you know i need someone >>> taking you live to the opening bell in new york this morning. there it is live, senators calling on mark zuckerberg to protect user privacy. more on that coming up. right now looks like a good opening across the board for the indices. >>> good morning and t

. >> tonight we visit the tulane university classroom of john ray proctor learn about august wilson his contribution to african-american theater and his pulitzer prize winning play fences. >> if we can perform the narrative of blackness in such a way that it becomes universal, then maybe there can be empathy. maybe then we can get more -- we can get the respect of america to go you know what, this demonizing of blackness that has happened on an ideological level and step away and it is just a mother and a son. when we look at rose and look at troy in "fences" we are hearing the story of a man and a woman, right? they don't really concern themselves with the white world around them. they are concerned with their lives. that process of exposing or showing the deeply personal, by showing the specific and personal, it is an attempt to make that story universal. >> learn more about african-american play write august wilson tonight at 8:00 and midnight eastern on lectures in history. join the classroom here on american history tv. >> next library of congress archivist delivers an always strai

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and professor of tulane university, walter isakson.c candidates are set to take the stage in houston later this evening for the party's third primary debate. unlike previous debates, one will feature them on stage for one night only. here's the order. senator amy klobuchar, cory booker, pete buttigieg, bernie sanders, former vice president joe biden right there in the middle. flanked by senator elizabeth warren. then senator kamala harris, andrew yang, former congressman beto o'rourke and former hud secretary julian castro will take the stage. plenty of attention as joe said will be on joe biden as he and elizabeth warren face-off on the first time on the same stage. biden's advisers pushed back on the idea it would be a showdown between the former vice president and the massachusetts senator saying they expect he's more likely to face direct attacks from others on the stage. biden's camp also says he's eager to make a more broad contrast with his more progressive rivals and that he'll be ready to push back against suggestions he is pu

barnicle, white house respondent for pbs news hour, ya mischa alcindor and professor of history at tulanewalter isaacson. >> give us your take on this momentum 24 hours we've seen? >> i think there was a real sense that we've crossed a line. for the fourth time in our history we have a president facing an impeachment that's serious and i think it's because it was pretty clear you don't need more evidence, you don't need more transcripts. you have a president of the united states who sacrificed u.s. security for his own political purposes and also you have this weirdness of an unhinged sort of rattled crazed, rudy giuliani, sort of working for the state department, not working for the state department, you know, conducting foreign policy that way. so it's both a clown show but most importantly it's an historic moment with people finally saying we don't -- you know, we're not talking about details here. we're talking about someone who's trying to get a foreign government to interfere in our political process having hard hardly -- already been involved in that with the russians years ago. >>

next on "lectures in history," tulane university professor john ray proctor teaches a class about august wilson, his contribution to african-american theater, and his pulitzer prize winning play "fences." prof. proctor: today, we will look at august wilson's "fences." we will begin with a very brief discussion about who and what august wilson was, his goal as a playwright. i am going to repeat some stuff you have heard before from our in class presentat