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Your folks from michigan. I want to tell you that i wanted to be here today because i had such a great time being in michigan. It started in, i dont remember if it was a Shopping Center in detroit. I remember walking in and the place was absolutelyjampacked. And everybody was so nice and you know, theres that thing, what is it . Michigan nice is maybe what they say . I knew a little bit about michigan but i never really spent a lot of time in michigan and i have just absolutely fallen in love with your communities and with your folks and i asked them you know, i was in what is it . Grand valle...

Convention. President gerald ford and former california governor Ronald Reagan were in a close race for the president ial nomination. Now author and historian craig surely join cspan to talk about the last contested gop convention. That is next live o n washington journal hardest q a. Spans washington journal continues. , the author of a number of books, including reagans revolution. Was 1976 and we went to begin with talking about rule 16c. We want to welcome our viewers on cspan3s American History tv. Coming up, a look back, courtesy the remarkabled coverage that led to president fords, nati...

Stage devoted to the 1820s and 1860s. Among many of his accomplishments, too many that i could go to tonight. High seeked and difference and desires of americans. Hes working with cureuating new exhibits and portraying americas workers 1750, 2015. Speaking directly to his talk tonight, david has his fourth scene on view now, it is calling dark field of the republican. Alexander garner photograph 1857 to 1872. Which in multitude severals lincoln paragraph. This i mage was the you my remember last year walt wittman was a theme of our lincoln event. I may mention that along the way, with his work...

Because youre engaging and organizing which is capacity building, which is building peoples ability to have those conversations. And also to figure out how to act together, how to make each other strong instead of feeling isolated. And, you know, it is certainly true that when that legal structure fell down a lot of people sort of thought, well, thats taken care of. And it was only the beginning of a beginning. Well, two words. I mean, one is when clay said struggle, theres struggle in the macro sense and then theres struggle within movements to find a Common Ground that we can stand on togeth...

I mean, my grandparents had their naturalization papers framed on the wall. And i suspect that was very common for hundreds of thousands and indeed millions of immigrants who became citizens and were fiercely proud of becoming citizens because it gave them a place of belonging and gave them a place to be where they were. Thats my point. You have to have a concept of citizenship as well. If you go backwards if American History, is there always the concept of citizenship in the colonies . Theyre not kcitizens per se. Yeah, they are, i mean, and thats why in 1740, theres an imperial law for insta...