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Thats right. 200 years ago this year Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem, the defense of ft. Mchenry, and set it to a british tune, and together they form our National Anthem, the starspangled banner. Here at the National Museum of American History, we explore americas history through collections, research and public outreach. We help people understand the past to better make sense of the present and to shape a more humane future. Were hoping that our program will be able to do much of that by bringing the nation together around our National Anthem. By the way, were not just bringing p...

Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and reside...

With university of michigan president Mark Schlissell, including the cost of college, admissions policies, academic standards, research and athletics. Cspan has been on a tour of big ten colleges these past few weeks and along the way, we have been talking with University President s about Higher Education issues. This morning we take our viewers to ann arbor, michigan, where university of michigan president Mark Schlissell joins us. Having seen both sides of the education system, the private school and Public University side, what are the biggest differences that you have seen . Well, first o...

You strive harder and you work hard that you will be able to get ahead no matter what race, gender, creed, or where you come from. Inner city or out of inner city. Wednesday, a look at poverty and working families. Thats at 9 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night, nativeamerican history. Then on saturday, live all day coverage from the National Book festival science pavilion. Saturday evening from bbc scott land, a debate on scott lands upcoming ziks on whether to end its Political Union with england. Sunday, q and a with judge, chief justice of the second...

The battlefields are quiet and even alluring today. It is the notion that the men who fought here believed in something truly worth suffering and dying for. That draws us to this place. For each of us has we leave from here this evening we depart with the sacred responsibility to remember those who fell here and to ponder each for ourselves how we can properly honor those sack river ices and the legacy of what happened here. To them we owe a great debt. Two years ago we concluded each of our sevenqru days battle commemorations with a solution to the soldiers. We will do so tonight. It is movin...