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And now the contenders. Our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost, but who nevertheless changed political history. Tonight we feature former House Speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. The program was recorded at clays ashland estate in lexington, kentucky, its about 90 minutes. This is an encore presentation of cspans original 14week series which first aired in 2011. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us in our history books a...

Ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky, and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. And we are in henry clays parlor r parlor right now. Let me introduce you to jim plotter, historian. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . On a couple of accounts, his famous quote, i would rather be right ...

University of tennesseeknoxville professor Daniel Feller talked about president Andrew Jackson and the politics of the mid19th century. They also talk about how jacksons presidency was interpreted by historians. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Professor feller there is this phrase, jacksonian democracy that shows up. It is pervasive in a historical literature. What is jacksonian democracy . Is it a Political Movement . Is it merely jacksons Democratic Party . If so, what does that party st...

To move to the cloud. As a result, even civilian agencies are turning to cloud services. Monday night at in iraq eastern on the communicators on cspan 2. You are watching American History tv weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like a fun facebook. Each week, American History tvs real america brings you archival films that tell the story of 20th century america. Planes lineup to take part in the greatest error invasion in history. Americans, british, and canadians make up...

American artifacts programs anytime visiting our website cspan. Org history. You tweak American History each week American History tv sits in with a lecture from one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes here. Next, university of tennesseeknoxville professor Daniel Fowler and his class talk about president Andrew Jackson and the politics of the mid19th century. They also talk about how jacksons presidency was interpreted by historians. This is about an hour and 50 minutes....

I am with dr. Law clinic is great to be here talking about your new book malignant how cancer becomes us. How did you get the etf to right a book like this . The culture of the ethics of how we deliver cancer how did you get interested . I wrote about cigarettes but i never expected to right in the entire book on cancer until i was diagnosed at 36 and i was astonished at how different it was going through treatment in what i have heard about over what i expected it to be. I expect it the well oi...

Treated. Sally hemings for example, it was sort of, people dont know very much about her and think of her primary as a problem, as the controversy but i turned that in my book was a person. She was a daughter. She was someones sister. She was someones mother and friend, and without thinking of her in those ways, putting her in that light is so easy to say anything you want to say about her. You can give her fathers of her children sort of every 10 years based upon nothing because you dont know h...

Liz Cheney declared Wednesday that the GOP is finished. “The Republican Party,” she said on ABC’s The View, is clearly so caught up in this cult of personality that it’s very hard to imagine that the party can survive. I think increasingly it’s clear that once we get through 2024 we’re gonna have to have something else. Something new. I believe the country has to have a party that’s based on conservative principles and values where we can engage w...

A cannon was fired in downtown Seattle at 1 p.m. on the afternoon of Oct. 26, 1864. The occasion was the arrival of the first message to reach the city via telegraph.

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