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A professor of history at the university of illinois at chicago. She studies race and agenda in the u. S. Wes bridges a member of. She was awarded the of one historians. 119 she was a fellow of the huntington library. Her new book is west of jim crow the fight against californias color line. Thank you for being with us and im going to hand it over to yu and i will see you again for q a thank you so much. Im just so happy to be here. Let me just get this going. First of all i have big thank you t...

Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk rad...

Talk radio show host eric erickson. Liza randy and many others. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. We are Facebook Twitter and instagram. Were kicking off todays coverage on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. [inaudible] of money. Think you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our author. Another that i really admire and have been reading his work for years. Hes here...

Tv and sunday afternoon at 2 on American History tv on cspan3. Every weekend on cspan3 48 hours of American History. And this week, with the house and senate in recess all week for president s day, we are bringing you American History tv in primetime on cspan3. Tonight, two discussions from the american historical Associations Annual meeting. First, a look at the social upheaval of the 1970s. Then a conversation on historians being viewed as public intellectuals. Up next on American History tv o...

Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to spea...

So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. ...

Including arizona, texas, georgia and florida that was just referenced have given politicians essentially the ability to overrule the vote of the people. this could happen in 2024. there are signs that this is exactly what is going to happen. we cant sit there and say oh, thats bad on the one hand but well, its just as bad that joe biden cant pass his social infrastructure bill. theyre not at all on the same equation. >> its on the one hand on the other hand. nancy, just because you wrote a whol...

Of 2021 so far. milbank notes the country is in a struggle of self-governance and we in the news media collectively have given equal if not more favorable treatment to the authoritarians. dana and jason johnson join me and host of the slate podcast a word with jason johnson with nancy mcclean with democracy and change, the deep history of the radical right, stealth plan for america. dana, ill start with you. i notice the response to many media beltway media people to your piece was to fight with...

Media? no, its not. it is in part the fault we dont hold each other accountable and when people want to get angry out messenger instead of taking responsibility for the messages they are spewing. this is one of the most important articles ive seen in a long time. im happy were bringing this to the floor. as we bring this in 2022 and a lot of things manifest themselves. when you see in georgia and oklahoma and different in texas where large swaths of votes get thrown out the window. if we point t...