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The cspan city tour is exploring the american story. With support from our this weekend, we traveled to amarillo,texas. Coming up in the next hour, weve learned about the citys Literary History including georgia okeefe and her time in the texas panhandle. Then in 10 minutes, we take a ride along route 66 to see its historic landmarks. In about 40 minutes, the history of africanamericans in amarillo. We begin our special feature with the citys mayor. Amarillo is in the center of the texas panhandle. We kind of affectionately call ourselves the capital city of the texas panhandle. We are approac...

University of North Carolina at check hill professor teaches a class about expanding rights in the 1960s and 70s. Looking at womens grecian and the gay rights movement. He covers Birth Control, the equal rights amendment and the stonewall riots. I want to start with a little story. Woman sherry, which is a pseudonym, was featured in a life magazine article. The story was about a choice that her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug called thought of mind. Thalidomide had not been approved for use in the United States of americ...

President trump past leaders let china take the crown jewels of american industry. Now, we are finally responding to years of chronic trade abuses by defending our workers with tariffs, and anything else that is necessary. Because nobody is going to steal our businesses, nobody will close our factories, and nobody will close our plants anymore. They are all coming back. [applause] susan President Trump has popularized the debate over tariffs in our country once again. But how long throughout our history have tariffs been a subject of political debate . Peter tariffs have been the topic of disc...

Begin with the contemporary. I am standing here next to a magnificent piece of sculpture by the noted artist, alan hauser, who was apache. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of geronimos band, who moved to after ther the band were captured. He later became a terrific see, this as you can particular piece is a native american on horseback and that is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region in the panhandle especially. Available, incame the 1600s, particularly the comanches and some of the apache people, they were able to obtain horses from the traders in sant...

But one thing we talked about in this show, we pitched it as looking without rather than always looking within. Panhandleplains museum, and the museum is the largest Historical Museum in texas if you count it by the number of artifacts. The exhibition title is cattle, cowboys, and culture, kansas city and, real on the building of the urban west. The curator and us are both natives of kansas city. We were always interested in why this place seems so familiar to us. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the museums Permanent Collection related to kansas city and it turns out th...