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You had europeans, mainly germans coming into the port of galveston and as a group settling a different parts of the state of texas. If you had been here in the 1850s german was the most common language spoken in galveston. On the streets, that is what people were talking in. We have a number of groups you can see in galveston today if you go to the garden, you can see what became the center for german entertainment and social life. You can go to st. Joseph church the first German Catholic Church in texas. You can see where they worshiped and where they were educated and how they spent their l...

A portion of coxs forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. Things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. The federals dig in. Bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but hes repulsed. Receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. In the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. Goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. Hes going to send the le...

Deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. [applause] there is no issue of states rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. [applause] i have not the slightest doubt what will be your answer. The last time a president sent a civil rights bill to the congress, it contained a provision to protect Voting Rights in federal elections. That civil rights bill was passed after eight long months of debate. When that built into my desk from the congress for my signature, the heart of the voting provision had been eliminated. This time, on this issu...

University of tennesseeknoxville professor Daniel Feller talked about president Andrew Jackson and the politics of the mid19th century. They also talk about how jacksons presidency was interpreted by historians. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Professor feller there is this phrase, jacksonian democracy that shows up. It is pervasive in a historical literature. What is jacksonian democracy . Is it a Political Movement . Is it merely jacksons Democratic Party . If so, what does that party stand with . Does it lay legitimate claim to the name of democratic . Or is that just party labeled . ...

To move to the cloud. As a result, even civilian agencies are turning to cloud services. Monday night at in iraq eastern on the communicators on cspan 2. You are watching American History tv weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like a fun facebook. Each week, American History tvs real america brings you archival films that tell the story of 20th century america. Planes lineup to take part in the greatest error invasion in history. Americans, british, and canadians make up this army crossing the rhine in the north. In this leapfrog over german positions east of the rhine...