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Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Welcome to lafayette and West Lafayette, indiana, located on the wabash river. West lafayette is home to Purdue University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next hour and 45 minutes, we will look at the history of the cities. Learn about William Henry harrison and the battle of tippecanoe. It was cold a...

Brief. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. I remember every day of the oil spill was brutal. Spillmber during the oil poppedn Rolling Stone to their story about stanley mcchrystal, got a call about a fourstar general back from afghanistan and i remember walking to the residents and called th...

It will be the place where conventions are held that will form a new government for virginia, a government for virginia loyal to the United States and the union. This new government over virginia will then create the new state of West Virginia. Our nation was in the midst of a terrible civil war. Those in eastern virginia, predominantly, were supportive of the confederacy. So, when virginia takes her vote for secession, the last vote on april 17, 1861, the majority of of the virginia delegates w...

Rapidly. America is running out of gas. And it is our turn to seek new ways to generate power. Each time we have shifted to new sources of power history tells us, it has taken 60 years. America cannot afford to wait. To promote a national effort, a federal agency has been created to plan the best use of our present resources. To mobilize science, industry, and government, to develop new sources of energy. And to accomplish this without injuring the environment. Its an american tradition confiden...

Concentration camp, where more than one million people, mostly jews, were killed nazi concentration camp. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums, archives, and historic basis. The Amelia Ehrhardt collection at Purdue University houses the Worlds Largest assemblage of papers related to the pioneer. She shows us selected items of the collection including poems and letters she wrote to her family as well as a letter she wrote to her husband on their wedding day. She...

If you can see i cannot do anything about the space. Theres some room on the floor. Feel free to make yourself comfortable. This is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. I apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. My appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. This has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. There was an article by Nicholas Kristof w...

Shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music it i grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew then that george washington, john adams, john j, benjamin franklin, sam adams and nearly all the Founding Fathers were englishmen. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so later did settlers from germany, france and italy, austria, hungary poland, sweden swiss, russians ...

Her family as well as a prenuptial letter that she gave to her manager George Putnam on their wedding day. Amelia ehrhardt worked and was left yet for the last two years of her life and she prepared for a solo around the world flights funded by purdue. It was during this like that ehrhardt disappeared in 1937. From an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. She would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. But you can see that she has a roma...

Put another way, the boys and girls received at least one injection of vaccine at four times as much protection as those without it. We can all be proud of the salk vaccine. We can all share in this victory. It will lead to many more in the years ahead. For maximum protection for paralytic polio, three inoculations. The second given no more than three weeks after the first. The third, no more than seven months later. Everyone in your community should be vaccinated now. Vaccination will saves liv...