Page 9 - Peter Edelman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And he looked up at my name tag and he said, westmore. He said are you any relation to the general . I said yes, im his wife. He said, you know, maam, ive always wondered what generals wives did when their husbands were overseas. Well im bathing you. Must have been quite an experience for you being over there. It was. It made me feel more useful. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website, for all of our video is archived. That is announcer National Museum of african American History and culture recently opened an exhibit looking at the 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign, wh...

I want you to know who these lovely young men are. They are both named mark. Which is very convenient. Mark mario, distinguished president of the National Urban league, and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museu...

Matter, we knew, we have to get people on board. We spent a significant amount of the first year ensuring it coopted. Challenging people in our own movement, people we love and artists, to not say our lives matter, tonight use it to say other communities matter. But to really focus on black people. And to be ok and allies, can be in solidarity with black people. Then we took it out to the world. Announcer watch afterwards tonight at 9 00 at the cspan2s book tv. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend. Featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency. Civil war, and...

The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia will welcome the audience. This is...

And roger, a man who i dont would not say i agreed with on probably any, any point on the continuum of opinions, has nevertheless been a good friend, a good source, incredibly funny person to spend time with and someone through whom you really get a glimpse, you really get to know something about how powers has worked over this how power has worked over this, practically speaking, generation. So i have known roger. When he was thrown out of fox, i was perhaps among the few people who kept speaking to him, and he was moving to palm beach in january. He was going on january 4th. I said come for ...