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he was one of the first black marines, and i knew that my dad was a marine, and because of his gruff exterior i sort of thought that marines were just sort of mean, brutal people. my brothers and i could not stand my father. i mean, we couldn't stand the s.o.b.. we thought of him as cold, as uncare, as unloving, unlovable, and whenever he came into the house, it always changed the atmosphere in the home. when i was 15 years old, my father and i had a furious fight. we didn't speak to each other for ten years. so the book is all about the conversation my dad had when i was 25 years ol...

anything that has to do with home oerot simple with football. this is one of these decisions that does not make me popular with other sports writers. and i'll never forget probably the most home oerotic sport is mix it mart what art -- martial art and i asked a prom inept mix ed martial artist you look at the positions and touching, submission holds, and it's like -- it's kind of homo erotic sports, and he thought about it for a long final and he said, look, we have this thing we say in the locker room. it's only gay if you make eye contact. and i felt like, wow. what a cultural indi...

[laughter] >> no thanks. you know, you bring up a good point. there's this fear about losing traditional america, well, they did lose it. thank god -- >> thank god. >> for some of us, right. you know, we don't have the jim crow signs, we don't have the lynching anymore. so we really did lose that traditional america that we never really had to begin, right? -- begin with, right? eric, i want to ask you, you know, race has -- you know, blackness has had a particular history with media where images were reality and, in fact, images and words supersealedded reality and in many ways stil...

c-span and public radio audiences. an hour lunches are speedster to what featured on our weekly podcasts, which are available on itunes. after our guest speech concludes, we will have a question and answer session. it is time to introduce our head table guests. please stand up briefly as your name is announced. of the sex, politics and religion hour on the voice of russia radio. the ceo and founder of brown capital management. the senior vice president for corporate communications for the rlj cos. , former for usa today president of the national press club and the speaker's committee...

american history tv is at the annual organization meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. and a lot of your work focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. you've written a lot about it. what interests you in this subject? >> well, for one thing, very few people think about women in the colonial period or, if they do, they think of them just as, i don't know, house workers, you know, work erks around the house. they don't think of their potential public roles. one of the things i'm interested in in the 17th century is women who take pro...