he is a professor, historian at the university of professor of massachusetts amherst. he is best known for three of his books on vietnam, "american reckoning: the vietnam war and our national identity", "patriots: the vietnam war remembered from all sides", and "working class war: american combat soldiers in vietnam". but he is also has made a great contribution for having organized events such as this with a three-week display of the waging peace in vietnam exhibit at the university of massachusetts involving folks from the five colleges there and large numbers of students and my hat is off to him. >> thank you very much. it is a great honor to speak to you today and i want to thank everyone involved in putting this exhibit together and hosting these events and i think it documents the dramatic and inspiring story of the greatest movement of antiwar g.i.s and veterans in u.s. history, and by doing so, it helps recover a virtually secret history. wyatt's secret is an important -- why it's a secret is an important problem. michael gave a good brief explanation for that.

admission to a secure career let's ask hilary ford was president of straw mark consultants and university of massachusetts professor emeritus richard wolffe well come i by self to the amazement of several high school teachers am a college graduate but i've may never learn what my plumber do. richard will vocational trades always be a safe career ben. no i mean the harsh but necessary truth is. they never were they often were ways of getting a decent job for some but we have been automating at a higher and higher rate for a long time now the artificial intelligence people that i talked to indicate that an awful lot of jobs we now take for granted will as has happened so often in the past be gone soon it's a kind of tsunami we're worried about but don't know what quite to do about it in our capitalist system where we rely on private investment to deal with these overwhelming social problems so the short answer is no it's not a guarantees not a reason not to do it but it's not a guarantee of a good job absolutely not well we already spend our day interacting with robots one of my sisters is a now retired to

and as soon as i graduated from college, university of massachusetts in boston, i get commissioned andent back into the marine corps and stayed forever. david: the highest you can become is a four-star general. you became a four-star general. gen. kelly: i became a four-star. david: did you ever expect when you were just beginning that you would be a general? gen. kelly: no. when i was an enlisted marine, i wanted to be hopefully an nco. that's corporal. i made sergeant, best rank i ever held. david: ok, so you are in the marine corps. as you rise up, one of your assignments is to go into iraq after the invasion in 2003. so you were in combat. did you expect that you would survive? it was fairly dangerous. gen. kelly: well, it is dangerous. there's a lot of shooting and bombs and whatnot. we are marines. you take that on as a possibility. when we were designing the campaign plan, one of the things we did was to understand the iraqi army was nothing close to us. but we designed a strategy that would minimize the amount of damage to the country and the amount of death to the iraqi army.

award-winning poet and professor of english at the university massachusetts amherst martin espada. ou came to know is garden. he was not only your friend, but your father. amy: and ,juan a dear friend of yours as well,. >> my father was not only --umenting photographer documentary photographer, was a he workedactivist, for the administration for a while. luis was a political protege of my father. we lived in the linden projects in these new york and i woke up one morning and i must have been seven or eight years old so this was in 1965. i found luuis sprawled on the couch asleep. i woke him up and to keep me quiet so i did not wake up the rest of the household, he had me bring him a book. it was mcbeth. apparently, he played mcbeth at school. he opened it up and read these passages and i was enthralled. he then asked me to memorize the a passage that he read. then he was astonished when a few weeks later he came back and it turned out i had indeed memorized it. he was a personal inspiration for me over the years when i was 20 years old, he handed me an anthology called "latin americ

holly jackson is an associate professor of english at the university of massachusetts boston. her writing has appeared in the "new york times", the "washington post" and the "boston globe" as well as a number of other scholarly venues. she is author of one previous book, a scholarly study of family values politics in 19th-century american literature and culture published by oxford university press. she lives in cambridge, massachusetts, and were glad to have her here tonight. so thank you for joining us. [applause] >> thanks so much or come yet tonight. it's kind of a blustery wet night and it's a good to see you all and it's an absolute thrill to be here at porter square books which is my neighborhood bookstore, and for those of us who live here, it's just such an important institution in our community as i really want to encourage you to make some purchases tonight. i think you should start by bike out their stock of "american radicals" but after that you to buy a couple children books and just support them, the holidays are right around the corner. this book, my book is a hi

