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Everything approaching Marina Boulevard is clear and 59 miles an hour. The rest of the traffic report coming up. Parents and students from catholic high schools turned out for a candlelight vigil against teacher morality clauses. About 200 gathered yesterday outside st. Marys cathedral in San Francisco. They are upset about clauses that the citys archbishop put in contracts for teachers. The clauses require opposition to practices that go against Church Teaching including contraception, sex outside of marriage and homosexual sex. We just dont want other teachers to leave and maybe even leave t...

Other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website cspan. Org history. Up next on American History tv author Michael Mccarthy discusses the july 1915 capsizing of the ss eastland in the Chicago River. Over 800 factory workers died in the tragedy including 22 entire families. Mccarthy examines the faulty ballast system that caused the ship to capsize any talks about the forgotten legacy of the ss eastland. Posted by the new york public library, this program is about 90 minutes. Michael thank you very much. I really appreciate this turnout. I know it is beautiful outside and t...

The museum has undergone a number of changes. This museum was the next phase of being built in appomattox, chosen to be here because of the people that come to this particular area. Appomattox is one of the top draws for civil war historians or people interested in civil war history. We wanted to give them another experience where we could bring more of our collection out and bring the collection that specifically relates to appomattox. I have been with the museum for 15 years. Four years as director. Love the job totally. It has been fantastic. An excited about the future with the museum as i...

As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. And in a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A large steamship. Think of the flatiron building on its side. That is virtually the exact size the eastland was. Flatiron building turned on its side quickly capsizes. Though it is tied to its dock. It is still tied to the dock and yet, it capsize. Capsizes. 844 people die. With...

Colorful, fascinating vulnerable character that ive ever written about. He was orphaned in a certain sense by his father. His mother came and immigrated to america. He lived in incredible poverty but dreamed of becoming a journalist. He has a dream when hes a young man of creating a magazine that will be a cheap magazine, so its not the atlantics and the harpers, but 10 cents, people can read it. It will be a powerful good. He will hire staff, pay them for years to do research so they can come up with real pieces of fact and stories to persuade the country they have to do something about the i...