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he was one of the first black marines, and i knew that my dad was a marine, and because of his gruff exterior i sort of thought that marines were just sort of mean, brutal people. my brothers and i could not stand my father. i mean, we couldnt stand the s.o.b.. we thought of him as cold, as uncare, as unloving, unlovable, and whenever he came into the house, it always changed the atmosphere in the home. when i was 15 years old, my father and i had a furious fight. we didnt speak to eac...

anything that has to do with home oerot simple with football. this is one of these decisions that does not make me popular with other sports writers. and ill never forget probably the most home oerotic sport is mix it mart what art -- martial art and i asked a prom inept mix ed martial artist you look at the positions and touching, submission holds, and its like -- its kind of homo erotic sports, and he thought about it for a long final and he said, look, we have this thing we say in t...

[laughter] >> no thanks. you know, you bring up a good point. theres this fear about losing traditional america, well, they did lose it. thank god -- >> thank god. >> for some of us, right. you know, we dont have the jim crow signs, we dont have the lynching anymore. so we really did lose that traditional america that we never really had to begin, right? -- begin with, right? eric, i want to ask you, you know, race has -- you know, blackness has had a particular history with media wher...

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american history tv is at the annual organization meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. and a lot of your work focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. youve written a lot about it. what interests you in this subject? >> well, for one thing, very few people think about women in the colonial period or, if they do, they think of them just as, i dont know, house workers, you know, work erks around the house. they dont think of their pote...

the salem witch trials of 1692 and her book on the subject "in the devils snare." this 30-minute program took place at the organization of american historians meeting in milwauk milwaukee. >> american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians, meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. a lot of your work focuses on -- a lot of your teaching focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. youve written a lot ab...

expose on ron paul and his early career when he first opened up his medical practice or he refused to participate in medicare or medicaid. a lot of people, of course, you dont want to treat poor people. he treated anyone, but those people who could not pay, he accepted vegetables, a dozen eggs. i think that speaks a lot towards our ability as individuals to make our own contracts and the ability of us to take care of each other. we dont need these centralized programs like medicare and...

it reminded me of earlier this week "the new york times" had an expose on ron paul and his early career when he first opened up his medical practice or he refused to participate in medicare or medicaid. a lot of people, of course, you dont want to treat poor people. he treated anyone, but those people who could not pay, he accepted vegetables, a dozen eggs. i think that speaks a lot towards our ability as individuals to make our own contracts and the ability of us to take care of each ...

longer-term, do you think countries likely greece and portugal would be better off outside the euro-zone? >> easy questions, right? [laughter] our sense is that if you put it all together, you look at what nations have done, let italy and spain and other countries including france, what they have decided in terms of fiscal adjustments, structural reforms. in the case of italy, in the case of spain as well more recently in a competition market. the product and service markets with compe...

work -- and we continue to worked -- work to make our border more dynamic said it is a border of opportunities. tomorrow in washington, our ministers of economy and of trade will be meeting within the framework of the free trade commission of nafta to continue to work toward achieving these objectives. today we have seen prosperity depends on a greater integration, with respect of sovereignties, and i would like to reiterate the interest of my country to join as soon as possible the tp...