holly jackson is an associate professor of english at the university of massachusetts boston. er writing has appeared in the new york times, washington post, and boston globe, as well as a number of other scholarly venues. she is the author of one previous book a scholarly study of family values politics and 19th century american literature and culture published by oxford university press. she lives in cambridge massachusetts and we are so glad to have her here tonight. [applause] thank you for joining us. [applause] >> hi, thank you so much for coming out tonight. it's kind of a blustery wet night it's so good to see you all. it's an absolute thrill to be here at porter square books which is my neighborhood bookstore and for those of us who live here it is such an important institution in our community so i really want to encourage you to make some purchases tonight i definitely think you should start by buying out their stock of american radicals but after that you should buy a cookbook and a book of poems and some children's books and just support them, the holidays are arou

foreign embassies and consulates laura briggs is a professor at the university of massachusetts amherst she joins us live on skype from northampton massachusetts thank you so much for your time how do you begin to enforce a law like this i mean is it checking with a woman a pregnant before they board a plane. well that is the key question right now are we going to treat all women as potentially pregnant when they get on a plane and there are already been reports out of hong kong of a woman who was forced to take a pregnancy test both for she was allowed to board a plane into the side. and so she was not visibly pregnant and in fact she was not pregnant. necessarily was not not uncommon practice but she wrote a blog question and it's got a lot of attention. so we might find ourselves in sort of him a child situation where every woman who wants to enter the u.s. was a non-citizens being treated as needing a pregnancy test opponents say it's inherently discriminatory and of course they the senior set out there would would indicate you sit on that side of the debate but people who are for i

university of virginia. and florida and massachusetts geographically about virginia. . . . . what are the two crops t are most associated and grown in these, cotton and tobacco. it seemed t to need me tobacco a much more interesting commodity to focus on in the 20th century. >> my historical research i can trace this back to north carolina when i was beginning to projects i decided i'm going too try to understand how tobacco farmers related to big tobacco. that was my original question and to do that, i knew i would need look. it was and is the leading producer of a tobacco that is a primary constituent in american-style cigarette and so i knew i would need to set up camp and do research and who is thinking abou about beginning ak or dissertation or the project. this gentle man has been involved in the tobacco economy in a state-level tobacco lobby and they are happy to talk about the research. >> the interest was in agriculture in the south, tobacco. where did it start? i can't trace it back to your undergraduate days. where did the idea come from? >> guest: this didn't come

of the american people look upon it as a vast moral evil." betsy devos made the comments at an event last week for colorado christian university held at the museum of the bible in washshington, d.c. massachusetts congressmember ayanna pressley tweeted in response -- "as a black woman and the chair of the abortion access task force, i invite you to come by the hill and say this to my face. would welcome the opportunity to educate you." addressing the education secretary betsy devos. in boston, the founder of insys therapeutics has been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a landmark case for the opioid crisis. john kapoor and four other executives were convicted last may of a criminal conspiracy to bribe doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray to patients who didn't need it. one of the defendants allegedly gave a lap dance to a doctor at a company event in order to persuade him to prescribe the drug. legal experts say the sentencing should be a a warning to other drug company executives who have engaged in deceptive marketing practices and other schemes to push opioids. in new york city, a fire has destroyed tens of thousands of art pieces and historical materials belonging to the

howard university of course he couldn't get drafted because he was african-american and then gave back to his community and transformed the sport of basketball inner-city. and went to massachusetts to take a look at this new game that was a nine man passing only game. and together along with a circus performer that coached roosevelt and boxing the two of them transformed to the five-man game that we know of today known for its tenacious defense all because eb henderson and his grandson worked tirelessly and he brought some information about his grandfather and he is here today to talk about that. thank you. [applause] >> first i would like to thank andrea i don't know how you working through your grief and finishing your husbands book how you did it is truly a profile in courage and i commend her. i wanted to come to the event in annapolis because eb henderson has a connection here and was part at highland beach maryland to incorporate which is a community here in not - - annapolis. and i would also like to correct to the point that it was my wife and i who worked tirelessly to get eb anderson into the hall of fame. and she is right here. >> eb henderson i am his namesake in 19

state of massachusetts we have alex to wall is executive director of the world peace foundation at the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university welcome to both of you appreciate it so much as usual to start with you this this rebellion this confrontation did it surprise you. very very i started my day required mid day we were just driving. in downtown so i'm in a very high and area and suddenly we started seeing lake armed men with civilian clothing walking around with crushing go and they started shooting and shooting in the air and it was such a surprise the person i was driving with was so shocked to the point she stops he she ran down the wheel and we had the car front of us 3rd was such a shock to be like what is happening what was going on it was definitely not expected to how does this play out for you as you were there. so we ended up being in this traffic jam. national security what they did is they blocked that main road on the airport road and we were in another and another main road only was blocked. started burning a tire which. is what we as activists were doing during the revolution burning tires were not so ba

