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Of earlier discussions about the meaning of fremont when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north and the south and how we came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom with a line through it. Not quite freedom to freedom. Right, this question of freedom and what did it mean. And so, for today were going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, well be thinking about what did freedom mean to the free people, right. And in 19 january of 1865, secretary of war, Edwin Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers i...

Gutierrezromine teaches a class about laws and policies regard ago bor regarding abortion. She tracks Public Opinion through court cases and newspaper kofrncoverage. She also describes costs and health risks in different time periods and states. All right. Everyone, welcome back. This week were looking at the topic of abortion. And in class on tuesday we watched the film abortions stories womens health. That is looking at the more current debates about abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restriction. So today were actually going to go back in...

Public service and brought to you by your television provider. Up next on American History tv, a conversation from the texas book festival with the author of the book gunfight the battle over the right to bear arms in america. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the texas book festival. Im rick dunham, the Washington Bureau chief of the Houston Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers and the creator of the texas on the potomac Political Blog on crime. Com and my san antonio. Com and ive been highjacked to perry president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricu...

And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to un...

Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 miles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That w...