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And he looked up at my name tag and he said, westmore. He said are you any relation to the general . I said yes, im his wife. He said, you know, maam, ive always wondered what generals wives did when their husbands were overseas. Well im bathing you. Must have been quite an experience for you being over there. It was. It made me feel more useful. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website, for all of our video is archived. That is announcer National Museum of african A...

I want you to know who these lovely young men are. They are both named mark. Which is very convenient. Mark mario, distinguished president of the National Urban league, and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this ...

Matter, we knew, we have to get people on board. We spent a significant amount of the first year ensuring it coopted. Challenging people in our own movement, people we love and artists, to not say our lives matter, tonight use it to say other communities matter. But to really focus on black people. And to be ok and allies, can be in solidarity with black people. Then we took it out to the world. Announcer watch afterwards tonight at 9 00 at the cspan2s book tv. American history tv is on cspan3 e...

The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director ...

And roger, a man who i dont would not say i agreed with on probably any, any point on the continuum of opinions, has nevertheless been a good friend, a good source, incredibly funny person to spend time with and someone through whom you really get a glimpse, you really get to know something about how powers has worked over this how power has worked over this, practically speaking, generation. So i have known roger. When he was thrown out of fox, i was perhaps among the few people who kept speaki...

Justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museum of American History. He is part of our top [applause] good morning, it is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the interNational Museum of American History. If ...

Give you guys a lecture. Ill leave you in the capable happened of our in the hands of our capable author instead. In his new book, americana, we go through a 400yearlong journey of capitalism highlighting some of our industries most important inventions from. The arrival of the mayflower to the inner workings of the mafia, he presents an exhilarating and eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that im sure hes very excited to share with you all today. Mr. Srinavasan is an acc...

Republican line. Caller good morning. This hill, the paper you work for, do you write things about both parties . Do you lean more towards the democrats than the republicans . Guest i say we strive to be as middle of the road as absolutely possible. Host thank you s cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning at 7 00. M. , David Wasserman also, George Washington University Professor of law and a columnist will discuss the integrity of voter syst...

In high school, i went to high school with his middle child, david, who would later die from an overdose. Bobby kennedy was a big piece of who i was as a massachusetts kid. That was only half of it. The other half was that my mentors in journalism, people like bill codith and others were about the most rhinoceroshided journalists that i knew. All three of them fell in love with Robert Kennedy and i wanted to understand why. Brian you were last here in 1998 for your book on the man who started th...

In high school, i went to high school with his middle child, david, who would later die from an overdose. Bobby kennedy was a big piece of who i was as a massachusetts kid. That was only half of it. The other half was that my mentors in journalism, people like bill codith and others were about the most rhinoceroshided journalists that i knew. All three of them fell in love with Robert Kennedy and i wanted to understand why. Brian you were last here in 1998 for your book on the man who started th...