was virginia historical society and you are at the university of virginia and "the cigarette" you are not from the south and actually it was massachusetts and there was something geographically -- about virginia, about the land, "the cigarette". >> yeah, so, going back deep into my own reading in history i thought the literature on southern distinctiveness maybe gave a short drift to the persistence of basically agricultural myths that the presence of undeveloped land in the south or what appeared to be on developed land in the south is or had a cultural hold on people and land is also an important feature of southern agricultural economy and so it was very much a quest to understand the meaning of land in a post-world war ii south that gave rise to the project because i was thinking what are the two props that are most associated that are most grown in the south and of course, there's cotton and tobacco and it seemed to me that tobacco was much more interesting commodity to focus on in the 20th century. >> if my historical research is right, i can trace this your interest back to a mcdonald and you're in north carolina and you are wait

of the primary season. a poll released over the weekend shows bernie sanders followed closely by massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. mayor pete buttigieg and former vice president joe biden. drake university professor greg wolf says undecided democrats will watch closely for candidates they believe could beat president trump. >> in iowa, we have the opportunity to vet candidates unlike any other voters and any other state of new hampshire. we really get to put these candidates to the test. >> senator amclb sar and california businessman time sty stier after failing to reach the poll number. and former massachusetts governor duval patrick will not be there >>> new details this morning, iran announced his arrests in connection to the ewe crane yan jet liner. iran's. and cbs also confirmed as early as last summer. trump information officials claim he was killed to prevent an imminent attack. and justin trudeau says his country is paying the price for escalating tensions. >> those canadians would be right now at home with their families. >> let's not screw it up. >> tomorrow the senate will consider whether to place new restrictions on president trump to prevent further military action in ira

of that era. at the same time, its theme is universal. everyone is interacting and it's funny. >> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >>m. get his arm. >> gary, that's enough. gary, that's enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is sort of presented with this choice. a young black man has been murdered. do i retaliate? do i kick off this riot? and he wrestles with it for a split-second. and spike, when he talks about it, he says black people don't ask him if mookie did the right thing. >> what mookie represents at the end of that movie is black rage. it was important, i think, for spike to say, this is where we are. >> not enough people credit the maturity of what he did, in terms of posing a question that he then did not answer. lots of people like to make films and button it up, making sure that you feel a certain way about a certain thing. and spike has always been determined to ask you a question. it forces you into confrontation with your own feeling. >> the '80s was a time when so many new filmmakers got their start. the '80s was an incubator for new voices, new visionaries, new ideas. >> seize the da

university of georgia law school. the law school invites dignitaries like supreme court justices and attorneys general and the senators into various people tos venerable address them. the keynote speaker for that address was the senator from massachusetts, edward kennedy, and the other speaker at that address was the governor of georgia, jimmy carter. in the morning, kennedy gives his keynote address which would had to do with the impeachment proceedings unfolding at that time against richard nixon. carter then addresses the luncheon gathering. carter begins by saying that there were two very important formative influences on his life in terms of thinkers and theologians. one was a person who he quotes very often throughout his life, at least since his time as the governor of georgia. he said this had the sad duty of politics was to establish justice in his sinful world. and carter's quoted that passage very often. he said the second formative influence on him was the greek theologianell-known bob dylan, whose song in particular ain't going to work on maggie's farm no more was a important song about farmers. he goes on to talk about the fact that among the politicians and particularly lobbyists in washington, the deck was stacked again

university of iowa rally as they phoned in from d.c. she will be on stage with him in ames tonight. jon: let's go now to jackie heinrich live in muscatine iowa, massachusettss holding a town hall there. >> i am going to speak with a little bit of a quiet voice as a courtesy. there's a line of people to my right the high microphones asking warren one-on-one questions, there's only 100 people in this room and it's a small intimate event with overall strategy with senator warren to connect with people one on one especially on issues with affordable education and healthcare which can be important to people in lower income parts of the state. also areas with high rate of uninsured people. senator warren racing back to iowa from washington. her campaign meaning on reporters to spread her message in her absence announcing they received 3 million donation which they're using to support 1000 staffers across 31 states. working to grow her volunteer base. amy klobuchar with responsibilities in the final stretch for the iowa caucuses, her campaign announced its hosting rallies in five days. all 99 counties in iowa with special focus on 2060. her message focuses on tra